Writers and poets

* Agha Ahmad Ali (1839–1873), Bengali academic, scholar of Persian and Urdu poet, died of tuberculosis in June 1873 *

Maksim Bahdanovič Maksim Adamavich Bahdanovich (, ; ; 9 December 1891 – 25 May 1917) was a Belarusian poet, journalist, translator, literary critic and historian of literature. He is considered one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literature.

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poet, died from tuberculosis *

Manuel Bandeira Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho (April 19, 1886 – October 13, 1968) was a Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator, who wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. Life and career Bandeira was born in Recife, Pernambuco. In 1904 ...

, Brazilian poet, had tuberculosis in 1904 and expressed the effects of the disease in his life in many of his poems *

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida (17 February 1836 – 22 December 1870), better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (), was a Spanish Spanish Romance literature, Romantic poet and writer (mostly short stories), also a playwright, columni ...

, Spanish poet, died on 22 December 1870 from tuberculosis *

Vissarion Belinsky Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (; Pre-reform spelling: Виссаріонъ Григорьевичъ Бѣлинскій. – ) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. Belinsky played one of the key roles in the career of p ...

, Russian literary critic *

Edward Bellamy Edward Bellamy (; March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel ''Looking Backward''. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numer ...

(1850–1898), fiction writer remembered for his book ''

Looking Backward ''Looking Backward: 2000–1887'' is a utopian time travel science fiction novel by the American journalist and writer Edward Bellamy first published in 1888. The book was translated into several languages, and in short order "sold a million ...

'', died from tuberculosis *

Sukanta Bhattacharya Sukanta Bhattacharya (; 15 August 1926 – 13 May 1947) was a Bengali poet. He was called "Young Nazrul" and ''Kishore Bidrohi Kobi'' (), a reference to Kazi Nazrul Islam, for his similar rebellious stance against the British Raj and the socia ...

, Bengali poet and playwright *

Jonas Biliūnas Jonas Biliūnas (11 April 1879 – 8 December 1907) was a Lithuanian writer, poet, and a significant contributor to the national awakening of Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Biography Early life Biliūnas was born near A ...

Rachel Bluwstein Rachel Bluwstein Sela (; 20 September (Julian calendar) 1890 – 16 April 1931) was a Hebrew-language poet who immigrated to Ottoman Palestine, in 1909. She is known by her first name, Rachel ( ), or as Rachel the Poetess ( ). She is featu ...

Randolph Bourne Randolph Silliman Bourne (; May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. He is considered to be a spokesman for the young radicals living d ...

, at age 4, he developed tuberculosis of the spine, which left him with a hunchback *

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and

Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel, ''Wuthering Heights''. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte and Anne Bront� ...

and other members of the

Brontë family The Brontës () were a 19th century literary family, born in the village of Thornton, West Yorkshire, Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte Brontë, Charlott ...

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 Charlotte Nicholls (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ), was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë family, Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novel ...

'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 Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and magazine editor, editor of the Early National period. Brown is regarded by some scholars as the most important American novelist before J ...

Charles Farrar Browne Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867) was an American humor writer, better known under his ''nom de plume'', Artemus Ward, which as a character, an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense", Browne also played in public perfo ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work receiv ...

, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1861 *

Jean de Brunhoff Jean de Brunhoff (; 9 December 1899 – 16 October 1937) was a French writer and illustrator remembered best for creating the Babar series of children's books concerning a fictional elephant, the first of which was published in 1931. Early life ...

Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German Americans, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambien ...

(1920–1994), American author and poet, contracted tuberculosis in 1988; he recovered, losing 60 lbs. He died of leukemia. *

Robert Burns Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the List of national poets, national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the be ...

Albert Camus Albert Camus ( ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the s ...

, French writer, playwright, activist, and absurdist philosopher, suffered from tuberculosis. He was forced to drop out of school (

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) due to severe attacks of tuberculosis. However, his death was caused by a car accident. *

Gaius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus (; ), known as Catullus (), was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their personal or sexual themes. Life ...

(ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC), Roman poet *

Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b ...

(1860–1904), Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician; died from tuberculosis *

Tristan Corbière Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of ...

Stephen Crane Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism an ...

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

(1925–1995) *

René Daumal René Daumal (; 16 March 1908 – 21 May 1944) was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel '' Mount Analogue'' (1952) as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of ...

Nikolay Dobrolyubov Nikolay Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov ( rus, Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Добролю́бов, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ dəbrɐˈlʲubəf, a=Nikolay Alyeksandrovich Dobrolyubov.ru.vorb.oga; 5 February O.S. 24 Janu ...

* Laura Don (1852–1886), actress-manager, playwright and artist *

Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American C ...

Sara Jeannette Duncan Sara Jeannette Duncan (22 December 1861 – 22 July 1922) was a Canadian author and journalist, who also published as Mrs. Everard Cotes (her married name) and Garth Grafton among other names. First trained as a teacher in a normal schoo ...

(1861–1922), Canadian author and journalist *

Paul Éluard Paul Éluard (), born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (; 14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. In 1916, he chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal ...

Friedrich Robert Faehlmann Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (Fählmann) (31 December 1798 in Ao Manor, Kreis Jerwen – 22 April 1850 in Tartu) was an Estonian writer, medical doctor and philologist active in Livonia, Russian Empire. He was a co-founder of the Learned Estonia ...

Kahlil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and Visual arts, visual artist; he was also considered a philosopher, although he himself reject ...

(1883–1931), Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist *

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (; ), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an aut ...

Guido Gozzano Guido Gustavo Gozzano (; 19 December 1883 – 9 August 1916) was an Italian poet and writer. Biography He was born in Turin, the son of Fausto Gozzano, an engineer, and of Diodata Mautino, the daughter of Senator Mautino, patriot and supporter ...

(1883-1916), Italian poet *

Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett ( ; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade ('' The Ma ...

(1894–1961), American author and creator of the "hard boiled" detective novel (notably,

Sam Spade Sam Spade is a fictional character and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel '' The Maltese Falcon''. Spade also appeared in four lesser-known short stories by Hammett. ''The Maltese Falcon'', first published as a serial in the pulp ...

in ''The Maltese Falcon''), contracted tuberculosis during

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

Saima Harmaja Saima Rauha Maria Harmaja (8 May 1913, Helsinki – 21 April 1937) was a Finnish poet and writer. She is known for her tragic life and early death, which are reflected in her sensitive poems. She came from a prominent family; her maternal grand ...

, Finnish poet and writer *

Jaroslav Hašek Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czechs, Czech writer, Humorism, humorist, Satire, satirist, journalist, Bohemianism, bohemian, first anarchist and then communist, and commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. He is best k ...

Alice Corbin Henderson Alice Corbin Henderson (April 16, 1881 – July 18, 1949) was an American poet, author and poetry editor. Early life and education Alice Corbin was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother died in 1884 and she was briefly sent to live with her f ...

(1881–1949), American poet, author, and poetry editor *

Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein ( ; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific acc ...

, American author *

William Ernest Henley William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 11 July 1903) was a British poet, writer, critic and editor. Though he wrote several books of poetry, Henley is remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus". A fixture in London literary circles, th ...

(1849–1903), English poet, writer, critic, and editor *

Mary Eliza Herbert Mary Eliza Herbert (1829–1872) was a Canadian publisher and poet. She published and managed the ''Mayflower, or Ladies' Acadian Newspaper'' in 1851, making her the first female newspaper publisher in Nova Scotia. Biography Herbert was born i ...

(1829–1872), Canadian publisher and poet * Sarah Herbert (1824–1846), Irish-Nova Scotian author, publisher, and educator * Miguel Hernandez *

Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy ...

