Hunter S. Thompson - Said on a suicide note written four days before his death. He was 67 when he took his own life.

Tupac Shakur - Spoken to a police officer who had asked who shot him

P. T. Barnum, circus entrepreneur

Bernard B. Fall - Dictated into his tape recorder before stepping on a landmine in Vietnam

Todd Beamer, passenger on United Flight 93, September 11, 2001 - These are his last recorded words, coming at the end of a cell phone call before Beamer and others attempted to storm the airliner's cockpit to retake it from hijackers who were part of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The plane crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Private First Class Edward H. Ahrens - During the Battle of Tulagi, Private Ahrens was mortally wounded while single-handedly fighting back a group of Japanese soldiers attempting to infiltrate Allied lines. After his superior officer discovered Ahrens the next morning surrounded by dead Japanese troops, he whispered these words and died.

Steve Jobs - His last statement was recorded by his sister on his death bed.

Tallulah Bankhead - Her response when asked if she wanted anything.

Patrick Swayze

Henry David Thoreau - These words he had said in a delirium before expiring. When urged earlier to make his peace with God his last coherent response was, "I did not know that we had ever quarreled."

Crowfoot - 1890.

Alexander The Great - Translation: The strongest In response to his generals asking the heirless Alexander which one of them would get control of the empire. Note: When asked on his deathbed who was to succeed him, his voice may have been indistinct. Alexander may have said "Krateros" (the name of one of his generals), but he was not around, and the others may have chosen to hear "Kratistos—" the strongest.

Jim Varney - These words were said to Varney's companion before dying from lung cancer.

Roald Dahl - First line said to his family. He then appeared to have lost consciousness, and the nurse decided to inject him with a lethal dose of morphine to ease his passing. After she did, Dahl said the second line right before dying.

Benedict Arnold - He wanted to wear his old Continental Army uniform.

Willem Arondeus, Dutch artist and writer, member of the Anti-Nazi resistance - He led a group in bombing the Amsterdam Public Records Office, destroying thousands of files to prevent the Nazis from identifying Jews. Within a week, Arondeus and the other members of the group were arrested. Twelve, including Arondeus, were executed by firing squad.

George Washington - He had a fear of being buried alive

John Crawford III - Regarding a toy gun he was holding, in the toy section of a Beavercreek, Ohio, Walmart

John Belushi

Chris Farley - Said to a prostitute as she left his hotel room following a weekend-long drug and sex binge. When she turned around, Chris Farley had collapsed.

Joseph Smith, Jr. - crying out while being shot by a mob inside Carthage Jail and then falling out of a window.

John Lennon - Spoken seconds after he was shot as he staggered a number of steps toward the lobby of the Dakota.

Alex, African gray parrot - Used in comparative psychology research at Brandeis University Note: Spoken to his handler, Dr. Irene Pepperberg, when she put him in his cage for the night; he was found dead the next morning

Freddie Mercury - He was dying of AIDS, and said this to his partner asking to be helped to the restroom.

John Sedgwick - Sedgwick was a Union Civil War general who was hit by sniper fire a few minutes after saying these, at the battle of Spotsylvania, on May 9, 1864. They are often portrayed as if they were his absolute final statement, the sentence often being presented as if he did not even finish it, and altered into the form: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist…". Though this may be a slightly more striking version of events, his actual last words are believed to be "All right, my man; go to your place", in response to a soldier telling him that he preferred to duck when being shot at, even from a great distance.

Jimi Hendrix - Said in a poem found next to him on his deathbed. This was the final sentence in the poem

W. C. Fields - "Carlotta" was Carlotta Monti, actress and Fields' mistress.

L. Frank Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz - Baum was referring to the Shifting Sands, the impassable desert surrounding the Land of Oz.

Walt Disney - Scrawled on a piece of paper. To this day, nobody knows what he meant by it, not even Kurt Russell, who was 15 at the time.

Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World - Wrote this in a note to his wife. She obliged and he was injected twice before his death.