Famous people who died of typhoid

Famous victims

Lizzie van Zyl was a child inmate in a British-run concentration camp in South Africa who died from typhoid fever during the Boer War (1899–1902).

Famous people who have had the disease include

• Franz Schubert died 19 November 1828 officially of typhoid but other theories also exist.
• Baiju Bawra aka (Baijnath Prasad or Baijnath Mishra), an Indian singer and musician died of typhoid at the age of 71 on the eve of the Indian festival, Basant Panchami in Vikram Samvat 1670 (1613 CE).
• Hakaru Hashimoto, discoverer of Autoimmune Thyroiditis Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Died on January 9, 1934, of typhoid fever.
• Andrew Johnson, seventeenth President of the United States, suffered of typhoid fever months before he was inaugurated as the sixteenth vice-president.
• Mary Mallon, more commonly known as Typhoid Mary, survived a childhood episode in Ireland to become an asymptomatic carrier in the United States.
• Abigail Adams, second First Lady of the United States, wife of John Adams, died of typhoid fever on October 28, 1818.
• Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, British prince consort, Queen Victoria's husband, died of typhoid fever on 14 December 1861.
• Edward VII survived in December 1871.
• Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter Day Saint movement, contracted typhoid as a child, survived.
• Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
• Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine survived.
• Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil's daughter, died of typhoid Fever on 7 February 1871.
• Tadeusz Kosciuszko, hero of the American Revolution and Polish patriot leader, died of typhoid Fever in Switzerland, 1817.
• Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, records contracting it in Hospital Sketches.
• Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general and Cinco de Mayo hero. Died of typhoid fever on September 8, 1862, about four months after his famous victory over the French army in Puebla.
• Urilla Sutherland Earp, first wife of Marshall Wyatt Earp, probably died of Typhoid Fever in or around 1870 in Lamar Township, Missouri.
• Eugenia Tadolini, a celebrated Italian soprano, died of the disease in Paris in 1872.
• Leland Stanford, Jr. died of typhoid in 1884; his parents founded Stanford University in his memory.
• William Wallace Lincoln, third son of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, died February 20, 1862 of typhoid fever.
• Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln.
• George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., the inventor of the Ferris Wheel, died in 1896
• Thoby Stephen, elder brother of novelist Virginia Woolf, died of typhoid fever in 1906 at age 26. The deaths of Woolf's characters, Jacob in Jacob's Room and Percival in The Waves, are based on Thoby's.
• Wilbur Wright, one of the famous Wright Brothers. Died May 30, 1912 of typhoid fever. His brother Orville had contracted the disease in 1896 but survived.
• Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes. In his memoir, he details nearly dying of the disease in 1940 as a ten-year-old in Limerick, Ireland, and his ensuing 4-month-long hospital stay.
• Stephen Douglas, politician and 1860 presidential runner-up.
• Dr HJH 'Tup' Scott, captain of the 1886 Australian cricket team that toured England, died of typhoid in 1910.^[29]
• Arnold Bennett, English novelist, died in 1932 of typhoid, two months after drinking a glass of water in a Paris hotel to prove it was safe.^[30]
• Raymond Radiguet, French literary prodigy, died of typhoid at age 20 while on a trip with his mentor, Jean Cocteau.
• Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, founder and first Sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, died of typhoid at age 51 on June 21, 1940.
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit and poet.
• Ralph Rose, three-time Olympic champion and six-time medalist in throwing events, died of typhoid on October 16, 1913 at age 28.
• Roger Sherman, a Founding Father of the United States of America.
• Georgia O'Keeffe, a famous painter, survived
• Ravi Shankar, musician, survived^[31]
• Tsar Nicholas II of Russia had typhoid in 1900, survived.
• Heath Bell, Relief Pitcher San Diego Padres acquired on 2010 trip to Fiji, survived.^[32]
• Mark Hanna - Died, 1904. Republican Party boss and United States Senator representing Ohio. Contracted Tyhpoid from drinking tainted tap water in Columbus, Ohio. Hanna's death prompted Columbus city officials modernize the public water system and how it handled raw sewage.
• Henry Ernest Wild, a member of Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Ross Sea Party. After surviving and eventually being rescued, in 1917 Wild returned to naval duty on HMS Pembroke, later transferring to HMS Biarritz. He died on 10 March 1918[11] in the Royal Naval Hospital, Malta, after contracting typhoid. He is buried in the Naval Cemetery in Kalkara, Malta.