He founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health before his death from AIDS-related pneumonia at the age of 49 on February 6, …

Nov 16, 2009 · On February 6, 1993, tennis champion Arthur Ashe, the only African American man to win Wimbledon and the U.S. and Australian Opens, dies of complications from AIDS, …

Feb 6, 2025 · Arthur Ashe had achieved multiple “firsts” in tennis. But his premature death on February 6, 1993, would make another kind of history, drawing unprecedented attention to the …

Arthur Ashe, a tennis champion who spent his years in the sport fighting discrimination and then spent the final year of his life seeking to broaden public awareness on the subject of AIDS, died...

Dec 11, 2025 · In 1993 at age 49, Arthur Ashe died of pneumonia, a complication of AIDS. The previous year he had revealed.

Arthur Ashe, the first African-American to win the U.S. Open (1968), Australian Open (1970) and Wimbledon (1975), dies of pneumonia, a complication of AIDS, at New York Hospital in …

Ashe was hospitalized for paralysis in his right arm in 1988. After he underwent extensive testing, blood transfusions, and multiple surgeries, doctors discovered he was HIV positive. Arthur …

Feb 7, 1993 · Succumbing to pneumonia, a complication of the virus he had carried for at least the last five years, Ashe, 49, leaves a legacy of tennis triumphs, of human rights victories and …

Feb 7, 1993 · Tennis great Arthur Ashe, who went from makeshift neighborhood courts in a Southern inner city to the top of professional tennis, died of pneumonia Saturday in New York. …

Arthur Ashe was far more than a tennis champion. He was a trailblazer whose dignity, intellect, and moral courage reshaped the sport—and whose tragic death brought global attention to …