Famous People who Died of Yellow Fever
1 - 1 of 1 Historically important and notable famous people who died of yellow fever ranked by their popularity on On This Day.
List of Deaths from Yellow Fever
- 1704-07-17 Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (Minnesota River Valley), dies of yellow fever
- 1835-09-15 Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis, dies from yellow fever (or malaria) at 21
- 1863-11-02 Theodore Judah, American civil engineer (1st transcontinental railroad), dies of yellow fever at 37
- 1864-10-10 David Bullock Harris, US Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever
- 1866-09-18 Young Marshall Moody, American Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, dies of yellow fever at 44
- 1878-10-05 George B. Vashon, American, lawyer, academic and poet, first African American lawyer, dies of yellow fever at 54
- 1879-08-30 John Bell Hood, American Confederate general during the American Civil War (Army of Tennessee), dies of yellow fever at 48
- 1883-08-30 Ángela Peralta, Mexican operatic soprano, harpist, pianist, and composer, dies of yellow fever at 38
- 1901-08-24 Clara Maass, American army nurse who sacrificed her life at 25 to prove that mosquitoes carry yellow fever. Her death put an end to yellow fever experiments on human beings.
- 1902-11-23 Walter Reed, U.S. Army physician and bacteriologist who proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever, dies at 51
- 1902-12-07 Thomas Nast, German-American caricaturist and political cartoonist of late 1800s America, dies of yellow fever at 62
- 1920-07-03 William Crawford Gorgas, American physician and 22nd Surgeon-General of the U.S. Army (controlled yellow fever during building of the Panama Canal), dies at 65
- 1931-08-19 Aristides Agramonte y Simoni, Cuban-American Physician, Pathologist and Bacteriologist (yellow fever), dies at 63
- 1972-08-11 Max Theiler, South African-American virologist who developed vaccine for Yellow Fever (Nobel Prize 1951), dies at 73