The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand

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At the height of his musical career, Donny Hathaway was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and was prescribed medication to control the illness, which he often neglected. 

He was scheduled to record a second album of duets with Roberta Flack on 13 Jan. 1979, but Hathaway was delusional and paranoid and the recording session was cancelled.  Hours later Hathaway jumped from the 15th floor window of his Essex House hotel room in New York. He was 33.

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Marc Potvin (January 29, 1967 – January 13, 2006) played in the NHL for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings, Hartford Whalers, and Boston Bruins before becoming a coach in the American Hockey League.

On 13 Jan. 2006, he was in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where his Adirondack team was scheduled to play the Kalamazoo Wings.  Potvin was found in his hotel room, where he had hanged himself with a shower cord.

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Ray Johnson (October 16, 1927 – January 13, 1995) was one of the most-revered underground artists of his time and had money in the bank for the first time when on 13 Jan. 1995 he leapt from the Sag Harbor Bridge. Two teenage girls saw him plunge into the frigid water and tried to alert the police, but when they found the station closed they went to see a movie instead.

Johnson’s body washed up on the beach the following day and people immediately began to wonder if his suicide might have been his final work of art.

Many aspects of his death involved the number “13”: the date; his age, 67 (6+7=13); the room number of a motel he’d checked into earlier that day, 247 (2+4+7=13), etc. Some continue to speculate about a ‘last performance’ aspect of Johnson’s drowning. Hundreds of collages were found carefully arranged in his home.