Five Men Who Hated (or Loved) the Number 13
On this Friday the 13th, read about these famous people from history who had a close connection to the supposedly unlucky number
- By K. Annabelle Smith
- Smithsonian.com, April 13, 2012
On this Friday the 13th, read about these famous people from history who had a close connection to the supposedly unlucky number
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(Library of Congress)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was very superstitious: He wouldn’t travel on the 13th day of any month or light three cigarettes. For luck, he wore the same tattered fedora during each of his political campaigns and would never host 13 guests at a dinner party—an interesting contrast to his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt who was a member of The Thirteen Club.
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