Are you saying all of these people were closes homosexuals Fred?
Because only the one in bold was openly gay (Hitler prolly got syphillis because he had the fetish of having his helgas and Gretas pee on his face).
Notable known and suspected syphilis-infected people in previous centuries
Keys: S - suspected case; † - died of syphilis
* Idi Amin (1928-2003) Ugandan dictator S
* Maurice Barrymore (1849-1905) actor †
* Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), poet †
* Karen Blixen (1885-1962), writer
* Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805), poet †
* António Botto (1897-1959), poet
* Camilo Castelo Branco (1825-1890), writer
* Beau Brummell (1778-1840), fashion arbiter
* Al Capone (1899-1947), gangster †
* Randolph Churchill, Lord (1849-1895), British statesman and father of Winston S. Churchill S
* Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545-1567), second husband of Mary Queen of Scots
* Frederick Delius (1862-1934), composer †
* Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), composer
* King Edward VI (1538-1553), King of England and third Tudor monarch S
* Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889), poet S
* Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), painter †
* Klement Gottwald (1896-1953), Czechoslovakian politician S
* Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), poet †
* King Henry VIII (1491-1547), King of England and second monarch of the Tudor dynasty S
* Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), German dictator S
* Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584), Czar of Russia
* Scott Joplin (1867/8-1917), composer †
* Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), communist leader S
* Édouard Manet (1832-1883), painter †
* Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), writer †
* Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), 19th century German philosopher S
* Jack Pickford (1896-1933), actor †
* Martin Alonzo Pinzon (1441-1493) captain of the Pinta †
* Eugen Sandow (1867-1925), bodybuilder S[18]
* Franz Schubert (1797-1828), composer S
* Robert Schumann (1810-1856), composer S
* Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884), Czech composer S
* Tongzhi (1856-1875), ninth Manchu emperor in the Qing dynasty S
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), painter †
* John Wilmot (1647-1680), 2nd Earl of Rochester, writer, debaucher S
* Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), writer S
* Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), composer †
* Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910), painter
* Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), painter S
* Kostas Karyotakis (1896-1928), Greek poet