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LIST OF TUBERCULOSIS VICTIMS

This is a list of famous people and celebrities who had, or are believed to have had, tuberculosis. See also: Lists of people by cause of death.

Contents
Writers and poets:
Artists:
Composers:
Religious figures:
Leaders and Politcians:
Others:
References
Writers and poets:


Bahdanovič, Maksim

de Balzac, Honoré

Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo]

Biliūnas, Jonas

Brontë, Anne

Brontë, Emily

Browne, Charles Farrar

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Burns, Robert

Lord Byron, George

Chekov/Chekhov,Anton

Corbière, Tristan

Crane, Stephen

Daumal, René

de Brunhoff, Jean

de Maupassant, Guy

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Éluard, Paul

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Gorky, Maxim

Hammett, Dashiell

Harmaja, Saima

Heinlein, Robert A.

Hernández, Miguel

Irving, Washington

Istrati, Panait

Jackson, Helen Hunt

Jarry, Alfred

Johnson, Samuel

Kafka, Franz

Kailas, Uuno

Keats, John

Kingsley, Charles

Kudirka, Vincas

Lanier, Sidney

Lawrence, D.H.

MacDonald, Betty

Maenpaa, Jari

Mansfield, Katherine

Maugham, William Somerset

Molière

O'Neill, Eugene

Orwell, George

Percy, Walker

Platonov, Andrei

Pope, Alexander

Porden, Eleanor Anne

Powys, Llewelyn

Praed, Winthrop Mackworth

John Reed

Rostand, Edmond

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Ruskin, John

Samain, Albert

Schiller, Friedrich

Scott, Sir Walter

Słowacki, Juliusz

Smollett, Tobias

Sterne, Laurence

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Sillitoe, Alan

Thomas, Dylan

Thompson, Francis

Thoreau, Henry David

Voltaire ?

Ukrainka, Lesya

Wolfe, Thomas

Wolker, Jiri

Ostrovsky Nikolay
Artists:


Frédéric Bartholdi

Marie Bashkirtseff

Aubrey Beardsley

Harry Clarke

Paul Gauguin (died of syphilis)

Boris Kustodiev

Amedeo Modigliani

Elizabeth Siddal ?

Andrei Ryabushkin

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso
Composers:


Luigi Boccherini

Alfredo Catalani

Frédéric Chopin

Sandrine Erdely-Sayo pianist/composer

Stephen Foster

Hermann Goetz

Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold

Joseph Martin Kraus

Niccolò Paganini

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Henry Purcell

Johann Schein
Religious figures:


John Calvin

Cardinal Richelieu

★ St Thérèse de Lisieux

★ St Bernadette Soubirous

David Brainard
Leaders and Politcians:


Simón Bolívar

Charles IX of France

John C. Calhoun

Edward VI of England

Ulysses S. Grant (died of throat cancer)

Andrew Jackson

Muhammed Ali Jinnah

★ Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Louis XIII of France

Louis XVII of France

Napoleon II of France

Manuel L. Quezon

John Aaron Rawlins

Eleanor Roosevelt

Dmitri Pavlovitch Romanov

Haym Salomon, a major financier of the American side during the American Revolutionary War

Okita Soji

Alexander Stephens

Sudirman, Commander of Indonesia's armed forces during its National Revolution

John Young

James Dickie ?, Leader of the SNP for a short period of time before dying in a tragic dairy farm accident that shocked the nation

Pedro I of Brazil (Pedro IV of Portugal)
Others:


Niels Abel, mathematician

Renée Adorée

Beulah Annan

Samuel Arnold

Frédéric Bastiat

Alexander Graham Bell

Dan Kolov, bulgarian wrestler

Sarah Bernhardt

Louis Braille

James Burke

Anders Celsius

Cheng Man-ch'ing Tai Chi Chuan master

Charlie Christian

William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and philosopher

Ferdinand Eisenstein, mathematician

Arline Feynman (first wife of physicist Richard Feynman)

W. C. Fields

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Brenda Fricker §

Abel Gance

Mark Brown Goblin, CEO, and Founder of Guyanese Motors

Jay Gould

Emmett Hardy

Doc Holliday

John Ives

Immanuel Kant

Freddie Keppard

Ernie Kovacs

René Laënnec French physician; inventor of the stethoscope

Christy Mathewson

Dmitri Mendeleev ?

James "Bubber" Miley jazz trumpeter

★ Tim Moore (George "Kingfish" Stevens of Amos 'n Andy)

Barry Morse ?

N!xau

Anne Neville (queen consort of Richard III) (probably)

Florence Nightingale

Mabel Normand

Okita Soji (1844-1868), samurai

Jane Pierce, United States first lady

Etti Plesch ?

Joseph Mary Plunkett

Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (wife of Edgar Allan Poe)

Herman Potočnik

Gavrilo Princip

Gustav Roch mathematician

Jimmie Rodgers

Bernhard Riemann, mathematician

Erwin Schrödinger

Baruch Spinoza

Takasugi Shinsaku (1839-1867), samurai

Adrianus Turnebus

Georges Vezina

Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French anatomist

Lev Vygotsky

Rube Waddell

William Winchester (son of Oliver Winchester, husband of Sarah Winchester)

Link Wray ?

Eugene Wigner ?

Joey Only Vancouver folk singer

Shanawdithit Believed to be the last remaining Beothuk

★ Thomas "Tad" Daniel Lincoln (1853-1871) died of TB w/ he was 18 in Chicago Illinois, youngest child of President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln

Vivien Leigh - actress
:§ ''still living''
:? ''died of something unrelated to tuberculosis''

References



★ Rothman, Sheila M. (1994). ''Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History''. ISBN 0-8018-5186-6

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