A thread of the final photos of famous historical figures
1. The last picture of Adolf Hitler before he allegedly committed suicide. Hitler (right) & his aide Julius Schaub looking at the ruins of the Reich chancellery during the Battle of Berlin, April 28, 1945.
1. The last picture of Adolf Hitler before he allegedly committed suicide. Hitler (right) & his aide Julius Schaub looking at the ruins of the Reich chancellery during the Battle of Berlin, April 28, 1945.
2. President Lincoln lying in state at New York's City Hall on April 24, 1865, the only surviving photo of his funeral.
3. Final known picture of Princess Diana of Wales, taken seconds before the Mercedes slammed into a pole in a Paris tunnel, killing her on impact.
4. The last photograph of President Franklin Roosevelt, taken at Warm Springs, GA by Nicholas Robbins. FDR died the following day on April 12, 1945.
5. The body of Benito Mussolini after being executed in northern Italy in the final days of WWII
6. Final photo of 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.
7. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria five minutes before he was assassinated, 1914.
8. The last photo taken of former Soviet Union leader Vladimir Lenin. He was in a wheelchair after suffering three stokes in the previous two years. By the end he was paralyzed and completely mute.
9. The final photo of the 18th US President Ulysses S. Grant reading a newspaper at his home in New York just four days before he passed away.
10. The last photo of Chester Bennington (Linkin Park's lead singer) taken by his wife just one day before he took his own life.
11. One of the final photos of Kurt Cobain. The photo was taken by a fan and it was captured just days before Kurt ended his own life.
12. On December 22, 2016, a fan snapped this photo of Carrie Fisher in London, just one day before she flew to Los Angeles. Tragically, she suffered a heart attack during the flight and passed away four days later on December 27, 2016, in a hospital.
13. Last image of Albert Einstein, taken in 1955. He died in a hospital in Princeton, NJ on April 18, 1955
14. Final photo of Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.
15. The final photo of Marilyn Monroe shows her 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.
16. 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.
17. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX, on November 22, 1963. This photo was taken from his caravan in Dallas just before his assassination.
18. 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.
19. Photo taken moments before Tupac Shakur died. On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot several time in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, NV.
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