Tuberculosis
Deaths
| 20 Mar 1827 |
Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven dies, Vienna. Cause of death variously listed as TB, pneumonia, cirrhosis. Body exhumed in 1863 and 1888. |
| 17 Dec 1830 |
Revolutionary Simon Bolivar dies of tuberculosis at his estate near Santa Marta, Colombia. |
| 19 Dec 1848 |
Author Emily Bronte dies of tuberculosis in Haworth, Yorkshire, after having caught cold at her brother's funeral. |
| 7 Oct 1849 |
Author Edgar Allen Poe dies of "acute congestion of the brain" brought on by tuberculosis, Baltimore, MD. His wife and also his mother died from TB as well. |
| 6 May 1862 |
Author Henry David Thoreau dies of tuberculosis, from which he suffered most of his life, Concord, MA. |
| 21 Jan 1950 |
Author George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, dies of a tubercular hemorrhage in London. |
| 6 Nov 1962 |
Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies in New York City of tuberculosis. |
| 8 Jul 1967 |
Actress Vivien Leigh dies of chronic pulmonary tuberculosis, sprawled on the floor with her lungs filled with fluid, at her home in London. |
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