List of HIV-positive people

This is a list of famous people who are known to have or to have had the virus known as HIV Virus classification style="text-align:center;" |
Group: Group VI (ssRNA-RT)
Family: Retroviridae
Genus: Lentivirus
Species: Human immunodeficiency virus 1
Species: Human immunodeficiency virus 2 |} The human immunodeficiency virus, which is commonly called HIV is a retrovirus that primarily infects vital components of the human immune system such as CD4+ T cells, macrophages and dendritic cells.
..... Click the link for more information. , including those who have died (whether from AIDS AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and is defined as a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the depletion of the immune system caused by infection with HIV. Although treatments for both AIDS and HIV exist, there is no known cure. The rate of clinical disease progression varies widely between individuals and has been shown to be affected by many factors such as host susceptibility, immune function, health care, the presence of co-infections and peculiarities of the viral strain.
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Athletes

• Arthur Ashe Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (July 10, 1943–February 6, 1993) was a prominent tennis player who was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He is well remembered for his efforts to further social causes.
  
  As a youngster, Ashe was small and not well-coordinated. But by the time he entered high school, he starred in tennis, basketball, and football. In tennis, he won the state championship, while in football, he helped lead his team to the city championship as a speedy wide receiver.
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  Events

  January

  • January 4 - End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren.
  • January 11 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
  • January 11 - General Juanto dies in Argentina - Ramón Castillo succeeds him
  • January 12 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer, dies in Neuengamme concentration camp
  • January 13 - Richard Moll, actor
  • January 14 - Franklin D.
  
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  Events

  January

  • January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. ), tennis player and social activist; infected via transfusion during heart surgery Cardiac surgery is surgery on the heart, typically to correct congenital heart disease or the complications of ischemic heart disease or valve problems created by various causes including endocarditis.
  
  The earliest operations that might be considered cardiac surgery were limited to the pericardium, and were pioneered by, among others, Francisco Romero [1] , Dominique Jean Larrey, Henry Dalton, and Daniel Hale Williams.
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• John Curry John Curry (born 9 September 1949 in Birmingham, England, died 15 April 1994 in Binton) was a British figure skater who won the Olympic and World Championships in 1976. He was famous for combining ballet and modern dance influences with skating.
  
  As a child, Curry wanted to become a dancer, but his father disapproved of dance as an activity for boys, so instead at the age of 7 he began to take figure skating lessons.
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  Events

  January-February

  • January 4 - RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage
  • January 4 - February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Nevada - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish
  • January 5 - U.
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. -1994 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family.
  
  

  Events

  January

  • January 1 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
  • January 6 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. ), figure skating champion, died of AIDS-related illness
• Esteban De Jesus Esteban De Jesus (1951-1990) was a Puerto Rican world lightweight champion boxer whose life was full of controversy, problems and scandals. De Jesus, a native of the town of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was a gymmate of Wilfredo Benitez and an acquaintance of Benitez's mom, Clara Benitez. He was trained by Wilfredo's father and Clara's husband, Gregorio Benitez.
  ..... Click the link for more information.  (1951 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar.

  Events

  January-February

  • January 9 - United Nations headquarters officially opens (New York City).
  • January 15 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
  
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  Events

  January

  • January 3 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
  • January 7 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.

  
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• Rudy Galindo Val Joe "Rudy" Galindo (born September 7, 1969 in San Jose, California) is an American figure skater. He once skated pairs with Kristi Yamaguchi at the junior level. In 1996, Galindo won the men's title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the San Jose Arena in San Jose and became the oldest male to win this title.
  ..... Click the link for more information.  (b. 1969 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday
  
  

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  Events

  
  

  January

  • January 1 - Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World
  • January 5 - The Derry Riots leave over 100 people injured
  • January 6 - Cheryl Winters begins her career at the Federal Reserve in Jacksonville.
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. ), figure skating champion
• Magic Johnson Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. (born August 14, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan) is a 6' 9" (2.06 m) former American professional basketball star who played for the Los Angeles Lakers during the 1980s and early 1990s. Playing point guard, he led the Lakers to five NBA championships (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988), as well as four other NBA Finals appearances.
  ..... Click the link for more information.  (b. 1959 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It is also a song by The Sisters of Mercy on the album Floodland.

