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Oh god I am stealing this one.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

~~ Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957

Hopefully not anytime soon.

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Oh how goth.

I see black light.

~~ Victor Hugo, writer, d. May 22, 1885

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Bizarre Celebrity Suicides

in no way does this website or its creator condone, encourage or admire these methods. this is just a compilation of some of the more imaginative

Imaginative, unusual, creative ways to "end it all."

Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.) - singer

1954 --- suicide playing Russian roulette.

Janet Elaine Adkins

1990 --- 1st suicide assisted by Jack Kevorkian.

Clara Blandick - actress (Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz)

1962 --- sleeping pills, with a plastic bag tied over her head. She was 81-years-old and suffering from crippling arthritis.

Ray Combs - talk show host (Family Feud)

1996 --- hanged himself on the night of June 2, 1996, with bed sheets in his hospital room at Glendale Adventist Hospital while on a 72-hour "suicide watch."

Hart Crane - poet

1932 --- suicide by drowning. On a steamship, he bid his fellow passengers farewell and jumped overboard. Last words.

Thich Quang Duc - Buddhist monk

1963 --- set himself on fire on the streets of Saigon to protest government persecution of Buddhists.

R. Budd Dwyer - politician (Pennsylvania)

1987 --- Convicted of bribery and conspiracy in federal court and about to be sentenced, he called a press conference; there, in front of spectators and TV cameras, he shot himself in the mouth.

Lillian Millicent Entwistle - actress

1932 --- suicide by jumping from the 'H' of the 'HOLLYWOOD(LAND)' sign.

Joseph Goebbels - Nazi politician

1945 --- with his wife, poisoned their five children, then committed suicide at Hitler's Berlin bunker.

Hermann Goering - Nazi politician

1946 --- poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.

Donny Hathaway - singer

1979 --- suicide by jumping from his room on the 15th floor of New York's Essex House Hotel.

Rudolf Hess - Nazi politician

1987 --- last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, strangled himself with an electrical cord at age 93, in Spandau Prison.

Chris Chubbuck - newscaster

1974 --- shot herself in the head during a prime time news broadcast on Florida TV station WXLT-TV. She died 14 hours later. Last words.

Michael Hutchence - rock musician (Inxs)

1997 --- hanged himself with a belt in his room in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, in Sydney, Australia. (Perhaps auto-erotic asphyxiation.)

Eugene Izzi - writer

1997 --- hanged himself from an 11th-floor window on Michigan Ave., Chicago. Perhaps by accident while researching a scene for a book.

Jim Jones - leader of a religious cult known as the Peoples Temple

1978 --- killed himself after watching more than 900 of his followers die from the ingestion of Kool-Ade laced with cyanide.

Terry Kath - rock musician (Chicago)

1978 --- suicide playing Russian roulette. Last words.

Jesse William Lazear - US physician

1900 --- voluntarily infected with & died of yellow fever as part of Walter Reed's research.

Vachel Lindsay - poet

1931 --- suicide by drinking a bottle of lye (Lysol). Last words.

Kiyoko Matsumoto - 19 year old student

1933 --- suicide by jumping into the thousand foot crater of a volcano on the island of Oshima, Japan. This act started a bizarre fashion in Japan and in the ensuing months three hundred children did the same thing.

Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka) - Japanese writer

1970 --- suicide by disembowelment and decapitation (a ritual called seppuku or hara-kiri) as a protest of the Westernization of Japan. He killed himself in front of an assembly (which he himself called) of all of his students that he was teaching at a university at that time.

Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand

1996 --- suicide by intentionally terminating treatment for prostate cancer.

Claudius Drusus Germanicus Nero - Roman emperor

68 AD --- suicide by stabbing himself with a sword.

Sylvia Plath - poet

1963 --- suicide by inhaling gas from her oven.

Margaret Mary Ray - celebrity stalker

1998 --- suicide by kneeling in front of an oncoming train.

Bobby Sands - IRA activists

1981 --- starved on the 66th day of his hunger strike.

Socrates - philosopher

399 BC --- required to drink hemlock to end his life after being found guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens.

Vincent Willem van Gogh - painter

1890 --- shot himself; he died two days later.

Lupe Velez - actress

1944 --- overdose with sleeping pills; she was 4 months pregnant.

{There is a much-circulated, but undocumented story that she had dressed in her best outfit for the suicide and took her pills, washing them down with alcohol. Getting sick to her stomach, she rushed to the bathroom, but tripped and fell; drowning in the toilet.} Last words.

Horace Wells - pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s

1848 --- arrested for spraying two women with sulfuric acid; he anaesthetized himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.

Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephens Woolf) - writer

1941 -- committed suicide by drowning.

Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr) - actor

1978 --- shot and killed his wife of 3 weeks, Kim Schmidt, then shot himself.

