When Louis XVI of France was a child, an astrologer told him to be careful on the 21st of every month. From then on, he refused to have any important business on the 21. Until June 21, 1791 when he was arrested along with Marie Antionette. On September 21, 1792, France abolished the royal institution and declared itself a republic. On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was executed.
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At the age of 18, Joseph Aigner (who later became a well-known portrait painter) tried to hang himself in Vienna but was stopped by a Capuchin monk. Four years later in Budapest, Aigner tried to hang himself again, but was stopped a second time by the same Capuchin monk. Eight years later, Aigner was sentenced to death by the gallows, but was reprived at the investigation of the same Capuchin monk that had kept him from committing suicide. Aigner did finally kill himself when he was 86 years old, but with a pistol and not a noose. His funeral ceremony was conducted by... You guessed it. A very familiar Capuchin monk, whose name Aigner never learned.
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During the Civil War, a group of Yankee prisoners were being transferred, by train, to a prison camp in Salisbury, NC. One of the guards on the train was Beverly Tucker, only 17 at the time. His duty was to guard several prisoners who were continually whispering in a foreign language. As it turns out, they were speaking a Swiss dialect from their native canton and they were planning an escape. At the station, they made a run for it and found themselves surrounded by the bayonettes of all the guards. Their guard, Bev Tucker, was probably the only man in the entire Confederacy to speak Swiss. He'd attended school in the prisoner's native canton.
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In 1872, Baron Rodemire de Tarazone of France was murdered by an assassin named Claude Volbonne. 21 years earlier, the baron's father had been murdered by an assassin named Claude Volbonne. The two assassins were not related.
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Not long after the close of World War I, two men were admitted to the hospital. Both were 19-year-old volunteers in the Austrian Transport Corps who were suffering from pneumoia. They were both born in Silesia and they were both named Franz Richter.
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Here's a little list of things Abraham Linconlon and John F. Kennedy have in common aside from the assassination:

1.) Lincoln was elected in 1860. Exactly one century later in 1960, Kennedy was elected.

2.) Both men were very deeply involved in civil rights for African Americans. (Lincoln with the Civil War, Kennedy with the Civil Rights Movement)

3.) Both men were assassinated on a Friday and in the presence of their wives.

4.) Both Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Kennedy lost a son while living in the White House.

5.) Both Lincoln and Kennedy were killed by a bullet that entered the head from behind.

6.) Lincoln was killed in Ford's Theater. Kennedy died while riding in a convertible made by the Ford Motor Company.

7.) Both men were succeeded by vice-presidents who were southern Democrats and former senators

8.) Andrew Johnson (Lincoln's successor) was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson (Kennedy successor) was born in 1908.

9.) The first name of Lincoln's private secretary was John and the last name of Kennedy's private secretary was Lincoln.

10.) John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939.

11.) Both Booth and Oswald were Southerners with extremist views.

12.) Booth and Oswald were both murdered before they could be brought to trial.

13.) Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and fled to a barn. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theater.

14.) LINCOLN and KENNEDY both have seven letters.

15.) ANDREW JOHNSON and LYNDON JOHNSON both have 13 letters.

16.) JOHN WILKES BOOTH and LEE HARVEY OSWALD both have 15 letters.

17.) The fist public proposal that Lincoln be Republican candidate for president (in a ltetter to the Cincinnati Gazette) also endorsed a John Kennedyfor vice president. John P. Kennedy, former Secretary of the Navy.
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Sir Peter Scott, one of Britain's best-known naturalists, is a very enthusiastic believer in the Loch Ness monster and has lent the weight of his reputation to the debate about the existance of the cryptid for many years. He's so confident that the creature exists, he has promoted the use of a Greek name for the creature. He calls it Nessiterasrhombopteryx. It translates roughtly as "The Ness monster with diamond-shaped fins". London newspapers were quick to point out that the name also formed the anagram "Monster Hoax by Sir Peter S".
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I'll add some more at a later date. I hope you guys enjoy this little sampling! :D

Here are a few more of those inexplicable coincidences for you guys...