Takuboku Ishikawa was a Japanese poet. Well known as both a tanka and or poet, he began as a member of the Myōjō group of naturalist poets but later joined the "socialistic" group of Japanese poets and renounced naturalism. He died of tuberculosis. Major ...

Panait Istrati Panait Istrati (; sometimes rendered as ''Panaït Istrati''; (August 10, 1884 – April 16, 1935) was a Romanian working class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed ''The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans''. Istrati appears to be th ...

Helen Hunt Jackson Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She de ...

Alfred Jarry Alfred Jarry (; ; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French Artistic symbol, symbolist writer who is best known for his play ''Ubu Roi'' (1896)'','' often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealism, Surrealist, and Futurism, Futurist ...

Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson ( – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of Litera ...

(1883–1924), German-language novelist best known for his novel ''

The Trial ''The Trial'' () is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, wi ...

'', died from tuberculosis *

Uuno Kailas Uuno Kailas, born Frans Uno Salonen (29 March 1901 – 22 March 1933) was a Finnish poet, writer, and translator. Together with Kaarlo Sarkia, Kailas was the most prominent Finnish poet of the 1930s. Life Kailas was born in Heinola. After his ...

, Finnish composer *

Andreas Karkavitsas Andreas Karkavitsas or Carcavitsas (Greek: Ανδρέας Καρκαβίτσας; Lechaina, 1866 – Marousi, October 10, 1922) was a Greek novelist. He was a naturalist, like Alexandros Papadiamantis. Biography He was born in 1866 in the north- ...

, Greek writer *

John Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tub ...

(1795–1821), English Romantic poet; he and his brother Tom were taken by tuberculosis *

Dragotin Kette Dragotin Kette (; 19 January 1876 – 26 April 1899) was a Slovene Impressionist and Neo-Romantic poet. Together with Josip Murn, Ivan Cankar, and Oton Župančič, he is considered the founder of modernism in Slovene literature. Life Kette ...

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Søren (, ) or Sören (, ) is a Scandinavian given name that is sometimes Anglicisation, anglicized as Soren. The name is derived from that of the 4th-century Christian saint Severin of Cologne,Portal Rheinische Geschichte"Severin (circa 330-400), ...

(1813–1855), Danish philosopher *

Charles Kingsley Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the workin ...

Kostas Krystallis Kostas Krystallis (; 1868–1894) was an ethnic Aromanians, Aromanian, Greeks, Greek author and poet, representative of 19th century Greek pastoral literature. He was born an Ottoman Greece, Ottoman subject in Epirus, but escaped to Greece after b ...

, Greek poet *

Vincas Kudirka Vincas Kudirka (; – ) was a Lithuanian poet and physician, and the author of both the music and lyrics of the Lithuanian national anthem, "". He is regarded in Lithuania as a national hero. Kudirka used the pen names V. Kapsas, Paežerių Vi ...

(1858–1899), Lithuanian poet and physician; died from tuberculosis *

Jules Laforgue Jules Laforgue (; 16 August 1860 – 20 August 1887) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbo ...

(1860–1887), French-Uruguayan poet *

Sidney Lanier Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catch ...

D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation ...

Janet Lewis Janet Loxley Lewis (August 17, 1899 – December 1, 1998) was an American novelist, poet, and librettist. Biography Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was a member of a literary circle ...

Lu Xun Lu Xun ( zh, c=魯迅, p=Lǔ Xùn, ; 25 September 188119 October 1936), pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer. A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a no ...

Betty MacDonald Betty MacDonald (born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard; March 26, 1907 – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book ''The Egg and I''. She also wrote the '' Mrs. Piggl ...

Katherine Mansfield Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the Literary modernism, modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been ...

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writer, died from tuberculosis aged 34 *

William Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German un ...

* Sara Haardt Mencken *

Migjeni Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (; 13 October 191126 August 1938), commonly known by the acronym pen name Migjeni, was an Albanian people, Albanian poet and writer, considered one of the most important of the 20th century. After his death, he was recogni ...

