Henry David Thoreau
American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher
19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
John Keats
English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, although his poems had been published for only four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received, but his fame grew rapidly after his death
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher
Stephen Crane
American poet, novelist, and short story writer
Emily Bronte
English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature
Jane Austen
English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century