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| x Terry Pratchett |
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Alzheimer's disease |
Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948), more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld...
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| x Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Poliomyelitis |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), the 32nd President of the United States, was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world...
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| x Michael J. Fox |
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Parkinson's disease |
Michael J. Fox (born June 9, 1961) is a Canadian actor, author and voice-over artist. His roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990); Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties (1982–1989), for which he won three Emmy...
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| x Kylie Minogue |
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Breast cancer |
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actor on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours,...
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| x Marion Davies |
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Poliomyelitis |
Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American film actress.
Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....
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| x Mia Farrow |
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Poliomyelitis |
Mia Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress, singer, and former fashion model. Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award (and seven additional Golden Globe nominations), three...
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| x Alan Alda |
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Poliomyelitis |
Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though...
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| x Tim Rooney | Poliomyelitis |
Timothy Hayes Rooney (January 4, 1947–September 23, 2006) was an American actor and voice actor. He was the second son of actor Mickey Rooney and suffered from a muscle disease known as dermatomyositis
He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. His mother...
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| x James Drury |
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Poliomyelitis |
James Child Drury (born April 18, 1934) is an American actor who played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, broadcast on NBC from 1962-1971. The series had perhaps the most demanding production schedules...
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| x Gianni Russo | Poliomyelitis |
Louis Giovanni "Gianni" Russo (born December 12, 1943, Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor and singer.
Russo was raised in Rosebank, Staten Island. He claims that he has Mob connections and that his uncle was a soldier in the Gambino crime...
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| x Donald Sutherland |
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Poliomyelitis |
Donald McNicol Sutherland, OC (born 17 July, 1935) is a Canadian character actor with a film career spanning over 50 years. He is currently working in the American television series, Dirty Sexy Money. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles...
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| x Stephen Hawking |
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved...
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| x Leo Fender |
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Parkinson's disease |
Clarence Leonidas Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991), also known as Leo Fender, was a Greek-American inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, now known as Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, and later founded...
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| x Pope John Paul II |
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Parkinson's disease |
Pope John Paul II (Polish: Jan Paweł II, Latin: Joannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (pronounced [ˈkaɾɔl ˈjuzɛv vɔi̯ˈtɨwa] ( listen); 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) served as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic...
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| x Billy Graham |
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Parkinson's disease |
William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr., (born November 7, 1918), is an American evangelist and an Evangelical Christian. He has been a spiritual adviser to multiple United States presidents and is number seven on Gallup's list of admired people for...
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| x Salvador Dalí |
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Parkinson's disease |
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.
Dalí (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈli]) was a skilled draftsman, best known for the...
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| x Vincent Price |
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Parkinson's disease |
Vincent Leonard Price II (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
Price was born in St. Louis, Missouri,...
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| x Michael Gibson | Parkinson's disease |
Michael Gibson (born October 29, 1980 in Blackburn, England) is a TV presenter and documentary director. He presented the MTV Select television program which aired weekday afternoons on MTV One across Europe.
Gibson was diagnosed with Parkinson's...
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| x Muhammad Ali |
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Parkinson's disease |
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion, who is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight championship boxers of all time. As an amateur, he won a...
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| x Pierre Trudeau |
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Parkinson's disease |
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC, CC, CH, QC, MSRC (usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau) (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968, to June 4, 1979, and...
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| x Janet Reno |
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Parkinson's disease |
Janet Wood Reno (born July 21, 1938) is the former Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. She was the first female Attorney General and the...
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| x Jason Becker |
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
Jason Becker, (born July 22, 1969) is an American neo-classical metal guitarist and composer. At the age of 16, he became part of the Mike Varney-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released Speed Metal Symphony in 1987 and...
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| x Stefano Borgonovo |
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
Stefano Borgonovo (born March 17, 1964 in Giussano) is an Italian former footballer, in the striker role.
Born in Giussano, Borgonovo began his career with Como Calcio, debuting as a 17 year-old in a Serie A match against Ascoli Calcio. After a loan...
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| x Eric Lowen | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | ||
| x Orlando Thomas | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
Orlando Thomas (born October 21, 1972) is a former defensive back who played in the NFL from 1995 until 2001. He played his entire career with the Minnesota Vikings.
Thomas stood 6-1 and weighed 225 pounds during his playing career. He was a second...
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| x Andrew Sullivan |
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HIV infection |
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10, 1963) is a British blogger, author, and political commentator.
