List of Tuberculosis Cases - Leaders and Politicians

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 (1805–1859), French
  • James Monroe
  • Muhammed Ali Jinnah
  • Andres Larka (1878–1942), 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 (1844–1868), 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.
  • Charles Hamilton Houston, NAACP lawyer known as "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow"

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