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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