Last Known Photographs of Famous People

1/26 John Lennon - The man who shot Lennon, Mark David Chapman, appears in Lennon's last photo asking for an autograph a few hours before the killing.

2/26 Biggie Smalls -This photo of Biggie Smalls, with close friend and collaborator Sean "P-Diddy" Combs, was taken right before his death after Biggie presented an award at the Soul Train Music Awards and left a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum on March 9, 1997. Leaving the party, Biggie was riddled with bullets in a drive-by-shooting and died.

3/26 Abraham Lincoln - Abe Lincoln-Records and accounts of Abraham Lincoln's last known photograph are varied. A few years ago, news circulated that a photo found in General Ulysses S. Grant's family album, showing the 16th United States President in front of the White House, may have been the last snapshot taken before his assassination in 1865. Other sources point to three photos taken by Henry F. Warren on the balcony of the White House on March 6, 1865.

4/26 Adolf Hitler - This last known picture of Hitler was taken approximately two days prior to his death as he stands outside his Berlin bunker entrance surveying the devastating bomb damage. With Germany lying in ruins after six years of war, and with defeat imminent, Hitler decided to take his own life. But before doing so, he married Eva Braun and then penned his last will and testament. The next day in the afternoon on April 30, 1945 Braun and Hitler entered his living room to end their lives. Later that afternoon the remaining members of the bunker community found Hitler slumped over, and blood spilled over the arm of the couch. Eva was sitting at the other end. Hitler had killed himself by biting down on a cyanide capsule while shooting himself in the head. Eva only used the cyanide capsule.

5/26 Albert Einstein - Taken in March 1955 at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, a month before experiencing a rupture of an aortic aneurysm.

6/26 Amelia Earhart - The Daily Mail recently published these previously unseen, rare photos of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart in the final moments before her fateful flight in 1937. They were unearthed by a woman who almost threw them out and include snapshots of Earhart packing her bags, getting a haircut, reviewing weather charts and making other preparations for her circumnavigational flight.

7/26 Amy Winehouse - Just over a week before her death on July 23, 2011, Amy Winehouse was pictured walking around near her home in North London. It later emerged that it may have been sudden alcohol withdrawal that killed her.

8/26 Chris Benoit - The last known photo of Chris Benoit, taken on a cell phone by a fan at Dr. Phil Astin's office on June 22nd, 2007. It was later determined that his wife was already dead by the time this photo was taken.

9/26 Anne Frank - This is believed to be the last picture of Anne Frank with her sister Margot taken in early to mid 1942. Later that year in July her sister Margot would be among the first to receive notice that she was to be sent to Nazi Germany ordering her to report for relocation to a work camp. Anne was then told by her father that the family would go into hiding. The Frank family was discovered and arrested on the morning of August 4th 1944. Having been arrested in hiding, they were considered criminals and were sent to the Punishment Barracks for hard labor. In March 1945, a typhus epidemic spread through the camp and killed approx 17,000 prisoners. Witnesses later testified that Margot fell from her bunk in her weakened state and was killed by the shock, and that a few days later Anna Frank died.

10/26 Bob Marley - The last know photo of Bob Marley sees him hanging out with his family in Munich, Germany. The painful frail reggae legend weighed just 35kg in this photo and eventually succumbed to cancer on May 11, 1981.

11/26 Elvis Presley - This is a snapshot of Elvis pulling into Graceland with girlfriend Ginger Alden August 16, 1977 after a visit with a dentist. The King had been suffering from health problems, but was set to start touring again and had a flight scheduled that evening. He suffered from a heart attack and passed away on the toilet at his home.

12/26 Freddy Mercury - Taken in 1991, before dying of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.

13/26 Mahatma Gandhi - Gandhi was on his way to address a prayer meeting when his assassin Nathuram Godse fired three bullets from a Beretta 9mm pistol into his chest.

14/26 Heath Ledger - Heath was last photographed smiling on the set of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus in London, days before he was found overdosed on painkillers in his flat.

15/26 James Dean - Some claim this photo of Dean at a gas station with his Porsche is the last taken of him before his death. He had owned the car only nine days before he lost his life in a crash.

16/26 Jim Morrison - 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 it's one of several to be taken that day, it is thought to be the last known photo of him. Five days later he was found dead.

17/26 Jimi Hendrix - His girlfriend snapped the last photo of the legendary electric guitarist with his favourite instrument, nicknamed "Black Betty", the day before he died.

18/26 Keith Moon - The drummer of The Who died on 7th September 1978 of an overdose of heminevrin prescribed to combat alcoholism. A post-mortem confirmed there were 32 tablets in his system, 26 of which were undissolved. Moon had attended a party the night before organised by Paul McCartney for the launch of the "The Buddy Holly Story" movie.

19/26 Kurt Cobain - Jesse Frohman took these photos of Kurt close to his 1994 suicide.

20/26 Lucille Ball - Photographer Alan Light captured comedy legend Lucille Ball on the red carpet at the 61st Academy Awards in March 1989.

21/26 Marilyn Monroe - The photo was taken during a visit with Frank Sinatra and jazz pianist Buddy Greco the weekend before her death, on August 5, 1962.

22/26 Princess Diana - In the rear seat is Princess Diana, looking back at the pursuing paparazzi, with Dodi Fayed sitting next to her. Seconds after this picture was taken the Mercedes entered the Place de I'Alma underpass going about 105kmh. The driver lost control of the car and swerved to the left before colliding head-on with one of the pillars in the tunnel. Dodi Fayad and Henri Paul both died instantly. Trevor Rees-Jones was still conscious and had suffered multiple serious injuries to the face. Diana was critically injured but died later that morning in the hospital leaving Rees-Jones as the only survivor.

23/26 Richard Pryor - Here is Richard Pryor with comic Eddie Griffin shortly before his death. On December 10, 2005, Pryor suffered a heart attack in California. He was taken to a local hospital after his wife's attempts to resuscitate him failed. He was pronounced dead at 7:58am. He was 65 years old.

24/26 Ryan Dunn - Jackass star Ryan Dunn was snapped boozing with his buddies hours before the high-speed crash that killed him and his passenger. Dunn was driving drunk when his Porsche flew off a Pennslyvania road at about 200kmh.

25/26 Steve Irwin - Irwin posed with marine biologist Chris Jones on his boat, Croc 1, just two days before his death in 2006.

26/26 Tupac Shakur - Tupac's last photo sees him sitting beside his manager Suge Knight in a BMW right before he was shot to death in a drive-by-attack on Sept 13, 1996. The pair had just attended the Mike Tyson vs Bruce Sheldon fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.