List of deaths due to tuberculosis

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


 * 641: Heraclius Constantine – Byzantine Emperor, aged 29
 * 1506: Henry VII of England – King of England, aged 52
 * 1553: Edward VI – King of England, aged 15
 * 1574: Charles IX of France – King of France, aged 23.
 * 1821: John Keats – English poet, aged 25
 * 1827: George Canning – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, aged 57.
 * 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: Frédéric Chopin – Polish composer, aged 39 (possibly cystic fibrosis).
 * 1862: Henry David Thoreau – American naturalist and author, aged 44.
 * 1866: Bernhard Riemann – German mathematician, aged 39.
 * 1887: John Henry "Doc" Holliday – American Gunslinger and Gambler, aged 36.
 * 1890: Christopher Latham Sholes – American inventor, aged 71.
 * 1897: Thérèse of Lisieux – French Catholic Carmelite nun and saint, aged 24.
 * 1902–1903: Annie Jones – American sideshow performer, aged 37.
 * 1904: Anton Chekhov – Russian playwright, aged 44.
 * 1906: Paul Laurence Dunbar – American poet, aged 33.
 * 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
 * 1934: Lev Vygotsky – Russian psychologist, aged 37
 * 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.
 * 1967: Vivien Leigh – British actress, aged 53.
 * 2020: Wang Jin – Chinese archaeologist, aged 93