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American actor, nominated for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film Ragtime [44] Sean Sasser (1968–2013) American MTV actor, AIDS activist, and pastry chef. [45] Franklyn Seales (1952–1990) St. Vincent-born American actor (sitcom Silver Spoons) [46] Tommy Sexton (1955–1993) Canadian actor and ...
On this day in 1985, actor Rock Hudson died from AIDS. One of the most famous actors of his day, Rock Hudson was the quintessential leading man. With his dark brown hair, 6'4'' built, overall good ...
At around 9 a.m. on October 2, 1985, Hudson died in his sleep [7] [56] from AIDS-related complications at his home in Beverly Hills at the age of 59. [57] [4] Hudson requested that no funeral be held. His body was cremated hours after his death [58] and a cenotaph later was established at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California.
Ian McKellen said Charleson was "the most unmannered and unactorish of actors: always truthful, always honest". [5] Charleson was diagnosed with HIV in 1986, and died in 1990 at the age of 40. He requested that it be announced after his death that he had died of AIDS, to publicise the condition.
Since 1981, nearly 39 million people globally have died from AIDS-related illnesses, the result of HIV if left untreated. In the 1980s and '90s, the height of the epidemic, gay and bisexual men ...
Elizabeth Glaser (née Meyer; () November 11, 1947 – () December 3, 1994) was an American AIDS activist and child advocate married to actor and director Paul Michael Glaser. She contracted HIV very early in the AIDS epidemic after receiving an HIV-contaminated blood transfusion in 1981 while giving birth. Like other HIV-infected mothers ...
On August 16, 1989, Blake died of AIDS-related hepatitis at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, California at the age of 60. [18] Her death was initially attributed to throat cancer but, after her death, her doctor publicly announced her death was due to complications from AIDS. It is not known how Blake contracted the disease.
Bruce Wayne Campbell (December 14, 1946 – August 3, 1983 [a]), known by his stage name Jobriath, was an American rock musician and actor.He was the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label and one of the first internationally famous musicians to die of AIDS.