  Events

  
  

  January

  • January 1 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.
  • January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance
  • January 2 - CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage Wife Our Gal Sunday, Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. ), probably most famous for his public announcement in 1991 that he had been infected with the virus HIV and would retire from basketball
• Greg Louganis Gregory Efthimios Louganis (born January 29, 1960) is an American diver of Samoan/Swedish descent, adopted by a Greek-American family. He won back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3 m and 10 m events.

  History

  At age 16, Greg Louganis took part in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, where he placed second in the tower event, behind Italian Klaus Dibiasi. Two years later, with Dibiasi retired, Louganis won his first world title in the same event.
  ..... Click the link for more information.  (b. 1960 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).

  Events

  January-February

  • January - State of emergency is lifted in Kenya - Mau Mau Rebellion is officially over
  • January 1 - Independence of Cameroon
  • January 9 - Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. ), diver; knew he was HIV-positive since 1988, announced it in 1995
• Tommy Morrison Tommy David Morrison (born January 2, 1969, Jay, Oklahoma) is a former world heavyweight boxing champion. Dubbed "The Duke", he is the grandnephew of Hollywood star John Wayne. Morrison has also garnered media coverage for his troubled life outside the boxing ring.
  
  Morrison started his professional boxing career on November 10, 1988 with a first round knockout of William Muhammad in New York City. Twenty days later, he scored another first round knockout win.
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  For other uses, see Number 1969.

  For the movie, see 1969 (movie).

  For the Velvet Underground live album, see .

  Events

  
  

  January

  • January 1 - Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World
  • January 5 - The Derry Riots leave over 100 people injured
  • January 6 - Cheryl Winters begins her career at the Federal Reserve in Jacksonville.
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. ), world champion boxer, tests in 1996 revealed he was HIV-positive, automatically retiring him from boxing as a competitor; underwent a technique known as "sperm washing Sperm washing is a process in which individual sperm are removed from the semen then used in Intra-Uterine Insemination or in vitro fertilisation. The idea is that the when the male is HIV positive it will reduce the risk of transmission to the female.
  
  The HIV infection is carried by the seminal fluid rather than the sperm. However, there are still lingering doubts about the safety of the procedure.
  ..... Click the link for more information. ", designed to allow HIV-positive men to have HIV-negative children
• Rubén Palacios world champion boxer
• Tim Richmond Tim Richmond (June 7, 1955 - August 13, 1989) was a NASCAR race car driver who had his career cut short when he contracted HIV and died of complications from AIDS.
  
  Richmond was born in Ashland, Ohio and, unlike many other NASCAR drivers, was born into wealth and didn't grow up with auto racing. He didn't even begin racing until the age of 21, when he drove a Sprint car owned by a friend, but he knew instantly that it was to become his vocation.
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  Events

  January-April

  • January 2 - Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.
  • January 19 - The Scrabble board game debuts.
  • February 8 - Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Malenkov
  • February 13 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. -1989 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The world population growth in absolute numbers is believed to have been the highest ever around this time. [1]
  
  

  Events

  January

  • January 7 - Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito.
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. ), NASCAR driver. Won 7 races in 1986 and finished 3rd in points.
• Ahmed Taha Champion skateboarder

Entertainers

• Peter Allen Peter Allen (February 10, 1944 – June 18, 1992) was an Australian songwriter and singer. He was born Peter Allen Woolnough was born on February 10 1944 in the country town of Tenterfield, NSW. He had a difficult childhood: his father was an abusive alcoholic, and one of the stabilising influences in his life was his beloved grandfather George, who ran the local saddlery.
  ..... Click the link for more information. , (1944 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).

  Events

  World War II

  January

  • January 4 - The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
  • January 5 - Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk.
  • January 14 - The soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod.
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. -1992 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday.
  
  

  Events

  January

  • January 1
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General
  • George H.
  
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• Néstor Almendros (1930 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday.
  
  

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  January-February

  • January 6 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
  • February 18 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
  • February 18 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. -1992 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday.
  
  

  Events

  January

  • January 1
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General
  • George H.
  
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• Emile Ardolino (1943 1943 is a common year starting on Friday.
  
  

  Events

  January

  • January 4 - End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren.
  • January 11 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
  • January 11 - General Juanto dies in Argentina - Ramón Castillo succeeds him
  • January 12 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer, dies in Neuengamme concentration camp
  • January 13 - Richard Moll, actor
  • January 14 - Franklin D.
  
