List of deaths due to tuberculosis
The following is a list of notable people who have died due to tuberculosis.
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- 641: Heraclius Constantine – Byzantine Emperor, aged 29.[1]
- 1485: Anne Neville - Queen of England, aged 28.
- 1509: Henry VII of England – King of England, aged 52.[2]
- 1537: Madeleine of Valois – Queen of Scotland, aged 16.
- 1553: Edward VI – King of England, aged 15.[3]
- 1574: Charles IX of France – King of France, aged 23.[4]
- 1643: Louis XIII – King of France, aged 41.[5]
- 1744: Anders Celsius – Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician, aged 42.[6]
- 1764: Madame de Pompadour – Chief mistress of King Louis XV, aged 42.[7]
- 1795: Louis XVII – King of France, aged 10.[8]
- 1821: John Keats – English poet, aged 25.[9]
- 1827: Augustin-Jean Fresnel – French civil engineer and physicist, aged 39.
- 1827: George Canning – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, aged 57.
- 1829: Niels Henrik Abel - Norwegian mathematician, aged 26.
- 1830: Simón Bolívar – Venezuelan political leader, aged 47 (reported).[10]
- 1831: James Monroe – American Founding Father and 5th president of the United States, aged 73.[11]
- 1849: Anne Brontë – English novelist and poet, aged 29.[12]
- 1849: Frédéric Chopin – Polish composer, aged 39 (possibly cystic fibrosis).[13]
- 1850: Oliver Cowdery - American religious leader and prominent figure in the early Latter Day Saint movement, aged 43.
- 1852: Henry Clay – American laywer and statesman, aged 75.
- 1858: Dred Scott – plaintiff in landmark American Supreme Court case.
- 1862: Henry David Thoreau – American naturalist and author, aged 44.[14]
- 1866: Bernhard Riemann – German mathematician, aged 39.[15]
- 1868: Okita Sōji — Japanese samurai, aged 24-26.
- 1883: Jim Devlin — American baseball player, aged 34.
- 1887: John Henry "Doc" Holliday – American Gunslinger and Gambler, aged 36.
- 1890: Christopher Latham Sholes – American inventor, aged 71.[16]
- 1896: Marcelo H. del Pilar – Filipino writer, lawyer and journalist, aged 45.
- 1897: Thérèse of Lisieux – French Catholic Carmelite nun and saint, aged 24.[17]
- 1900: Stephen Crane – American author, aged 28.
- 1902–1903: Annie Jones – American sideshow performer, aged 37.[18]
- 1903: St. Gemma Galgani, age 25
- 1904: Anton Chekhov – Russian playwright, aged 44.[19]
- 1906: Paul Laurence Dunbar – American poet, aged 33.[20]
- 1908: Marie Jungius – Dutch educator, writer, and activist, aged 44.[21]
- 1911: Robert Tressell – Irish writer, aged 40.[22]
- 1918: Gavrilo Princip – Bosnian Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, aged 23.[23]
- 1923: Katherine Mansfield – New Zealand writer, aged 34.[24]
- 1924: Franz Kafka – Bohemian Jewish novelist, aged 40.[25]
- 1930: Christopher Morcom – aged 18, childhood friend of Alan Turing[26]
- 1934: Lev Vygotsky – Russian psychologist, aged 37.[27]
- 1934: Nestor Ivanovych Makhno – Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary, aged 45.
- 1937: Gim Yujeong - Korean novelist, aged 29.
- 1937: Yi Sang - Korean novelist and poet, aged 26.
- 1937: Na Woon-gyu - Korean actor, filmmaker. aged 34.
- 1939: Pedro Aguirre Cerda - Chilean politician and 22nd president of Chile, aged 62.[28]
- 1942: Thomas C. Neibaur - American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, aged 44.
- 1944: Manuel L. Quezon – Filipino politician and 2nd president of the Philippines, aged 65.[29]
- 1950: George Orwell – English writer, aged 46.[30]
- 1956: Johnny Claes – British-born Belgian race car driver, aged 39.
- 1961: Erwin Schrödinger – Austrian physicist, aged 73.[31]
- 1962: Eleanor Roosevelt – First Lady of the United States, aged 78.
- 1967: Vivien Leigh – British actress, aged 53.[32]
- 2020: Wang Jin – Chinese archaeologist, aged 93.[33]
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- ↑ "King Henry VII: Where was he born and how did he die?". rmg.co.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
- ↑ "Edward VI (r.1547-1553)". royal.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
- ↑ "Huguenot Society :: Blog". www.huguenotsociety.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
- ↑ Kleinman, Ruth (1985). Anne of Austria: Queen of France. Ohio State University Press. p. 131. ISBN 0814203892.
- ↑ "Anders Celsius". www.astro.uu.se. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- ↑ Christine Pevitt, Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France (New York: Grove Press, 2003), 8–9.
- ↑ Beauchesne, Alcide (20 May 2016). Louis XVII: His Life, His Suffering, His Death, the Captivity of the Royal Family in the Temple, Volume 1. Palala Press. ISBN 978-1357844646.
- ↑ Markel, Howard. "How poet John Keats met his early end". pbs.org. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "How did Simón Bolívar die? | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
- ↑ "James Monroe - Hollywood Cemetery". www.hollywoodcemetery.org. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
- ↑ Armitage, Michael. "Biography of Anne Brontë". www.mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2020-11-27. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
- ↑ O'Shea, John G. (1987). "Was Frédéric Chopin's illness actually cystic fibrosis?". Medical Journal of Australia. 147 (11–12): 587–588. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1987.tb133693.x. ISSN 0025-729X. PMID 3320707.
- ↑ Breedlove, Byron (2016). "A Simple Sketch Symbolizing Self-Reliance - Volume 22, Number 11—November 2016 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 22 (11): 2031–2032. doi:10.3201/eid2211.ac2211. PMC 5088038.
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- ↑ "Christopher Latham Sholes invented the QWERTY Typewriter". scihi.org. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ↑ "St. Thérèse of Lisieux". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, I.c. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ↑ Hogan, Michael (2013-12-21). "The 10 best beards". the Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ↑ "The Death of Anton Chekhov, Told in Proteins". Science History Institute. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
- ↑ "Dayton Honors Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar". WOSU News. 2006-02-06. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
- ↑ Strijland, Arlette (2019-02-22). "Marie Jungius – biografie" [Marie Jungius – biography]. Atria (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-04-25.
- ↑ "Robert Tressell". hmag.org.uk. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
- ↑ "How a Wrong Turn Started World War I". HISTORY. 2023-03-28. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
- ↑ "Death of Katherine Mansfield". nzhistory.govt.nz. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "Franz Kafka". britanica.com. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "Eight Supplement To The London Gazette" (PDF). The London Gazette. 30 May 1919. p. 6948. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
- ↑ Yasnitsky, Anton (2012). Portraits of pioneers in developmental psychology (PDF). Psychology Press. pp. 109–113. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
- ↑ "BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE CHILE. Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1879-1941). Memoria Chilena".
- ↑ "Manuel L. Quezon | American Experience". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
- ↑ Eschner, Kat. "George Orwell Wrote '1984' While Dying of Tuberculosis". smithsonianmag.com. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "Erwin Schrodinger: biography". bibliothek.univie.ac.at. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ↑ "A Timeline of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's Tragic Love Story". Harper's BAZAAR. 2017-10-09. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
- ↑ Huairang, Yue. "中国第一代女考古学家王劲病逝，享年94岁". thepaper.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 10 April 2024.