Sullivan is a speaker at universities, colleges, and civic organizations in the United States, and a guest on national news and political...
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| x Zackie Achmat |
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HIV infection |
Zackie Achmat (born Abdurazzack Achmat in 1962) is a South African activist, most widely known as founder and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and for his work on the behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa.
Achmat...
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| x Vasily Aleksanyan | HIV infection |
Vasily Georgievich Aleksanyan (Russian: Васи́лий Гео́ргиевич Алексаня́н; born December 15, 1972) is a Russian-Armenian lawyer and businessman, former Executive Vice President of Yukos oil company. On 6 April 2006 he was arrested as a suspected...
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| x Mark Anthony |
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HIV infection |
Mark Anthony (also spelled Marc) (born 24 March 1967) is a former pornographic actor appearing in gay pornography, and also Mr Gay UK heat winner of Club X Cardiff 1993. His muscular physique from Borstal training as a teen and "intense training" in...
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| x Rebekka Armstrong |
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HIV infection |
Rebekka Lynn Armstrong (born February 20, 1967 in Bakersfield, California) is a Playboy Playmate, whose announcement in 1994 that she was HIV-positive made international headlines.
Armstrong appeared in Playboy's September 1986 issue, and tested...
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| x Miss Arroyo |
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HIV infection |
Miss Arroyo is the pseudonym of the American pornographic actress Meriesa Arroyo, who tested positive for HIV in March 2004 (along with Jessica Dee and Lara Roxx). The three actresses are thought to have contracted the virus while filming...
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| x Brooke Ashley |
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HIV infection |
Brooke Ashley (born Anne Marie Ballowe in Daegu, South Korea) is the stage name of a pornographic film actress.
Ashley left the industry after finding out on March 29, 1998, that she was HIV positive. She contends that she was infected by Marc...
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| x Rob Astbury | HIV infection |
Rob Astbury (born 1948) is a former Australian television sports journalist who was once Australia's highest paid TV sports presenter and is more recently famous for being the ex-lover of variety show legend Graham Kennedy. During a media career...
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| x Joe Average |
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HIV infection |
Joe Average (born 1957 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian artist who resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Diagnosed HIV+ at age 27, Average made the decision to commit the rest of his life to art, and to challenge himself to...
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| x Johnson Aziga | HIV infection |
Johnson Aziga (born 1956) is a Ugandan-born Canadian man resident in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, notable as the first person to be charged and convicted of first-degree murder in Canada for spreading HIV, after two women whom he had infected without...
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| x Andy Bell |
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HIV infection |
Andy Bell (born Andrew Ivan Bell, 25 April 1964, Peterborough, England) is the lead singer of the English synthpop duo, Erasure.
Originally working in a meat packing plant in the UK, Bell responded to a newspaper advert that was looking for a singer...
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| x Bianca Biaggi |
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HIV infection |
Bianca Biaggi is a Brazilian pornographic actress, now retired from the porn industry, who was suspected to have infected Darren James with HIV in Brazil, leading to an industry shutdown.
The ensuing fears of HIV spreading throughout the adult...
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| x Tom Bianchi | HIV infection |
Tom Bianchi (born 1945 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American writer and photographer who specializes in male nude photography.
In 1979 Bianchi gave up his New York-based job as a legal adviser to Columbia Pictures to devote himself to artistic...
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| x Stephen Bicknell | HIV infection |
Stephen Bicknell (20 December 1957 – 18 August 2007) was a leading British organ builder and writer about the organ.
Bicknell was born in Chelsea. His grandfather was an amateur violinist, and his mother, Sally, was a pianist. She married historian...
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| x Count Gottfried von Bismarck |
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HIV infection |
Gottfried Alexander Leopold Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (19 September 1962 – 30 June 2007) was a German nobleman best known for his flamboyance, debauched parties, and substance abuse which intertwined with scandals including the death of a...
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| x Dave Brindle | HIV infection |
Dave Brindle is a former Canadian television journalist. An anchor for CBC Newsworld in the 1980s and 1990s, he was Canada's first television personality to publicly acknowledge that he was HIV-positive.
He is currently a radio host for CFUN in...
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| x Marvelyn Brown |
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HIV infection |
Marvelyn Brown (born on May 7, 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee is an African American author and AIDS activist whose autobiographical book (The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive) tells her story as a young heterosexual women contracting...
