List of Tuberculosis Cases - Others

Others

  • George Formby, Sr., Music hall comedian and singer (d.1921)
  • Christiaan Van Vuuren
  • Niels Abel, mathematician
  • Renée Adorée
  • Malcolm Allison, footballer and manager
  • Princess Amelia, at age 27; youngest child of King George III.
  • Anandi Gopal Joshi, first Indian woman to obtain a degree in Western medicine.
  • Beulah Annan
  • Samuel Arnold
  • Georgiana Drew Barrymore, actress, succumbed aged 36
  • Frédéric Bastiat
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Sarah Bernhardt
  • Jimmy Blanton, jazz bassist
  • Louis Braille
  • James Burke
  • Rico Carty, baseball player
  • Shaikh Raheela Begum
  • Anders Celsius
  • Cheng Man-ch'ing T'ai chi ch'uan master
  • Charlie Christian, jazz guitarist; pioneer of the electric guitar
  • William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and philosopher
  • Gotthold Eisenstein, mathematician
  • Arline Greenbaum Feynman, the first wife of physicist Richard Feynman, died from tuberculosis while her husband was working on the Manhattan Project.
  • W. C. Fields
  • Augustin-Jean Fresnel
  • Brenda Fricker §
  • Andrés Gómez
  • Jay Gould, American railroad magnate and financier of the Gilded Age (1880's).
  • Emmett Hardy
  • Alex Hill, jazz pianist
  • John Henry "Doc" Holliday, famous gambler and gunslinger, suffered from tuberculosis until his death in 1887.
  • John Ives
  • Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer
  • Tom Jones, the Welsh singing legend, spent about a year recovering from TB in his parents basement around the age of 12.
  • Adrian Joss
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Freddie Keppard
  • Dan Kolov, Bulgarian wrestler
  • René Laënnec French physician; inventor of the stethoscope
  • Vivien Leigh (1913–1967), British actress of stage and screen, died from complications of tuberculosis.
  • Edward Baker Lincoln son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Ann Todd Lincoln
  • Annie Lewis (c. 1869-1896), Musical comedy actress.
  • Thomas "Tad" Daniel Lincoln (1853–1871), youngest child of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, died of TB in Chicago, Illinois, at age 18.
  • Asif Maharramov, national hero of Azerbaijan
  • 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.
  • Leander H. McNelly
  • 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)
  • James "Bubber" Miley jazz trumpeter
  • Ismail Mohammed
  • Joseph Mohr
  • Tim Moore (George "Kingfish" Stevens of Amos 'n Andy)
  • Barry Morse ?
  • N!xau
  • Anne Neville (queen consort of Richard III) (unproven)
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Arthur Nixon, President Nixon's brother
  • Harold Nixon, President Nixon's brother
  • Mabel Normand
  • Joey Only, Vancouver folk singer
  • Red Schoendienst, baseball player and manager
  • Okita Soji (1844–1868), samurai
  • Jane Pierce, United States first lady
  • Etti Plesch ?
  • Joseph Mary Plunkett
  • Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (wife of Edgar Allan Poe)
  • Herman Potočnik
  • Gavrilo Princip
  • George Lohmann, English cricketer
  • Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician
  • Gustav Roch, mathematician
  • 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.
  • Bernhard Riemann, mathematician
  • Erwin Schrödinger
  • Baruch Spinoza
  • Shanawdithit, believed to have been the last surviving member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland, died from tuberculosis in 1829.
  • Takasugi Shinsaku (1839–1867), samurai
  • Ringo Starr §, musician/former drummer of The Beatles, survived having tuberculosis at age 11
  • Edward Livingston Trudeau, an American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium for treatment of tuberculosis.
  • Tulasa Thapa, a kidnapped Nepali girl, died of tuberculosis in 1995.
  • Prince Paul von Thurn und Taxis (1843–1879), former aide-de-camp of King Ludwig II
  • Adrianus Turnebus
  • Georges Vezina
  • Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French anatomist
  • Lev Vygotsky
  • Rube Waddell
  • William Winchester (son of Oliver Winchester, husband of Sarah Winchester)
  • Link Wray ?
  • Eugene Wigner ?
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter.
  • Edward VI (1537–1553) Died of tuberculosis at age 15 during his short reign as King of England.
  • Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) §, famous British singer-songwriter.
§ still living
? died of something unrelated to tuberculosis

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