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Don't make a mess of it – shoot straight, you bastards.

Harry 'Breaker' Morant

(1864 – 1902) Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet & soldier

Last words Morant was courtmartialed and executed by the British – charged with killing Boer prisoners.

It's stopped.

Joseph Henry Green

(1791 – 1863) English surgeon & literary executor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Last words Upon checking his own pulse

It wasn't worth it.

(1884 – 1957) Russian-born American film producer

Never drive at night.

(1834 - 1902) American manufacturer

Last words Lucas was the founder of Lucas Industries manufacturer of automotive alternators and headlights – which were notorious for unreliability in the early days of automobiles.

It must have been the coffee.

(1917 – 1979) Japanese-American actor

Last words In reference to his character Nick Yemana’ from “Barney Miller” who had a reputation for making horrible coffee. According to friend Hal Linden these were Soo's last words before cancer surgery.

How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?

(1810 – 1891) American showman, businessman, entertainer & circus founder

My design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Oliver Cromwell

(1599 – 1658) English military & political leader

Now I will show you how an Italian dies!

Fabrizio Quattrocchi

(1968 – 2004) Italian security officer

Last words Quattrocchi was taken hostage in Iraq early in the Iraq War. Notable for his defiance – when his captors came to execute him he rose from his knees – refused to kneel back down and said these words.

Turn me. I am roasted on one side.

Lawrence of Rome

(c.225 – 258) a deacon & celebrated Roman martyr

Last words Lawrence was stripped and tied face down suspended over a bed of coals and slowly burned to death. In a cheerful voice this is how he responded when asked if he had any last request.

I could shoot better!

‘Hannie’ Schaft

(1920 – 1945) Dutch communist resistance fighter during World War II

Last words Spoken to a German soldier after having been shot in her execution; the soldier subsequently emptied his machine gun into her.

A dying man can do nothing easily.

Benjamin Franklin

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

Last words As he lay dying his daughter suggested that if he lay on his side he could breathe easier.

Take a step or two forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

Robert Erskine Childers

(1870 – 1922) Irish author & nationalist

Last words After shaking hands with each member his firing squad

It's beating – beating – beating – it's stopped.

Albrecht von Haller

(1708 – 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist & poet

Last words Monitoring his pulse

Goddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it except you, Carlotta!

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Last words Carlotta" was Carlotta Monti an actress and Fields' mistress

Where is my clock?

(1904 – 1989) Spanish surrealist painter

That's good. Go on, read some more.

Warren G. Harding

(1865 – 1923) 29th U.S. President

Last words To his wife – who was reading him flattering newspaper accounts

I am starting to believe you are not intending to count me amongst your friends.

Pedro Muñoz Seca

(1879 – 1936) Spanish comic playwright

Last words As he was about to be executed by a firing squad during the Spanish Civil War

This is the happiest moment of my life.

(1859 – 1887) German anarchist

Last words At his execution by hanging

Cut 'er loose, Doc!

Frederic Remington

(1861 – 1909) American painter, illustrator, sculptor & writer

Last words He spoke his last words to the surgeon just before his emergency appendectomy and died of peritonitis and other complications following the operation.

Only from the cold, my friend.

Jean-Sylvain Bailly

(1736 – 1793) French astronomer, orator & leader of the French Revolution

Last words His reply when he was heckled by a spectator who noticed that he was trembling while on the scaffold awaiting the guillotine.

I'm tired of fighting! I guess this thing is going to get me.

born Erik Weisz (1874 – 1926) Hungarian-born American magician, stunt performer & escape artist

Last words Houdini is often said to have died after being punched in the stomach and though this is true such a blow could not have caused his appendix to burst which was the cause of his death.