Janet Elaine Adkins, 54, Alzheimer's patient, suicide aided by Dr. Jack Kevorkian, 12 June 1990.

Lyle Martin Alzado, 43, professional football player for the Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, and Oakland Raiders, who developed brain cancer thought to be caused by steroids taken to build up his body and increase his strength, 14 May 1992.Arthur Ashe, 49, African American tennis star who acquired AIDS through a blood transfusion in 1983 during a heart surgery, 6 February 1993.

Oscar Auerbach, 92, American pathologist who examined thousands of slides of human lung tissue to document the anatomical link between smoking and lung cancer, 15 January 1997.

Charles P. Bailey, 82, pioneering heart surgeon; first person to repair a hole between the two sides of the heart; preformed first closed mitral valve operation in the United States, 18 August 1992.

Theodore H. Benzinger, 94, inventor of the ear thermometer, 26 October 1999.

Kimberly Ann Bergalis, 23, first patient known to be infected with AIDS by a medical caregiver, in this case...