Today is World AIDS Day, a day set aside to educate AIDS Awareness, to move forward in helping to find a cure and to remember those who have fallen.
Here are some influential and famous people who have died from AIDS.
**UPDATED** Who else do you think should be included in this gallery?
Weird and fun stuff from all over:
Filed under: Activism, AIDS, Celebrity
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No love for Eazy-E?
Hey Sixtimes - thanks for stopping by.
Eazy-E was on my big list, but when I had to narrow it down, I didn't include him. Thank you so much for mentioning him because that's the important thing that we can do: Remember those that we've lost!
I wish that the list of people who have died from AIDS was a short one, but unfortunately it is not.
I wish that I didn't have to make a list like this at all!
Yeah, fair enough - I just didn't realize such a list would need to be narrowed down. Ah, well.
I agree with Sixtimes. This list is poorly narrowed down, especially since AIDS has hit the African-American community very hard. It would've been helpful to at least make an exception to list Eazy-E. There really is no excuse.
Keith Haring turned the art world on its head, caption writer.
Thank you for recognizing World AIDS Day. I do not understand though why in your commentary section on some of the celebrities you bothered to mention that the person did not admit to their homosexuality during their lives. Is this a list about celebrities who have died of AIDS or a list of who died and how they contracted HIV? It's a human disease, period.
I missed Amanda Blake, the actress who became famous on "Gunsmoke". She was one of the earliest female victims, around the time that Ryan White died.
Also, don't forget the singer Sylvester who sung "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)". And also, the singer Jermaine Stewart who sung "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off".
Television journalist and Chicago based co-anchor, Max Robinson of ABC's "World News Tonight" from 1978-1983.
Denholm Elliott
Anthony Perkins
Richard Hunt
Derek Jarman
Tom Fogerty
Ricky Wilson
John Holmes
Alvin Ailey
Rudolf Nureyev
Perry Ellis
Michel Foucault
There are many other famous People with AIDS or HIV, such as:
Peter Allen
Arthur Ashe
Howard Ashman
Isaac Asimov
Mike Beuttler
Amanda Blake
Glenn Burke
Tom Cassidy
Tina Chow
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