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Patsy Cline became a country music legend before even turning 30, but fate kind of seemed to have it in for her, and she seemed determined to tempt it. At 28, she was involved in a serious car crash — her second — which required months in the hospital and major facial reconstructive surgery to recover from, but that only slowed her down temporarily. She spent the next couple years flying all over the place, country-ing it up fellow artists Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins, who had perhaps the two coolest names we've ever heard.

A week before the plane crash that took the lives of all three, she was reported to have told a friend, "Honey, I've had two bad ones. The third one will either be a charm or it'll kill me" (via City Pages). The third one came after performing a benefit concert in Kansas City; fellow songstress Dottie West had a bad feeling about Cline flying, and offered her a seat in her car for the return trip to Nashville. Cline, anxious to get home to her family, replied, "Don't worry about me, Hoss. When it's my time to go, it's my time."

Unfortunately, it was her time. Once again, the inexperience of her small plane's pilot (her manager, Randy Hughes) proved to be the determining factor in the crash; unbelievably, fellow country artist Jack Anglin paid grim tribute by dying in a car crash on the way to Cline's funeral.

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