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| x JM J. Bullock | HIV infection |
Jim J. Bullock (born February 9, 1955) is an American stage, television and film actor.
Born James Jackson Bullock in Casper, Wyoming, Bullock was raised in Odessa, Texas. He became a notable entertainment figure in the 1980s when he co-starred on...
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| x Edwin Cameron | HIV infection |
Edwin Cameron (born 15 February 1953) is a South African Rhodes scholar and current Constitutional Court justice. Cameron served as a Supreme Court of Appeal judge from 2000 to 2008. He was the first senior South African official to state publicly...
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| x David Carr | HIV infection |
David Carr (November 1933 - August 31, 1959) was a printer from Reddish, Manchester. He died at a relatively young age owing to multiple complications that were at the time inexplicable to his doctors at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. In 1990, more...
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| x Dawson |
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HIV infection |
Dawson (born June 18, 1972) is a American gay porn star and lifetime exclusive for Paul Morris' Treasure Island Media. He became well-known in the gay porn industry with his debut performance in Dawson's 20 Load Weekend directed by his frequent...
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| x Shawn Decker |
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HIV infection |
Shawn Decker was born in Waynesboro, Virginia on July 16, 1975. He was diagnosed with HIV at age 11, through the use of tainted blood products used to treat hemophilia, a bleeding disorder that he was born with. In 1996, he posted a web site called ...
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| x Jessica Dee | HIV infection |
Jessica Dee is a Czech pornographic actress.
She contracted HIV in March 2004, having on-camera, unproctected anal sex with Darren James. Fears of a widespread epidemic based on these infections led to a one month shutdown of the adult movie...
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| x Tricia Devereaux |
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HIV infection |
Tricia Devereaux (born January 12 1975 in Illinois, U.S.) is the stage name of Karen Stagliano, an American former pornographic actress.
Devereaux grew up "in a small town a couple hours outside of Chicago," where she had a strict upbringing and...
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| x Joey DiPaolo | HIV infection |
Joey DiPaolo (born September 5, 1979) is a New York native who is an AIDS activist. DiPaolo himself is HIV positive.
Joey DiPaolo contracted HIV during a heart surgery in 1984. He required a blood transfusion, and the blood given to him came from an...
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| x Thomas Duane | HIV infection |
Thomas K. Duane is an American politician from New York, currently serving in the New York State Senate.
Duane represents the 29th Senate district, which stretches along Manhattan's West Side from 85th Street to Canal Street, and includes the...
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| x John Duran |
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HIV infection |
John J. Duran is an American municipal politician and a member of the city council of West Hollywood, California.
Duran was elected to the City Council on March 6, 2001. He succeeded outgoing City Council member Paul Koretz who was elected to the...
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| x Rudy Galindo |
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HIV infection |
Val Joe "Rudy" Galindo (born September 7, 1969 in San Jose, California) is an American figure skater who competed in both single skating and pair skating. As a single skater, he is the 1996 U.S. national champion and 1987 World Junior Champion. As a...
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| x Gregg Gonsalves | HIV infection |
Gregg Gonsalves is an HIV/AIDS activist and advocate. He found out he was HIV+ in 1995. He has authored three reports of HIV and written many publications. In 1992 one of his reports resulted in the Clinton Administration reorganising of AIDS...
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| x Roedy Green | HIV infection |
Roedy Green (born Munroe Frederic Compton Green on February 4, 1948) is a Canadian programmer, independent computer consultant, and activist. He is well-known on the Internet for his Java & Internet Glossary, and his popular essay How to Write...
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| x Aki Hakkarainen | HIV infection |
Aki Matti Hakkarainen (born 1983 in Southern Finland) is a Finnish man who spread HIV by having unprotected sex with many women without disclosing his HIV serostatus.
Hakkarainen, who has lived in Rovaniemi since 2002, became infected with HIV in...
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| x Brady Hall | HIV infection |
Brady Hall is an American film director.
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| x Greg Harris | HIV infection |
Gregory S. Harris is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, having represented the state's 13th district since 2007. He was elected in November 2006, having been selected by the 13th district's Democratic ward committeemen to...
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| x Jerry Herman |
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HIV infection |
Jerry Herman (born July 10, 1931) is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the...
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| x Fred Hersch | HIV infection |
Fred Hersch (born October 21, 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a contemporary American jazz pianist who has become a consistent and highly demanded performer on the international jazz scene.
Hersch began playing piano at a very young age, growing up in...
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