(forgot some of you are at work and can only get into this site or a few others)

Unusual Celebrity Deaths

Duane Allman - musician

1971 --- motorcycle accident.

Sherwood Anderson - writer

1941 --- after swallowing a toothpick at a cocktail party he died of peritonitis on an ocean liner bound for Brazil.

John Jacob Astor

1912 --- drowned with the "unsinkable" Titanic.

Attila the Hun

453 AD --- bled to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night.

Alexander I of Greece - king of the Hellenes 1917–20

1920 --- died October 25, from blood poisoning after being bitten by his gardener's pet monkey.

Aleksandr II (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) - Czar of Russia 1855-81

1881 --- assassinated by a bomb which tore off his legs, ripped open his belly and mutilated his face.

Jane Austen

1817 --- Addison's disease.

Sir Francis Bacon

1626 --- pneumonia. He was experimenting with freezing a chicken by stuffing it with snow.

Lucille Desiree Ball

1989 --- died after undergoing heart surgery.

Velma (Margie) Barfield

1984 --- 1st woman executed in US since restoration of death penalty in 1967. (For poisoning her fiancée.)

Cheri Jo Bates

1966 --- 1st victim of the Zodiac killer. Murdered at Riverside Community College in California, her jugular and larynx were severed.)

Thomas a Becket - Archbishop of Canterbury

1170 --- murdered in the Canterbury cathedral by four knights, supposedly on orders by Henry II.

Ludwig van Beethoven

1827 --- cirrhosis of the liver.

John Belushi

1982 --- drug overdose.

Rainey Bethea

1936 --- the last publicly executed criminal in US. Executed by hanging. Little known lasts.

Kimberly Bergalis

1991 --- died of AIDS. She had contracted the disease from her dentist.

Bridget Bishop

1692 --- 1st of the witches hung in Salem, Massachusetts. She was executed on June 10.

(Salem witches: Almost 150 "witches" were arrested, but only 31 were tried in 1692. All 31, including 6 males, were sentenced to death. Nineteen were hanged, 2 died in jail, and 1 man was slowly pressed to death under heavy stones. None were burned.)

Amanda Blake (Beverly Neill) - actress (Miss Kitty on "Gunsmoke")

1989 --- AIDS contracted from her bisexual husband.

Anne Boleyn

1536 --- beheaded for adultery by request of Henry VIII.

Neil Bonnett - race car driver

1994 --- car crash, killed during practice at the Daytona International Speedway.

Salvatore "Sonny" Bono

1998 --- crashed into a tree while skiing.

Ray Brennan

1976 --- on July 27th - 1st person to die of "Legionnaire's Disease."

Charles Brooks, Jr.

1982 --- 1st criminal executed in US by lethal injection.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - poet

1861 --- acute bronchitis.

Jeff Buckley - musician

1997 --- drowned in the Mississippi River, near Mud Island Harbor, on May 29. His body wasn't found until June 4.

Lord Byron (George Gordon)

1824 --- died of malarial fever.

Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary)

1903 --- pneumonia following a bout of heavy drinking.

Al Capone - Chicago gangster

1947 --- syphilis.

Karen Carpenter - singer

1983 --- heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa, at age 32.

Jack Cassidy - actor

1976 --- died in a fire, while asleep on the couch in his apartment.

Catherine the Great - Empress of Russia

1796 --- a stroke, while going to the bathroom.

Nicolae Ceausescu - Romanian president

1989 --- executed by firing squad, on live television, along with his wife.

Anton Joseph Cermak - mayor of Chicago

1933 --- assassinated by accident when riding with Franklin Roosevelt in motorcade.

Sergei Chalibashvili - diver

1983 --- diving accident. Attempted a three-and-a-half reverse somersault in the tuck position during the World University Games. On the way down, he smashed his head on the board and was knocked unconscious. He died after being in a coma for a week.

Raymond Johnson Chapman - Cleveland Indians baseball player

1920 --- died one day after being struck in head by baseball pitch, becoming the only player ever killed as result of major league baseball game.

Charles I - English king

1649 --- beheaded by order of Parliament under Oliver Cromwell on January 30.

Conor Clapton - son of musician Eric Clapton

1991 --- fell out of 53rd floor window at the age of 5.

Cleopatra

30 BC --- suicide by poison, supposedly from a venomous snake.

Nat "King" Cole - singer

1965 --- died of complications following surgery for lung cancer.

Christopher Columbus

1506 --- rheumatic heart disease.

Bob Crane - actor

1978 --- murdered in hotel room.

Jim Croce - singer

1973 ---plane crash. The plane crashed into a tree 200 yards past the end of the runway while taking off from Natchitoches, La. Municipal Airport. PlaneCrashInfo.com

Davy Crockett - US frontiersman

1836 --- killed defending the Alamo.

