Famous People who Died of Malaria

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1 - 4 of 4 Historically important and notable famous people who died of malaria ranked by their popularity on On This Day.

• 1. Vasco da Gama
• 2. David Livingstone
• 3. Mongkut
• 4. Fausto Coppi

List of Deaths from Malaria

• 1558-09-21 Charles V, King of Spain (1516-56) and Holy Roman Emperor (1519-56), dies of malaria at 58
• 1835-09-15 Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis, dies from yellow fever (or malaria) at 21
• 1862-12-18 Johnson Kelly Duncan, American architect and Confederate brig-general, dies at 35 of malarial fever
• 1868-10-01 Mongkut [Rama IV], King of Thailand (1851-68), opened country to the West (model for musical "The King and I"), dies of malaria at 63
• 1873-05-01 David Livingstone, Scottish explorer who was famously found by Henry Morton Stanley in Africa, dies allegedly of malaria and internal bleeding caused by dysentery at 60
• 1892-06-09 William Grant Stairs, Canadian-British explorer and adventurer with leading role controversial African expeditions, dies of malaria at 28
• 1902-08-10 George Vernon, English cricket batsman (1 Test; Middlesex CCC, MCC), dies from malaria at 46
• 1905-06-14 Tippu Tip [Hamad bin Muhammad al-Murjabi], Arabic ivory and slave trader based in Zanzibar, dies of malaria at about 73
• 1910-08-29 Johan Eilerts de Haan, Dutch naval officer and explorer (Lucie River, Suriname), dies, likely due to malaria, at 44
• 1933-06-22 Henry Birkin, British auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans class 8.0 1929; class 3.0 1931), dies from malaria at 36
• 1938-04-04 Cyril Christiani, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests; British Guiana), dies of malaria at 24
• 1938-04-15 César Vallejo, Peruvian-French poet and novelist (Los Heraldos Negros; Trilce; Russia in 1931), dies from recurrence of childhood malaria at 46
• 1940-09-27 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian psychiatrist (1st psychiatrist to win Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1927 for malaria inoculation for dementia paralytica), dies at 83
• 1945-09-18 "Blind" Willie Johnson, American gospel blues singer and guitarist ("Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground"), dies of malarial fever, syphilis and blindness at 48
• 1960-01-02 Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (Giro d'Italia 1940, 47, 49, 52-53; Tour de France 1949, 52; World Championship gold Individual pursuit 1947, road race 1953), dies from malaria at 40