• Source: List of tuberculosis cases




Writers and poets


Agha Ahmad Ali (1839–1873), Bengali academic, scholar of Persian and Urdu poet, died of tuberculosis in June 1873
Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet, died from tuberculosis
Manuel Bandeira, Brazilian poet, had tuberculosis in 1904 and expressed the effects of the disease in his life in many of his poems
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet, died on 22 December 1870 from tuberculosis
Vissarion Belinsky, Russian literary critic
Edward Bellamy (1850–1898), fiction writer remembered for his book Looking Backward, died from tuberculosis
Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright
Jonas Biliūnas
Rachel Bluwstein
Randolph Bourne, at age 4, he developed tuberculosis of the spine, which left him with a hunchback
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 1861
Jean 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 poet
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician; died from tuberculosis
Tristan Corbière
Stephen Crane
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995)
René Daumal
Nikolay Dobrolyubov
Laura Don (1852–1886), actress-manager, playwright and artist
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861–1922), Canadian author and journalist
Paul Éluard
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist
Maxim Gorky
Guido Gozzano (1883-1916), Italian poet
Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), American author and creator of the "hard boiled" detective novel (notably, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon), contracted tuberculosis during World War I
Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet and writer
Jaroslav Hašek
Alice Corbin Henderson (1881–1949), American poet, author, and poetry editor
Robert A. Heinlein, American author
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), English poet, writer, critic, and editor
Mary Eliza Herbert (1829–1872), Canadian publisher and poet
Sarah Herbert (1824–1846), Irish-Nova Scotian author, publisher, and educator
Miguel 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, died from tuberculosis
Uuno Kailas, Finnish composer
Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek writer
John Keats (1795–1821), English Romantic poet; he and his brother Tom were taken by tuberculosis
Dragotin Kette
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher
Charles Kingsley
Kostas Krystallis, Greek poet
Vincas Kudirka (1858–1899), Lithuanian poet and physician; died from tuberculosis
Jules Laforgue (1860–1887), French-Uruguayan poet
Sidney Lanier
D. H. Lawrence
Janet Lewis
Lu Xun
Betty MacDonald
Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer, died from tuberculosis aged 34
William Somerset Maugham
Sara Haardt Mencken
Migjeni, Albanian poet
Molière
Christian Morgenstern, German writer
Josip Murn Aleksandrov
Novalis, German author and philosopher
Jessie Fremont O'Donnell (1860–1897), writer
Eugene O'Neill
George Orwell (1903–1950), British author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia, first suffered tuberculosis in the early 1930s and died from it in 1950, at the age of 46. 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 21
Petar Petrović Njegoš Najveći srpski pisac
Andrei Platonov
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (wife of Edgar Allan Poe)
Maria Polydouri, Greek poet and novelist
Alexander Pope
Eleanor Anne Porden
Llewelyn Powys
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Sholem Rabinovich
Branko Radičević
Lynn Riggs
Joachim Ringelnatz, German poet
John Ruskin
Albert Samain
Kaarlo Sarkia (1902–1945), Finnish poet
Friedrich Schiller
Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), Japanese poet famous for revitalizing the haiku, died after a long struggle with tuberculosis
Emily Shore, diarist
Anna Sissak-Bardizbanian, reporter
Juliusz 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 poet
A. H. Tammsaare (1878–1940), Estonian writer; suffered from tuberculosis after 1911
Francis Thompson
Henry David Thoreau
Lesya Ukrainka
Katri Vala (1901-1944), Finnish poet
Jessamyn West, American author, contracted tuberculosis in 1932 and recovered
Yvor Winters
Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938), American author, died of tuberculosis of the brain. His 1929 novel, Look Homeward, Angel, makes several references to the problem of consumption, though Wolfe's condition appeared rather suddenly in 1937.
Jiří Wolker
Simone Weil, French philosopher
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) Autopsy "consumption of the right lung, general miliary tuberculosis"
Vũ Trọng Phụng (1912-1939), Vietnamese author, poet.




Actors


Renée Adorée, (1898–1933), French actress
Anita Berber (1899–1928) German dancer and actress
Colin Clive (1900–1937), British stage and screen actor
Georgiana Drew Barrymore (1856–1893), actress, succumbed aged 36
Rachel Félix (1821-1858), French actress
Vivien Leigh (1913–1967), British actress of stage and screen, died from complications of tuberculosis
Annie Lewis (c. 1869–1896), musical comedy actress
Dick Martin (1922–2008), comedian; lost a lung due to tuberculosis as a teenager
Tim Moore (1887–1958), American actor of stage, screen and television
Barry Morse (1918–2008), British-Canadian actor of stage, screen, and radio
Mabel Normand (1893–1930), American silent film actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and comedian
N!xau (1944–2003), Namibian actor
Michael Raffetto
Christiaan Van Vuuren (1982– ), Australian actor, writer, director and video blogger




