Famous people afflicted with TB

Compiled By Dr. Abdullah Jan Pathan

TB has never been a respecter of fame or future. From politicians to philosopher, from kings to courtesans, from painters to priests, from physicians to musicians, from saints to sinners, from prophets to pagans, has spared nobody.
To collect authentic name several organizations and researchers were contacted globally but only a few responded but they responded well. To do justice to them I feel it necessary to publish all lists with their names. Most of the famous names, obviously are contained in every list and hence duplications which may kindly be ignored

  WHO (World Health Organization)

50 Years Historical review. 50 months countdown to a TB free future.
Petra Heif Kamp.
Stop TB Partnership Secretariat.
World Health Organization
Geneva

Women:

1. Simonetta Vespucci(1521).
2. Model for Botticelli’s venus- Mme De Pompadour(1764).
3. Jane Austen(1817).
4. Marie Dupelessis,”La Dame Aux Cammellas”(1847).
5. All 5 Bronte Sisters,Maria,Elizabette,Carlotte(1855),Emily(1848) and Anne.
6. Elizabeth Barrette-Browning(1861).
7. St Bernadette(1879).
8. Florence Nightingale(1910).
9. Katherine Mansfield(1923).
10. Sarah Bernhardt(1925).
11. Simone Well(1943).
12. Vivien Leigh(1967). Star of “Gone With The wind”.

Men:

1. King Edward VI (1553).
2. John Calvin(1564).
3. Richeliev(1642).
4. King Louis XIII of France(1643).
5. Moliere (1673).
6. Henri Purcell(1695).
7. Friedrich Von Schiller(1805).
8. John Keats(1821).
9. Percy Bysshe Shelley(1822).
10. Napoleon II, Duke of Reichstadt (1832).
11. Lord Byron(1824).
12. Nicolo Paganiini(1840).
13. Frederic Chopin(1848).
14. Dostoyesky(1881).
15. Ralph-waldo Emerson(1882).
16. Henri David Thoreau(1862).
17. Robert Louis Stevenson(1894).
18. Paul Gaugin (1903).
19. Franz Kafka(1924).
20. George Orwell(1950).
21. Alexander Graham Bell(1922).
22. Thomas Mann(1955).
23. Albert Camus(1960).
24. Igor Stravinsky(1971).

  2. IUATLD:
(International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lungs Disease)

Madeline Webster International
Union Against Tuberculosis

Paris.

Current:

Names of well known people who have had TB.

1. Nelson Mandela                     Politician.
2. Bishop Desmond Tutu            Arch Bishop, Captown.
3. Tina Turner                             Singer.
4. Tom Jones                              Singer.
5. Ringo Starr                             Ex-Beatle.
6. Saffron Burrows                     Actress, model.
7. Sir Peter Ustinov                    Actor.
8. Richard Harrison                    Actor.
9. Gordon Honecombe               Newscaster.
10. Ray Gatton & Alan Simpson   Writers.
11. Lord Kilpatrick                       Physician.
12. Ian McCartney                       MP & Jr Minster.

Names of Deceased people who have had Tuberculosis.

  Writers & Poets:

1. Edgar Allen Poe.
2. Anton Chekov.
3. Balzac.
4. Guy de Maupassant.
5. Robert Burns.
6. John Ruskin.
7. Dylan Thomas.
8. Somerset Maugham.
9. Lloyd  Powis.
10. Jean-Jacques Rosseau.
11. George Orwell.
12. Voltaire.
13. Robert Louis Stevenson.
14. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
15. Edmond Rostand.
16. Charlotte & Emily Bronte.
17. DH Lawrence.
18. Albert Camus.
19. Sir Walter Scott.
20. Laurence Sterne.
21. Alexander Pope.
22. Tobias Smollett.
23. Samuel Johnson.
24. Ms Henry Wood.
25. Thomas Mann.
26. Katherine Mansfield.
27. Jane Austen.
28. Charles Kingsley.
29. Washington Irving.
30. Franz KAFKA.
31. Lovelace.
32. Shelly Percy Bysshe.
33. John Keats.

