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The answer is John Adams (second President) and Thomas Jefferson (third President). These two men died on the same day. But that's not all; read on.... Both Adams and Jefferson died on July 4, 1826. The fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. As we all know, Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration in committee with John Adams (and Benjamin Franklin).
Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams wrote, years afterward, that the signing ceremony took place on July 4. When someone challenged Jeffersonâs memory in the early 1800âs, Jefferson insisted he was right. Really? As David McCullough remarks in his biography of John Adams, âNo such scene, with all the delegates present, ever occurred at Philadelphia.â