If we weren't allowed to talk about the dead, people never would have known that Rock Hudson and Lyle Alzado both died of complications from AIDS...Others that died from AIDS are James Brown, Patrick Swayze, Luther Vandross, Bob Marley(sharing needles), Andy Warhol, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Howard Hughes(possibly one of the first people ever to die from it), Bernie Mac, Brittany Murphy(her husband Simon Monjack died of acute pneumonia and severe anemia) and Michael Jackson may have had AIDs.