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| Alexander Graham Bell | | "No." |
Inventor of the telephone. On the day of his burial, all US telephones were silenced for one minute in his honor.
| Anna Pavlova | | "Get My Swan Costume Ready" |
Ballerina, d. 1931
| Anton Chekhov | | "I Haven't Had Champagne for a Long Time." |
| Archimedes of Syracuse | | "Wait 'Till I Have Finished My Problem!" |
| Arnold Bennett | | "Everything Has Gone Wrong, My Girl." |
| Benjamin Disraeli | | "I Am Not Afraid to Die." |
| Benjamin Franklin | | "A Dying Man Can Do Nothing Easy." |
He was having difficulty finding a comfortable position in his bed.
| Billy the Kid | | "Who is It?" |
| Bing Crosby | | "That Was a Great Game of Golf, Fellas." |
Because of incorrect instructions from his family, the year of birth engraved on Bing Crosby's tombstone is 1904, rather than the correct date of 1903. [wikipedia]
| Blaise Pascal | | "May God Never Abandon Me." |
1623-1662. A French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. The SI unit of pressure "Pascal" honours his scientific contributions.
| Bob Marley | | "Money Can't Buy Life." |
To his son Ziggy.
| Byron | | "Good Night." |
Lord Byron died of illness in Greece during an doomed campaign to attack the Turkish-held Lepanto.
| Captain Oates | | "I Am Just Going Outside and May Be Some Time." |
| Casanova | | "I Have Lived As a Philosopher and Die As a Christian." |
| Charlie Chaplin | | "Why Not? After All, It Belongs to Him." |
| Che Guevara | | "Shoot, Coward. You Are Only Going to Kill a Man." |
| Dominque Bouhours | | "I Am About to Die - or I Am Going to Die: Either One is Correct." |
French grammarian, d. 1702
| Douglas Fairbanks | | "I've Never Felt Better." |
| Dylan Thomas | | "I've Had Eighteen Straight Whiskies. I Think That's a Record." |
| Edgar Allan Poe | | "Lord Help My Poor Soul." |
| Edison | | "It's Very Beautiful over There." |
| Edvard Grieg | | "Well, if It Must Be So." |
| Elizabeth I | | "All My Possessions for a Moment of Time." |
| Emily Dickinson | | "Let Us Go In; the Fog is Rising." |
| Errol Flynn | | "I've Had a Hell of a Lot of Fun and I've Enjoyed Every Minute of It." |
| Ethel Barrymore | | "Are You Happy? I'm Happy." |
| Eugene O'Neill | | "I Knew It. I Knew It. Born in a Hotel Room - and God Damn It - Died in a Hotel Room" |
Writer, d. 1953
| Frank Baum | | "Now I Can Cross the Shifting Sands." |
| François Rabelais | | "I Owe Much; I Have Nothing; the Rest I Leave to the Poor" |
Writer, d. 1553
| Freud | | "It is Only Torture Now, and It Has No Longer Any Sense." |
| Frida Kahlo | | "I Hope the Exit is Joyful and Hope Never to Return." |
| Gaius Caligula | | "I Am Still Alive!" |
Roman Emperor, d. 46 AD; stabbed to death by his guards as reported by historian Tacitus
| General Stonewall Jackson | | "Let Us Cross over the River and Sit in the Shade of the Trees." |
Confederate States of America, d.1863, killed by "friendly fire"
| Genghis Khan | | "Let Not My End Disarm You, and on No Account Weep or Keen for Me, Lest the Enemy Be Warned of My Death." |
| George Bernard Shaw | | "Dying is Easy, Comedy is Hard." |
| Gustav Mahler | | "Mozart!" |
| Heinrich Heine | | "God Will Pardon Me. That's His Line of Work." |
Poet, d. 1856
| Henrik Ibsen | | "On the Contrary" |
Spoken to his nurse who had said that he was improving.
| H. G. Wells | | "Go Away. I'm All Right." |
| Humphrey Bogart | | "I Should Never Have Switched from Scotch to Martinis." |
| Immanuel Kant | | "It is Enough." |
| James Dean | | "That Guy's Got to Stop... He'll See Us" |
| James French | | "How About This for a Headline in Tomorrow's Paper? French Fries." |
Executed in the Oklahoma electric chair, 1966
| James Joyce | | "Does Nobody Understand?" |
| Jane Austen | | "Nothing but Death." |
| Jeanne-Antionette | | "Wait a Second." |
| Jesus Christ | | "Father, Into Thy Hands I Commend My Spirit" |
From Luke 23: 46
| J. M. W. Turner | | "The Sun is God." |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | | "More Light" |
| John Adams | | "Thomas Jefferson Survives." |
2nd President of the United States and political rival of Jefferson. He was unaware at the time that Jefferson had died a few hours earlier.
