Famous People Diagnosed With Tuberculosis
| Name | Occupation | Birth-Death |
|---|---|---|
| King Tutankhamen* | Egyptian pharaoh | ca 1358-1340 B.C. |
| Cardinal Richelieu* | French statesman | 1581-1642 |
| Jean Moliere | French playwright | 1622-1673 |
| Baruch Spinoza* | Dutch philosopher | 1632-1677 |
| Francois Voltaire | French writer/philosopher | 1694-1778 |
| Johann Goethe | German writer/scientist | 1749-1832 |
| Johann Schiller | German writer/historian | 1759-1805 |
| Sir Walter Scott | Scottish novelist/poet | 1771-1832 |
| Niccolo Paganini | Italian violin virtuoso | 1782-1840 |
| Simon Bolivar* | Venezuelan revolutionary leader | 1783-1830 |
| John Keats* | English poet | 1795-1821 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | American essayist/poet | 1803-1882 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning* | English poet | 1806-1861 |
| Edgar Allan Poe* | American writer/poet | 1809-1849 |
| Frederic Chopin* | Polish composer/pianist | 1810-1849 |
| Emily Bronte* | English novelist/poet | 1818-1848 |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Russian novelist | 1821-1881 |
| Paul Gauguin | French painter | 1848-1903 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson* | Scottish writer | 1850-1894 |
| Anton Chekhov* | Russian writer | 1860-1904 |
| Franz Kafka | Czech novelist | 1883-1924 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt* | American humanitarian/first lady | 1884-1962 |
| D.H. Lawrence* | English writer | 1885-1930 |
| Eugene Neill* | American playwright | 1888-1953 |
| Adolf Hitler | German dictator | 1889-1945 |
| George Orwell* | English novelist/essayist | 1903-1950 |
| Vivien Leigh* | English actress | 1913-1967 |
| Nelson Mandela | Nelson Mandela | 1918- |
*Those who died from tuberculosis
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