15 Last Photos of Famous People

1Steve Jobs' Last Photo

A frail Steve Jobs is helped into a car by a friend outside his home in California on August 26, 2011.

2Mahatma Gandhi's Last Photo

Note: while the photo appeared on an indian newspaper, some claim it comes from the movie 'Nine hours to Rama', released in 1963.

Gandhi was on his way to address a prayer meeting when his assassin, Nathuram Godse, fired three bullets from a Beretta 9 mm pistol into his chest.

3John Lennon's Last Photo

The man who shot Lennon, Mark David Chapman, appears in Lennon's last photo asking the musician to sign an autograph a few hours before the killing.

4Freddie Mercury's Last Photo

Taken in 1991, before dying of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.

5Vladimir Lenin's Last Photo

Taken in Gorki after May 15th, 1923. He had had three strokes at this point and was completely mute.

6Steve Irwin's Last Photo

He's posing with marine biologist Chris Jones on his boat, Croc 1, just two days before his death in 2006.

7The Beatles' Last Photo Together as a Band

The last photo taken of all four Beatles together (August 22nd, 1969).

8Adolf Hitler's Last Photo

Taken approximately 2 days before his death, Hitler stands outside his Berlin bunker entrance surveying the devastating bomb damage.

9Mark Twain's Last Photo

Taken in April 1910.

10Albert Einstein's Last Photo

Taken in March 1955 at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, a month before experiencing rupture of an aortic aneurysm.

11Marilyn Monroe's Last Photo

The photo was taken during a visit with Frank Sinatra and jazz pianist Buddy Greco the weekend before her death, on August 5, 1962.

12Jim Morrison's last photo

This photo of The Doors' Jim Morrison and his girlfriend Pamel Courson was taken by a friend in the small village of Saint-Leud'Esserent. While is one of several to be taken that day, it is thought to be the last known photo of Morrison – five days later he was found dead.

13James Dean's Last Photo

Some claim this photo of Dean at a gas station with his Porsche is the last taken of him before his death. He owned the car only nine days when he lost his life in the crash.

14Jimi Hendrix's Last Photo

His girlfriend snapped the last photograph of the legendary electric guitarist with his favorite instrument, nicknamed “Black Betty," the day before he died.

15Robert F. Kennedy's Last Photo

Kennedy as he is being transported to hospital.

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