Composers/Musicians:

1. Henry Purcell.
2. Igor Stravinsky.
3. Edward Grieg.
4. Frederic Chopin.
5. Beethoven.
6. Paganini.
7. Weber.

Artists:

1. Modgliani.
2. Watteau.
3. Bruegel The Elder.
4. Bonington.
5. Aubrey Beardsley.
6. Paul Gaugin.
7. Harmen Van Rijn Rembrandt.

Actors/Playwrights:

1. Moliere (Poguelin Jean Baptiste).
2. Sarah Bernhardt.
3. Vivien Leigh.
4. Madame Pompadour.

Philosophers:

1. Decartes.
2. Spinoza.
3. Kant.

Scientist/Physicians:

1. Priestly.
2. Laennec.

Miscellaneous:

1. Eleanor Roosevelt.
2. St Therese de Lisieux.
3. Josephine Baler.
4. Charles IX of France.
5. Louis XIII of France.
6. Cecil Rhodes.
7. Florence Nightingale.
8. Henry VIII of England.
9. Edward VI of England.
10. Henry VII of England.

3. LEE REICH MAN: 

(Book on site)  TB Time bomb 

TB’s Famous Victims:

Kings, Politicians and the Powerful.

• King Edward VI of England ,the only son of King Henry VIII, died of TB at 16 in 1553.When Edward died, the Crown went first to his sister Mary (Known as “bloody Mary”) and then to his other sister, who reigned as queen Elizabeth.
• George Washington, American revolutionary war general  and first President of the United State Suffered several illnesses that might have been TB, he himself called them consumptions.
• Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady and widow of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Prominent Journalists and social activist died of TB in 1962.

Poets & Writers:

• John keats, the English romantic poet, died of TB in 1821,only a year after his symptoms.
• Robust Louis Stevenson, author of “Treasure Island" and “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”. suffered from TB throughout his life.
• Several members of the tenanted Bronte family died of TB in the 1800’s,among them three writers: Brain well, Anne, Emily (author of “Wuthertlip Height”) and Charlotte (author of "Jane Eyre”).
• Henry Dand Thoreau, author of “Walden” died of TB at 45 in 1862.
• Fedor Dostoyevsky, the Russian Existentialist & nourish author of “Crime and Punishment” and “The Brother Karamazor” died at 60 in 1881.He desorbed TB in the “The House of the Dead”.
• Anton Chekor, the Russian Doctor and Play right, author of “The Seagall”. The Cherry orchard and many strut stories died of TB at 44 in 1904.
• Franz Kafka, author of “Meta Morphosis” and “The  Trial” died of TB in 1924.
• Katherine Mansfield, author of many well known short stories,died of TB at 35 in 1923, bleeding to death from a TB related lungs haemorrhage.
• DH Lawrence, Poet and author of “lady Chatter ley’s lover” died at 45 in 1930.
• Thomas Wolfe, author of “Look Home Again”, died at 37 in 1938 after brain surgery revealed that TB had spread.
• George Orwell, author of “1984" and "Animal Form” died of TB at 47 in 1950.

Doctors & Scientists:

• Rene Laennec, the French physician who invented the stethoscope, died of TB at 45 in 1826.
• Thomas Wakley, the doctor who founded the international medical journal “The Lancet”, died of TB in 1862, while on a rest cure in the mild climate of Madeira.
• Doc Holliday, the American frontier doctor (actually a dentist) died of TB at 36 in 1887.He survived the infamous shootout at the OK Corral but succumbed to his TB.
• Henry Livingston Trudeau, the father of the TB sanatorium movement in the united States, died of TB at 67 in 1915.

