How ironic, it was Friday the 13th last week Friday. Theories have stated that the number 13 is an unlucky number, and Friday is an unlucky day. Gioachino Rossini the famous author of the biography published in 1869 called “Henry Sutherland Edwards” regarded his Fridays as an unlucky day and the 13th an unlucky number. It’s very suspicious how one Friday 13th of November he died. Several theories have been proposed as about the origin of Friday the 13th as superstition. In numerology, the number 12 is considered as a completion as a reflect on the twelve months of the year, twelve hours, twelve gods, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve apostles of Jesus, twelve successors of Muhammad in Shia Islam and twelve zodiac signs. However the number 13 was considered irregular. There is a superstition by some derive from the last supper or a Norse myth that having thirteen people sitting at a dinner table will result in death of one of the diners.
In Spanish-speaking countries, Tuesday 13 (martes trece) is also considered unlucky. The Greeks also considered Tuesdays especially the 13th a day of bad luck.
Notable people who died on Friday the 13th
|
Person |
Date of Death |
| Sam Patch | 13 November 1829[30] |
| Gioachino Rossini | 13 November 1868 |
| Diamond Jim Brady | 13 April 1917 |
| Sir Henry Segrave | 13 June 1930 |
| Arnold Schoenberg | 13 July 1951 |
| Ruth Ellis | 13 July 1955 |
| Martita Hunt | 13 June 1969 |
| Lily Pons | 13 February 1976 |
| Mickey Spillane | 13 May 1977 |
| Hubert Humphrey | 13 January 1978 |
| Ralph Kirkpatrick | 13 April 1984 |
| Benny Goodman | 13 June 1986 |
| Gerald Moore | 13 March 1987 |
| Chet Baker | 13 May 1988 |
| Stuart Challender | 13 December 1991 |
| Tupac Shakur | 13 September 1996 |
| Tony Roper | 13 October 2000 |
| Julia Child | 13 August 2004 |
| Tim Russert | 13 June 2008 |
| Edwin Newman | 13 August 2010 |
| Richard D. Zanuck | 13 July 2012 |
