List of deaths due to tuberculosis

The following is a list of notable people who have died due to tuberculosis.

  • 641: Heraclius Constantine – Byzantine Emperor, aged 29.[1]
  • 1485: Anne Neville - Queen of England, aged 28.
  • 1506: 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]
  • 1821: John Keats – English poet, aged 25.[5]
  • 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).[6]
  • 1831: James Monroe – American Founding Father and 5th president of the United States, aged 73.[7]
  • 1849: Anne Brontë – English novelist and poet, aged 29.[8]
  • 1849: Frédéric Chopin – Polish composer, aged 39 (possibly cystic fibrosis).[9]
  • 1862: Henry David Thoreau – American naturalist and author, aged 44.[10]
  • 1866: Bernhard Riemann – German mathematician, aged 39.[11]
  • 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.[12]
  • 1897: Thérèse of Lisieux – French Catholic Carmelite nun and saint, aged 24.[13]
  • 1902–1903: Annie Jones – American sideshow performer, aged 37.[14]
  • 1904: Anton Chekhov – Russian playwright, aged 44.[15]
  • 1906: Paul Laurence Dunbar – American poet, aged 33.[16]
  • 1908: Marie Jungius – Dutch educator, writer, and activist, aged 44.[17]
  • 1911: Robert Tressell – Irish writer, aged 40.[18]
  • 1918: Gavrilo Princip – Bosnian Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, aged 23.[19]
  • 1923: Katherine Mansfield – New Zealand writer, aged 34.[20]
  • 1924: Franz Kafka – Bohemian Jewish novelist, aged 40.[21]
  • 1934: Lev Vygotsky – Russian psychologist, aged 37.[22]
  • 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.[23]
  • 1944: Manuel L. Quezon – Filipino politician and 2nd president of the Philippines, aged 65.[24]
  • 1950: George Orwell – English writer, aged 46.[25]
  • 1956: Johnny Claes – British-born Belgian race car driver, aged 39.
  • 1961: Erwin Schrödinger – Austrian physicist, aged 73.[26]
  • 1962: Eleanor Roosevelt – First Lady of the United States, aged 78.
  • 1967: Vivien Leigh – British actress, aged 53.[27]
  • 2020: Wang Jin – Chinese archaeologist, aged 93.[28]

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