Artists


Ioannis Altamouras (1852–1878), Greek painter
Frédéric 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 26
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), English illustrator and author
Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) English Romantic landscape painter
Kenneth M. Chapman (1875–1968), American art historian
Harry Clarke (1889–1931), Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French Romantic painter
Wyatt Eaton (1849–1896), Canadian-American painter
Rötger Feldmann (1950– ), German comic book artist
Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), French Romantic painter, died at age 32.
Mark Gertler (1891–1939), British painter
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), English watercolourist and etcher
James Dickson Innes (1887–1914), Welsh painter
Boris Kustodiev (1878–1927), Russian painter and stage designer
Georges Lacombe (1868–1916), French sculptor and painter
Charles Laval (1862–1894), French painter
John Gaw Meem (1894–1983), American architect
Datus Myers (1879–1960), American painter
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Italian modernist painter
Norval Morrisseau (1932–2007), Indigenous Canadian artist
Edvard Munch (1863–1944), Norwegian painter
Kārlis Padegs (1911–1940), Latvian painter
José Pancetti (1902–1958), Brazilian modernist painter
Paulus Potter (1625–1654), Dutch painter
William Ranney (1813–1857), 19th-century American painter
Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), Croatian painter
Andrei Ryabushkin (1861–1904), Russian painter
Will Shuster (1893–1969), American painter, sculptor and teacher
Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), English artists' model, poet and artist
Peter Purves Smith (1912–1949), Australian modernist artist, died during a lung operation
Virginia Frances Sterret (1900–1931), American artist and illustrator
Theodore Van Soelen (1890–1964), American landscape painter
Carlos Vierra (1876–1937), American painter, illustrator and photographer




Composers, singers and musicians


Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795), Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet, and entertainer
Jimmy Blanton, jazz bassist
Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer, died in 1805 of pulmonary tuberculosis
Alfredo 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 guitar
Tom 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 pianist
Tom Jones, Welsh singing legend, spent about a year recovering from TB in his parents' basement around the age of 12
Joseph Martin Kraus
Jari Mäenpää, Finnish musician
James "Bubber" Miley, jazz trumpeter
Joseph Mohr
Niccolò Paganini
Jimmy Palao (1879–1925), jazz musician, died of tuberculosis at age 45
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736), died of tuberculosis at age 26
Henry Purcell
Julius Reubke (1834–1858), German composer, pianist, and organist
Jimmie 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 54
Ringo Starr, musician/former drummer of The Beatles, survived having tuberculosis at age 11
Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) §, British singer-songwriter
Carl Maria von Weber
Chick Webb
Link Wray




Religious figures


Dina Bélanger (1897–1929), beatified Canadian nun
David 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.
John Calvin, leader of the Protestant Reformation
Józef Cebula (1902–1941), beatified Polish priest
Saint 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.
Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810), Hasidic rabbi and religious teacher
Karl Leisner (1915–1945), Roman Catholic priest
Bruna Pellesi (1917–1972), beatified Italian nun
Maria Angela Picco (1867–1921), beatified Italian Roman Catholic
Gérard Raymond (1912–1932), Canadian seminarian
Cardinal Richelieu of France, died from tuberculosis in 1642
Junípero Serra (1713–1784), Spanish Catholic priest and missionary
Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the visionary of Lourdes
Muktanand Swami (1758–1830), saint of the Swaminarayan Sampraday.
Saint Thérèse de Lisieux (1873–1897), died of tuberculosis
Richard Wurmbrand, Protestant minister
Domingo Iturrate Zubero (1901–1927), Spanish Roman Catholic priest




Leaders and politicians


Abdulmejid I, 31st Ottoman sultan
Princess 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 tuberculosis
Henry B Bolster
Anthony Burns (1834–1862), American enslaved man who challenged the Fugitive Slave Act
John C. Calhoun
John Solomon Cartwright (1804–1845), Canadian businessman, lawyer, judge, farmer, and political figure
Catherine I of Russia (1684–1727), emperor
Charles IX of France
Crowfoot (1830–1890), chief of the Siksika First Nation
Charles Daoust (1825–1868), Canadian lawyer, journalist, and political figure
Edward VI (1537–1553), died of tuberculosis at age 15 during his short reign as King of England
Elizabeth of Austria (1436–1505), a study of her bones indicated that she probably had tuberculosis at a young age
Read Fletcher (c. 1829–1889), American politician, lawyer, co-founder and editor of the Pine Bluff Graphic
Lucien Gagnon (1793–1843), farmer who fought in the Lower Canada Rebellion
Gilbert Anselme Girouard (1846–1885), Canadian member of parliament
John Hearn (politician) (1827–1894), Irish-Canadian member of parliament
Henry VII of England
Ho Chi Minh
John Henry "Doc" Holliday, famous gambler and gunslinger, suffered from tuberculosis until his death in 1887
Charles 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 1924
Sir 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 18
Graciano López Jaena (1856–1896), Filipino journalist, orator, reformist, and national hero
Louis 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 nationalist
William Mactavish (1815–1870), Scottish-Canadian trader and governor
J. B. McLachlan (1869–1937), Scottish-Canadian trade unionist, journalist, revolutionary, and activist
Madeleine 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 Azerbaijan
Mahmud II, 30th Ottoman sultan
Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist. He got tuberculosis exacerbated by the dank conditions in his cell
Albert Mountain Horse (1893–1915), Kainai Canadian soldier
Marcelo H. del Pilar (1850–1896), Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemason
Mary 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 brother
Harold Nixon, President Nixon's brother
William 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 II
Pedro 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), samurai
Okita 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 philosopher
Shreya Tripathi (d. 2018), Indian health activist
Charles Turner Torrey (1813–1846), American abolitionist
Desmond Tutu, had tuberculosis as a child
Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician
David Walker (1796–1830), American abolitionist
George Washington Williams (1849–1891), American minister, politician, lawyer, journalist, and writer
Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu
John Young




