 this is a list of famous people and celebrities who had, or are believed to have had, tuberculosis, also known as consumption. == writers and poets == *gaius valerius catullus (ca. 84 bc â ca. 54 bc), roman poet *maksim bahdanoviÄ *honorÃ© de balzac *manuel bandeira, brazilian poet, had tb in 1904 and expressed the effects of the disease in his life in many of his poems. *gustavo adolfo bÃ©cquer *vissarion belinsky, russian literary critic * edward bellamy (1850â1898), fiction writer remembered for his book looking backward, died from tuberculosis. *jonas biliÅ«nas *rachel bluwstein *anne and emily brontÃ« and other members of the brontÃ« family of writers, poets and painters were struck by tb. anne, their brother branwell, and emily all died of it within 2 years of each other. charlotte brontÃ«'s death in 1855 was stated at the time as having been due to tb, but there is some controversy over this today. *clarissa brooks, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1927. *charles brockden brown *charles farrar browne *elizabeth barrett browning, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1861. *jean de brunhoff *charles bukowski (1920â1994), american author and poet, contracted tb in 1988; he recovered, losing 60&nbsp;lbs. he died of leukemia. *robert burns *albert camus, french writer, playwright, activist, and absurdist philosopher, suffered from tb. he was forced to drop out of school (university of algiers) due to severe attacks of tuberculosis. however, his death was caused by a car accident. *anton chekhov (1860â1904), russian short-story writer, playwright and physician; died from tuberculosis. *tristan corbiÃ¨re *stephen crane *gilles deleuze (1925â1995) *renÃ© daumal *nikolay dobrolyubov *laura don (1852-1886), actress-manager, playwright and artist *paul laurence dunbar *paul Ãluard *friedrich robert faehlmann *maxim gorky *dashiell hammett (1894â1961), american author and creator of the "hard boiled" detective novel (notably, sam spade in  the maltese falcon), contracted tuberculosis during world war i *saima harmaja, finnish poet and writer *jaroslav haÅ¡ek *robert a. heinlein, american author *miguel hernandez *washington irving *panait istrati *helen hunt jackson *alfred jarry *samuel johnson *franz kafka (1883â1924), german-language novelist best known for his novel the trial, died from tuberculosis. *uuno kailas, finnish composer *andreas karkavitsas, greek writer *john keats (1795â1821), english romantic poet; he and his brother tom were taken by tuberculosis *dragotin kette *charles kingsley *kostas krystallis, greek poet *vincas kudirka (1858â1899), lithuanian poet and physician; died
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