21 of the Luckiest People Ever That Shouldn't Be

1. Mohammad Basheer Adul Khada was in a plane crash, survived that plane crash, and even won on the lotto ticket he bought before boarding. This all happened on the same day.

2. Andrew Jackson survived an assassination when both pistols misfired that the assailant tried to kill him with.

3. David Gonzalez found a copy of Action Comics #1 inside a wall, it is valued at over $100,000.

4. Robert Hamilton won a million dollars off a scratch ticket, then did it again when he bought a second ticket.

5. Joan Ginther has won 4 multi-million dollar jackpots totaling $20 million.

6. Chris Duddy and Michael Benson survived a helicopter crash into a volcano.

7. Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings.

8. A couple in California found $10 million dollars worth of gold coins hidden in cans buried in the ground.

9. Roy Sullivan has been struck by lightning 7 times over 35 years.

10. Michael Sparks bought one of only 35 original copies of the declaration of independence for $2.48. He thought it was just a cheap copy, but ended up selling it for half a million dollars.

11. Orlando Bloom is pretty lucky having broken his left arm, left leg, right wrist, right leg, ribs, 3 skull fractures, nose, and back.

12. Nichiren, a 13th century Buddhist monk, was spared execution when a beam of light from the moon struck his executioner and blinded him.

13. Adolphe Sax, the saxophone creator, should have been killed as a child. He had fallen from three stories and hit his head on a rock, drank a bowl of sulfuric acid, swallowed a needle, burned himself with gunpowder, fell on a hot skillet, almost drowned, stuck in the head by falling cobblestones, and should have died from inhaling the fumes of furniture varnish multiple times over.

14. Lena Pahlsson lost her wedding ring, then found it around a carrot while pulling vegetables.

15. Frane Selak survived his military training falling into a lake, multiple car crashes, a bus driving into a river, a shooting, and somehow falling out of a plane and landed in a pile of hay.

16. Yorgos Kentrotas found the famous Venus de Milo statue while collecting stones.

17. Kevin Hillier found the world's largest gold nugget while beach combing, valued over a million dollars.

18. Timothy Dexter bought outdated currency for pennies, not long after the currency came back into use.

19. Juliane Koepcke was a lone survivor of 92 passengers when her plane went down.

20. Elmer Sherwin played the same slot machine twice and won $4.6 million and $21 million.

21. Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 minutes before coming back to life. He then bought two scratch tickets winning a car and $250,000.