List of tuberculosis cases
Agha Ahmad Ali (1839–1873), Bengali academic, scholar of Persian and Urdu poet, died of tuberculosis in June 1873Maksim Bahdanovič , Belarusian poet, died from tuberculosisManuel Bandeira , Brazilian poet, had tuberculosis in 1904 and expressed the effects of the disease in his life in many of his poemsGustavo Adolfo Bécquer , Spanish poet, died on 22 December 1870 from tuberculosisVissarion Belinsky , Russian literary criticEdward Bellamy (1850–1898), fiction writer remembered for his book Looking Backward Sukanta Bhattacharya , Bengali poet and playwrightJonas Biliūnas Rachel Bluwstein Randolph Bourne , at age 4, he developed tuberculosis of the spine , which left him with a hunchback [ 1] Anne and Emily Brontë and other members of the Brontë family of writers, poets and painters were struck by tuberculosis. Anne, their brother Branwell , and Emily all died of it within two years of each other. Charlotte Brontë 's death in 1855 was stated at the time as having been due to tuberculosis, but there is some controversy over this today.Clarissa Brooks, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1927
Charles Brockden Brown Charles Farrar Browne Elizabeth Barrett Browning , poet, died of tuberculosis in 1861Jean de Brunhoff Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), American author and poet, contracted tuberculosis in 1988; he recovered, losing 60 lbs. He died of leukemia.Robert Burns Albert Camus , French writer, playwright, activist, and absurdist philosopher, suffered from tuberculosis. He was forced to drop out of school (University of Algiers ) due to severe attacks of tuberculosis. However, his death was caused by a car accident.Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC), Roman poetAnton Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician; died from tuberculosisTristan Corbière Stephen Crane Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995)René Daumal Nikolay Dobrolyubov Laura Don (1852–1886), actress-manager, playwright and artistPaul Laurence Dunbar Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861–1922), Canadian author and journalistPaul Éluard Friedrich Robert Faehlmann Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artistMaxim Gorky Guido Gozzano (1883-1916), Italian poetDashiell Hammett (1894–1961), American author and creator of the "hard boiled" detective novel (notably, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon World War I Saima Harmaja , Finnish poet and writerJaroslav Hašek Alice Corbin Henderson (1881–1949), American poet, author, and poetry editorRobert A. Heinlein , American authorWilliam Ernest Henley (1849–1903), English poet, writer, critic, and editorMary Eliza Herbert (1829–1872), Canadian publisher and poetSarah Herbert (1824–1846), Irish-Nova Scotian author, publisher, and educatorMiguel Hernandez Washington Irving Takuboku Ishikawa Panait Istrati Helen Hunt Jackson Alfred Jarry Samuel Johnson Franz Kafka (1883–1924), German-language novelist best known for his novel The Trial Uuno Kailas , Finnish composerAndreas Karkavitsas , Greek writerJohn Keats (1795–1821), English Romantic poet; he and his brother Tom were taken by tuberculosisDragotin Kette Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopherCharles Kingsley Kostas Krystallis , Greek poetVincas Kudirka (1858–1899), Lithuanian poet and physician; died from tuberculosisJules Laforgue (1860–1887), French-Uruguayan poetSidney Lanier D. H. Lawrence Janet Lewis Lu Xun Betty MacDonald Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand writer, died from tuberculosis aged 34William Somerset Maugham Sara Haardt Mencken Migjeni , Albanian poetMolière Christian Morgenstern , German writerJosip Murn Aleksandrov Novalis , German author and philosopherJessie Fremont O'Donnell (1860–1897), writerEugene O'Neill George Orwell (1903–1950), British author of Nineteen Eighty-Four Animal Farm Homage to Catalonia Nineteen Eighty-Four was written during his final illness.Walker Percy Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801–1822), Estonian poet, the founder of modern Estonian poetry; died from tuberculosis, lived only to age 21Petar Petrović Njegoš Najveći srpski pisacAndrei Platonov Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (wife of Edgar Allan Poe )Maria Polydouri , Greek poet and novelistAlexander Pope Eleanor Anne Porden Llewelyn Powys Winthrop Mackworth Praed Sholem Rabinovich Branko Radičević Lynn Riggs Joachim Ringelnatz , German poetJohn Ruskin Albert Samain Kaarlo Sarkia (1902–1945), Finnish poetFriedrich Schiller Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), Japanese poet famous for revitalizing the haiku , died after a long struggle with tuberculosisEmily Shore , diaristAnna Sissak-Bardizbanian , reporterJuliusz Słowacki Hristo Smirnenski Tobias Smollett Laurence Sterne Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Neo-romantic Scottish essayist, novelist and poet, is thought to have suffered from tuberculosis during much of his life. He spent the winter of 1887–1888 recuperating from a presumed bout of tuberculosis at Dr. E.L. Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York .Alan Sillitoe Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Finnish poetA. H. Tammsaare (1878–1940), Estonian writer; suffered from tuberculosis after 1911Francis Thompson Henry David Thoreau Lesya Ukrainka Katri Vala (1901-1944), Finnish poetJessamyn West , American author, contracted tuberculosis in 1932 and recoveredYvor Winters Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938), American author, died of tuberculosis of the brain. His 1929 novel, Look Homeward, Angel consumption , though Wolfe's condition appeared rather suddenly in 1937.Jiří Wolker Simone Weil , French philosopherWalt Whitman (1819–1892) Autopsy "consumption of the right lung, general miliary tuberculosis"Vũ Trọng Phụng (1912-1939), Vietnamese author, poet.
