Dead Celebrity Alert

Frank Moore, a painter and AIDS activist who helped create the red ribbon design that became an international symbol for AIDS awareness, died of complications from AIDS on Sunday, April 21, at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 48 years old.

Moore was one of the first members of Visual AIDS, and he was instrumental in forming the group’s Red Ribbon Project in 1990, according to the New York Times. The project launched the overlapping red ribbon, which was worn on lapels and has become recognizable worldwide as a representation of the struggle against AIDS.

Moore’s paintings, several of which were featured in New York’s Whitney Biennial in 1995, reportedly mix art and politics, and many focus on themes of bioethics or environmental decay. … Read full obituary

Berry Berenson, aged 53, who was a passenger on the hijacked American Airlines flight 11 which crashed into the World Trade Centre, was a fashion photographer and accomplished Hollywood film actor. … Read full obituary

At the home of Osgood Perkins in Los Angeles, a woman sobbed when a reporter called asking about Mr. Perkins’s mother, Berry Berenson Perkins, a photographer, who is the widow of the actor Anthony Perkins and the sister of the actress Marisa Berenson. … Read full story

Also:

- David Angell, 54, executive producer of “Frasier”;

- Daniel Lewin, 31, co-founder and CTO of Akamai Technologies;

- Edmund Glazer, 41, CFO of MRV Communications;

- Garnet (Ace) Bailey, 53, and Mark Bavis, scouts for the Los Angeles Kings.