The Death of Stephen Hawking
When asked to name the greatest physicists of all time, the average person is likely to only be able to name a few. Let's face it, fame isn't usually one of the benefits and science isn't exactly attractive. Yet, that does not imply that all of them succeed. At the top of the list are individuals like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. And while their scientific minds probably wouldn't give strange coincidences any credibility, the rest of us can.
On January 8, 1942, Hawking was born, and he died on March 14, 2018. On the 300th anniversary of the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei's passing, he was born. On the 139th anniversary of Albert Einstein's birth, he passed away. Pi Day, which is celebrated on March 14 and honors the mathematical constant Pi, was also happening that day.
As you might expect, there were a plethora of amusing jokes on social media about the date of Hawking's passing, but even if there was no deeper significance about relativity and time, it was still an incredibly coincidental event.
