List of deaths due to tuberculosis

Not to be confused with List of tuberculosis cases.

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

• 641: Heraclius Constantine – Byzantine Emperor, aged 29.^[1]
• 1485: Anne Neville - Queen of England, aged 28.
• 1506: Henry VII of England – King of England, aged 52.^[2]
• 1537: Madeleine of Valois – Queen of Scotland, aged 16.
• 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.
• 1829: Niels Henrik Abel - Norwegian mathematician, aged 26.
• 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: Anne Brontë – English novelist and poet, aged 29.^[8]
• 1849: Frédéric Chopin – Polish composer, aged 39 (possibly cystic fibrosis).^[9]
• 1862: Henry David Thoreau – American naturalist and author, aged 44.^[10]
• 1866: Bernhard Riemann – German mathematician, aged 39.^[11]
• 1868: Okita Sōji — Japanese samurai, aged 24-26.
• 1883: Jim Devlin — American baseball player, aged 34.
• 1887: John Henry "Doc" Holliday – American Gunslinger and Gambler, aged 36.
• 1890: Christopher Latham Sholes – American inventor, aged 71.^[12]
• 1897: Thérèse of Lisieux – French Catholic Carmelite nun and saint, aged 24.^[13]
• 1902–1903: Annie Jones – American sideshow performer, aged 37.^[14]
• 1904: Anton Chekhov – Russian playwright, aged 44.^[15]
• 1906: Paul Laurence Dunbar – American poet, aged 33.^[16]
• 1908: Marie Jungius – Dutch educator, writer, and activist, aged 44.^[17]
• 1911: Robert Tressell – Irish writer, aged 40.^[18]
• 1918: Gavrilo Princip – Bosnian Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, aged 23.^[19]
• 1923: Katherine Mansfield – New Zealand writer, aged 34.^[20]
• 1924: Franz Kafka – Bohemian Jewish novelist, aged 40.^[21]
• 1934: Lev Vygotsky – Russian psychologist, aged 37.^[22]
• 1934: Nestor Ivanovych Makhno – Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary, aged 45.
• 1937: Gim Yujeong - Korean novelist, aged 29.
• 1937: Yi Sang - Korean novelist and poet, aged 26.
• 1937: Na Woon-gyu - Korean actor, filmmaker. aged 34.
• 1939: Pedro Aguirre Cerda - Chilean politician and 22nd president of Chile, aged 62.^[23]
• 1944: Manuel L. Quezon – Filipino politician and 2nd president of the Philippines, aged 65.^[24]
• 1950: George Orwell – English writer, aged 46.^[25]
• 1956: Johnny Claes – British-born Belgian race car driver, aged 39.
• 1961: Erwin Schrödinger – Austrian physicist, aged 73.^[26]
• 1962: Eleanor Roosevelt – First Lady of the United States, aged 78.
• 1967: Vivien Leigh – British actress, aged 53.^[27]
• 2020: Wang Jin – Chinese archaeologist, aged 93.^[28]