10. Frane Selak
Frane Selak is known as ‘The luckiest unlucky man in the world’. Unlucky because he had faced 7 near-death experiences and lucky because he escaped all of them. His case is the same as half-filled glass if you see it as half full or half empty. He was born on 14 June 1929 and defeated death 7 times. He survived a train crash, car crash, and plane crash. Seems even more dramatic and unreal than a movie right?
9. Joan R. Ginther
Joan R. Ginther is the luckiest woman in the world as she won the lottery not once or twice but she is an American four-time lottery winner of a whopping amount of $20 million. Earlier she was a maths professor and had done a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford. Some people were suspicious of her win and said that she knew the algorithm behind the ticket whereas some believed it was due to her great fortune and she was born under a lucky star. She won all the lotteries in Texas. She presently lives in Las Vegas.
8. Tsutomu Yamaguchi
Remember the two most destructive atomic bombs due to which the whole world saw a lot of destruction. yes, the deadly Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb attacks. But Tsutomu Yamaguchi was given the name ‘Miraculous man’ by some as he was present during both the bomb explosions and he survived both of them. Although he did suffer radiation sickness he continued his job as an engineer and still, he lived a long life and died at 93 due to stomach cancer. To some, his story was nothing less than a miracle and some didn’t believe his story and called him crazy but he preferred to not talk about it after the incident. Later he was officially announced as the only person to be the survivor of both nuclear bomb attacks and was even recognized by japan.
7. Bill Morgan
Bill Morgan’s luck was even worse than Frane Selak as Morgan was declared clinically dead for 14 minutes. He suffered a massive truck crash and a heart attack in 1999 and died as a result but his heart started pumping again. He was in a coma for about 12 days. Doctors even suggested his family get him off the life support system but he defied everything and came out of a coma and was completely fine later and didn’t face any complications after that. Later he married his love and even won a car from the lottery ticket he bought. So it is his good luck that he defeated death and even won the lottery twice.
6. Marten De Jonge
Marten De Jonge, a 20-year-old dutch athlete who escaped death twice through his good luck, rescheduled his flights coincidently at the last moment which turned out to be life-saving for him. He was about to fly in flight MH370 which went missing and another flight MH17 which later got crashed. He rescheduled both the flights at the last moment and hence escaped death twice.
He was a professional dutch cyclist. He was an incredibly lucky man.
5. Nichiren
Nichiren was a prominent Japanese monk in the 12th century who had a great influence on the Japanese adoption of Buddhism. His life was nothing less than a controversy. His writing was seen as disruptive by the authorities and felt that it would undermine their power if it would spread and hence he was sentenced to death. But his good luck helped him to escape because as soon as the executioner picked up the sword to behead his head the lightning struck him and he died . Nichiren was later released due to the strange circumstances that arose.
4. Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was born in 1926. He was a former president of Cuba. Though his ruling period was criticized a lot as some believed that his ideas were not good and his policies even destroyed the liberties of Cubans. His government was held responsible for the murder of thousands of people. Despite all this, he was a great leader for many and was seen as a hero, and ruled Cuba for decades. He is also one of the most recognizable leaders. Fidel Castro holds the record of evading most assisination attempts. Even a documentary was made on him named ‘638 ways to kill Castro’. The CIA targeted him because of his private interests on the island, some of which were closely connected to the CIA and his defiance of American hegemony throughout the Caribbean and South America. But he escaped all their cunning attempts due to which he once quoted ” “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal” His rule has always been a subject of debate but what nobody could deny was his luck and smartness due to which he ruled for so long.
3. Anders Helstrup
Anders Helstrup was a skydiver who missed death by just a few feet as he was almost hit by a meteorite. He was skydiving with other members of the Oslo parachute club. When he opened the parachute he experienced an unusual event. He later released a video which is believed to be the first time a meteorite has been captured in a dark flight and that video caused a lot of sensation in the meteorite community.
2. Vesna Vulvoic
Vesna Vulvoic born on 3 January 1950 in Belgrade holds the Guinness world record of surviving the highest fall of about 33000 feet without a parachute. She was the flight attendant and the only person to survive when a bomb exploded in JAT Flight 367 on 26 Jan 1972. Although she did suffer a lot of injuries after the crash and the injuries made her permanently paralyzed from the waist down. She also spent a few days in a coma. She was very passionate about work so JAT gave her a desk job and she continued to work till her death in 2016.
1. Adolphe Sax
Adolphe Sax was born on 6 Nov 1814. He is the inventor of Saxophone and was also a musician who played flute and other musical instruments. He cheated death so many times that his mother even said “he is a child condemned to misfortune” and his neighbors started giving him names like “ little sax, the ghost”. He once drank dilute sulphuric liquid, hit his head on a stone, drowned in a river, swallowed a needle, poisoned three times, and even fell from a three-story window but still survived all the accidents. So it is no less than a miracle that a child who saw death so many times ,later due to highly ambitious nature went on to invent the saxophone which brought so much change to the musical world.
