Walter Reed

Walter Reed

male, deceased (1902)
Methodist, from Virginia, Congressional Gold Medal recipient, Entomologist, yellowfever, mosquito
Major Walter Reed, M.D., (September 13 1851 - November 23 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team which confirmed the theory...
John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller

male, deceased (1937)
billionaire, petroleum industry, Founder of the petroleum industry, American billionaire, rockefeller foundation, philanthropist…yellowfever
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (July 8, 1839 - May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the...
Carlos Finlay

Carlos Finlay

male, deceased (1915)
Carlos Juan Finlay, mosquito, Cuban, scientist, physician, vector…yellowfever
Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3 1833 - August 20 1915, Havana), was a Cuban physician and scientist. Finlay was born Juan Carlos Finlay in Puerto...
Max Theiler

Max Theiler

male, deceased (1972)
Leptospira icteroides, Harvard University faculty, rockefeller foundation, Rhesus monkeys, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Old Rhodian…rat-bite fever, yellowfever
Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 - August 11, 1972) was a South African virologist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951...

William C. Gorgas

male, deceased (1920)
from Alabama, United States Army, physician, Malaria, surgeon general, yellowfever
Major General William Crawford Gorgas (October 3, 1854, in Mobile, Alabama -- July 3, 1920, in London) was a United States physician and 22nd...
Dolley Payne Todd Madison

Dolley Payne Todd Madison

female, deceased (1849) (North Carolina)
First Lady of the United States, From Greensboro, North Carolina, Person County, Payne's Tavern, Dorothea "Dolley" Payne Todd Madison, Religious Society of Friends…yellowfever
Dolley Payne Todd Madison (5/20/1768) was born in North Carolina, moving with her family to Philadelphia in 1783. In 1794, Dolley, by then a widow,...
Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

male, deceased (1830)
Spanish-Venezuelan, Bolivar's War, From SANTA MARTA, From Caracas, yellowfever, the liberator
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (born July 24, 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela – died December 17, 1830, in Santa Marta,...
Aristides Agramonte

Aristides Agramonte

male, deceased (1931)
physician, yellowfever, American, University Of Havana, Cuban-American, Yellow Fever Commission
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni (born June 3, 1868 in Camagüey, Cuba; died August 19, 1931 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) was an American p...

John Clark

male, deceased (1832)
Georgia militiamen in the American Revolution, Death from yellow fever, Daughters of the American Revolution, yellowfever, American, washington county
John Clark (February 28, 1766 - October 12, 1832) was an American politician. Clark served in the Georgia House of Representatives prior to being...
Clara Maass

Clara Maass

female, deceased (1901)
Death from yellow fever, wartime nurse, Nurse, German-American, from New Jersey, yellowfever
Clara Louise Maass was an American nurse who died as a result of volunteering for medical experiments to study yellow fever.