(Actually, Crockett survived the assault along with a few others, but was bayoneted to death by the Mexicans after they took the fort.)

Marie Curie - chemist, discovered Radium

1934 --- leukemia, caused by exposure to radiation.

Jeffrey Dahmer - mass murderer

1994 --- beaten to death with a broomstick by a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institute.

James Dean (James Byron)

1955 --- car crash.

Albert Dekker - actor, California legislator

1968 --- suffocated, hanging from shower curtain rod, handcuffed, wearing women's lingerie.

John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.) - singer

1997 --- plane crash in Monterey, CA.

Larry Desmedt - "Indian Larry" motorcyclist & daredevil

2004 --- died August 30 from injuries he suffered doing one of his signature stunts - standing up on his moving bike - at a show in Charlotte, N.C. on August 28th.

Edward Despard

1803 --- last executed criminal drawn & quartered in England.

John Dillinger - (1st number one criminal on FBI's most wanted list.)

1934 --- killed by FBI agent Melvin Purvis.

Jane Dornnacker - helicopter traffic reporter

1986 --- died doing a live traffic report for WNBC-AM NYC when her helicopter crashed.

Tommy Dorsey - Trombonist

1956 --- choked to death in his sleep, due to food that lodged in his windpipe.

Anthony J. Drexel III - philanthropist

1893 --- shot himself accidentally while showing off a new gun in his collection to his friends. Last words.

Jessica Dubroff - (age 7)

1996 --- plane crash - attempting to become the youngest pilot to fly cross-country. Last words.

Isadora Duncan - actress

1927 --- accidental strangulation when her scarf caught in car wheel. Last words.

Dominique Dunne - actress ("Poltergeist")

1982 --- choked by boyfriend, John Sweeny. She died after being in a coma for 5 days.

Amelia Earhart

1937 --- missing in an attempt to fly around the world. Last words.

Nelson Eddy - actor / singer

1965 --- suffered a stroke while entertaining on stage in Miami Beach. He died the next day.

Adolf Eichmann

1962 --- executed by hanging for "crimes against the Jewish people."

Andres Escobar - Colombian soccer player

1994 --- murdered by unknown thugs, apparently in anger over the accidental goal he had scored for US during World Cup Game.

Marty Feldman

1982 --- found dead in motel room in Mexico. Death from heart failure, either from climate change or from shellfish poisoning.

Francis Ferdinand - Archduke of Austria

1914 --- assassinated; the incident initiated World War I.

W. C. Fields (Claude William Dukenfield)

1946 --- stomach hemorrhage and cirrhosis of the liver.

Michael Findlay - horror film maker

1977 --- decapitated by helicopter blade.

Jim Fixx - made jogging popular

1984 --- died of a heart attack . . . while jogging.

Robert (Bobbie) Franks

1924 --- kidnapped and murdered by Leopold & Loeb.

Eric Fleming - actor ("Rawhide")

1966 --- drowned when his canoe capsized during the filming of a movie near the headwaters of the Amazon in the Haullaga River, Peru.

Dian Fossey - primatologist

1985 --- found hacked to death, presumably by poachers, in her Rwandan forest camp.

Sigmund Freud

1939 --- cancer of the jaw, palate, throat and tongue.

Bobby Fuller - musician

1966 --- his badly beaten body was discovered in a parked car in Los Angeles. His death was attributed to asphyxia through the forced inhalation of gasoline.

Rajiv Gandhi - prime minister of India from 1984 until 1989

1991 --- killed by a bomb, hidden in a bouquet of flowers, which exploded in his hand. Like his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated.

Judy Garland (Frances Gumm)

1969 --- overdose of sleeping pills.

Marvin Gaye (Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) - singer

1984 --- murdered on his birthday by his father.

Vitas Kevin Gerulaitis - tennis player

1994 --- died in his sleep of carbon monoxide poisoning at the home of a friend.

Andy Gibb - singer

1988 --- heart infection.

Gary Mark Gilmore

1977 --- 1st American executed after restoration of US death penalty in 1976. (Executed by firing squad.) Last words.

John Glasscock - musician (Jethro Tull)

1979 --- heart infection caused by an abscessed tooth.

Olivia Goldsmith - author, "First Wives Club"

2004 --- complications resulting from anesthesia during plastic surgery.

Sergei Grinkov - Russian figure skater

1995 --- died of heart attack during skating practice.

Henry Gunther

1918 --- last soldier killed in WWI. Little known lasts.

Alexander Hamilton - former US Treasury Secretary

1804 --- shot by US Vice President Aaron Burr in a pistol duel near Weehawken, New Jersey on July eleventh.