, Albanian poet *

Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, ; ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world liter ...

Christian Morgenstern Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern (6 May 1871 – 31 March 1914) was a German writer and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin ...

, German writer * Josip Murn Aleksandrov *

Novalis Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (; ), was a German nobility, German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and Mysticism, mystic. He is regarded as an inf ...

, German author and philosopher * Jessie Fremont O'Donnell (1860–1897), writer *

Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of Realism (theatre), realism, earlier associated with ...

George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to a ...

(1903–1950), British author of ''

Nineteen Eighty-Four ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (also published as ''1984'') is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final completed book. Thematically ...

'', ''

Animal Farm ''Animal Farm'' (originally ''Animal Farm: A Fairy Story'') is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic far ...

'' and ''

Homage to Catalonia ''Homage to Catalonia'' is a 1938 memoir by English writer George Orwell, in which he accounts his personal experiences and observations while fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Covering the period between December 1936 and June 1937, Orwell re ...

'', 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 Walker Percy, Oblate of Saint Benedict, OblSB (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, ''Th ...

Kristjan Jaak Peterson Kristjan Jaak Peterson (, Riga – , Riga), also known as Christian Jacob Petersohn, was an Estonian poet, commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and the founder of modern Estonian poetry. His birthday on March 14 is ce ...

(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 Andrei Platonovich Platonov ( rus, Андрей Платонович Платонов, , ɐnˈdrʲej plɐˈtonəvʲɪtɕ plɐˈtonəf; []; – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian people, Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, play ...

*Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (wife of Edgar Allan Poe) *Maria Polydouri, Greek poet and novelist *

Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early ...

Eleanor Anne Porden Eleanor Anne Porden (14 July 1795 – 22 February 1825) was a British Romantic poet. She was the first wife of the explorer John Franklin. Early years and education Eleanor Anne Porden was born in London, 14 July 1795. She was the younger surv ...

* Llewelyn Powys *

Winthrop Mackworth Praed Winthrop Mackworth Praed (28 July 180215 July 1839)—typically written as W. Mackworth Praed—was an English people, English politician and poet. Life Early life Praed was born in London, United Kingdom. The family name of Praed was derive ...

* Sholem Rabinovich *

Branko Radičević Aleksije "Branko" Radičević ( sr-Cyrl, Алексије Бранко Радичевић, ; 28 March 1824 – 1 July 1853) was a Serbian poet who wrote in the period of Romanticism. Biography Branko Radičević was born in Slavonski Brod on 1 ...

Lynn Riggs Rollie Lynn Riggs (August 31, 1899 – June 30, 1954) was an American author, poet, playwright and screenwriter. His 1931 play '' Green Grow the Lilacs'' was adapted into the musical ''Oklahoma!''. Early life Riggs was born on a farm near Cl ...

Joachim Ringelnatz Joachim Ringelnatz is the pen name of the German author and painter Hans Bötticher (7 August 1883 in Wurzen, Saxony – 17 November 1934 in Berlin). From 1894 to 1900 he lived with his family in the Gottschedstrasse 40 in Leipzig. Profile Hi ...

, German poet *

John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English polymath a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, Critique of politic ...

Albert Samain Albert Victor Samain (3 April 185818 August 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school. Life and works Born in Lille, his family were Flemish and had long lived in the town or its suburbs. At the time of the poet's birth, his ...

Kaarlo Sarkia Kaarlo Sarkia (11 May 1902 – 16 November 1945) was a Finnish poet and translator who was influenced by romantic poetry. His poems include motifs like childhood memories, love, landscapes and dreamworld, and in his last collection of poetry also ...

(1902–1945), Finnish poet *

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. He was born i ...

Masaoka Shiki , pen-name of Masaoka Noboru (正岡升), was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry, credited with writing nearly 20,000 stanzas during ...

