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Arthur Ashe
Three-time tennis grand slam winner Ashe revealed his status at a news conference after learning that USA Today was planning to disclose he had HIV. According to Ashe, he contracted the virus from a blood transfusion he received in 1983. He eventually founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS. On February 6, 1993, the 49-year-old died of AIDS-related pneumonia.
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