Jonathan Mann

Age: 51

Summary: public health physician who helped shape the international campaign against AIDS and was known as the outspoken head of the U.N. Global Program on AIDS during the 1980's, but who resigned in 1990 following a bitter disagreement with Hiroshi Nakajima, then World Health Organization's director-general, against what he called WHO's slow reaction to the AIDS epidemic, and who recently became the first dean of the School of Public Health at Allegheny University of the Health Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Cause of Death: Killed in Swissair Flight 111 airplane accident

Born: July 30, 1947

Died: September 2, 1998

Location: Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada