OK, for a few decades on either side of AD200, the Han Dynasty in China was crumbling.  Local warlords saw their chance and started trying to grab land from each other.  It settled out to three of them (Wu, Wei, Shu), which is why it's called the Three Kingdoms (san guo) Period.  It was an interesting time... a HUGE novel about it (which is free on the Web and I've read some) came out in the 1300s and about 15 video games (a few of which I've played) and a Chinese TV series...Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Anyway on the Shu side, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei swore an oath of brotherhood in a peach garden to advance the kingdom of Shu and unify China under it; a part of this oath was that they would all die on the
same day.  Yeh well, it didn't work at all... they died in battle separately over four years and Wei under Cao Cao and later Cao Pi took over China...

That's the first thing that went through my mind when I heard Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcet died, and I don't think anyone else in the entire WORLD of seven billion souls thought that.