People are More Likely to Die on Their Birthdays

Researchers who studied more than two million people over 40 years found a rise in deaths from heart attaches strokes, falls and suicides. William Shakespeare died on his birthday on April 23, 1616. The actress Ingrid Bergman also died on her birthday, in August 1982. On average, people over the age of 60 were 14 percent more likely to die on their birthdays.
Heart attacks rose 18.6 percent on birthdays and were higher for men and women while strokes were up 21.5 percent – mostly in women. Canadian data also shoed that strokes were move likely on birthdays, especially among patients with height blood pressure. There was a 34.9 percent rise in suicides, 28.5 percent rise in accidental deaths not related to cars, and a 44 percent rise in deaths from falls on birthdays. The study is published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology.