Tuberkulose døde du av, som regel. Ringo Starr overlevde riktignok, da han fikk det som 11 åring. Tom Jones overlevde også, med moderne legehjelp.
Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC ca. 54 BC), Roman poet
Maksim Bahdanovi?
Honoré de Balzac
Manuel Bandeira, Brazilian poet, had TB in 1904 and expressed the effects of the disease in his life in many of his poems.
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Vissarion Belinsky, Russian literary critic
Edward Bellamy (18501898), fiction writer remembered for his book Looking Backward, died from tuberculosis.
Jonas Bili?nas
Rachel Bluwstein
Anne and Emily Brontë and other members of the Brontë family of writers, poets and painters were struck by TB. Anne, their brother Branwell, and Emily all died of it within 2 years of each other. Charlotte Brontë's death in 1855 was stated at the time as having been due to TB, but there is some controversy over this today.
Clarissa Brooks, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1927.
Charles Brockden Brown
Charles Farrar Browne
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1861.
Jean de Brunhoff
Charles Bukowski (19201994), American author and poet, contracted TB in 1988; he recovered, losing 60lbs.
Robert Burns
Albert Camus, French writer, playwright, activist, and absurdist philosopher, suffered from TB. He was forced to drop out of school (University of Algiers) due to severe attacks of tuberculosis. However, his death was caused by a car accident.
Anton Chekhov (18601904), Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician; died from tuberculosis.
Tristan Corbière
Stephen Crane
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)
René Daumal
Nikolay Dobrolyubov
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Éluard
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
Maxim Gorky
Dashiell Hammett (18941961), American author and creator of the "hard boiled" detective novel (notably, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon), contracted tuberculosis during World War I
Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet and writer
Jaroslav Haek
Robert A. Heinlein, American author
Miguel Hernandez
Washington Irving
Panait Istrati
Helen Hunt Jackson
Alfred Jarry
Samuel Johnson
Franz Kafka (18831924), German-language novelist best known for his novel The Trial, died from tuberculosis.
Uuno Kailas, Finnish composer
Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek writer
John Keats (17951821), English Romantic poet; he and his brother Tom were taken by tuberculosis
Dragotin Kette
Charles Kingsley
Kostas Krystallis, Greek poet
Vincas Kudirka (18581899), Lithuanian poet and physician; died from tuberculosis
Sidney Lanier
D. H. Lawrence
Vivien Leigh
Betty MacDonald
Jari Mäenpää, Finnish musician
Katherine Mansfield
William Somerset Maugham
Guy de Maupassant
Molière
Josip Murn Aleksandrov
Novalis, German author and philosopher
Eugene O'Neill
George Orwell (19031950), British author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia, first suffered TB in the early 30s and died from it in 1950, at the age of 46. Nineteen Eighty-Four was written during his final illness.
Walker Percy
Kristjan Jaak Peterson (18011822), Estonian poet, the founder of modern Estonian poetry; died from tuberculosis, lived only 21 years old.
Andrei Platonov
Alexander Pope
Eleanor Anne Porden
Llewelyn Powys
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Sholem Rabinovich
Branko Radi?evi?
John Reed
Edmond Rostand
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Ruskin
Albert Samain
Kaarlo Sarkia (19021945), Finnish poet
Friedrich Schiller
Sir Walter Scott
Masaoka Shiki (18671902), Japanese poet famous for revitalizing the haiku, died after a long struggle with tuberculosis.
Emily Shore, diarist
Juliusz S?owacki
Hristo Smirnenski
Tobias Smollett
Laurence Sterne
Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894), Neo-romantic Scottish essayist, novelist and poet, is thought to have suffered from tuberculosis during much of his life. He spent the winter of 18871888 recuperating from a presumed bout of tuberculosis at Dr. E.L. Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanatarium in Saranac Lake, New York.
Alan Sillitoe
Edith Södergran, (18921923) Finnish poet
Ishikawa Takuboku
Anton Hansen Tammsaare (18781940), Estonian writer; suffered from tuberculosis after 1911.
Dylan Thomas
Francis Thompson
Henry David Thoreau
Voltaire
Lesya Ukrainka
Chick Webb
Jessamyn West, American author, contracted TB in 1932 and recovered.
Thomas Wolfe (19001938), American author, died of tuberculosis of the brain. His 1929 novel, Look Homeward, Angel, makes several references to the problem of consumption, though Wolfe's condition appeared rather suddenly in 1937.
