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