Famous people who have been diagnosed and/or died with tuberculosis.

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An actress, a composer, a king, a presidents wife, a pharoah, a nun, a writer, just some of the famous people diagnosed with tuberculosis.

* Indicates person died from tuberculosis

Name	Occupation	Birth-Death
King Tutankhamen*	Egyptian pharaoh	ca 1358-1340 B.C.
Cardinal Richelieu*	French statesman	1581-1642
Jean Moliere	French playwright	1622-1673
Baruch Spinoza*	Dutch philosopher	1632-1677
Francois Voltaire	French writer/philosopher	1694-1778
Johann Goethe	German writer/scientist	1749-1832
Johann Schiller	German writer/historian	1759-1805
Sir Walter Scott	Scottish novelist/poet	1771-1832
Niccolo Paganini	Italian violin virtuoso	1782-1840
Simon Bolivar*	Venezuelan revolutionary leader	1783-1830
John Keats*	English poet	1795-1821
Ralph Waldo Emerson	American essayist/poet	1803-1882
Elizabeth Barrett Browning*	English poet	1806-1861
Edgar Allan Poe*	American writer/poet	1809-1849
Frederic Chopin*	Polish composer/pianist	1810-1849
Emily Bronte*	English novelist/poet	1818-1848
Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Russian novelist	1821-1881
Paul Gauguin	French painter	1848-1903
Robert Louis Stevenson*	Scottish writer	1850-1894
Anton Chekhov*	Russian writer	1860-1904
Franz Kafka	Czech novelist	1883-1924
Eleanor Roosevelt*	American humanitarian/first lady	1884-1962
D.H. Lawrence*	English writer	1885-1930
Eugene Neill*	American playwright	1888-1953
Adolf Hitler	German dictator	1889-1945
George Orwell*	English novelist/essayist	1903-1950
Vivien Leigh*	English actress	1913-1967
Nelson Mandela	Nelson Mandela	1918-

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