Famous Victims
The pathos in the last movement of Tchaikovsky's (c. 1840-1893) last symphony made people think that Tchaikovsky had a premonition of death. "A week after the premiere of his Sixth Symphony, Tchaikovsky was dead--6 November 1893. The cause of this indisposition and stomach ache was suspected to be his intentionally infecting himself with cholera by drinking contaminated water. The day before, while having lunch with Modest (his brother and biographer), he is said to have poured tap water from a pitcher into his glass and drunk a few swallows. Since the water was not boiled and cholera was once again rampaging St. Petersburg, such a connection was quite plausible ...."[53]
Other famous people who succumbed to the disease include:
Major General Edward Hand, Adjutant General of the Continental Army and congressman
James K. Polk, eleventh president of the United States
Mary Abigail Fillmore, daughter of U.S. president Millard Fillmore
Elizabeth Jackson, mother of U.S. president Andrew Jackson
Elliott Frost, son of American poet Robert Frost
Nicolas Lιonard Sadi Carnot
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Samuel Charles Stowe, son of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Carl von Clausewitz
George Bradshaw
Adam Mickiewicz
August von Gneisenau
William Jenkins Worth
John Blake Dillon
Daniel Morgan Boone, founder of Kansas City, Missouri, son of Daniel Boone
James Clarence Mangan
Mohammad Ali Mirza Dowlatshahi of Persia
Ando Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist
Juan de Veramendi, Mexican Governor of Texas, father-in-law of Jim Bowie
Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia
William Godwin, father of Mary Shelley
Judge Daniel Stanton Bacon, father-in-law of George Armstrong Custer
Inessa Armand, mistress of Lenin and the mother of Andre, his son.
Honinbo Shusaku, famous go player.
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Eurasian Portuguese Poet and Teacher. Resided in India
Alexandre Dumas, pθre, French author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, also contracted cholera in the 1832 Paris epidemic and almost died, before he wrote these two novels.
Jane Gibs
Charles X of France
Rutka Laskier (the polish Anne Frank)
