Curated category
19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- John KeatsJohn Keats had been publishing poetry for less than four years when tuberculosis killed him in Rome at the age of 25. His last request was a tombstone…
- Jane AustenJane Austen wrote major novels before the age of 22, yet she was not published until she was 35. When her first book appeared in 1811, the title page did not…
- Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller was born on the 10th of November 1759 in Marbach, in the Duchy of Württemberg, named after King Frederick the Great but called Fritz by…
- Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson refused to polish a British officer's boots, and the officer slashed him with a sword. The blade left scars on his left hand and head.
- Mahmud IIMahmud II clung to the roof of the Ottoman Imperial Harem while assassins searched for him below. A Georgian slave girl named Cevri had bought him precious…
- Stephen CraneStephen Crane died on the 5th of June, 1900, in a health spa on the edge of Germany's Black Forest. He was 28 years old.
- Vissarion BelinskyVissarion Belinsky died on the eve of his arrest. The Tsar's police were coming for him on account of his political views, but consumption took him first in…
- Simón BolívarOn the 18th of August 1805, on a hill outside Rome called the Mons Sacer, a twenty-two-year-old Venezuelan named Simón Bolívar made a vow.
- Pauline BonapartePauline Bonaparte was born on the 20th of October 1780 in Ajaccio, Corsica, into a family that was, at that moment, still firmly on the margins of history.
- Napoleon IINapoleon II was Emperor of the French for exactly two days. He never sat on the throne. He never held a scepter. He never gave an order that anyone was bound…
- Robert FultonRobert Fulton was 12 years old when he made the visit that would shape his life. In 1777, he traveled to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to call on William Henry, a…
- Aubrey BeardsleyAubrey Beardsley died on the 16th of March 1898 at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Menton, France, attended by his mother and sister. He was 25 years old.
- 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…