Pleurisy - Notable Cases

Notable Cases

• Gaius Marius was said to have died of the disease in 86 BCE by Plutarch, 200 years after his death.
• Flavius Constantius III, Joint Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, died of pleurisy on 2 September 421 AD.
• Charlemagne, known as the father of Europe for reuniting much of the Roman Empire, died in 814 of pleurisy.
• Hernan Cortes died on December 2, 1547, from a case of pleurisy at the age of 62.
• Benjamin Franklin died from the disease at the age of 84.
• Mahatma Gandhi suffered from pleurisy during the First World War, while he was in London.
• Ken Griffey Jr., Former professional Baseball player, diagnosed with Pleurisy in April, 2007.
• Francis Scott Key died in 1843 at the home of his daughter Elizabeth Howard in Baltimore from pleurisy.
• Alvin Kraenzlein The first sportsman to win four Olympic titles in a single Olympic Games (1900). He died from the disease at the age of 51.
• Carson McCullers, author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, was diagnosed with pleurisy in 1944.
• Juan O'Donoju, last viceroy of the Spanish colony of New Spain (Mexico), died of pleurisy on October 8, 1821.
• Erik Satie, French composer, died from pleurisy at l'Hôpital St. Joseph on 1 July 1925.
• Ringo Starr, former Beatles drummer, had chronic-pleurisy at age 13 in 1953.
• William Wordsworth, the English poet, died of pleurisy at age 80 on 23 April 1850.
• Devil Anse Hatfield, leader of the Hatfield family, of the infamous Hatfield–McCoy feud, had a bout of pleurisy in the 1890s (probably 1897)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Renaissance composer died in 1594 from pleurisy in Rome, Italy.
• Matthew Donald, Famous Accountant in Australia, survived pleurisy in late 2012.