Musicians & Composers:

• Frederic Chopin, the pianist & composer, died of TB at 39 in 1849 after unsuccessful treatment trips to southern European climate.
• Stephan Foster, composer of “Oh!Susana”,”Jean with the light brown hair” and “My old Kentucky home", died of TB at 38 in 1864.

Artists & Actors:

• Amadeo Modigliani, the Italian Sculptor & Painter died of TB at36 in 1920.
• Vivien Leigh, who won on Oscar for her role as scarlet O’Hara in “Gone with the wind" died of TB at 54 in 1967 from a TB related lung haemorrhage.

4. SANDY ALTHOMSONS:

Technical officer, Stop TB & Leprosy elimination.
WHO regional office for the Western Pacific.
Manila, Philippines.   

1. King Tutan Kamen*    …………..    Egyptian Pharaoh.
2. Francois Voltaire         …………..    French Writer/Philosopher.
3. Simon Bolivar*            …………..    Venezuelan Revolutionary Leader.
4. Col.William Light*       …………..    Founder of Adelaide, Australia.
5. Edgar Allan Poe*         …………..   American Writer, Poet.
6. Frederic Chopin           …………..    Polish Composer/ Pianist.
7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky    …………..    Russian Novelist.
8. Okita Soji*                  …………..     Legendary Japanese Samurai.
9. Paul Gauguin                …………..     French Poet.
10. Marcelo H. Del Pilar*  …………..     Philpino writer & nationalist.
11. Masaoka Shiki*           …………..     Japanese Haiku Poet.
12. Manuel L.Quezon*      .………....       First President of Philippines.
13. Lu Xun*                      …………..      Modern Chinese Writer.
14. Franz Kafka                …………..      Czech Novelist.
15. Eleanor Roosevelt        …………..     American Humanitarian ,First lady.
16. Ho Chi Rinh                …………..      First President of Vietnam.
17. Lottie Lyell*               …………..       Australian Film Star.
18. Miyazawa Kenji*       …………..        Japanese Writer.
19. Yi Sang*                    …………..        Korean Poet.
20. Vivien Leigh*             …………..        British Actress.
21. Nelson Mandela         …………..       African National Leader.

*Those who died from TB 

5. SUDHA MURTHY:

Senior Librarian.
National Tuberculosis Institute.
Banglore.

Among Painters:

Wattean   (1684-1721).
Gaugin     (1848-1903).
Modigiliani  (1884-1920). 

Among Writers & Playwrights:

Moliere   (1622-1673).

Shiller     (1759-1805).

Chekhor (1860-1904). 

Among Composers:

Mozartt   (1756-1791).

Chopin   (1810-1849). 

Among Theologian & Philosophers:

Calvin    (1509-1564).

Spinoza  (1632-1677). 

German Composers:

Cor R.Maria Von Weber    (1786-1826).

South American Liberator:

Simon Balvar          (1783-1830). 

American Philosopher:

Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862). 

Famous Poets:

John Keats in 1821 at the age of 26.

Shelly in 1817. 

Famous Indian Victims:

Sri  S. Ramanujan,  Mathematician of India at 32 year Period.

Srimti  Kamla Nehru: Wife of P.M. of India .

Sri Raja Ram Mohan Roy: Politician.

(Memory of Staff of  NTI,Banglore).

  6. DR. ABDULLAH JAN PATHAN:

Chest Physician :  Hyderabad (Pakistan).

Famous Persons affiliated with TB 

1. Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah   …   Founder of the nation (Pakistan).
2. Abdul Majeed Sindhi                           …   Writer, Politician,Presented Pakistan Resolution in Sindh Assembley:1937.
3. Begum Ghazanfer Ali Khan                  …   Wife of Ambassador.
4. Balizad Lakhnawi                                 …    Poet.
5. Nasir Kazmi                                         …    Poet.
6. Kabil Ajmari                                          …    Poet.
7. Gul Mohammad Khatri                         …    Writer.
8. Mohammad Ibrahim                             …    Singer.
9. Mah Bibi                                              …    Educationist, Social worker of  Shikarpur died-1998.
10. Mother of Prof: A.Rab                          …    Ex-Minister Health, Sindh(1998).
11. Sister of Late Gen: Ziaul-Haque            …    President of Pakistan.
12. Kamla Nehru                                        …    Wife of Jawaher Lal Nehru P.M of India.
13. Brother of Late President Richard Nixon…    President of USA.
14. Eleanor Roosevelt                                 …    Died of MDR & Miliary TB Wife of Fredric Roosevelt.
15. Rene Theodore Lannec                         …    Scientist Discoverer of Stelhoscope-1819.
16. King Henry VI                                      …    King of England(1537).
17. George V                                             …     King of England.
18. John Keats                                           …     Poet.
19. Robert-Louis Stevenson                       …     Novelist,Detective,Columnist,Story writer.
20. Edgar Alan Poe                                    …     Writer,Poet.
21. Somerset Mangham                              …     Writer.
22. Jane Austen                                          …     Writer ,died at 48 year.
23. Samuel Johnson                                    …     Dictionary Compiled.
24. Leonardo de Vinci                                …     Painter (Mona Lisa).
25. Mozart                                                 …     Composer(1756-1791).
26. Chopin, Frederick                                …     Composer(1816-1849).
27. Mand Cassel                                         …    Maternal Grandmother of Lady Mountbetten.
28. Nelson Mandela                                   …     Lawyer, Politician and Ex. President of South Africa.
29. Anton Chekov                                      …    Writer,died in 1904.
30. Franz Kafka                                         …     Scientist, died in 1826.
31. Desmund Tutu                                      …     Arch  Bishop of Captown (South Africa).
32. Jesus Christ    
    Text book of Tuberculosis, on page 3 it's mention that there is a folio at Leipzig Library (Eastern Germany) which contains a reference about Jesus Christ that he had suffered from pulmonary Tuberculosis. To confirm it I wrote to all libraries and Leipzig, Church of England, Church of America, Vatican and various other Christian luminaries decide religious scholars but they felt to respond to my query only reply that i got was one from who representative in India, confirming that Dr. K.N Rao and all his Co-Authors were dead and the said Text Book on Tuberculosis was out of print.
           Mr. Andrew J. Keck from Duke libraries Leipzig was the only person who replied that:  I am not aware of any evidence or research that suggest that Jesus suffered from Tuberculosis. Perhaps somebody has somewhere suggested this idea but i cannot seem to find any mention of it. A possible point of confusion are people such as saints Therese of Lisieux who is sometimes known as "Therese of the child Jesus", The Little Flower, or The Little Flower of the Jesus. Saint Therese died of Tuberculosis. Perhaps there are others that I have the name of 'Jesus' that also had TB.

7. AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION:

Addison, Joseph

Adoree, Renee

Akelely, Beulah

Aldridge, Clayson W

Alexender, John, MD

Alfonso,X11

Algeria, Ciro

Anderson, Clinton P.; U.S senator, Sec, of Agriculture.

Anthony ,Saint

Anzelevitz, Benjamin, “Ben Bernie”

Austen, Jane

Babson, Roger w.

Baldwin, Edward R., Dr

Balzac, Honore de

Barrymore, Georigiana Drew

Bashkirtsev, Marie Konstantinova

Batcheller, Irving

Beaurdry, Charles

Beauharnais, Hortense Eugenie de

Beck, colonel Josef

Behring, Emile von,Dr

Bell, Alexandra Graham

Bellamy, Edward

Benton, Thomas H

Saint Bernadette of Lourdes.

Bethune, Harry Norman M.D.

Bichat, Xavier

Bolivar, Simon

Bonaparte, Napolean

Booth, Albie; Yale football coach

Bosworth, Hobart

Bowditch, Vincent Yardly, M.D.

Bradford, Gamaliel

The Bronte Sisters

Brown Lawrason, Dr.

