The following is a list of notable people who have died due to tuberculosis.
641: Heraclius Constantine – Byzantine Emperor, aged 29. 1485: Anne Neville - Queen of England, aged 28. 1509: Henry VII of England – King of England, aged 52. 1537: Madeleine of Valois – Queen of Scotland, aged 16. 1553: Edward VI – King of England, aged 15. 1574: Charles IX of France – King of France, aged 23. 1643: Louis XIII – King of France, aged 41. 1744: Anders Celsius – Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician, aged 42. 1764: Madame de Pompadour – Chief mistress of King Louis XV, aged 42. 1795: Louis XVII – King of France, aged 10. 1821: John Keats – English poet, aged 25. 1827: Augustin-Jean Fresnel – French civil engineer and physicist, aged 39. 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). 1831: James Monroe – American Founding Father and 5th president of the United States, aged 73. 1849: Anne Brontë – English novelist and poet, aged 29. 1849: Frédéric Chopin – Polish composer, aged 39 (possibly cystic fibrosis). 1850: Oliver Cowdery - American religious leader and prominent figure in the early Latter Day Saint movement, aged 43. 1852: Henry Clay – American laywer and statesman, aged 75. 1858: Dred Scott – plaintiff in landmark American Supreme Court case. 1862: Henry David Thoreau – American naturalist and author, aged 44. 1866: Bernhard Riemann – German mathematician, aged 39. 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. 1896: Marcelo H. del Pilar – Filipino writer, lawyer and journalist, aged 45. 1897: Thérèse of Lisieux – French Catholic Carmelite nun and saint, aged 24. 1900: Stephen Crane – American author, aged 28. 1902–1903: Annie Jones – American sideshow performer, aged 37. 1903: St. Gemma Galgani, age 25 1904: Anton Chekhov – Russian playwright, aged 44. 1906: Paul Laurence Dunbar – American poet, aged 33. 1908: Marie Jungius – Dutch educator, writer, and activist, aged 44. 1911: Robert Tressell – Irish writer, aged 40. 1918: Gavrilo Princip – Bosnian Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, aged 23. 1923: Katherine Mansfield – New Zealand writer, aged 34. 1924: Franz Kafka – Bohemian Jewish novelist, aged 40. 1930: Christopher Morcom – aged 18, childhood friend of Alan Turing 1934: Lev Vygotsky – Russian psychologist, aged 37. 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. 1942: Thomas C. Neibaur - American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, aged 44. 1944: Manuel L. Quezon – Filipino politician and 2nd president of the Philippines, aged 65. 1950: George Orwell – English writer, aged 46. 1956: Johnny Claes – British-born Belgian race car driver, aged 39. 1961: Erwin Schrödinger – Austrian physicist, aged 73. 1962: Eleanor Roosevelt – First Lady of the United States, aged 78. 1967: Vivien Leigh – British actress, aged 53. 2020: Wang Jin – Chinese archaeologist, aged 93.
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