15. Robbin Crosby
The guitarist for the heavy metal rock group Ratt, Robbin Crosby passed away in 2002 as the result of a drug overdose, but it was revealed that he had been diagnosed as HIV positive. There wasn’t a lot of information released to the public about his disease or how he contracted it, but there was speculation that it might have been through drug use as he was a regular heroin user and sharing dirty needles is one of the more common ways people have contracted numerous diseases, including HIV.
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14. Jerry Smith
For American football fans, Jerry Smith was a former NFL player who had been a star at Arizona State University. He went on to have a strong and successful career with the Washington Redskins. When he passed away in 1986, during the heart of the period of fear and misunderstanding about AIDS, he was actually the first professional athlete to die of this disease.
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