List of deaths due to tuberculosis explained
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.
- 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: Frédéric Chopin – Polish composer, aged 39 (possibly cystic fibrosis).[8]
- 1862: Henry David Thoreau – American naturalist and author, aged 44.[9]
- 1866: Bernhard Riemann – German mathematician, aged 39.[10]
- 1887: John Henry "Doc" Holliday – American Gunslinger and Gambler, aged 36.
- 1890: Christopher Latham Sholes – American inventor, aged 71.[11]
- 1897: Thérèse of Lisieux – French Catholic Carmelite nun and saint, aged 24.[12]
- 1902–1903: Annie Jones – American sideshow performer, aged 37.[13]
- 1904: Anton Chekhov – Russian playwright, aged 44.[14]
- 1906: Paul Laurence Dunbar – American poet, aged 33.[15]
- 1911: Robert Tressell – Irish writer, aged 40. [16]
- 1918: Gavrilo Princip – Bosnian Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, aged 23.[17]
- 1923: Katherine Mansfield – New Zealand writer, aged 34 [18]
- 1924: Franz Kafka – Bohemian Jewish novelist, aged 40 [19]
- 1934: Lev Vygotsky – Russian psychologist, aged 37 [20]
- 1944: Manuel L. Quezon – Filipino politician and 2nd president of the Philippines, aged 65.[21]
- 1950: George Orwell – English writer, aged 46 [22]
- 1956: Johnny Claes – British-born Belgian race car driver, aged 39.
- 1961: Erwin Schrödinger – Austrian physicist, aged 73.[23]
- 1962: Eleanor Roosevelt – First Lady of the United States, aged 78
- 1967: Vivien Leigh – British actress, aged 53.[24]
- 2020: Wang Jin – Chinese archaeologist, aged 93 [25]
Notes and References
- Web site: Cartwright . Mark . Heraclius . worldhistory.org . 10 April 2024.
- Web site: King Henry VII: Where was he born and how did he die? . rmg.co.uk . 10 April 2024.
- Web site: Edward VI (r.1547-1553) . royal.uk . 10 April 2024.
- Web site: Huguenot Society :: Blog . 2023-10-11 . www.huguenotsociety.org.uk.
- Web site: Markel . Howard . How poet John Keats met his early end . pbs.org . 29 March 2024.
- Web site: How did Simón Bolívar die? Britannica . 2023-10-11 . www.britannica.com . en.
- Web site: James Monroe - Hollywood Cemetery . 2023-10-11 . www.hollywoodcemetery.org . en-GB.
- O'Shea . John G. . 1987 . Was Frédéric Chopin's illness actually cystic fibrosis? . Medical Journal of Australia . en . 147 . 11–12 . 587–588 . 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1987.tb133693.x . 3320707 . 0025-729X.
- Breedlove . Byron . A Simple Sketch Symbolizing Self-Reliance - Volume 22, Number 11—November 2016 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC . Emerging Infectious Diseases . 2016 . 22 . 11 . 2031–2032 . en-us . 10.3201/eid2211.ac2211 . 5088038.
- Web site: Jeremy . Gray . Bernhard Riemann . Britannica . 13 March 2024.
- Web site: Christopher Latham Sholes invented the QWERTY Typewriter . 11 October 2023 . scihi.org.
- Web site: St. Thérèse of Lisieux . Encyclopædia Britannica . Encyclopædia Britannica, I.c . 14 March 2024.
- News: Hogan . Michael . 2013-12-21 . The 10 best beards . 2024-03-18 . the Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
- Web site: The Death of Anton Chekhov, Told in Proteins . 2023-10-11 . Science History Institute . en-US.
- Web site: 2006-02-06 . Dayton Honors Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar . 2023-10-11 . WOSU News . en.
- Web site: Robert Tressell . hmag.org.uk . 18 April 2024.
- Web site: 2023-03-28 . How a Wrong Turn Started World War I . 2023-10-11 . HISTORY . en.
- Web site: Death of Katherine Mansfield. nzhistory.govt.nz. 29 March 2024.
- Web site: Franz Kafka . britanica.com . 29 March 2024.
- Book: Yasnitsky . Anton . Portraits of pioneers in developmental psychology . 2012 . Psychology Press . 109-113 . 26 April 2024.
- Web site: Manuel L. Quezon American Experience PBS . 2023-10-11 . www.pbs.org . en.
- Web site: Eschner . Kat . George Orwell Wrote ‘1984’ While Dying of Tuberculosis . smithsonianmag.com . 29 March 2024.
- Web site: Erwin Schrodinger: biography . bibliothek.univie.ac.at . 17 April 2024.
- Web site: 2017-10-09 . A Timeline of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's Tragic Love Story . 2023-10-11 . Harper's BAZAAR . en-US.
- Web site: Huairang . Yue . 中国第一代女考古学家王劲病逝,享年94岁. thepaper.cn . 10 April 2024 . zh.