In 1975, a man riding a moped was killed by a taxi in Bermuda, exactly one year after his brother died. On the same street, by the same taxi driver, carrying the same passenger, and while riding the same moped.
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As appearing in The Washington Post for April 20, 1978:

Wanda Marie Johnson, of Adelphi, Maryland, Prince Georges County, is a baggage clerk at Union Station in Washington.

Wanda Marie Johnson, of Suitland, Maryland, Prince Georges County, is a nurse at D.C. General Hopsital in Washington.

Both Wanda Maries were born on the same day, June 15, 1953; both moved from Washington D.C., to Prince Georges County, both have two children, delivered in the same hospital, and both own two-door Ford Granadas; the 11-digit serial numbers on their cars are the same except for the last three digits.
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A kimono, successively owend by three teenage grils, each of whom died before having a chance to wear the kimono, was believed to be so unlucky that it was cremated by a Japanese priest in February 1657. As itwas being burned, a sudden wind sprang up, fanning the flames and spreading them beyond the scope of control. The fire destroyed 3/4 of Tokyo, leveling 300 temples, 500 palaces, 9,000 shops, 61 bridges, and killing 100,000 people.
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An ornate clock belonging o King Louis XIV of France stopped at the exact moment of his death, 7:45 A.M., on September 1, 1715. It hasn't run since.
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Jabez Spicer, of Leyden, Massachusetts, was killed by two bullets in the attack on the federal arsenal at Springfield on January 25, 1787, during Says's Rebellion. At the time, he was wearing the same coat as his brother Daniel, who had been killed by two bullets on March 5, 1784. The bullets that killed Jabez Spicer passed through the holes made by the bullets that had killed his brother Daniel three years earlier.
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In 1883 Henry Ziegland, of Honey Grove, Texas, broke up wit his sweetheart, who proceededto kill herself. Her brother tried to avenge his dead sister by shooting Ziegland, but the bullet only grazed Ziegland's face and buried itself in a tree. The brother believed he had managed to kill Ziegland and then killed himself.

In 1913, Ziegland was cutting down the tree with the bullet in it. The job was difficult, so he used dynamite. The exploseion sent the old bullet through Ziegland's head and killed him.
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When the novelist Anne Parrish first visited Paris in the 1920's, she and her husband spent some time browsing among the secondhand bookstalls that like the banks of the Reiver Seine near the Ile de la Cite. In one stall, they fount an old copy of ack Frost and Other Stories, a book Parrish had loved as a child when she lived in Colorado Springs and she hadn't seen it since her nursery days. Excited to see the book again after so many years, she showed the book to her husband. He opened the book and on the flyleaf found the wrting: "Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs."
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In the aerly 1970's, British actor Anthony Hopkins siged a contract to play one of the leading roles in a film version of George Feifer's The Girl from Petrovka. Hopkins scoured the bookshops in London's Charing Cross Road for a copy of the original novel. He searched in vain, not finding a single copy in the stores, and went into the Leicester Square subway station to catch a train home. While in the station. lying on a bench, he found a copy of the book, apparently forgotten.

Two years later, Hopkins was in Vienna, working on the production of the film, he was visited by George Feifer. Feifer informed Hopkins that he had no copy of his own book. He'd given his last one to a friend who lost the book in London. Hopkins handed him the book asking, "Is this the one, with the notes scribbled in the margins?" It was Feifer's own copy of the book.
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In 1974, Noel McCabe, of Derby, England was listening to a record of Frankie Laine singing "Cry of the Wild Goose". As he was listening to the song, a Canada goose crashed through the window of his bedroom and two more fell to the ground outside.
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That's all the coincidences I have for now. I'll find some more later for you guys. :D

I really liked all of those. Thank you Gypsy for taking the time so that all of us could enjoy them. I can't wait to read more.

Loved those....very interesting