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19th-century deaths from tuberculosis

  • John KeatsJohn Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on the 31st of October 1795, into a world that would eventually crown him a master of English verse, yet his origins…
  • Jane AustenJane Austen arrived in the world on the 16th of December 1775 within the quiet valley of Steventon, Hampshire. Her father George Austen wrote to his wife…
  • Friedrich SchillerOn the 10th of November 1759, a boy named Friedrich Schiller was born in Marbach. He grew up as the only son of Johann Kaspar Schiller and Elisabetha…
  • Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson was born on the 15th of March 1767 in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas. His parents were Scots-Irish colonists who had emigrated from…
  • Mahmud IIOn the 20th of July 1785, Mahmud II was born into the Ottoman imperial family. His father Abdul Hamid I died in 1789, leaving young Mahmud confined within…
  • Stephen CraneStephen Crane entered the world on the 1st of November 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. He was the fourteenth and final child born to Jonathan Townley Crane and…
  • Vissarion BelinskyVissarion Belinsky was born in Sveaborg, a fortress town that is now part of Helsinki. He grew up in the small Russian town of Chembar, where his father…
  • Simón BolívarSimón Bolívar was born on the 24th of July 1783 in Caracas, the capital of the Captaincy General of Venezuela. He entered a world of immense privilege as the…
  • Pauline BonapartePaula Maria Bonaparte Leclerc Borghese entered the world on the 20th of October 1780 in Ajaccio, Corsica. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and…
  • Napoleon IINapoleon II entered the world on the 20th of March 1811 inside the Tuileries Palace in Paris. His father was Emperor Napoleon I and his mother was Empress…
  • Robert FultonRobert Fulton was born on a farm in Little Britain, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of November 1765. His father, Robert Fulton, married Mary Smith, daughter of…
  • Aubrey BeardsleyAubrey Vincent Beardsley entered the world on the 21st of August 1872 in Brighton, Sussex. His father Vincent Paul Beardsley had lost his own inheritance due…
  • Franz Xaver SüssmayrFranz Xaver Süssmayr entered the world in 1766 within the quiet town of Schwanenstadt. His father, Franz Karl Süssmayr, provided his first music lessons…