Original: He is often erroneously named as the last person to die in the attempt to cross the wall , but he was in fact only the last to be killed through the use of weapons , and the second-last to die in an escape attempt .
Simplified: Chris Gueffroy ( June 21 , 1968 & ndash ; February 6 , 1989 ) was the last person to die while trying to escape across the Berlin Wall .