Renée Adorée , (1898–1933), French actressAnita Berber (1899–1928) German dancer and actressColin Clive (1900–1937), British stage and screen actorGeorgiana Drew Barrymore (1856–1893), actress, succumbed aged 36Rachel Félix (1821-1858), French actressVivien Leigh (1913–1967), British actress of stage and screen, died from complications of tuberculosisAnnie Lewis (c. 1869–1896), musical comedy actressDick Martin (1922–2008), comedian; lost a lung due to tuberculosis as a teenagerTim Moore (1887–1958), American actor of stage, screen and televisionBarry Morse (1918–2008), British-Canadian actor of stage, screen, and radioMabel Normand (1893–1930), American silent film actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and comedianN!xau (1944–2003), Namibian actorMichael Raffetto Christiaan Van Vuuren (1982– ), Australian actor, writer, director and video blogger
Ioannis Altamouras (1852–1878), Greek painterFrédéric Bartholdi (1834–1904), French sculptor, creator of the Statue of Liberty Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884), Russian-born, French-educated painter and diarist, died from tuberculosis at the age of 26Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), English illustrator and authorRichard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) English Romantic landscape painterKenneth M. Chapman (1875–1968), American art historianHarry Clarke (1889–1931), Irish stained glass artist and book illustratorEugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French Romantic painterWyatt Eaton (1849–1896), Canadian-American painterRötger Feldmann (1950– ), German comic book artistThéodore Géricault (1791–1824), French Romantic painter, died at age 32.Mark Gertler (1891–1939), British painterThomas Girtin (1775–1802), English watercolourist and etcherJames Dickson Innes (1887–1914), Welsh painterBoris Kustodiev (1878–1927), Russian painter and stage designerGeorges Lacombe (1868–1916), French sculptor and painterCharles Laval (1862–1894), French painter [ 2] John Gaw Meem (1894–1983), American architectDatus Myers (1879–1960), American painterAmedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Italian modernist painterNorval Morrisseau (1932–2007), Indigenous Canadian artistEdvard Munch (1863–1944), Norwegian painterKārlis Padegs (1911–1940), Latvian painterJosé Pancetti (1902–1958), Brazilian modernist painterPaulus Potter (1625–1654), Dutch painterWilliam Ranney (1813–1857), 19th-century American painter[ 3] [ 4] Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), Croatian painterAndrei Ryabushkin (1861–1904), Russian painterWill Shuster (1893–1969), American painter, sculptor and teacherElizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), English artists' model, poet and artistPeter Purves Smith (1912–1949), Australian modernist artist, died during a lung operationVirginia Frances Sterret (1900–1931),[ 5] Theodore Van Soelen (1890–1964), American landscape painterCarlos Vierra (1876–1937), American painter, illustrator and photographer
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Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795), Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet, and entertainerJimmy Blanton , jazz bassistLuigi Boccherini , Italian cellist and composer, died in 1805 of pulmonary tuberculosisAlfredo Catalani Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), died of consumption at age 39 (see the discussion for details). Historical records indicate episodes of hemoptysis during performances.Charlie Christian , jazz guitarist; pioneer of the electric guitarTom Fogerty , (1941–1990), rhythm guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival George Formby, Sr. , music hall comedian and singer (d. 1921)Stephen Foster Hermann Goetz Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold Alex Hill , jazz pianistTom Jones , Welsh singing legend, spent about a year recovering from TB in his parents' basement around the age of 12Joseph Martin Kraus Jari Mäenpää , Finnish musicianJames "Bubber" Miley , jazz trumpeterJoseph Mohr Niccolò Paganini Jimmy Palao (1879–1925), jazz musician, died of tuberculosis at age 45Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736), died of tuberculosis at age 26Henry Purcell Julius Reubke (1834–1858), German composer, pianist, and organistJimmie Rodgers (1897–1933), country music singer, sang about the woes of tuberculosis in the song T.B. Blues (co-written with Raymond E. Hall) and ultimately died of the disease days after a New York City recording session.Johann Hermann Schein Igor Stravinsky Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), died of TB at age 54Ringo Starr , musician/former drummer of The Beatles , survived having tuberculosis at age 11
