List of tuberculosis victims
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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.
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Writers and poets:
- Bahdanovič, Maksim
- de Balzac, Honoré
- Brontë, Anne
- Brontë, Charlotte
- 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
- Dostoevsky/Dostoevski, Fyodor
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Éluard, Paul
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Gorky, Maxim
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Harmaja, Saima
- Hasdeu, Iulia
- Heinlein, Robert A.
- Hernández, Miguel
- Irving, Washington
- Istrati, Panait
- Jackson, Helen Hunt
- Jarry, Alfred
- Johnson, Samuel
- Kafka, Franz
- Keats, John
- Kingsley, Charles
- Lanier, Sidney
- Lawrence, D.H.
- MacDonald, Betty
- Mansfield, Katherine
- Maugham, William Somerset
- Molière
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Orwell, George
- Percy, Walker
- Platonov, Andrei
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- 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
- Slowacki, Juliusz
- Smollett, Tobias
- Sterne, Laurence
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Sillitoe, Alan
- Thomas, Dylan
- Thompson, Francis
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Voltaire ?
- Ukrainka, Lesya
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Wolker, Jiri
Artists:
- Frédéric Bartholdi
- Marie Bashkirtseff
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Harry Clarke
- Paul Gauguin
- Boris Kustodiev
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Elizabeth Siddal ?
- Andrei Ryabushkin
Composers:
- Frédéric Chopin
- Stephen Foster
- 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:
- Simón Bolívar
- Charles IX of France
- John C. Calhoun
- Edward VI of England
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Andrew Jackson
- Muhammed Ali Jinnah
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- Louis XIII of France
- Louis XVII of France
- Nelson Mandela §
- Napoleon II of France
- Manuel L. Quezon
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Dmitri Pavlovitch Romanov
- Alexander Stephens
- John Young
Others:
- Niels Abel, mathematician
- Renée Adorée
- Beulah Annan
- Frédéric Bastiat
- Alexander Graham Bell
- 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
- Jay Gould
- Emmett Hardy
- Richard Harris (actor) ?
- Doc Holliday
- Immanuel Kant
- Freddie Keppard
- Ernie Kovacs
- René Laënnec French physician; inventor of the stethoscope
- Vivien Leigh
- Christy Mathewson
- Dmitri Mendeleev ?
- James "Bubber" Miley jazz trumpeter
- 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 ?
- Shanawdithit Believed to be the last remaining Beothuk
- § still living
- ? died of something unrelated to tuberculosis
Fictional characters:
- Ukyo Tachibana from the Samurai Shodown video game series
- Sayo from the Rurouni Kenshin anime
- Hyatt from the Excel Saga anime
- Helen Burns from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Fantine from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Little Nell from The Old Curiosity Shop (Charles Dickens)
- Mimi from La Vie de Bohème (Giacomo Puccini et. al.)
- Marguerite Gautier from La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils (and, in the musical adaptions, as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata and as Satine in Moulin Rouge!)
- Insarov from On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
- Joe Astell from South Riding by Winifred Holtby
- Nikolai Levin from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Buddy Willard from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Lin Dai-yu from The Story of Stone by Cao
- Edek Balicki from The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
- Juan Carlos Etchepare Boquitas Pintadas by Manuel Puig
- Jūshirō Ukitake from the Bleach manga series
- Red Stoval from Honkytonk Man by Clint Eastwood
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
Categories
Lists of people by cause of death | Deaths by tuberculosis | Tuberculosis