Deaths from AIDS-related illness

Larry Eyler (December 21, 1952 – March 6, 1994) was an American serial killer convicted and sentenced to death in Illinois for the 1984 murder and dismemberment of 15-year-old Daniel Bridges.

Serge Daney (June 4, 1944, Paris – June 12, 1992) was an influential French movie critic who went on from writing film reviews to developing a “television criticism” and onto building a personal theory of the image.

Dambudzo Marechera (born Charles William Dambudzo Marechera, 4 June 1952 – 18 August 1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet.

Jean-Luc Lagarce (14 February 1957 – 30 September 1995) was a French actor, theatre director and playwright.

Brian James Pockar (October 27, 1959 – April 28, 1992) was a Canadian figure skater.

Michael Simon Brindley Bream Beuttler (13 April 1940 – 29 December 1988) was a British Formula One driver who raced privately entered March cars.

Herbert "Herb" Ritts Jr.

Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Erik Belton Evers Bruhn (3 October 1928 – 1 April 1986) was a Danish danseur, choreographer, artistic director, actor, and author.

Alvin Ailey (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City.

Yvonne Vera (September 19, 1964 – April 7, 2005) was an award-winning author from Zimbabwe.

Harold Brodkey (October 25, 1930 – January 26, 1996), born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist.

Esteban de Jesús (August 2, 1951 – May 12, 1989) was a Puerto Rican world lightweight champion boxer whose life was full of controversy, problems and scandals.

James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1977) for Divine Comedies (1976).

Gregory Scarpa, Sr.

Peter Hujar (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) was an American photographer best known for his black and white portraits.

Karen Dior (February 14, 1967 – August 25, 2004) was the stage name for Geoffrey Gann, also known as Geoffrey Karen Dior.

Daniel Bensaïd (25 March 1946 – 12 January 2010) was a philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France.

Ondrej Nepela (22 January 1951 – 2 February 1989) was a Slovak figure skater who represented Czechoslovakia.

Detlev Peukert (September 20, 1950 in Gütersloh – May 17, 1990 in Hamburg) was a German historian, noted for his studies of the relationship between what he called the "spirit of science" and the Holocaust and in social history and the Weimar Republic.

Maurice James Christopher Cole (25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995), known professionally as Kenny Everett, was a British comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer.

Roy Marcus Cohn (/koʊn/; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American attorney who became famous during Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into Communist activity in the United States during the Second Red Scare.

Jorge Donn (25 February 1947 in El Palomar, Buenos Aires – 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland), was an Argentine internationally known ballet dancer.

John Anthony Curry, OBE (9 September 1949 – 15 April 1994) was a British figure skater.

Robert Joffrey (born Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan; December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets.

Michael Kühnen (21 June 1955 – 25 April 1991) was a leader in the German neo-Nazi movement.

Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (Bashkir: Рудольф Хәмит улы Нуриев, Tatar: Рудольф Хәмит улы Нуриев, Russian: Рудо́льф Хаме́тович Нуре́ев; 17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet dancer of ballet and modern dance, one of the most celebrated of the 20th century.

Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba (November 13, 1929 – January 8, 1990) was a Spanish Catalan post-Civil War poet.

John Curtis Holmes (August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988), better known as John C.

Nicola Vincenzo "Nicky" Crane (21 May 1958 – 8 December 1993) was a British neo-Nazi activist.

Christopher Keene (December 21, 1946 – October 8, 1995) was an American conductor.

Jorge Bolet (November 15, 1914 – October 16, 1990) was a Cuban-born American pianist and teacher.

Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.