25 Last Known Photos of Famous People

Some posed for their last pic, others were taken by fans or the paparazzi.

By MorbidStud

Published 9 years ago

Some of these celebs posed for their last photos, others had their photos taken by fans or the paparazzi.

1
John Lennon - Signing an autograph for Mark David Chapman, who murdered him several hours later on December 8, 1980.

2
Robin Williams - Taken the night before his suicide, at an art gallery near his home in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 63-year-old actor was accompanied by his wife Susan Schneider, who said he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. He was declared deceased Monday, August 11, 2014.

3
Freddie Mercury - Taken in 1991. Mercury died November 24, 1991, of bronchial pneumonia due to AIDS.
4
James Dean - Taken the day he died. Dean loved to race cars and died in an auto accident on September 30, 1955. While traveling on Route 466 in Cholame, California, Dean swerved his fast-driving Porsche to avoid an oncoming car.

5
Steve Jobs - Taken August 26, 2011. Jobs died October 5, 2011, due to complications from pancreatic cancer.
6
Jimi Hendrix - Taken on Sept. 17, 1970, by Monika Danneman in the garden behind her apartment. Hendrix died on Sept. 18, 1970, from a barbiturate-related asphyxia in London.
7
Albert Einstein - In Princeton, NJ, in March 1955. Einstein died on April 18,1955 after an abdominal aortic aneurysm caused severe internal bleeding.

8
Marilyn Monroe - WIth jazz pianist Buddy Greco in August 1962, the last weekend she was alive. Monroe was found dead in her Brentwood Los Angeles home by her psychiatrist on August 5, 1962
9
Robert Kennedy - Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan on June 5, 1968. The photo was taken moment after the shooting, and Kennedy died early the next morning.
10
Jim Morrison - Taken on June 28, 1971, with his girlfriend Pamela Courson. Morrison allegedly died of a heroin overdose in Paris on July 3, 1971.

11
Amelia Earhart - Taken as Earhart packed for her fatal flight. Attempting to make a circumnavigational flight of the world, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937.
12
Mark Twain - In April 1910. Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.
13
George Harrison - Photo taken for the booklet of Jools Holland's album Small World, Big Band, which was released in 2001. Harrison suffered from lung cancer and passed away on Nov. 29, 2001 in Los Angeles.

14
John F. Kennedy - Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX, on November 22, 1963. This photo was taken from his caravan in Dallas just before his assassination.
15
Keith Moon - Taken on Sept. 6, 1978, at a pre-party and premiere of The Buddy Holly Story. Moon died of an overdose of Heminevrin, a drug intended to curb alcohol abuse, on Sept. 7, 1978, in London. Alcohol and cocaine were also found in his system at the time of his death.
16
Abraham Lincoln - Taken in March of 1865. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater on April 15, 1865, in Washington DC.

17
Mahatma Gandhi - Making his way through a crowd when confronted by his assassin, Nathuram Godse, who shot him three times in the chest on January 30, 1948
18
Lucille Ball - Taken at the Academy Awards on March 29, 1989. Ball suffered an aortic rupture on April 26, 1989. She died at her home in Los Angeles
19
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Taken outside the Lorraine Motel on Wednesday, April 3, 1968. MLK was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, TN.

20
Amy Winehouse - Taken in London on July 12, 2011. WInehouse died on July 23, 2011, from alcohol overdose. She was in her London home.
21
Babe Ruth - Photo taken at his last appearance at Yankee Stadium in 1948. Ruth was diagnosed with cancer and died on August 16, 1948 in New York.
22
Bob Marley - Taken in Munich, Germany, a few months prior to his death. Marley died of cancer May 11, 1981, in Miami, FL

23
Paramahansa Yogananda - Taken at a dinner on the day of his death. Yogananda died of heart failure on March 7, 1952 in Los Angeles.
24
Adolf Hitler - Surveying bomb damage in Berlin on April 28, 1945. Hitler shot himself two days later to avoid capture as Soviet troops marched into the city.
25
Christa McAuliffe - Taken as the crew prepares to board the Challenger for its fatal launch. McAuliffe died on a mission when the Challenger space shuttle exploded on takeoff on January 28, 1986.

