W.T. Stead, the Man Who Foresaw His Own Death on This Day in History

 

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This Day in History: British newspaper editor William Thomas Stead died on this day in 1912. Stead always maintained that he would either die by drowning or lynching, and that his death would be sudden and he would die with his boots on. In 1886, he published an article entitled "How the Mail Steamer went down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor", which has a steamer colliding with another ship, resulting in a high loss of life due to an insufficient ratio of lifeboats to passengers.  In 1892, Stead published a story called "From the Old World to the New", in which a vessel, the Majestic, rescues survivors of another ship that collided with an iceberg. Stead also wrote a chapter in the book "Real Ghost Stories" that was entitled "Warnings Of Peril And Death" where he recorded instances of people who had premonitions of their own death.

W.T. Stead died on the Titanic.

Warnings Of Peril And Death by William Thomas Stead 1921