20 celebrities you didn’t know contracted HIV (With Pics)

16. Howard Rollins

Via movpins.com

Best known for his work in Ragtime, Howard Rollins was a successful African American actor who had charm and grace on and off the screen. He died in 1996 as the result of lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes, but it also was revealed that he had been living with HIV at the time. There was no official word about whether HIV had any impact on his health or what role it might have played in the lymphoma or how his body tried to fight the cancer.