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Joseph-Armand Bombardier (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf aʁmɑ̃ bɔ̃baʁdje]; April 16, 1907 – February 18, 1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman who was the founder of Bombardier. His most famous invention was a snowmobile .
Dugas worked as a flight attendant for Air Canada and died in Quebec City in March 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by AIDS-related infections. In March 1984, a study tracked Dugas, along with other gay and bisexual men, to indicate his role in a particular cluster of 40 AIDS cases in the United States. He was named "Patient O" with "O ...
The official cause of death was bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS. Léon Minkus: Famous Czech composer of ballet music for the Russian Imperial Ballet: 1917-12-07 Died at age 91 in Vienna, Austria. Kenji Miyazawa: Japanese novelist and poet of children's literature 1933-09-21 Died at age 37 in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture [citation needed]
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 ...
American writer and AIDS activist who chronicled his personal experience with HIV infection and AIDS. [435] George Whitmore (1946–1989) American writer and AIDS activist who chronicled his personal experience with HIV infection and AIDS. [436] Alex Wilson (1953–1993) American-born Canadian writer, teacher, landscape designer and community ...
Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist known for her inspirational talks in the 1990s as a young child to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus she was born with, has died. She was 39. (AP ...
This is a timeline of HIV/AIDS, including but not limited to cases before 1980. Pre-1980s See also: Timeline of early HIV/AIDS cases Researchers estimate that some time in the early 20th century, a form of Simian immunodeficiency virus found in chimpanzees (SIVcpz) first entered humans in Central Africa and began circulating in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) by the 1920s. This gave rise ...
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 ...