Ji?í Wolker
Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet
[edit]Artists
Ioannis Altamouras (18521878), Greek painter
Frédéric Bartholdi (18341904), French sculptor, author of the Statue of Liberty
Marie Bashkirtseff (18581884), talented Russian-born, French-educated painter and diarist, died from tuberculosis at the age of 26.
Aubrey Beardsley (18721898), English illustrator and author; a convert to Catholicism, on his deathbed he wrote a note pleading that all his "immoral drawings" should be destroyed.
Harry Clarke (18891931), Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator.
Eugène Delacroix (17981863), French Romantic painter
Paul Gauguin (18481903), famous French painter, actually died of syphilis
Boris Kustodiev (18781927), Russian painter and stage designer
Amedeo Modigliani (18841920), Italian modernist painter
Robert Natus (18901950), Estonian architect; suffered from tuberculosos after 1948.
William Ranney (18131857), 19th century American painter.[1][2]
Slava Rakaj (18771906), Croatian painter
Andrei Ryabushkin (18611904), Russian painter
Peter Purves Smith (19121949), Australian modernist artist, died during a lung operation.
Elizabeth Siddal (18291862), English artists' model, poet and artist
Virginia Frances Sterret (19001931),[3] American artist and illustrator
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (18871918), Portuguese modernist painter
José Pancetti (19021958), Brazilian modernist painter
[edit]Composers
Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer, died in 1805 of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Alfredo Catalani
Frédéric Chopin (18101849) died of consumption at age 39 (see the discussion for details). Historical records indicate episodes of hemoptysis during performances.
Sandrine Erdely-Sayo pianist/composer
Stephen Foster
Hermann Goetz
Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold
Joseph Martin Kraus
Niccolò Paganini
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (17101736) died of tuberculosis at 26.
Henry Purcell
Johann Schein
Igor Stravinsky
Carl Maria von Weber
Jimmy Palao (18791925) Jazz musician died of tuberculosis at 45.
[edit]Religious figures
David Brainerd (17181747) 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 Christian missionary movement.[4][5]
John Calvin
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, the Roman Catholic nun and mystic from Poland, the patron saint of mercy, and the Apostle of the Divine Mercy, suffered greatly from tuberculosis and succumbed to it on October 5, 1938.[6]
Cardinal Richelieu of France died from tuberculosis in 1642.
Saint Thérèse de Lisieux (18731897), died of tuberculosis.
Saint Bernadette Soubirous
Saint Gemma Galgani, suffered from 'tuberculosis of the spine with aggravated curvature.'
Richard Wurmbrand faithful Christian and minister to Romania who endured more than 14 years of prison, TB, and torture during Russian occupation and communist rule. His writings testify to a deep delight found in God in the midst of great sufferings.
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (17721810) Hasidic rabbi and teacher, died of tuberculosis at age 38.
[edit]Leaders and politicians
Peshwa Madhavrao I
Simón Bolívar, the liberator of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, died in 1830 of TB.
Charles IX of France
John C. Calhoun
Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859), French
James Monroe
Muhammed Ali Jinnah
Andres Larka (18781942), Estonian military commander and politician; suffered from tuberculosis after 1924.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Henry VII of England
Louis XIII of France
Louis XVII of France
Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician
Napoleon II of France
Manuel L. Quezon
John Aaron Rawlins
Chandler Abram Hatch
Dmitri Pavlovitch Romanov
Eleanor Roosevelt
Haym Salomon, a major financier of the American side during the American Revolutionary War
Okita Soji (18441868), a 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 National Revolution
John Young
Pedro I of Brazil (Pedro IV of Portugal)
Henry B Bolster
Desmond Tutu had TB as a child and was cured.
[edit]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 Tai Chi Chuan 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 (19131967), British actress of stage and screen, died from complications of tuberculosis.
Edward Baker Lincoln son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Ann Todd Lincoln
Thomas "Tad" Daniel Lincoln (18531871), 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 (18801925), 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 (18441895)
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 (18441868), samurai
Jane Pierce, United States first lady
Etti Plesch?
Joseph Mary Plunkett
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (wife of Edgar Allan Poe)
Herman Poto?nik
Gavrilo Princip
George Lohmann, English cricketer
Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician
Gustav Roch, mathematician
Jimmie Rodgers (18971933), 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 (18391867), 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 (15371553) Died of tuberculosis at age 15 during his short reign as King of England.