Last public appearance of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, 1976
Mao's last public appearance—and the last known photograph of him alive—was on M…
Tag: Last Images
Last picture of Nikola Tesla, 1943
By the end of his brilliant and tortured life, the famous physicist, engineer, a…
Rare photographs capture the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, 1934
The assassination of Alexander, first King of Yugoslavians, by Vlado Chernozemsk…
Photographs from the assassination of Anwar Sadat, 1981
The assassins' bullets ended the life of a man who earned a reputation for makin…
Vladimir Lenin’s last photo. He had had three strokes at this point and was completely mute, 1923
This last photo shows Vladimir Lenin in a wheelchair after suffering three stoke…
John Lennon signs an autograph for Mark Chapman – his murderer, 1980
According to Chapman he actually had the gun in his pocket when this photo was t…
The last photo of the Titanic afloat, 1912
This photograph is the last known picture of RMS Titanic on the surfac…
The last picture of Adolf Hitler, 1945
This last known picture of Hitler was taken approximately two days prior to his …
Einstein’s desk photographed a day after his death, 1955
Albert Einstein, whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the unive…