Garry Shandling
Kathy Griffin tweeted this photo of her friend and Larry Sanders Show co-star, Garry Shandling, just four days before his passing. Shandling died on March 24, 2016.
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.
John Lennon
Signing an autograph for Mark David Chapman, who murdered him several hours later on December 8, 1980.
Freddie Mercury
Taken in 1991. Mercury died November 24, 1991, of bronchial pneumonia due to AIDS.
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.
Robin Williams
Williams is seen here with his monkey, Crystal, just days before he took his own life. Neighbors say he looked frail and thin in his final weeks.
David Bowie
Taken on January 8th, the date of his 69th birthday and the release of his final album, by longtime photographer Jimmy King. Bowie died January 10th, 2016, after an 18-month battle with cancer.
Steve Jobs
Taken August 26, 2011. Jobs died October 5, 2011, due to complications from pancreatic cancer.
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
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.
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.
Mark Twain
In April 1910. Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.
Albert Einstein
In Princeton, NJ, in March 1955. Einstein died on April 18,1955 after an abdominal aortic aneurysm caused severe internal bleeding.
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
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.
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.
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.
Amy Winehouse
Taken in London on July 12, 2011. WInehouse died on July 23, 2011, from alcohol overdose. She was in her London home.
Anne Frank
Taken in 1942. Frank died in early March 1945 at the hands of Nazis in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Bob Marley
Taken in Munich, Germany, a few months prior to his death. Marley died of cancer May 11, 1981, in Miami, FL
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Margaret Thatcher
Taken before her 87th birthday dinner in Oct. 2012. Thatcher died of a stroke on April 8, 2013 in London.
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.
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.
• Don't insult other visitors. Offensive comments will be deleted without warning.
• Comments are accepted in English only.
• No swearing words in comments, otherwise such comments will be censored.
• Your nickname and avatar are randomly selected. If you don't post comments for 7 days, they both are reset.
• To choose another avatar, click the ‘Random avatar’ link.