Brown, Charles Brockden

Brown William C.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Bryant, William Cullen

Bushnell, George Ensign, Dr.

Cadman, Charles Wakefield

Calhoun, John C.

Cappelle, Marie

Casparise, Peniston Lamb Horton Ryan, M.D.

Cassnova, Francesco

Cerda, pedro Aguirre

Checkhov, Anton Povlovich

Chong, Hong

Chopin, Fredrick F.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Clive, Colin

Collins, Judy

Coward, Noel; author, composer, actor

Craig, Ida Lee

Crane, Stephen

Crawford, Frances Marion

Curie, Marie Sklodowska

Cutting, Honorable John

Davidson, Lucretia and Margaret

Debussy, Claude Achille

Deering, Roger

Dix, Dorothea Lynde

Dohanus, Steven

Donaldson, Henry H., Dr.

Dsotoievsky, Feodor

Downing, Bernard

Downpatrick, Baron, N.G.

Dowson, Alfred

Dowson, Ernest Christopher

Doyle, Larry; National League Batting champion ,1915

Dunbar, Paul Lawrence

Duplessis, Marie   The lady of the Camellias

Duse, Eleanor

Earl of St. Andrews

Edward VI

Edward, Prince George Edmund Alexander

Ehrlich, Paul, Dr.

Ellis, Havelock

Emerson,Ralph Waldo

Evans,Edith Vivian

Felix,Elisa (Rachel)

Ferdinand,Archduke Francis

Fields,W.C.,(William Claude Dukinfield)

Finley, Charlie O.

Flick, Lawrence F., Dr.

Fountain,John H.,M.D.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Frazier,Spaulding

Saint Gabriel

Gandhi,Mobandas K.

Gans,Joe;former light weight boxing champion

Garner,John Nance

Gauguin,Paul

Gibbon,Edward

Gillette,William Hooker

Goethe,Johann Wolfgang

Gomes ,Manuel(Many)

Goodman,John D.

Gorky,Maxim

Gould,Jay

Grancher,James J.

Grant,General U.S.

Gregg,Josiah,M.D.

Grieg,Edvard Hagerup

Guynemer,Georges

Hamanov,Demitri Pavlovitch

Hammett, Samuel Dasiell

Hamsun,Knut

Harvard,John

Hayes,E.W.,M.D.

Heine,Heinrich

Henley, William E.

O.Henry(William Sydney Porter)

Hentaler,Arthur E.

Herriot,Edouard

Hess,Walter Rudolph

Hitler,Adolph

Home,Daniel Douglass

Hood,Thomas

Hoover,Herbert, Jr.

Horowitz,Louis J.

Hunt,Leigh

Hunter,John

Irving, Washington

Irwin,Will

Jackson,Andrew

Jackson,Chevalier,M.D.

Jackson,Raechel D.

Jennings,Hugh;manager of Detroit Tigers(in 1907)

Johnson,Samuel

Jolson,Al

Jones,John Paul

Kafka,Franz

Kagawa,Toyohiko,”The Exile”

Kane,John

Keats,John

Kelly,Howard Atwood

Kent,Duke of

Killy,Jean-Claude

King, John C.,Dr.

Krofta,Emil,Dr.

Laennec,Rene Theophile H.

Lafayette,Marquis de

Langhorne,Col.Wn.H.

Lanier,Sidney

Lardner,Ringold Wilmer

Lawrence, D.H.

Lee, Lila

Leigh,Vivien;Academy award winner

Locke,John

Loomis,Alfred Lee,Dr.

Lovelace,Richard

MacDonnel.Kyls

MacFadden,Bernard

Maloney,Marie Mattingly

Mann,Thomas

Mansfield,Katherine

March,Francis Andrew,Dr.

Masson,Thomas

Mathewson,Christy;member of baseball’s  Hall of Fame

Maugham,William Somerset;author

Maximilian,Ferdinand Joseph

Maybury,William H.