Mata Hari (Gertrud Margarete Zelle) - World War I spy

1917 --- executed by firing squad, she refused a blindfold and threw a kiss to the executioners.

William E. Harmon

1981 --- 1st BASE jumping fatality. He died in a jump from a 1000-foot antenna tower on April 11. BASE is an acronym for Building, Antennae, Span, Earth, and thus represents the fixed-objects from which BASE jumps are made.

William Henry Harrison

1841 --- 1st US President to die in office.

Leslie Harvey - musician

1972 --- lead guitarist of the Glasgow band Stone the Crows, died after being electrocuted onstage at Swansea's Top Rank Ballroom, May 3, 1972.

Owen Hart - WWF wrestler

1999 --- died while performing a stunt in the wrestling ring. He was being lowered into the ring by a cable, when he fell 70 ft. to his death, snapping his neck.

Elizabeth Hartman - actress

1987 --- fell to her death from a fifth floor window in a bizarre reflection of a character in her staring 1966 movie "The Group."

Frank Hayes - jockey

1923 --- heart attack during a race. His horse, Sweet Kiss, won the race, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.

Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino)

1987 -- Alzheimer's disease.

Phil Hartman (Philip Edward Hartmann)

1998 -- shot by his wife, who then committed suicide.

Les Harvey - musician (Stone the Crow)

1972 --- electrocuted on stage at a show in Swansea, Wales. He touched a poorly connected microphone and died a few hours later.

Ernest Miller Hemingway

1961 --- suicide with shotgun.

Margaux Hemingway (Margot Hemingway)

1996 --- suicide, overdose of a sedative. She was the fifth person in her family to commit suicide.

Jon-Erik Hexum - actor

1984 --- playfully shot himself with a blank-loaded pistol on the set of TV spy show "Cover Up." The concussion forced a chunk of his skull into his brain; he died six days later.

Wild Bill Hickok (James Butler Hickok)

1876 --- shot in the back of the head while playing poker.

Adolf Hitler

1945 --- suicide, cyanide and handgun.

Jimmy Hoffa (James Riddle Hoffa)

1975 --- disappeared from a Michigan restaurant on July 30th.

William Holden - actor

1981 --- found dead in his apartment. He had been drinking, and apparently fell, struck his head on an end table, and bled to death.

Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)

1959 --- died in airplane crash with Ritchie Valens & the Big Bopper on February 3, in Albert Juhl’s corn field about fifteen miles northwest of Mason City in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. link

John C. Holmes - porn film star

1988 --- complications of AIDS.

Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss) - magician

1926 --- ruptured appendix. He died on Halloween.

Leslie Howard (Leslie Stainer) - actor (Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind)

1943 --- his civilian plane was shot down by German fighter planes during WWII.

Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.)

1985 --- died of AIDS. He was the 1st major public figure to announce he had AIDS.

William Huskisson

1830 --- 1st person killed by a train. His death occurred when he was attending the opening of the Liverpool-Manchester Railway. As he stepped on the track to meet the Duke of Wellington, Stephenson's 'Rocket' hit him. He died later that day.

Hal Mark Irish

1991 --- was killed in a leap from a hot air balloon in what was believed to be the first US death from the thrill sport of Bungee jumping. Irish fell more than 60 feet to his death on October 29, 1991, after breaking loose from his bungee cord during a demonstration.

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson - Confederate General

1863 --- pneumonia, after accidentally being shot by his own troops. Last words.

Josef Jakobs - German spy

1941 --- last person to be executed in the Tower of London, England. Little known lasts.

Thomas Jefferson

1826 --- dysentery. He died on the 50th anniversary of signing of Declaration of Independence, and the same day as John Adams. Last words.

Knut Jensen - Olympic cyclist

1960 --- fractured skull during the 1960 Olympics in Rome. In the 93 degree heat, he collapsed from sunstroke and hit his head. He was one of only 2 athletes to die as a result of Olympic competition. (Francisco Lazaro was the other.)

Joan of Arc (Jeanne Darc)

1431 --- burned at the stake for heresy and witchcraft.

Gee Jon

1924 --- 1st person executed in US in the gas chamber. Nevada State Prison in Carson City on February 8. (Hydrocyanic gas was used; the procedure took 6 minutes.)

Brian Jones - musician, one-time Rolling Stone

1969 --- drowned in his swimming pool while drunk and on drugs.

Joselito (Jose Gomez) - Spanish bullfighter

1920 --- fatally gored fighting his last bull.

Florence Griffith Joyner - US Olympic sprinter

1998 --- an epileptic seizure triggered by a brain abnormality. She died in her sleep at the age of 38.

Michael LeMoyne Kennedy

1997 --- collided with a tree while playing ski football in Aspen, Colorado.

