AIDS / HIV
- Robbin Crosby, RATT guitarist.
- Keith Haring, artist.
- John Holmes, pornstar.
- Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer.
- Anthony Perkins, actor, Psycho.
- Ray Sharkey, actor and intravenous drug user.
- Eazy-E, rapper, member of NWA.
- Robert Reed, played dad on the Brady Bunch.
- Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction author, acquired virus during blood transfusion.
Deaths
| 2 Oct 1985 |
Actor Rock Hudson dies of AIDS. |
| 2 Aug 1986 |
Roy Cohn, the right hand man of Joseph McCarthy, dies of AIDS. |
| 4 Feb 1987 |
Pianist Liberace dies of AIDS. |
| 13 Mar 1988 |
Pornstar John Holmes dead from AIDS. |
| 24 Nov 1991 |
Freddy Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, dies of AIDS in London. |
| 6 Jan 1993 |
Ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev dies of AIDS, Paris. |
| 6 Feb 1993 |
Tennis player Arthur Ashe dies of AIDS, New York City. |
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