Isidor and Ida Straus were both born on February 6 in 1845 and 1849, respectively. The co-owner of Macy’s and his wife not only shared a birth date but also, famously, a death date. When Isidor refused to board a lifeboat off the sinking Titanic, his wife declined a seat as well and said to her husband when he urged her to save herself ”We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I go.”
One of Isidor’s cousins wrote soon after the disaster: “it is possible she refused to realize the gravity of the situation, but even if she did understand it, I doubt if she could have been induced to leave him.”