  ..... Click the link for more information. -1993), filmmaker (Sister Act, Dirty Dancing)
• Howard Ashman (1950-1991), film songwriter
• Rick Aviles (1952-1995), American actor
• Andy Bell, (b. 1964), lead singer of the pop group Erasure
• Michael Bennett, (1943-1987), choreographer
• Christopher Bernau, (1940-1989), actor (Guiding Light)
• John Bindon, (1943-1993), British Actor
• Amanda Blake, (1929-1989), actress (Kitty Russell on Gunsmoke)
• Sandra Brea, (d. 2000), Brazilian television actress
• Joseph Breen, (b. 1958), soap opera star (As the World Turns)
• Jim J. Bullock, (b. 1955), television actor (Too Close for Comfort)
• Geoffrey Burridge, (1949-1987), British Actor
• Carlos Busquets, Puerto Rican astrologer
• Merritt Butrick, (1959-1989), actor
• Ian Charleson (1950-1990), British actor and star of the film (Chariots of Fire) (1981)
• Cyril Collard, (1957-1993), French writer/actor/director of Les Nuits fauves (Savage Nights)
• Patrick Cowley, (1950-1982), synthesizer artist
• Robbin Crosby, (1960-2002), guitarist for rock band Ratt; HIV-infected by a tainted needle while addicted to heroin; died of AIDS-related causes
• Brad Davis, (1949-1991), American actor (Midnight Express)
• Bobby Debarge, (1945-1995), American singer
• Patrick Esposito Di Napoli (d. 1994), Canadian musician (Les Colocs)
• Kiki Djan (1957-2004), Ghanian singer
• Eazy-E, (1963-1995), rapper, member of NWA
• Denholm Elliott, (1922-1992), distinguished British actor
• Kenny Everett, (1944-1995), British actor and disc jockey
• Wayland Flowers, (1939-1988), entertainer, puppeteer (Wayland Flowers and Madame, Madame's Place)
• Richard Frank, (1953-1995), American actor (Anything But Love)
• Leonard Frey, (1938-1988), Acted in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway and in the movie
• Thomas Fuccello, (1936-1993), American actor (Dallas)
• Christopher Gillis, (1951-1993), dancer and choreographer, Paul Taylor Dance Company
• Kevin Peter Hall (1955-1991), played the title role in Predator opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Anthony Hamilton, (1952-1995), actor also known as Tony Hamilton
• Dan Hartman, (1950-1994), American, singer, songwriter and record producer
• Ofra Haza, (1957-2000), Israeli pop singer
• John Hargreaves, (1945-1996), Australian actor
• Fred Hersch (born 1955), jazz pianist
• René Highway (1954-1990), Canadian Cree actor and dancer
• Rock Hudson, (1925-1985), Hollywood star, first major American celebrity whose AIDS diagnosis became public knowledge
• Richard Hunt, (1951-1992), Muppet performer (Beaker, Scooter, Statler)
• Paul Jabara, (1948-1992, American Actor (Hair) and songwriter of Donna Summer's Last Dance
• Derek Jarman, (1942-1994), film director, made the film Blue while blind (as a result of AIDS related causes)
• Holly Johnson, (b. 1960), lead singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood
• Michael Jeter (1952-2003), actor (Open Range, The Green Mile)
• Larry Kert, (1930-1991), Broadway performer (West Side Story)
• Fela Kuti (1938-1997), Nigerian musician and political activist, died from AIDS-related heart failure
• Paul Lekakis, singer and actor, best known for his 1987 #1 dance single "Boom, Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room)"
• Liberace, (1919-1987), pianist
• Lar Lubovitch, (1943-), choreographer, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
• Jimmy McShane (1957-1995), British/Irish singer known as Baltimora
• John Megna (1952-1995), actor; died from AIDS, played Dill Harris in the 1962 "To Kill a Mockingbird"
• Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), singer and musician; died from bronchial pneumonia (his death from AIDS-related causes led to The Mercury Phoenix Trust anti-AIDS charity and the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness)
• Andy Milligan, (1929-1991), director of exploitation movies
• Jacques Morali, (1947-1991), disco composer and co-creator of the Village People
• Timothy Patrick Murphy, (1959-1988), American actor (Dallas)
• Klaus Nomi, (1944-1983), singer, died of AIDS-related illness in 1983, one of the first celebrities to die of this disease
• Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993), dancer
• Chuck Panozzo, rock guitarist (Styx)
• Anthony Perkins (1932-1992), pneumonia, brought on by AIDS
• Dack Rambo, (1941-1994), American actor
• Gene Anthony Ray (1962-2003), actor (Fame), complications of a stroke
• Robert Reed, (1932-1992) actor on The Brady Bunch
• Tony Richardson, (1928-1991), British actor
• Arthur Russell, (1951-1992), musician
• Franklyn Seales, (1952-1990), American actor (Silver Spoons)
• Tommy Sexton (1955-1993), Canadian television comedian
• Ray Sharkey, (1952-1993), American actor
• Hugo Soto (1954-1994), Argentine actor
• Jermaine Stewart, (1957-1997), American singer, liver cancer caused by AIDS.
• Michael Sundin, (1961-1989), British children's television presenter and actor, died from AIDS-related complications
• Sylvester, (1944-1988), disco artist and drag performer
• Ron Vawter (1949-1994), actor; died from a heart attack