William Kemmler - convicted axe murderer

1890 --- 1st person executed in US in the electric chair. At Auburn State Prison in New York, on August 6. (The procedure took 8 minutes.)

Vladimir Komarov

1967 --- 1st cosmonaut to die in space. (Russian Soyuz 1)

Mary Jo Kopechne

1969 --- drowned when the car she was a passenger in, driven by Sen. Edward Kennedy, fell off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, MA.

David Koresh (Vernon Wayne Howell)

1993 --- killed by agents of FBI & Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms.

T. E. Lawrence (Thomas Edward Lawrence)

1935 --- killed in a motorcycle accident after swerving to avoid two boys.

Francisco Lazaro - Olympic runner

1912 --- sunstroke and heart trouble. Collapsed toward the end of the 1912 Olympic marathon in Stockholm. Lazaro was one of only two athletes to die as a result of Olympic competition. (Knut Jensen was the other.)

Brandon Lee - actor

1993 --- shot by a gun firing blanks, while filming the movie "The Crow." His missing scenes were later filled-in by computer animation.

Bruce Lee (Li Yuen Kam) - actor

1973 --- died suddenly from a swollen brain.

John Lennon

1980 --- shot to death by a mentally ill fan.

Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace)

1987 --- AIDS.

Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters)

1942 --- plane crash.

Louis XVI - French king

1793 --- beheaded by French revolutionaries.

Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)

1965 --- murdered - shot 16 times by three assassins. Last words.

Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer) - actress

1967 --- car accident. Her wig flew off in the impact, starting rumors that she had been decapitated.

Mark Maples

1964 --- 1st person to be killed on a ride in Disneyland. He stood up while riding the Matterhorn Bobsleds and was thrown to his death. (There have been 7 deaths at Disneyland since its opening in 1955.)

Jean-Paul Marat

1793 --- knifed while taking a bath.

Pete Maravich - basketball player

1988 --- heart attack while playing a game of pick-up basketball.

Marie Antoinette

1793 --- beheaded by guillotine. Last words.

Bob Marley - musician

1981 --- brain tumor, at the age of 36.

Christopher Marlowe - author

1593 --- stabbed in a tavern brawl in Deptford, England.

Bill Masterton - hockey player for Minnesota North Stars

1968 --- head injury. He fell over backwards and hit his head on the ice after being checked during a game against the Oakland Seals. His is the only death in pro-hockey during the modern era.

Kenneth Allen McDuff

1998 --- thought to be the only person ever freed from death row and then returned after killing again. Executed by injection, November 17, 1998, in Huntsville, Texas.

William McKinley - 25th US President

1901 --- died of gangrene. He was shot by an assassin and his wounds were not properly dressed.

Butterfly McQueen (Thelma Lincoln McQueen)

1995 --- died of burns received when lighting kerosene heater in her apartment.

Glenn Miller - "big band" musician

1944 --- listed as Missing In Action, was serving as a Major in the Army Air Force Band when his plane went down over the English Channel.

Sal Mineo - actor

1976 --- stabbed to death in the street outside of his home.

Margaret Mitchell - author, Gone With the Wind

1949 --- On August 11, she was crossing an Atlanta street on her way to the theater when she was hit by a speeding cab. She died of her injuries five days later.

Russell Mockridge - cyclist

1958 --- vehicular accident. He was competing in the Tour of Gippsland in Melbourne when he was struck by a bus and killed instantly.

Luis Monge

1967 --- executed in gas chamber, Colorado State Penitentiary, Cannon City, CO, on June 2. He was the last US execution until 1977, when the death penalty was reinstated. (He had murdered his wife and 3 of his 10 children.)

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker)

1962 --- drug overdose, probably suicide.

Davey Moore - American world champion boxer

1963 --- Moore faced Sugar Ramos in a nationally televised fight on March 21, 1963. Moore lost the fight by a knockout in the tenth round, and died two days later due to injuries received to his brain stem when his head hit the bottom rope when he was knocked out. wikipedia

Davey Moore - American world champion boxer

1988 --- One morning in early June 1988, as Moore was leaving his home, he stepped out of his car to open his garage door. He failed to put the car in park, leaving it in reverse. The car lurched backwards, pinning him against the door of his garage. He died at the scene. wikipedia

Thomas More

1535 --- beheaded for treason upon the order of Henry VIII.

Vic Morrow - actor

1982 --- helicopter accident on the set of "Twilight Zone - The Movie."

Jim Morrison - musician (the Doors)

1971 --- heart attack while in the bathtub.

Mary Ann Nicholls - prostitute

1888 --- fed poisoned grapes and disemboweled by Jack the Ripper.

Florence Nightingale

1910 --- heart failure after 53 years as an invalid.

Francis Russell O'Hara - US art critic

1966 --- died from being hit by taxicab.