26
Steve Irwin - WIth marine biologist Chris Jones on his boat, Croc 1. He died two days later, on September 4, 2006, after a stingray's poisonous spine pierced his heart.
27
Elvis Presley - Taken at Graceland on Aug. 16, 1977, just after midnight. Elvis died of complications due to a drug habit and a bad heart on August 16, 1977, in Memphis, TN.
28
Dale Earnhardt - Taken the day he died. Earnhardt died from injuries suffered during a crash at the 2001 Daytona 500 on February 18, 2001, in Daytona Beach, FL.

29
Christopher McCandless - McCandless ventured into the Alaskan wilderness in solitude. The photo was found in his undeveloped camera. He died in while on his adventures in August 1992.
30
Dean Martin - Photo taken from a paparazzi video as Martin leaves a restaurant weeks before his death. Martin was diagnosed with lung cancer and suffered respiratory failure on December 25, 1995, in Los Angeles.
31
Frank Zappa - Still taken from the last video interview that he ever conducted. Zappa was diagnosed with prostate cancer and passed away on December 4, 1993.

32
Vladimir Lenin - In Gorki on May 15, 1923, following a third stroke that left him mute and bedridden. He died of syphilis on January 21, 1924.
33
Margaret Thatcher - Taken before her 87th birthday dinner in Oct. 2012. Thatcher died of a stroke on April 8, 2013 in London.
34
Anne Frank - Taken in 1942. Frank died in early March 1945 at the hands of Nazis in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

35
Michael Jackson - Taken during a rehearsal two days before his death. Jackson went into cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009, at his home in Los Angeles.
36
Tammy Faye - Still shot from an interview Faye conducted with Larry King two days before her death. Faye died of cancer on July 20, 2007, in Missouri.
37
Heath Ledger - Ledger suffered an accidental overdose from perscription medication on Jan. 22, 2008 in New York. The photo is from his last film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was released in 2009.

38
Will Rogers - Rogers died in a plane crash in Alaska on August 15, 1935. Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were making test flights across Alaska before their deaths. This photo was taken from their adventures.
39
Benazir Bhutto - Photo taken moments before her death. Bhutto was assassinated in a bombing in Pakistan on December 27, 2007.
40
John Candy - Candy suffered a heart attack while filming Wagons East in Durango, Mexico on March 4, 1994. This photo was taken on the set of the film.

41
Jenni Rivera - Taken on the plane, moments before takeoff. Rivera died in a plane crash near Nueva Leon, Mexico, on December 9, 2012.
42
Cliff Burton - Taken backstage at the Solnahallen arena on September 26, 1986. Burton died on September 27, 1986, in a bus accident in Sweden.
43
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Taken at Warm Springs, GA, on April 11, 1945. Roosevelt suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage and passed away on April 12, 1945.

44
Kim Jong-il - Taken at a Pyongyang supermarket on Dec. 14, 2011. Kim Jong-Il was in ill health and suffered a stroke. He died on Dec. 17, 2011, in North Korea.
45
Diana, Princess of Wales - Diana died in a tragic car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997. This photo was taken by paparazzi before the crash.
46
Ryan Dunn - Ryan Dunn posted this photo to Twitter just hours before his death. Dunn died in an alcohol-related car accident on June 20, 2011, in Pennsylvania.

47
Tupac Shakur - Photo taken moments before he died. On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot several time in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, NV.
48
The Notorious B.I.G. - Taken at a party the night of his murder. Biggie Smalls was killed in a drive by shooting on March 9, 1997 in Los Angeles.
49
Kurt Cobain - Taken in November of 1993, at what would be Kurt Cobain's last photo shoot. Cobain died of a gunshot wound to the head in Seattle on April 5, 1994. It is debated whether or not it was self-inflicted.