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:
- Jane Austen
- Honoré de Balzac
- Anne Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Charles Farrar Browne
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Burns
- Lord Byron
- Albert Camus ?
- Anton Chekov
- Tristan Corbière
- Stephen Crane
- René Daumal
- Jean de Brunhoff
- Guy de Maupassant
- Fyodor Dostoevski
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Dashiell Hammett
- Saima Harmaja
- Robert Heinlein ?
- Miguel Hernández
- Washington Irving
- Helen Hunt Jackson
- Alfred Jarry
- Samuel Johnson
- Franz Kafka
- John Keats
- Charles Kingsley
- Sidney Lanier
- D. H. Lawrence
- Betty MacDonald ?
- Katherine Mansfield
- Somerset Maugham
- Molière
- Eugene O'Neill
- George Orwell
- Walker Percy
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Alexander Pope
- Llewelyn Powys
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- John Reed
- Edmond Rostand
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Ruskin
- Albert Samain
- Friedrich Schiller
- Sir Walter Scott
- Percy Bysshe Shelley ?
- Juliusz Slowacki
- Tobias Smollett
- Laurence Sterne
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Alan Sillitoe §
- Dylan Thomas
- Francis Thompson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Voltaire ?
- Thomas Wolfe
- Jiří Wolker
Artists:
- Frédéric Bartholdi
- Marie Bashkirtseff
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Harry Clarke
- Paul Gauguin
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Elizabeth Siddal ?
Composers:
- Frédéric Chopin
- Stephen Foster
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Niccolo Paganini
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Henry Purcell
- Johann Schein
- Cat Stevens §
Religious figures:
Leaders:
- Simón Bolívar
- 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
- Tutankhamun
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Etti Plesch ?
- Joseph Mary Plunkett
- Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (wife of Edgar Allan Poe)
- Herman Potočnik
- Gavrilo Princip
- Jimmie Rodgers
- Bernhard Riemann, mathematician
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Takasugi Shinsaku (1839-1867), samurai
- Okita Soji (1844-1869), Japanese swordsman and troop captain in the Shinsengumi
- Baruch Spinoza
- 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 ?
- § 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
- Little Nell from The Old Curiosity Shop (Charles Dickens)
- Mimi from La Vie de Bohème (Giacomo Puccini et. al.)
- Violette from Verdi's La Traviata
- Buddy Willard from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Lin Dai-yu from The Story of Stone by Cao
- Satine from Moulin Rouge!
See also: Emily Bissell, Robert Koch
References
- Rothman, Sheila M. (1994). Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History. ISBN 0801851866sv:Lista över personer som haft tuberkulos