Janet Parker - medical photographer

1978 --- last person to die of smallpox. Little known lasts.

Laura Patterson - professional bungee jumper

1996 --- killed during rehearsal for the Superbowl at the New Orleans Superdome on Jan. 23. She died of massive head injuries.

George S. Patton

1945 --- broke his neck in a car accident. He lived, incapacitated, for one more week.

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier - French highwayman

1792 --- 1st person beheaded with the guillotine.

River Phoenix - actor

1993 --- drug overdose on the sidewalk in front the Viper Club in Hollywood on Halloween.

Francisco Pizarro - Explorer and conquistador

1541 --- stabbed by countrymen in a feud over Incan riches.

Martha Place

1899 --- 1st woman executed in the electric chair, Sing Sing Prison, NY, on March 20. She had murdered her stepdaughter.

Edgar Allan Poe

1849 --- cerebral edema following a drinking binge.

(The September 1996 Maryland Medical Journal published a study that showed Poe's symptoms suggest rabies instead.)

Pope Johann XII

963 --- beaten to death , at age 18, by the husband of a woman he was having an affair with.

Elvis Presley

1977 --- accidental drug overdose. He died while sitting on the toilet.

Alexander Pushkin - Russian author

1837 --- killed in duel.

Grigory Rasputin

1916 --- assassinated: poisoned (cyanide), shot (3 times), and thrown into a river.

Keith Relf - musician (The Yardbirds)

1976 --- electrocuted playing guitar in the bathtub.

John Augustus Roebling - designer of the Brooklyn Bridge

1869 --- died of a tetanus infection after having his leg crushed by a ferryboat while working on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Rebecca Rolfe (Pocahontas)

1617 --- smallpox. She died in London.

Oscar Romero - archbishop of San Salvador

1980 --- murdered while saying mass at the Cathedral of San Salvador.

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

1953 --- executed in electric chair on June 19. The 1st husband-and-wife team executed in the US. They had been charged with espionage and spying.

Ronald Ryan

1967 --- executed by hanging in Melbourne. He was the last man to be hanged in Australia.

Girolamo Savonarola - religious reformer

1498 --- hanged and burned for heresy.

Rebecca Schaffer - actress

1989 --- shot by a "celebrity stalker" fan.

Hugh Scrutton

1985 --- first confirmed Unabomber victim. On Dec. 11, the computer rental store owner opened a package which had been left outside his door.

Selena (Quintanilla Perez) - singer

1995 --- shot by the president of her fan club.

Thomas A. Selfridge

1908 --- 1st mortality in an airplane crash. He was the passenger when Wilbur Wright crashed a US War Department test plane.

Betty Shabazz, (Betty Sanders; Sister Betty X, Hajj Bahiyah) - widow of Malcom X

1997 --- complications from apartment fire started by her grandson.

Tupac Shakur - musician

1996 --- murdered in drive-by shooting.

Percy Bysshe Shelley - writer

1822 --- accidental drowning.

Eddie Slovik

1945 --- shot by an American firing squad in France for desertion. (The only US soldier since the Civil War to be executed as he was.)

Vladimir Smirnov - fencer

1982 --- brain damage. During a fencing match against Matthias Behr, Behr's foil snapped, pierced Smirnov's mask, penetrated his eyeball, and entered his brain. Smirnov died 9 days later.

Joseph Smith - founder of Mormon religion

1844 --- shot by an angry mob while he was jailed in Carthage, IL.

Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales

1997 --- car crash while eluding paparazzi.

Evelita Juanita Spinnelli

1941 --- 1st woman ever to be officially to be executed in California, on November 21st.

1941 --- 1st woman to be executed in the gas chamber

Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots)

1587 --- beheaded for treason.

Mary Surratt

1865 --- executed for being a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination. 1st woman ever executed by the United States government. Hung on July 7. Biography.

Yoshiuki Takada - actor

1985 --- The Sankai Juku Dance Company of Toyko had been performing The Dance Of Birth And Death on the side of Seattle's Mutual Life building when Takada's rope broke and he plunged six stories to his death. The film of his demise was shown on the nightly news. (September 10, 1985)

Sharon Tate

1969 --- murdered by Charles Manson and his followers.

Leon Trotsky - Russian leader

1940 --- assassinated in Mexico with the pick of an ice axe, died the next day. Last words.

Tommy Tucker - musician

1982 --- carbon tetrachloride poisoning sustained while he was finishing floors in his home.

Kelton Rena Turner

1975 --- last American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. Little known lasts.

Rudolph Valentino (Rodolfo di Valentina D'Antonguolla) - actor

1926 --- perforated gastric ulcer and ruptured appendix. Last words.

Mike Venezia - jockey

1988 --- died in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, NY.

Gianni Versace - clothing designer

1997 --- murdered by serial killer.

