Poll Suggestion: Real Life Deadly Coincidences

A real life actor and the actor's fictional character both pass away in the same way. A real life actor and the actor's fictional character both die in the same year. A real life movie star in fact dies on the movie co-star's birthday. Three real life actors are indeed killed by an helicopter on the set of a war movie...

In your opinion, from the list below, which of these real life coincidences related to death is the most shocking one?

(Source: IMDb trivia pages)

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls089372434/

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Edward G. Robinson
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000064/

Born: December 12, 1893 in Bucharest, Romania
Died: January 26, 1973 (age 79) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000064/bio

Died two weeks after he had finished filming Soylent Green (1973).

According to an interview with Soylent Green (1973) co-star Dick Van Patten,
he worked with Edward G. Robinson for the first time
while shooting the euthanasia scene
and was somewhat embarrassed that he was so nervous
they had to do several takes before he got used to not calling him "Mr. Robinson".
The next day, before, shooting started,

Charlton Heston called all the cast together
to announce that "Eddie" had passed away during the night.
One of the finest scenes ever worked by this classic icon fittingly became his swan song.
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Soylent Green (1973)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/reference

A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about
the controlling power of big corporations
and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.
Charlton Heston ... Detective Thorn
Edward G. Robinson ... Sol Roth

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/trivia

In the movie, actor Edward G. Robinson's character Sol chooses to be euthanized.
Days later he would die from a long fight with bladder cancer,
making his performance in the scene all too real.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/mediaviewer/rm1387898369/