Days after the ship went down, newspapers began compiling lists of people who had bought tickets but never boarded the Titanic— they called them the "Just Missed It Club."

Those that narrowly escaped disaster included Milton Hershey, who decided to take an earlier ship home with his wife, J. Pierpont Morgan (founder of General Electric and US Steel), who ended up staying at a French spa, and Guglielmo Marconi, (an inventor) who also caught an earlier ship.