# Celebrity deaths in pairs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-in-pairs/181686>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 13, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-in-pairs/181686 "2003-06-13T22:06:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-in-pairs/181686/21 "2003-06-27T12:32:10Z")

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. . . And of course now we had Lester Maddox and Strom Thurmond within hours of one another . . .

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-in-pairs/181686/22 "2003-06-27T13:55:57Z")

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Joe Dimaggio died the day after Stanley Kubrick (March 7, 1999), and I think the Kubrick praises were cut a little short while everyone was singing, “where have you gone Joe Dimaggio?” And poor [Peggy Cass](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Cass,+Peggy), who died the same day as Dimaggio, probably was never even mentioned for her brilliant stint as a _To Tell the Truth_ panelist!

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-in-pairs/181686/23 "2003-06-27T14:08:09Z")

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It was part of the lore back when James Dean died that he had told people “I’ll be the third” after John Hodiak and some gal whose name escapes me at the moment had just recently died.

Yeah. Hodiak was not quite a matinee idol, nor was the gal I can’t remember…

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-in-pairs/181686/24 "2003-06-27T14:23:28Z")

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In 1934, when starlet Dorothy Dell died, all her obits mentioned that she’d attended the funerals of stars Lilyan Tashman and Lowell Sherman that months and asked, “I wonder who Number Three will be?” So the legend goes at _least_ that far back.

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