Scientists


Niels Abel, mathematician
William James Anderson (1812–1873), Scottish-Canadian physician
Frédéric Bastiat
Alexander Graham Bell
Norman Bethune (1890–1939), Canadian surgeon and Communist
Anders Celsius
William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and philosopher
Reuben Crandall, 19th-century physician, caught disease while in jail awaiting trial; he was acquitted
George Mercer Dawson (1849–1901), Canadian geologist and surveyor
Gotthold Eisenstein, mathematician
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Richard Brinsley Hinds (1811–1846), British naval surgeon, botanist and malacologist, diagnosed with phthisis in 1845
Anandi Gopal Joshi, first Indian woman to obtain a degree in Western medicine
Edgar Lee Hewett (1865–1946), American archaeologist and anthropologist
George Katona, founder of behavioural macro-economics
Immanuel Kant
René Laennec, French physician; inventor of the stethoscope
Dmitri 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, mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, mathematician
Erwin Schrödinger
Flora Madeline Shaw (1864–1927), Canadian nurse and nursing teacher
Baruch Spinoza
Edward Livingston Trudeau, American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium for treatment of tuberculosis
Adrianus Turnebus
Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French anatomist
Lev Vygotsky
Wang Jin, former President of the Hubei Archaeological Association, died of Thoracic Spinal Tuberculosis at age 93
Eugene Wigner




Business


Michael James Heney (1864–1910), Canadian railroad contractor
Jay Gould, American railroad magnate and financier of the Gilded Age (1880s)
George Keats, American businessman and civic leader
John B. Stetson, American hat maker
William Winchester (son of Oliver Winchester, husband of Sarah Winchester)




Athletes


Malcolm Allison, footballer and manager
Roberto Bettega, Italian footballer; was forced out of a game on 16 January 1972 to treat his tuberculosis
Robert Boucher (1904–1931), Canadian hockey player
James Burke
Rico Carty, baseball player
George Coulthard, Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer
Deerfoot-Bad Meat (1864–1897), Canadian runner
Arthur Farrell (1877–1909), Canadian hockey player
Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer
Dan Kolov, Bulgarian wrestler
George Lohmann, English cricketer
Christy 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 I
Red Schoendienst, baseball player and manager
Katherine Stinson (1891–1977), American aviator
Georges Vezina
Rube Waddell




Fictional characters


Helen Burns in Jane Eyre
Marguerite Gautier in La Dame aux Camélias
Nikolai Dmitrich Levin in Anna Karenina
Mimì in La Bohème
Arthur Morgan, fictional former gunslinger and member of the Van Der Linde gang (1863-1899); Main protagonist in Rockstar game Red Dead Redemption 2
The patients of Thomas Mann's sanatorium of The Magic Mountain
Oscar François de Jarjayes in The Rose of Versailles
Okita Souji in Fate/type Redline




Others


Beulah Annan
Samuel Arnold
Sarah Bernhardt
Louis Braille
Demasduit (1796–1820), one of the last Beothuk women in Newfoundland
Marie Duplessis (1824–1847), French courtesan
Cheng Man-ch'ing, tai chi master
W. C. Fields
Brenda Fricker
Andrés Gómez
Emmett Hardy
Antonia Navarro Huezo, at age 21; first woman in Central America to graduate from university
John Ives
Adrian Joss
Freddie Keppard
Lin Huiyin (1904–1955), Chinese architect
Dorothy McKibbin (1897–1985), Manhattan Project administrator
Leander H. McNelly
Ismail Mohammed
Florence Nightingale
Etti Plesch
Jeannie Rousseau, allied spy during World War II
Shanawdithit, 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 1995
Simonetta Vespucci, artists' model




References






Further reading


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

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