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Tuberculosis


1990 Tom Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater), dies of tuberculosis at 48

1989 Thomas Bernhard, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist, dies at 58 of tuberculosis in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria

1988 Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis

1988 Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital

1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey

1896 Wyatt Eaton, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, dies from tuberculosis in Newport, Rhode Island

1892 1st cattle tuberculosis test in U.S. made, Villa Nova, Penn

1882 Dr. Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis

1882 Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43

1821 John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome

1801 Novalis, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night', dies from tuberculosis in the Germany, at age 28


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