(1867–1902), Japanese poet famous for revitalizing the

haiku is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 Mora (linguistics), morae (called ''On (Japanese prosody), on'' in Japanese) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; that include a ''kire ...

, died after a long struggle with tuberculosis * Emily Shore, diarist * Anna Sissak-Bardizbanian, reporter *

Juliusz Słowacki Juliusz Słowacki (; ; ; 4 September 1809 – 3 April 1849) was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the " Three Bards" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama. Hi ...

Hristo Smirnenski Hristo Dimitrov Izmirliev (), known as Hristo Smirnenski, (September 17, 1898, Old Style and New Style dates, OS – June 18, 1923) was a Bulgarians, Bulgarian poet and prose writer who joined the Bulgarian Communist Party and whose works champio ...

Tobias Smollett Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish writer and surgeon. He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as ''The Adventures of Roderick Random'' (1748), ''The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle'' ...

Laurence Sterne Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric. He is best known for his comic novels ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'' (1759–1767) and ''A Sentimental Journey Thro ...

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...

(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 The Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium was a tuberculosis sanatorium established in Saranac Lake, New York, in 1885 by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau. After Trudeau's death in 1915, the institution's name was changed to the Trudeau Sanatorium, follo ...

Saranac Lake, New York Saranac Lake is a village in the state of New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,887, making it the largest community by population in the Adirondack Park.U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Report, Saranac Lake village, New ...

. *

Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe FRSL (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called " angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel ...

Edith Södergran Edith Irene Södergran (4 April 1892 – 24 June 1923) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish poet. One of the first modernists within Swedish-language literature, her influences came from French Symbolism, German expressionism, and Russian f ...

(1892–1923), Finnish poet *

A. H. Tammsaare Anton Hansen (18 (O.S.)/30 January 1878 – 1 March 1940), better known by his pseudonym A. H. Tammsaare and its variants, was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy '' Truth and Justice'' (''Tõde ja õigus''; 1926–1933) is considered one of t ...

(1878–1940), Estonian writer; suffered from tuberculosis after 1911 *

Francis Thompson Francis Joseph Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic. At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left home to pursue his talent as a writer a ...

Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading Transcendentalism, transcendentalist, he is best known for his book ''Walden'', a reflection upon sim ...

Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka (, ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, ; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist. Among her best-known works are ...

Katri Vala Katri Vala (1901–1944) was a Finnish poet, critic, school teacher, and central member of the literary group Tulenkantajat (The Fire Bearers) with Olavi Paavolainen, Elina Vaara, Lauri Viljanen, Ilmari Pimiä, Viljo Kajava, and Yrjö Jylhä. ...

(1901-1944), Finnish poet * Jessamyn West, American author, contracted tuberculosis in 1932 and recovered *

Yvor Winters Arthur Yvor Winters (October 17, 1900 – January 25, 1968) was an American poet and literary critic. Life Winters was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived there until 1919 except for brief stays in Seattle and Pasadena, where his grandparents ...

Thomas Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, '' Look Homeward, Angel'' (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last ye ...

(1900–1938), American author, died of tuberculosis of the brain. His 1929 novel, ''

Look Homeward, Angel ''Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life'' is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age story. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be ...

'', makes several references to the problem of

consumption Consumption may refer to: * Eating *Resource consumption *Tuberculosis, an infectious disease, historically known as consumption * Consumer (food chain), receipt of energy by consuming other organisms * Consumption (economics), the purchasing of n ...

, though Wolfe's condition appeared rather suddenly in 1937. *

Jiří Wolker Jiří Wolker (; 29 March 1900 – 3 January 1924) was a Czech poet. He was also marginally journalist and playwright. Although he lived a short life, he became one of the most important Czech poets. Life Jiří Wolker was born on 29 March 1900 ...

Simone Weil Simone Adolphine Weil ( ; ; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality, and politics have remained widely influential in cont ...

