On 23 November 1991, in a prepared statement made on his deathbed, Mercury confirmed that he had AIDS.

Caderousse manages to dictate and sign a deathbed statement identifying his killer, and the Count reveals his true identity to Caderousse moments before Caderousse dies.

On his deathbed he summoned Leon Louis, the editor of the black newspaper Negro South to make a statement:

In a deathbed statement, Oberholtzer vividly described Stephenson's assaults on her.

On March 28, she recounted what Stephenson had done in a deathbed statement.

This was written after Eisenhower had died in 1969 and was presented as a sort of deathbed statement from Summersby to set the record straight.

The film was one of the first to show two men kissing: a fraternal moment during the deathbed finale, and one of the first widely released films to show nudity.

The royal steward, Hugh Bigod, swore that he had been present at the king's deathbed and had heard the king say that he released the oath.

In the most famous of these, Agrippa, upon his deathbed, released a black dog which had been his familiar.

He was named on the television series The Men Who Killed Kennedy, as well as in a deathbed confession by former CIA agent E. Howard Hunt, as one of the men who shot at U. S. President John F. Kennedy in Dealy Plaza on the day of his assassination.

There were other potential claimants, including the powerful English earl Harold Godwinson, who was named the next king by Edward on the latter's deathbed in January 1066.

The Norman sources do not dispute the fact that Harold was named as the next king, but declare that Harold's oath and Edward's earlier promise of the throne could not be changed on Edward's deathbed.

On his deathbed, he named his younger brother, Sun Quan, as his heir.

Theobald was present at Stephen's deathbed in October 1154, and Stephen named him as regent until Henry could take up the crown.

In 1888, a St. Louis resident named William Streetor claimed that his former business partner, Robert Louden, made a deathbed confession of having sabotaged Sultana by a coal torpedo.

( One of them, a woman from the Caroline Islands named Hypa, died in 1897 aged about 112, after being baptized on her deathbed.

When Liu Biao named his oldest son Liu Qi as his heir on his deathbed, Cai Mao and his nephew Zhang Yun wrote a forged will choosing Liu Biao's second son Liu Cong, because Liu Cong was married to Cai Mao's niece.

Cisneros was named after his mother ’ s youngest brother who developed Hodgkin ’ s disease at the age of 14 and asked from his deathbed that his sister give his name to her son.

Although Tugh Temür had a son named El Tegüs when he died in 1332, it is said that on his deathbed the Khagan expressed remorse for what he had done to his elder brother and his intention to pass the throne to Toghan Temur, Kusala's eldest son, instead of his own son.

" However, a very similar deathbed saying was earlier attributed to a similarly named 19th century English actor, Edmund Kean, so the association of the words with Gwenn may be erroneous.

On her deathbed, Elizabeth promises an androgynous young nobleman named Orlando a large tract of land and a castle built on it along with a generous monetary gift which she will only bequeath to him if he consents to her command, " Do not fade.

Although Tugh Temür had a son named El Tegüs when he died in 1332, it is said that on his deathbed the Khagan expressed remorse for what he had done to his elder brother and his intention to pass the throne to Toghan Temur, Kusala's eldest son, instead of his own son.

Hǫgni, lies with a Jarl's daughter named Helvik on his deathbed and prophecies to Helvik that a son born to her will avenge him.

On his deathbed, Timur named Pir Muhammad as his successor.

She never married, though she had an unsatisfactory relationship with a man named Harry Pearson, who proposed to her on her deathbed.

Hadrian wrote poetry in both Latin and Greek ; one of the few surviving examples is a Latin poem he reportedly composed on his deathbed ( see below ).

These graphic, billboard-sized ads included depictions of a variety of shocking subjects, one of which featured a deathbed scene of a man ( AIDS activist David Kirby ) dying from AIDS.

Various stories emerged about Edward ’ s deathbed wishes ; according to one tradition, he requested that his heart be carried to the Holy Land, along with an army to fight the infidels.

Another account of his deathbed scene is more credible ; according to one chronicle, Edward gathered around him the earls of Lincoln and Warwick, Aymer de Valence, and Robert Clifford, and charged them with looking after his son Edward.

The scene then shifts by about one year to when Edward has become mortally ill and the tapestry strongly suggests that, on his deathbed, he bequeaths the crown to Harold.

The novel reveals that, as a young man, he had abandoned his sickly mother for a life at sea and ignored her letter to see her one last time at her deathbed.

It is said to allow one to see the Holy Retinue of Amitabha and his assembly upon one's deathbed.

The note in the purse that was found in the Court Garden contained one spelling error and one grammatical error, both of which were typical for Hauser, who, on his deathbed, kept muttering incoherencies about " writing with pencil ".

He left only one young son, born of his mistress, Kristina Abrahamsdotter whom he married on his deathbed.

Other satirical vignettes involve a lowly worker who upstages his superiors by displaying his vast culinary knowledge while ordering at a gourmet French restaurant ; a housewife who rises from her deathbed to cook one last meal for her family ; and a women's etiquette class ( held by Mariko Okada ) on how to eat spaghetti properly.

* " No one ever said on their deathbed, ' Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.

According to the Res gestae saxonicae by chronicler Widukind of Corvey, Conrad on his deathbed persuaded his younger brother Eberhard to offer the crown to Henry the Fowler, the duke of Saxony and one of his principal opponents, since he considered Henry to be the only prince capable of holding the German kingdom together in the face of internal rivalries among the dukes and the continuous Hungarian raids.

This is significant because, according to Jesuit policy, baptism was usually withheld for new converts until one was on his deathbed or until the missionaries could be certain that the convert would be committed.

" Not long afterward, a major 1, 500-site poster campaign used a photograph of a smiling Leah Betts ( not a picture of her on her deathbed, as some sources claim ) with the caption Sorted: Just one ecstasy tablet took Leah Betts.

Toward the end of his life he began to regret the licentiousness with which he had lived it, and on his deathbed he secured from his publisher ( one Sam Briscoe ) a promise that any posthumously published works would be censored of " all prophane, undecent passages ".

Harcourt's diaries contain a report that one of Queen Victoria's chaplains, Reverend Norman Macleod, made a deathbed confession repenting of his action in presiding over Queen Victoria's marriage to her servant, John Brown.

He became famous for his support of the tobacco industry, expressing his fear that " his elderly mother would be denied ' the one last pleasure ' of smoking a cigarette on her hospital deathbed.

* 14 December — death of Notre Dame player George Gipp ( 1895 – 1920 ), mainly remembered for his deathbed quote to coach Knute Rockne: " Win just one for the Gipper ".

This was elaborated upon in a 1965 Priory document by stating it was Abbé Antoine Bigou, one of Saunière's predecessor curés at Rennes-le-Château, who hid the parchments in 1790 in the hollow pillar that supported the church altar, after finding out about the secret of Rennes-le-Château on 17 January 1781 at the deathbed of Marie de Negri d ' Ables, Marquise d ' Hautpoul-Blanchefort.

His mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewelry had been hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family ’ s dining room set.

At the time of Louis XI's death in 1483, Peter was one of the few royal servants to have remained consistently in favour during the King's reign, and it was to him that Louis, on his deathbed, granted guardianship over the new King, Charles VIII.