List of famous tuberculosis victims
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This is a list of famous people and celebrities who had, or are believed to have had, tuberculosis.
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Writers and poets:
- Jane Austen
- Honor� de Balzac
- [[Anne Bront�|Anne Bront�]]
- [[Charlotte Bront�|Charlotte Bront�]]
- [[Emily Bront�|Emily Bront�]]
- Charles Farrar Browne
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Burns
- Albert Camus
- Anton Chekov
- [[Tristan Corbi�re]]
- Stephen Crane
- [[Ren� Daumal]]
- Jean de Brunhoff
- Guy de Maupassant
- Fyodor Dostoevski
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Dashiell Hammett
- Robert Heinlein ?
- Miguel Hern�ndez
- Washington Irving
- Alfred Jarry
- Samuel Johnson
- Franz Kafka
- John Keats
- Charles Kingsley
- Sidney Lanier
- D. H. Lawrence
- Thomas Mann
- Katherine Mansfield
- Somerset Maugham
- George Orwell
- Anne Perry �
- Walker Percy
- Edgar Allen 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 ?
- Tobias Smollett
- Laurence Sterne
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Alan Sillitoe �
- Dylan Thomas
- Francis Thompson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Leo Tolstoy
- Voltaire ?
- Thomas Wolfe
Artists:
- [[Fr�d�ric Bartholdi]]
- Marie Bashkirtseff
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Harry Clarke
- Paul Gauguin
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Elizabeth Siddal ?
Composers:
- Fr�d�ric Chopin
- Stephen Foster
- Niccolo Paganini
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Henry Purcell
- Cat Stevens �
Religious figures:
Leaders:
- Simon Bolivar
- Edward VI of England
- Muhammed Ali Jinnah
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- Louis XVII of France
- Nelson Mandela �
- Napoleon II of France
- Manuel L. Quezon
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- John Young
Others:
- Ren�e Ador�e
- Beulah Annan
- Fr�d�ric Bastiat
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Louis Braille
- James Burke
- Anders Celsius
- Charlie Christian
- Arline Feynman (first wife of physicist Richard Feynman)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Brenda Fricker �
- Abel Gance
- Emmett Hardy
- Richard Harris (actor) ?
- Immanuel Kant
- Freddie Keppard
- Vivien Leigh
- Christy Mathewson
- Dmitri Mendeleev ?
- Barry Morse ?
- N!xau
- Anne Neville (queen consort of Richard III) (probably)
- Florence Nightingale
- Mabel Normand
- Etti Plesch ?
- Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (wife of Edgar Allan Poe)
- Herman Potočnik
- Gavrilo Princip
- Jimmie Rodgers
- [[Erwin Schr�dinger]]
- Adrianus Turnebus
- Georges Vezina
- Lev Vygotsky
- Rube Waddell
- William W. Winchester
- Link Wray �
- Eugene Wigner ?
- � still living
- ? died of something unrelated to tuberculosis
Fictional characters:
- Helen Burns from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront�
- Little Nell from The Old Curiosity Shop (Charles Dickens)
- Mimi from [[La Boh�me]] (Giacomo Puccini et. al.)
- Buddy Willard from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
See also: Emily Bissell, Robert Koch
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_famous_tuberculosis_victims" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_tuberculosis_victims, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
