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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).
How did the wife of Jefferson Davis die? The first wife of Jefferson Davis, Sarah Knox Taylor, died of yellow fever September 15, 1835. The young couple had been married only three short months. Verina Howell, Daviâ¦s' second wife would die in 1906 at the age of 80 from pneumonia.