Curated category
20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- George OrwellEric Arthur Blair arrived in the world on the 25th of June 1903 within a house in Motihari, Bengal Presidency. His family belonged to what he called the…
- Vivien LeighVivian Mary Hartley arrived in the world on the 5th of November 1913 within the British Indian hill station of Darjeeling.
- Harilal GandhiHarilal Mohandas Gandhi was born on the 23rd of August 1888. His father left for England shortly after his birth to pursue higher studies.
- Anton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on the 29th of January 1860 in Taganrag, a commercial port city on the Sea of Azov. He lived at Politseyskaya street, which…
- Lev VygotskyLev Semyonovich Vygotsky was born on the 17th of November 1896 in Orsha, a town within the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire.
- Franz KafkaFranz Kafka entered the world on the 3rd of July 1883 in a cramped apartment near the Old Town Square of Prague. His father Hermann ran a haberdashery store…
- Erwin SchrödingerErwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger entered the world on the 12th of August 1887 in Vienna. He was the only child of Rudolf Schrödinger, a botanist, and…
- Thomas AllinsonThomas Richard Allinson arrived in the Hulme district of Manchester on the 29th of March 1858. He attended school in Lancaster and Manchester before…
- Muhammad Ali JinnahOn the 25th of December 1876, a boy named Mahomedali Jinnahbhai was born in a rented apartment on the second floor of Wazir Mansion near Karachi.
- El LissitzkyLazar Markovich Lissitzky was born on the 23rd of November 1890 in Pochinok, a small Jewish community southeast of Smolensk.