, French philosopher *

Walt Whitman Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman incor ...

(1819–1892) Autopsy "consumption of the right lung, general miliary tuberculosis" * Vũ Trọng Phụng (1912-1939),

Vietnamese Vietnamese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia * Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam ** Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese people living outside Vietna ...

author, poet.

Actors

Renée Adorée Renée Adorée (; born Jeanne de la Fonte ; 30 September 1898 – 5 October 1933) was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is best known for portraying the role of Melisande, the love inte ...

, (1898–1933), French actress *

Anita Berber Anita Berber (10 June 1899 – 10 November 1928) was a German dancer, actress, and writer who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the time of the Weimar Republic. Early life Berber was born in Leipzig to the violinist Feli ...

(1899–1928) German dancer and actress *

Colin Clive Colin Glenn Clive (born Clive-Greig; 20 January 1900 – 25 June 1937) was a British theatre and film actor. Known for portraying individualistic, tumultuous characters which often mirrored his personal life, he is most famous for his role as ...

(1900–1937), British stage and screen actor * Georgiana Drew Barrymore (1856–1893), actress, succumbed aged 36 * Rachel Félix (1821-1858), French actress *

Vivien Leigh Vivien Leigh ( ; born Vivian Mary Hartley; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967), styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. After completing her drama school education, Leigh appeared in small roles in four films in 1935 and progress ...

(1913–1967), British actress of stage and screen, died from complications of tuberculosis * Annie Lewis (c. 1869–1896), musical comedy actress *

Dick Martin Thomas Richard Martin (January 30, 1922 – May 24, 2008) was an American comedian and director. He was known for his role as the co-host (and comic foil of Dan Rowan) of the sketch comedy program ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'' from 1968 to 197 ...

(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 Herbert "Barry" Morse (10 June 19182 February 2008) was a British-Canadian actor, writer, and director. He was known for playing Lt. Philip Gerard, the principal antagonist of the American television series '' The Fugitive'' (1963–67), as ...

(1918–2008), British-Canadian actor of stage, screen, and radio *

Mabel Normand Amabel Ethelreid Normand (November 9, 1893 – February 23, 1930), better known as Mabel Normand, was an American silent film actress, comedienne, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their K ...

(1893–1930), American silent film actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and comedian * N!xau (1944–2003), Namibian actor *

Michael Raffetto Michael Raffetto (born Elwyn Creighton Raffetto; December 31, 1899 – May 31, 1990) was an American radio actor who starred as Paul Barbour (1932–1956) in the NBC Radio series '' One Man's Family'' and as Jack Packard in '' I Love a ...

Christiaan Van Vuuren Christiaan Van Vuuren (born 1982), known as The Fully Sick Rapper in his first video series, is an actor, writer, director and video blogging, video blogger from Sydney, Australia. He often collaborates with his brother, Connor Van Vuuren, and t ...

(1982– ), Australian actor, writer, director and video blogger

Artists

Ioannis Altamouras Ioannis Altamouras (Greek: Ιωάννης Αλταμούρας) (1852, in Florence or Naples – 1878, in Spetses) was a Greek painter of the 19th century famous for his paintings of seascapes.Frédéric Bartholdi Frédéric and Frédérick are the French versions of the common male given name Frederick. They may refer to: In artistry: * Frédéric Back, Canadian award-winning animator * Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor * Frédéric Bazille, Impr ...

(1834–1904), French sculptor, creator of the

Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''; ) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of French Thir ...

Marie Bashkirtseff Marie Bashkirtseff, born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva (; – 31 October 1884), was an émigré artist who was born into a noble family on their estate near the city of Poltava. She lived and worked in Paris, and died at the age of 25. L ...

(1858–1884), Russian-born, French-educated painter and diarist, died from tuberculosis at the age of 26 *

Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Beardsley ( ; 21 August 187216 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Woodblock printing in Japan, Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. ...

