List of deaths due to tuberculosis

The following is a list of notable people who have died due to tuberculosis.

• 641: Heraclius Constantine – Byzantine Emperor, aged 29 ^[1]
• 1506: Henry VII of England – King of England, aged 52 ^[2]
• 1553: Edward VI – King of England, aged 15 ^[3]
• 1574: Charles IX of France – King of France, aged 23.^[4]
• 1821: John Keats – English poet, aged 25 ^[5]
• 1827: George Canning – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, aged 57.
• 1830: Simón Bolívar – Venezuelan political leader, aged 47 (reported).^[6]
• 1831: James Monroe – American Founding Father and 5th president of the United States, aged 73.^[7]
• 1849: Frédéric Chopin – Polish composer, aged 39 (possibly cystic fibrosis).^[8]
• 1862: Henry David Thoreau – American naturalist and author, aged 44.^[9]
• 1866: Bernhard Riemann – German mathematician, aged 39.^[10]
• 1887: John Henry "Doc" Holliday – American Gunslinger and Gambler, aged 36.
• 1890: Christopher Latham Sholes – American inventor, aged 71.^[11]
• 1897: Thérèse of Lisieux – French Catholic Carmelite nun and saint, aged 24.^[12]
• 1902–1903: Annie Jones – American sideshow perfomer, aged 37.^[13]
• 1904: Anton Chekhov – Russian playwright, aged 44.^[14]
• 1906: Paul Laurence Dunbar – American poet, aged 33.^[15]
• 1911: Robert Tressell – Irish writer, aged 40. ^[16]
• 1918: Gavrilo Princip – Bosnian Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, aged 23.^[17]
• 1923: Katherine Mansfield – New Zealand writer, aged 34 ^[18]
• 1924: Franz Kafka – Bohemian Jewish novelist, aged 40 ^[19]
• 1934: Lev Vygotsky – Russian psychologist, aged 37 ^[20]
• 1944: Manuel L. Quezon – Filipino politician and 2nd president of the Philippines, aged 65.^[21]
• 1950: George Orwell – English writer, aged 46 ^[22]
• 1956: Johnny Claes – British-born Belgian race car driver, aged 39.
• 1961: Erwin Schrödinger – Austrian physicist, aged 73.^[23]
• 1967: Vivien Leigh – British actress, aged 53.^[24]
• 2020: Wang Jin – Chinese archaeologist, aged 93 ^[25]

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