Dina Bélanger (1897–1929), beatified Canadian nunDavid Brainerd (1718–1747), left a diary that reflects his reliance upon God's faithfulness amidst his battle with consumption. The diary was historically very influential, particularly to the modern Christian missionary movement.[ 6] [ 7] John Calvin , leader of the Protestant Reformation Józef Cebula (1902–1941), beatified Polish priestSaint Gemma Galgani , suffered from 'tuberculosis of the spine with aggravated curvature'
John Harvard (1607–1638), English dissenting minister and founder of Harvard University Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska , the Roman Catholic religious Sister and mystic from Poland, initiator of the Divine Mercy devotion , suffered greatly from tuberculosis and succumbed to it on 5 October 1938.[ 8] Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810), Hasidic rabbi and religious teacherKarl Leisner (1915–1945), Roman Catholic priestBruna Pellesi (1917–1972), beatified Italian nunMaria Angela Picco (1867–1921), beatified Italian Roman CatholicGérard Raymond (1912–1932), Canadian seminarianCardinal Richelieu of France, died from tuberculosis in 1642Junípero Serra (1713–1784), Spanish Catholic priest and missionarySaint Bernadette Soubirous , the visionary of Lourdes
Muktanand Swami (1758–1830), saint of the Swaminarayan Sampraday.[ 9] Saint Thérèse de Lisieux (1873–1897), died of tuberculosis
Richard Wurmbrand , Protestant ministerDomingo Iturrate Zubero (1901–1927), Spanish Roman Catholic priest Leaders and politicians
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Abdulmejid I , 31st Ottoman sultanPrincess Amelia , at age 27; youngest child of King George III Simón Bolívar , the liberator of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, died in 1830 of tuberculosisHenry B Bolster Anthony Burns (1834–1862), American enslaved man who challenged the Fugitive Slave ActJohn C. Calhoun John Solomon Cartwright (1804–1845), Canadian businessman, lawyer, judge, farmer, and political figureCatherine I of Russia (1684–1727), emperorCharles IX of France Crowfoot (1830–1890), chief of the Siksika First NationCharles Daoust (1825–1868), Canadian lawyer, journalist, and political figureEdward VI (1537–1553), died of tuberculosis at age 15 during his short reign as King of EnglandElizabeth of Austria (1436–1505) , a study of her bones indicated that she probably had tuberculosis at a young ageRead Fletcher (c. 1829 –1889), American politician, lawyer, co-founder and editor of the Pine Bluff Graphic [ 10] Lucien Gagnon (1793–1843), farmer who fought in the Lower Canada RebellionGilbert Anselme Girouard (1846–1885), Canadian member of parliamentJohn Hearn (politician) (1827–1894), Irish-Canadian member of parliamentHenry VII of England Ho Chi Minh John Henry "Doc" Holliday , famous gambler and gunslinger , suffered from tuberculosis until his death in 1887Charles Hamilton Houston , NAACP lawyer known as "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow"Andrew Jackson Muhammed Ali Jinnah Andres Larka (1878–1942), Estonian military commander and politician; suffered from tuberculosis after 1924Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Edward Baker Lincoln , son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Ann Todd Lincoln Thomas "Tad" Daniel Lincoln (1853–1871), youngest child of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, died of TB in Chicago, Illinois , at age 18Graciano López Jaena (1856–1896), Filipino journalist, orator, reformist, and national heroLouis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781–1789), second child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765) , elder son of Louis XV of France Louis XIII of France Louis XVII of France John Lynch (c.1832–1866), Irish nationalistWilliam Mactavish (1815–1870), Scottish-Canadian trader and governorJ. B. McLachlan (1869–1937), Scottish-Canadian trade unionist, journalist, revolutionary, and activistMadeleine of Valois (Daughter of Francis I of France , first wife of James V of Scotland Nestor Makhno (Ukrainian revolutionary)Peshwa Madhavrao I Asif Maharramov , national hero of AzerbaijanMahmud II , 30th Ottoman sultanNelson Mandela , South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist. He got tuberculosis exacerbated by the dank conditions in his cellAlbert Mountain Horse (1893–1915), Kainai Canadian soldierMarcelo H. del Pilar (1850–1896), Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemasonMary Tudor, Queen of France (Daughter of Henry VII of England , third wife of Louis XII of France )James Monroe Napoleon II of France Anne Neville (queen consort of Richard III) (unproven)Arthur Nixon , President Nixon's brotherHarold Nixon , President Nixon's brotherWilliam Bernard O'Donoghue (1843–1878), Irish-American participant in the Red River Rebellion Prince Paul von Thurn und Taxis (1843–1879), former aide-de-camp of King Ludwig IIPedro I of Brazil (Pedro IV of Portugal)Petar II Petrović Njegoš (1813-1851), was a Prince-Bishop (vladika) of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose works are widely considered some of the most important in Serbian/Montenegrin literature.Jane Pierce , United States first lady Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), member of court and chief mistress of Louis XV of France Joseph Mary Plunkett Gavrilo Princip Manuel L. Quezon John Aaron Rawlins Dmitri Pavlovitch Romanov Eleanor Roosevelt Haym Salomon , major financier of the American side during the American Revolutionary War Dred Scott (1799–1858), plaintiff in Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford Takasugi Shinsaku (1839–1867), samuraiOkita Soji (1842/1844–1868), young and famous captain of the Shinsengumi , died from tuberculosis. He was rumored to have discovered his disease when he coughed blood and fainted during the Ikedaya Affair .Alexander Stephens Sudirman , Commander of Indonesia's armed forces during its National Revolution Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French political philosopherShreya Tripathi (d. 2018), Indian health activistCharles Turner Torrey (1813–1846), American abolitionistDesmond Tutu , had tuberculosis as a childAndreas Vokos Miaoulis , Greek admiral and politicianDavid Walker (1796–1830), American abolitionistGeorge Washington Williams (1849–1891), American minister, politician, lawyer, journalist, and writerYasuhito, Prince Chichibu John Young
Niels Abel , mathematicianWilliam James Anderson (1812–1873), Scottish-Canadian physicianFrédéric Bastiat Alexander Graham Bell Norman Bethune (1890–1939), Canadian surgeon and CommunistAnders Celsius William Kingdon Clifford , mathematician and philosopherReuben Crandall , 19th-century physician, caught disease while in jail awaiting trial; he was acquittedGeorge Mercer Dawson (1849–1901), Canadian geologist and surveyorGotthold Eisenstein , mathematicianAugustin-Jean Fresnel Richard Brinsley Hinds (1811–1846), British naval surgeon, botanist and malacologist, diagnosed with phthisis in 1845 [ 11] Anandi Gopal Joshi , first Indian woman to obtain a degree in Western medicineEdgar Lee Hewett (1865–1946), American archaeologist and anthropologistGeorge Katona , founder of behavioural macro-economicsImmanuel Kant René Laennec , French physician; inventor of the stethoscopeDmitri Mendeleev , creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements.Friedrich Miescher , Swiss biochemist, noted for discovery of nucleic acids in cell nucleus (1844–1895)Herman Potočnik Srinivasa Ramanujan , mathematician; uncertain: believed for many years to have died from tuberculosis but now suspected the cause may have been hepatic amoebiasis Gustav Roch , mathematicianBernhard Riemann , mathematicianErwin Schrödinger Flora Madeline Shaw (1864–1927), Canadian nurse and nursing teacherBaruch Spinoza Edward Livingston Trudeau , American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium for treatment of tuberculosisAdrianus Turnebus Félix Vicq-d'Azyr , French anatomistLev Vygotsky Wang Jin , former President of the Hubei Archaeological Association, died of Thoracic Spinal Tuberculosis at age 93Eugene Wigner
Malcolm Allison , footballer and managerRoberto Bettega , Italian footballer; was forced out of a game on 16 January 1972 to treat his tuberculosisRobert Boucher (1904–1931), Canadian hockey playerJames Burke Rico Carty , baseball playerGeorge Coulthard , Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballerDeerfoot-Bad Meat (1864–1897), Canadian runnerArthur Farrell (1877–1909), Canadian hockey playerArchie Jackson , Australian cricketerDan Kolov , Bulgarian wrestlerGeorge Lohmann , English cricketerChristy Mathewson (1880–1925), major league baseball pitcher; developed tuberculosis as a consequence of being accidentally gassed during a training exercise while serving in the U.S. Army Chemical Service during World War IRed Schoendienst , baseball player and managerKatherine Stinson (1891–1977), American aviatorGeorges Vezina Rube Waddell Fictional characters
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Beulah Annan Samuel Arnold Sarah Bernhardt Louis Braille Demasduit (1796–1820), one of the last Beothuk women in NewfoundlandMarie Duplessis (1824–1847), French courtesanCheng Man-ch'ing , tai chi masterW. C. Fields Brenda Fricker Andrés Gómez Emmett Hardy Antonia Navarro Huezo , at age 21; first woman in Central America to graduate from university[ 12] John Ives Adrian Joss Freddie Keppard Lin Huiyin (1904–1955), Chinese architectDorothy McKibbin (1897–1985), Manhattan Project administratorLeander H. McNelly Ismail Mohammed Florence Nightingale Etti Plesch Jeannie Rousseau , allied spy during World War IIShanawdithit , believed to have been the last surviving member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland , died from tuberculosis in 1829.Tulasa Thapa , kidnapped Nepali girl, died of tuberculosis in 1995Simonetta Vespucci , artists' model
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