The Famous Faces of AIDS

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In a photo gallery showing the famous persons who contracted HIV/AIDS, only Magic Johnson, former basketball player of Los Angeles Lakers, is still alive. Others including tennis great Arthur Ashe (the only African-American player ever to win the men's singles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, or Australian Open), Hollywood actor Robert Reed, model Gia Marie Carangi, rock superstar and frontman of uber band Queen Freddy Mercury, all died.