The following is a list of notable people who have died due to tuberculosis.
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- 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.
- 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
- 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]
- 1911: Robert Tressell – Irish writer, aged 40. [17]
- 1918: Gavrilo Princip – Bosnian Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, aged 23. [18]
- 1923: Katherine Mansfield – New Zealand writer, aged 34 [19]
- 1924: Franz Kafka – Bohemian Jewish novelist, aged 40 [20]
- 1934: Lev Vygotsky – Russian psychologist, aged 37 [21]
- 1944: Manuel L. Quezon – Filipino politician and 2nd president of the Philippines, aged 65. [22]
- 1950: George Orwell – English writer, aged 46 [23]
- 1956: Johnny Claes – British-born Belgian race car driver, aged 39.
- 1961: Erwin Schrödinger – Austrian physicist, aged 73. [24]
- 1962: Eleanor Roosevelt – First Lady of the United States, aged 78
- 1967: Vivien Leigh – British actress, aged 53. [25]
- 2020: Wang Jin – Chinese archaeologist, aged 93 [26]