| Johnny Frank Garrett | | "I'd Like to Thank My Family for Loving Me and Taking Care of Me. And the Rest of the World Can Kiss My Ass." |
A Texas inmate executed for rape and murder.
| John Sedgwick | | "They Couldn't Hit an Elephant at This Dist...." |
| John Wilkes Booth | | "Tell Mother, Tell Mother, I Died for My Country. . . . Useless . . . Useless . . ." |
| Joan of Arc | | "Hold the Cross High So I May See It Through the Flames!" |
| Julius Caesar | | "Et Tu Brute" |
The quotation is widely used in Western culture as the epitome of betrayal.
| Karl Marx | | "Go On, Get Out! Last Words Are for Fools Who Haven't Said Enough!" |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | | "I Will Be Glad to Discuss This Proposition With My Attorney." |
| Leonard Bernstein | | "What's This?" |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | | "I Have Offended God and Mankind Because My Work Did Not Reach the Quality It Should Have" |
One of the greatest artists of all time, d. 1519
| Lord Palmerston | | "Die, My Dear Doctor! That's the Last Thing I Shall Do!" |
| Louisa May Alcott | | "Is It Not Meningitis?" |
| Louis XVI of France | | "Frenchmen, I Die Innocent. I Forgive My Enemies. I Desire Only That My Death Be ...." |
A roll of drums cover the final words before the blade falls
| Ludwig Van Beethoven | | "Friends Applaud, the Comedy is Finished." |
| Malcolm X | | "Let's Cool It Brothers" |
US Black leader, d. 1966; spoken to his assassins, three men who shot him sixteen times
| Marie Antoinette | | "Monsieur, I Beg Your Pardon" |
Spoken to the executioner after stepping on his foot
| Mark Twain | | "Good-bye. If We Meet … " |
Said to his daughter in 1910
| Napoleon Bonaparte | | "Josephine..." |
| Nathan Hale | | "I Only Regret That I Have but One Life to Lose for My Country." |
| Noel Coward | | "Goodnight My Darlings, I'll See You Tomorrow." |
| Nostradamus | | "Tomorrow, I Shall No Longer Be Here." |
He was right.
| Oscar Wilde | | "Either That Wallpaper Goes, or I Do." |
| Pancho Villa | | "Don't Let It End Like This. Tell Them I Said Something." |
Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923
| Picasso | | "Drink to Me!" |
| Rudolph Valentino | | "Don't Pull Down the Blinds! I Feel Fine. I Want the Sunlight to Greet Me." |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | | "Strike a Match Man, Strike!" |
Raleigh looked on the executioner's axe and mused "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries".
| Sitting Bull | | "Come On! Come On! Take Action! Let's Go!" |
| Socrates | | "Will You Remember to Pay the Debt?" |
| Spencer Perceval | | "Oh, I Have Been Murdered" |
Nothing if not accurate, Perceval had just been shot by John Bellingham. Perceval is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated.
| Steve Jobs | | "Oh Wow. Oh Wow. Oh Wow." |
As quoted in NY Times Oct 30, 2011 in an article written by his sister, Mona Simpson.
| Tallulah Bankhead | | "Codeine...bourbon..." |
| Thomas Becket | | "I Am Ready to Die for My Lord, That in My Blood the Church May Obtain Liberty and Peace." |
Many years after his death, an 'à' was added in his name, giving the form Thomas à Becket, in an attempt to make him appear more holy and worthy of sainthood. [Wikipedia]
| Thomas Hobbes | | "I Am About to Take My Last Voyage, a Great Leap in the Dark." |
Writer, d.1679
| Thomas Jefferson | | "Is It the Fourth?" |
3rd President of the US; d. July 4, 1826
| Timothy Leary | | "Why Not? Yeah." |
| Tolstoy | | "Even in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Two and Two Do Not Make Six." |
| W.C Fields | | "God Damn the Whole Friggin' World and Everyone in It but You, Carlotta." |
| William McKinley | | "It is God's Way; His Will Be Done, Not Ours" |
McKinley died over a week after having been shot twice by Leon Frank Czolgosz.
| Winston Churchill | | "I'm Bored With It All." |
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