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ไรอัน ไวต์
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American AIDS spokesperson and "poster boy" (1971–1990)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Bruce Springsteen
- Springsteen - Album by Album
- Dawn the Mask (6x8)
- Dawn the Mask Volume 2
- Dawn the Mask (4. 5x6) (Black&White)
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Film & TV
Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Ryan White was born in Kokomo, Indiana in 1971. A hemophiliac, Ryan regularly needed injections of blood products to survive. In 1985 at the age of 13, it was discovered that Ryan contracted the AIDS virus sometime during the previous year from tainted blood. His case got national attention when his school expelled him when they learned about his disease. Not wanting to lie down and die that…
Known for
- Commitment to Life — Self (archive)2023
- Basketball: A Love Story — Self (archive footage)2018
- The Ryan White Story — Chad1989
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Key facts
- Born
- Ryan Wayne White , ( 1971-12-06 ) December 6, 1971, Kokomo, Indiana , U.S.
- Died
- April 8, 1990 (1990-04-08) (aged 18), Indianapolis , Indiana, U.S.
- Cause of death
- AIDS -related pneumonia
- Resting place
- Cicero, Indiana
- Occupation
- Student
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ryan
- Family name
- White
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kokomo
- Place of death
- Indianapolis
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.ryanwhite.com
- Image
- Ryan White.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1971-12-06
- date of death
- 1990-04-08
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Ryan White
- place of burial
- Indiana
- medical condition
- HIV/AIDS
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