Harry Vardon

Harry Vardon

male, deceased (1937)
James Braid, Golf in Jersey, pga tour, Winner of men's major golf championships, knickerbockers, golfer…Tuberculosis
Harry Vardon (May 9, 1870 - March 20, 1937) was an English golfer and member of the fabled Great Triumvirate of the sport in his day, along with...
Emily Bissell

Emily Bissell

female, deceased (1948)
Wilmington, Tuberculosis, suffragist, American social worker, suffragette, child labor
Emily P. Bissell was an American social worker and activist, best remembered for introducing Christmas Seals to the United States. Born in...

René Laennec

male, deceased (1826)
French, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, professor, physician, brittany, melanoma…Tuberculosis
René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician; inventor of the stethoscope. Dr. Laennec was born in Quimper, Brittany and studied medicine at...
Jean Antoine Villemin

Jean Antoine Villemin

male, deceased (1892)
inoculating, Etudes sur la Tuberculosis, Academy of Medicine, Val-de-Grâce, strasbourg, Vosges…Tuberculosis
Jean-Antoine Villemin was a French physician who demonstrated in 1865 that tuberculosis was an infectious disease. Villemin was born in the...

Robert Johnston

male, deceased (1885)
american civil war, Tuberculosis, antebellum, politician, Confederate States of America, Second Confederate Congress
Robert Johnston (October 14, 1818 - November 6, 1885) was a politician serving in the Congress of the Confederate States of America during the...
Grace Darling

Grace Darling

female, deceased (1842)
Lighthouse keeper, Longstone Lighthouse, Grace Horsley Darling, victorian era, Victorian, English…death by tuberculosis, Tuberculosis
Grace Horsley Darling is an English Victorian heroine, on the strength of a celebrated maritime rescue in 1838. Grace was born in 1815 at Bamburgh...

Jim Hall

male, deceased (1913)
boxer, Tuberculosis, Australian, Middleweight, Bare-knuckle boxer, alcoholism
Montague James Furlong (July 22 1868 - March 14 1913), commonly known as Jim Hall, was an Australian middleweight boxer. He won the Australian...
Robert Dale

Robert Dale

male, deceased (1853)
York, indigenous australian, Tuberculosis, Explorer of Western Australia, bath, ensign…death by tuberculosis
Lieutenant Robert Dale (1812-20 July 1853<sup>1</sup>) was the first European explorer to cross the Darling Range in Western Australia. Robert Dale...
Clemens von Pirquet

Clemens von Pirquet

male, deceased (1929)
pasteur institute, University of Innsbruck, Ergon, Vienna, Austria, smallpox, bacteria…Tuberculosis
Clemens Peter Freiherr von Pirquet was an Austrian scientist and pediatrician best known for his contributions to the fields of bacteriology and...
Kamala Nehru

Kamala Nehru

female, deceased (1936)
Spouses of national leader, From Allahabad, Kamala Kaul Nehru, allahabad, Indian National Congress, Tuberculosis…death by tuberculosis
Kamala Kaul Nehru (1899-1936) was the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress and first Prime Minister of India. Kamala...