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Raymond St. Jacques (born James Arthur Johnson; March 1, 1930 – August 27, 1990) was an American actor, director and producer whose career spanned over thirty years on stage, film and television. St.
According to his former fiancée, Pat Cleveland, St. Jacques died of complications of AIDS in 1984, but his death was never officially confirmed. [14] However, in a 1988 interview with the Chicago Tribune , Raymond St. Jacques said he had two sons and that Sterling had a television show in Düsseldorf . [ 24 ]
African-American Missouri teenager who was the victim of the first confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. His death baffled doctors because AIDS was not discovered and officially recognized until June 5, 1981, when five San Francisco doctors discovered the disease, long after Rayford's death. [271]
AIDS was the leading cause of death for American men between the ages of 25 to 44 in 1992, and two years later it became the leading cause of death for all Americans in that age bracket.
Alleged first known AIDS death in the United States Robert Lee Rayford [ 1 ] (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), [ 2 ] sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America.
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 ...
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 ...
Raymond St. Jacques, 60, American actor and filmmaker, lymphoma. [109] Ramón Piñeiro López, 75, Spanish writer and politician. [110] Armin Scheurer, 72, Swiss athlete and football coach. [111] Stevie Ray Vaughan, 35, American blues musician and guitarist, helicopter crash. [112]