Famous People Who Died of tuberculosis

• Bolívar, Simón

  el Libertador of 19th-century South America

• Bronte, Emily

  The author of Wuthering Heights

• Chekhov, Anton

  Author of The Cherry Orchard

• Harrison, Caroline Scott

  The wife of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison

• Holliday, John Henry "Doc"

  The gambler who fought with the Earps at the O.K. Corral

• Kafka, Franz

  Author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis

• Keats, John

  The Romantic poet who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"

• Lawrence, D.H.

  Author of Lady Chatterly's Lover

• Leigh, Vivien

  Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind

• Thoreau, Henry David

  Author of Walden

See: All Causes of Death