breathe one's last

Perhaps first used in Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 3 (c. 1591). Compare breathe (“to live”).

• "Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last; And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,"
• "She breathed her last surrounded by her family and friends, commending them to God and the study of his word."
• "The Green Council” is a tense chess game of an episode, kicking off the power vacuum that we knew was coming the moment Viserys breathed his last."