Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
Greg Akcelrod, Actor (1982) |
Anastacia, Musician (1973) |
Anne Bancroft, Actress (1931) |
Orlando Cepeda, (1937) |
Paul Feig, Director (1962) |
Phil Jackson, Coach (1945) |
Paula Jones, Celebrity (1966) |
Ken Kesey, Author (1935) |
Christian Lous Lange, Politician (1869) |
Spiro T. Agnew, Politician (1996) |
Richard Owen Cambridge, Poet (1802) |
Walter Savage Landor, Poet (1864) |