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Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name "Mark Twain", was born two weeks after Halley's Comet reached perihelion in 1835. In his 1909 autobiography, Clemens wrote: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"

Clemens died on 21 April 1910, the day after Halley's Comet reached perihelion.

Which was, all things considered, a total coincidence.

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Haley's Comet comes around every 75 years. Mark Twain was born the night it came and he died 75 years later when it came again.

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