Notable Victims
- Tom Butler – English footballer; contracted after suffering a badly broken arm.
- George Hogg – English adventurer who rescued war orphans in China; died in 1945 from an infection resulting from a foot injury.
- Joe Hill Louis – Memphis blues musician; died in 1957 as a result of an infected wound to his thumb.
- George Montagu – English ornithologist; contracted tetanus when he stepped on a nail.
- Joe Powell – English footballer; contracted following amputation of a badly broken arm.
- John A. Roebling – civil engineer and architect famous for his bridge designs, particularly the Brooklyn Bridge; contracted tetanus following amputation of his foot due to an injury caused by a ferry when it crashed into a wharf.
- George Crockett Strong – Union brigadier general in the American Civil War; from wounds sustained in the assault against Fort Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina.
- Fred Thomson – silent film actor; stepped on a nail.
- John Thoreau (brother of Henry David Thoreau); nicked himself with a razor while shaving.
- Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly; wounded by a cannon ball in the Battle of Rain.
- Traveller – General Robert E. Lee's favorite horse; stepped on a nail.
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