Sir William Wallace - Scottish rebel

1305 --- executed by being hanged for a short time, taken down still breathing and having his bowels torn out and burned. His head was then struck off, and his body divided into quarters, the punishment known as 'hanged, drawn and quartered'. His head was placed on a pole on London Bridge, his right arm above the bridge in Newcastle, his left arm was sent to Berwick, his right foot and limb to Perth and his left quarter to Aberdeen where it was buried in what is now the wall at St. Machars Cathedral.

Karl Wallenda - aerialist

1978 --- fell to death at the age of 73 as he was walking a high wire strung between two buildings in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Edward Higgins White, Jr.

1967 --- died in space capsule fire during rehearsal of scheduled Apollo 1 launch with Roger Chaffee & Gus Grissom.

Stanford White - Architect, designed Madison Square Garden

1906 --- shot atop Madison Square Garden by Evelyn Nesbit's jealous husband, Harry Thaw.

Oscar Wilde

1900 --- cerebral meningitis. Last words.

Tennessee Williams - writer

1983 --- choked to death on a on a nose spray bottle cap that accidentally dropped into his mouth while he was using the spray. He was 71.

Dennis Wilson - rock musician (The Beach Boys)

1983 --- drowned after diving from his yacht in the harbor at Marina Del Ray, California.

Jackie Wilson - entertainer

1967 --- collapsed of a stroke and a heart attack on stage, while singing his hit "Lonely Teardrops": He never regained consciousness and died eight years later.

Natalie Wood (Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin)

1981 --- accidental drowning.

Alexander Woollcott - literary critic

1943 --- heart attack while appearing on the CBS radio program "People's Platform."

[Homicidalheathen]

Last Words, death bed statements . . .

Thomas Jefferson--still survives...

~~ John Adams, US President, d. July 4, 1826

(Actually, Jefferson had died earlier that same day.)

This is the last of earth! I am content.

~~ John Quincy Adams, US President, d. February 21, 1848

See in what peace a Christian can die.

~~ Joseph Addison, writer, d. June 17, 1719

Is it not meningitis?

~~ Louisa M. Alcott, writer, d. 1888

Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let 'em wait.

In response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you."

~~ Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary general, d. 1789

Am I dying or is this my birthday?

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.

~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964

Nothing, but death.

When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.

~~ Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817

Codeine . . . bourbon.

~~ Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968

How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?

~~ P. T. Barnum, entrepreneur, d. 1891

I can't sleep.

~~ James M. Barrie, author, d. 1937

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

~~ Ethel Barrymore, actress, d. June 18, 1959

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

~~ John Barrymore, actor, d. May 29, 1942

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

~~ Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, d.1170

Now comes the mystery.

~~ Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist, d. March 8, 1887

In her new book The Most Famous Man in America, author Debby Applegate writes on page 466 that Beecher's last words in fact were, "You were saying that I could not recover." Ms. Applegate has not been able to confirm the traditional version of Beecher's last words.

Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.

~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

~~ Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957

Josephine...

~~ Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor, May 5, 1821

I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct.

~~ Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702

Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.

~~ Johannes Brahms, composer, d. April 3, 1897

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

Spoken to her husband of 9 months, Rev. Arthur Nicholls.

~~ Charlotte Bronte, writer, d. March 31, 1855

Beautiful.

In reply to her husband who had asked how she felt.

~~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, writer, d. June 28, 1861

Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

~~ Lord George Byron, writer, d. 1824

Et tu, Brute?

Assassinated.

~~ Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor, d. 44 BC

I am still alive!

Stabbed to death by his own guards - (as reported by Roman historian Tacitus)

~~ Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor, d.41 AD

Don't let poor Nelly (his mistress, Nell Gwynne) starve.

~~ Charles II, King of England and Scotland, d. 1685

Ay Jesus.

~~ Charles V, King of France, d. 1380

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

~~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, writer, d. July 1, 1904

The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.

Dying of tuberculosis.

~~ Frederic Chopin, composer, d. October 16, 1849

I'm bored with it all.

Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965

This time it will be a long one.

~~ Georges Clemenceau, French premier, d. 1929

I have tried so hard to do the right.

~~ Grover Cleveland, US President, d. 1908

That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted.

~~ Lou Costello, comedian, d. March 3, 1959

Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.

~~ Noel Coward, writer, d. 1973

Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.

To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.

~~ Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10, 1977

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

~~ Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, singer / actor, d. October 14, 1977

I am not the least afraid to die.

~~ Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882

My God. What's happened?

~~ Diana (Spencer), Princess of Wales, d. August 31, 1997

I must go in, the fog is rising.

~~ Emily Dickinson, poet, d. 1886

Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?

Minutes before her plane crashed.

~~ Jessica Dubroff, seven-year-old pilot, d. 1996

Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire.