(1872–1898), English illustrator and author *

Richard Parkes Bonington Richard Parkes Bonington (25 October 1802 – 23 September 1828) was an English Romantic landscape painter. He moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English styl ...

(1802–1828) English Romantic landscape painter * Kenneth M. Chapman (1875–1968), American art historian *

Harry Clarke Henry Patrick Clarke (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. His work was influenced by both the Art Nouveau ...

(1889–1931), Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator *

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( ; ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French people, French Romanticism, Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: ...

(1798–1863), French Romantic painter *

Wyatt Eaton Wyatt Eaton, baptised Charles Wyatt Eaton, (May 6, 1849 – June 7, 1896) was a Canadian-American portrait and figure painter, remembered as one of the founders of the Society of American Artists. Biography Born in Philipsburg, Quebec, Lower Ca ...

(1849–1896), Canadian-American painter *

Rötger Feldmann Rötger Werner Friedrich Wilhelm Feldmann (born 17 March 1950 in Travemünde), Brösel, is a German comic book artist. He is most famous for creating the character Werner. Life Feldmann completed a lithographer apprenticeship at Nordrepro ...

(1950– ), German comic book artist *

Théodore Géricault Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is '' The Raft of the Medusa''. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romanti ...

(1791–1824), French Romantic painter, died at age 32. * Mark Gertler (1891–1939), British painter *

Thomas Girtin Thomas Girtin (18 February 17759 November 1802) was an England, English watercolour, watercolourist and etcher. A friend and rival of J. M. W. Turner, Girtin played a key role in establishing watercolour as a reputable art form. Life Thomas G ...

(1775–1802), English watercolourist and etcher *

James Dickson Innes James Dickson Innes (27 February 1887 – 22 August 1914) was a Welsh painter, mainly of mountain landscapes but occasionally of figure subjects. He worked in both oils and watercolours. Style Of his style, art historian David Fraser Jenkins w ...

(1887–1914), Welsh painter *

Boris Kustodiev Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (; – 28 May 1927) was a Russian and later Soviet painter and stage designer. Early life Boris Kustodiev was born in Astrakhan into the family of a professor of philosophy, history of literature, and logic at t ...

(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 painterMillan, Nicholas
"Famed American 19th century painter called North Hudson home"
''The Union City Reporter''; March 16, 2008Rosero, Jessica. "All-American painter" ''The Union City Reporter''; April 30, 2006; Pages 7 and 32 *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 Frédéric Chopin's illness, 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 (musician), Alex Hill, jazz pianist *Tom Jones (singer), 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 *Bubber Miley, 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 (country singer), 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 Christians, 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 (clergyman), John Harvard (1607–1638), English dissenting minister and founder of Harvard University * Mary Faustina Kowalska, Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, the Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic nun#Religious Sister, religious Sister and Mysticism, 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 Judaism, 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 Therese de Lisieux, 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 of the United Kingdom, 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 (–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 *Doc Holliday, 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 Todd Lincoln, 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 (Fenian), 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) *Madhavrao I, 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 of the 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 Indonesian National Revolution, 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 (abolitionist), David Walker (1796–1830), American abolitionist *George Washington Williams (1849–1891), American minister, politician, lawyer, journalist, and writer *Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu *John Young (Governor), 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 *Trial of Reuben Crandall, 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 Potocnik, 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 (archaeologist), 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 Wirt Winchester, 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 (ice hockey), Robert Boucher (1904–1931), Canadian hockey player * James Burke (boxer), 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 Vézina, 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, La Bohème'' * Arthur Morgan in ''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 * Ruby Gillis dies from tuberculosis in ''Anne of Avonlea''

Others

*Beulah Annan *Samuel Arnold (Lincoln conspirator), 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 *Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail#Biography, 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 (island), Newfoundland, died from tuberculosis in 1829. *Tulasa Thapa, kidnapped Nepali girl, died of tuberculosis in 1995 *Simonetta Vespucci, artists' model