Politicians

• Brian Huskins, Canadian political candidate
• Peter McWilliams, author and libertarian activist
• Chris Smith, former UK Secretary of State for Culture
• Larry McKeon, only openly gay member of the Illinois House of Representatives

Writers and artists

• Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), novelist
• Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992), science fiction writer; infected by transfused blood during heart surgery
• Ron Athey, performance artist
• Joseph Beam, anthologist
• Leigh Bowery, (1961-1994), performance artist, fashion designer, dancer, model
• Mike Davis
• Melvin Dixon, author
• Michel Foucault, (1926-1984), philosopher
• Hervé Guibert, (1955-1990), novelist
• Keith Haring, (1958-1990), artist
• Essex Hemphill, author
• Gibson Kente, (1932-2004), playwright
• Larry Kramer, novelist and playwright
• Michael McDowell (1950-1999), screenwriter and novelist
• James Merrill, (1926-1995), poet
• Paul Monette (1945-1995), novelist and poet
• Marlon Riggs, author and video producer
• Assoto Saint, author
• Barabara Samson
• Dennis Schuetz (d. 1989), novelist
• Andrew Sullivan, conservative journalist

Others

• Rebekka Armstrong, HIV educator and former Playboy Playmate
• Omar Q. Beckins, (1957-1989) medical researcher who contracted AIDS in a lab accident
• Kimberly Bergalis (1968-1991), first known doctor-to-patient transmission
• Allan Bloom (1930-1992), political philosopher and academic
• Dave Brindle, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation journalist
• David Brudnoy, (1940-2004), Boston radio talk show host, merkel-cell carcinoma unrelated to AIDS
• Gia, (1960-1986), model, died of complications resulting from AIDS in 1986, at the age of 26
• Tina Chow, (1951-1992), restauranteur and model
• Roy Cohn, (1927-1986), lawyer
• Joey DiPaolo, who contracted AIDS by a blood transfusion at the age of four, activist.
• Gaëtan Dugas, (1953-1984), famous as the subject of an early epidemiological study into HIV/AIDS
• Eve van Grafhorst, (d. 1993)
• Halston, (1932-1990), American fashion designer
• Sighsten Herrgård, (1943-1989), Swedish fashion designer
• Nkosi Johnson, (1989-2001), AIDS advocate
• Patrick Kelly, designer
• Lance Loud, (1951-2001), part of the reality TV show, PBS' An American Family
• Suzi Lovegrove
• Troy Lovegrove
• Makgatho Mandela, (1950–2005), son of Nelson Mandela
• Robert Mapplethorpe, (1946-1989), photographer
• Sgt. Leonard Matlovich (1943-1988), decorated Vietnam War veteran; fought the US military in 1975 for the right to serve as an openly Gay man
• Ernesto Pimentel, Peruvian, Chola Chabuca
• Margrethe (Grethe) Rask, (1930-1977), Danish physician and surgeon, first non-African known to have died from AIDS.
• Stephanie Ray, AIDS advocate
• Tim Richmond, (1955-1989), NASCAR driver
• Mitch Rosario, (1972-2003), hairdresser to celebrities such as Ricky Martin and Paulina Rubio
• Max Robinson, (1939-1988), American Broadcasting Corporation journalist
• Steve Rubell, (1943-1989), owner of Studio 54 disco in the 1970s
• Willi Smith, (1948-1987), American fashion designer
• Pedro Zamora, (1972-1994), the Real World

 

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