(Farewell, my friends! I go to glory!)

~~ Isadora Duncan, dancer, d. 1927

Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Last letter to her husband before her last flight.

KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low.

Last radio communiqué before her disappearance.

~~ Amelia Earhart, d. 1937

It is very beautiful over there.

~~ Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, d. October 18, 1931

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

~~ Edward VII, King of Britain, d. 1910

All my possessions for a moment of time.

~~ Elizabeth I, Queen of England, d. 1603

I've never felt better.

~~ Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, d. December 12, 1939

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

~~ Richard Feynman, physicist, d. 1988

I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

~~ Errol Flynn, actor, d. October 14, 1959

A dying man can do nothing easy.

~~ Benjamin Franklin, statesman, d. April 17, 1790

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

Spoken to his daughter, Ottilie.

~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, d. March 22, 1832

I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier.

~~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, d. October 9, 1967

Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.

When asked if he thought dying was tough.

~~ Edmund Gwenn, actor, d. September 6, 1959

God will pardon me, that's his line of work.

~~ Heinrich Heine, poet, d. February 15, 1856

Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark.

~~ O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), writer, d. June 4, 1910

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

~~ Henry VIII, King of England, d. 1547

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

~~ Thomas Hobbes, writer, d. 1679

I see black light.

~~ Victor Hugo, writer, d. May 22, 1885

Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.

~~ Andrew Jackson, US President, d. 1845

Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

Killed in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War.

~~ General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, d. 1863

Is it the Fourth?

~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826

Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.

From Luke 23:46

~~ Jesus Christ

Does nobody understand?

~~ James Joyce, writer, d. 1941

Why not? Yeah.

~~ Timothy Leary, d. May 31, 1996

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

~~ Franz Leher, composer, d. October 24, 1948

A King should die standing.

~~ Louis XVIII, King of France, d. 1824

Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?

~~ Louis XIV, King of France, d. 1715

I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move my arms.

~~ Louise, Queen of Prussia, d. 1820

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

~~ Walter De La Mare, writer, d. 1956

Let's cool it brothers . . .

Spoken to his assassins, 3 men who shot him 16 times.

~~ Malcolm X, Black leader, d. 1966

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

~~ Karl Marx, revolutionary, d. 1883

I forgive everybody. I pray that everybody may also forgive me, and my blood which is about to be shed will bring peace to Mexico. Long live Mexico! Long Live Independence!

~~ Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, (Archduke Maximilian of Austria), d. June 11, 1867

Nothing matters. Nothing matters.

~~ Louis B. Mayer, film producer, d. October 29, 1957

It's all been very interesting.

~~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, d. 1762

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

~~ Eugene O'Neill, writer, d. November 27, 1953

Good-bye . . . why am I hemorrhaging?

~~ Boris Pasternak, writer, d. 1959

Get my swan costume ready.

~~ Anna Pavlova, ballerina, d. 1931

I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.

Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as he lay dying.

~~ Pietro Perugino, Italian painter, d. 1523

Lord help my poor soul.

~~ Edgar Allan Poe, writer, d. October 7, 1849

I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.

Spoken to his wife.

~~ James K. Polk, US President, d. 1849

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

~~ Alexander Pope, writer, d. May 30, 1744

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

~~ François Rabelais, writer, d. 1553

I have a terrific headache.

He died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

~~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US President, d. 1945

Put out the light.

~~ Theodore Roosevelt, US President, d. 1919

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . .

Killed in battle during US Civil War.

~~ General John Sedgwick, Union Commander, d. 1864

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

Spoken to his nurse.

~~ George Bernard Shaw, playwright, d. November 2, 1950

I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .

~~ Dylan Thomas, poet, d. 1953

Moose . . . Indian . . .

~~ Henry David Thoreau, writer, d. May 6, 1862

God bless... God damn.

~~ James Thurber, humorist, d. 1961

I feel here that this time they have succeeded.

~~ Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, d. 1940

Don't worry chief, it will be alright.

~~ Rudolph Valentino, actor, d. August 23, 1926

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.

~~ Vespasian, Roman Emperor, d. 79 AD

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923

I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.

~~ Leonardo da Vinci, artist, d. 1519

I die hard but am not afraid to go.

~~ George Washington, US President, d. December 14, 1799

Go away. I'm all right.

~~ H. G. Wells, novelist, d. 1946

Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.

~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900

I am ready.

~~ Woodrow Wilson, US President, d. 1924

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

~~ Florenz Ziegfeld, showman, d. July 22, 1932

[BrassFusion]

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

~~ Karl Marx, revolutionary, d. 1883

quite possibly the best last words ever

[Scary Guy]

http://www.detroitgothic.net/index.php?sho...p;hl=last+words

and

http://www.detroitgothic.net/index.php?sho...p;hl=last+words

Just for completeness.