McCormick,Edith Rockefeller

McDonald,Betty

McGuire,John A.

McIntyre,Marvin H.

McLean,McDougal,Dr.

McNichols,Charles L.

Mencken,Sara Haardt

Meyers,J.Arthur,Dr.

Miller,John”Dots”

Mitchell,Reginald

Modigliani,Amadeo

Moley,Raymond

Moliere

Morgan,Sir Henry

Morgan,Authur Caradoc,M.D.

Morgan,Amelia Sturges

Morgenthau,Henry,Jr.

Mozart,Wolfgang Amadeus

Murphy,John B.,M.D.

Napoleon II

Newcomb, Elizabeth Wilmot

Normand,Mabel

Orwell,George

Ossietzky,Carl von

O’Mara Pat

O’Neill,Eugene

Paceilli,Eugenio

Paganini,Nicolo

Palmer,Alice Freeman

Parker,Theodore

Parr,Jack;TV star

Parsons,Louella;columnist

Pavlova,anna

Perkins,Tony;actor,recording artist

Photius II

Pidgeon,Walter;actor

Pierce,Jane Appleton

Pope Pius XII

Poe, Virginia Clemm

Pompadour,Madame de

Porter,William Sidney

Porter,Margaret

Powers,Eugene

Powys,Llewelyn

Prinzip,Garvillo

Proctor,Adelaide Ann

Purcell, Henry

Purnell,”King”Benjamin

Quezon,Manuel L.

Raine,William MacLeod

Randolph,Agnes Dillon

Rhodes,Cecil

Richards,Samuel

Richmond,Mary E.

Roosevelt,Eleanor

Ross,Will

Roosetti,Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal

Roosetti,Dante Gabriel

Rousseau,Jean Jacques

Roux,Pierre Emile,Dr.

Rush,Benjamin

Rutledge,Wiley B.

Satio,Hirosi

Sampson, Homer L.

Santi,Raphael

Savitsch,Eugene de, Dr.

Schiller,Johann F.von

Schoendienst,Albert(Red);second baseman.Braves

Schriener,Olive

Sender,Tony

Sewell,Henry,Dr.

Shelly,Percy B.

Sister Teresa

Smith,George Edward,(Pittsburg Phil)

Smollett,Tobias George

Soully,Frank

Spinoza,Baruch

Stalin,Joseph

Stassen,Harold;polotician,stateman

Stephen,Chalmers

Stephens,Alexander Hamilton

Sterne,Laurence

Stevenson,Robert L.

Stewart,David Alexander,Dr.

Suner,Don Ramon Serrano

Symonds, John Addington

Taylor,June;dancer,director

Thomas,Bronwyn

Thoreau,Henry David

Timrod,Henry

Titulescu,Nicholas

Tolstoy,Alexay Nicholayevich

Trotsky, Leon

Trudeau,Ed.L.,Dr.

Tse-tung,Mao

Tuke,Daniel Hack,M.D.

Tutankhamen

Valle-Inclan,Maria Beatriz del,(Mariquita)

Van,Billy B.

Vaughan,Victor  C., Dr.

Queen Victoria of Sweden

Vigo,Jean

Voltaire,(Francois-Marie Arouet)

Waner,Paul;Pittsburgh Pirates:Most Valueable Player 1927,Batting Champion 1934

Ward,Artemus(C.F.Browne)

Ward,Thomas P.

Washington,Lawrence

Watteau,Jean Antoine

Weber,Karl Maria von

Wells,H.G.

Wesley,John

West,James E.,Dr.

Westcott,Edward Hoyes

Wiggam,Albert Edward

Wilder,George Warren

Wister,Owen

Witwer,H.C.

Woddell,Rube;Philadelphia Athletics,member of the Hall of Fame

Wolfe,Major Gen.

Wong,Marie Therese

Wood,Edward Frederick Lindley,(Viscount Halifax)

Wright,Harold B.

Zinoviev,Grigori Oversi Gershon Aron