Bright's disease

List of people diagnosed with Bright's disease

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• Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859, an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history" ^[10]
• Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer, began suffering from Bright's disease in 1900, and died on 18 May 1909.
• Paul Anderson, American Olympic gold medalist weightlifter, died 15 August 1994. In 1961, he and his wife Glenda founded the Paul Anderson Youth Home in Vidalia, Georgia.
• Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States, died 18 November 1886.^[11]
• Francis C. Barlow, Union general who had played an important role in the American Civil War, died on 11 January 1896.
• Charles Bendire, soldier and ornithologist, died in 1897.^[12]
• Mathew B. Brady, early American photographer, died on 15 January 1896.^[13]
• John Bunny, comic star of the early motion picture era, died on 26 April 1915.
• George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian Father of Confederation, died on 20 May 1873.^[14]
• Katherine Jane Chase, socialite and daughter of Chief Justice of the United States Salmon P. Chase, died on 31 July 1899.
• Charles B. Clark, a US Representative from Wisconsin and one of the founders of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation.
• Ty Cobb, Hall of Fame member and Detroit Tigers center fielder, was diagnosed with a list of ailments, including Bright's disease, in 1959, and died on 17 July 1961.^[15][16]
• Sir Muthu Coomaraswamy, barrister and parliamentarian, died on 4 May 1879.
• Larry Corcoran, American Major League Baseball pitcher, died on 14 October 1891.
• Charles Cotton, English footballer, died on 3 January 1910.^[17]
• John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Victorian aristocrat and industrial magnate whose vast expenditure on buildings makes him the pre-eminent architectural patron of the 19th century; diagnosed with Bright's disease and died after multiple strokes on 9 October 1900.
• Marcus Daly, Irish immigrant; Copper King of Butte, Montana; discoverer of copper riches in the Anaconda mine and founder of Anaconda, Montana; first president of Amalgamated/Anaconda Copper Company; died on 12 November 1900.^[18]
• Emily Dickinson, poet, died on 15 May 1886.^[19]
• Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper in 1888, was found to be in the advanced stages of Bright's disease when she died.
• John Ericsson, Swedish-American mechanical engineer most famous for designing USS Monitor, died on 8 March 1889.^[20]
• Frederick William Faber, Catholic priest and author, died on 26 September 1863.
• Roswell Eaton Goodell, American politician and businessman, died on 9 October 1903.^[21][22]
• Sydney Greenstreet, British actor, died on 18 January 1954. He is remembered for the films The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and Passage to Marseille.
• Lizzie Halliday, Irish-American serial killer, died on 28 June 1918 after spending nearly half her life in a mental asylum.
• Alice Harrison, 19th-century stage actress, died in 1896.^[23]
• James J. Hogan, Yale football captain and three-time All-American, died on 10 March 1910.
• Winifred Holtby, British writer, died on 29 September 1935. She is remembered for South Riding, her biography of Virginia Woolf, and her journalism and feminist writings.
• Caroline Miskel Hoyt, actress, died on 2 October 1898, after childbirth.^[24]
• Martin Nelson Johnson, US Senator from North Dakota, died on 21 October 1909.^[25]
• Warren S. Johnson, founder of Johnson Controls, died on 5 December 1911, at the age of 64.
• James McHenry Jones, African American educator, school administrator, businessperson, and minister, died on 22 September 1909.^[26]
• Okakura Kakuzo, Japanese scholar, died on 2 September 1913.
• Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, died of complications thought to be related to Bright's disease on 25 July 1945.
• Rowland Hussey Macy Sr., an American businessman and founder of the department store chain R.H. Macy & Company, died on 29 March 1877.
• Gregor Mendel, Austrian scientist, teacher and Augustinian friar, died on 6 January 1884.^[27]
• Henry Chapman Mercer, a famous tile-maker, archeologist, and collector from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, died on 9 March 1930.
• Billy Miske, American light heavyweight and heavyweight boxer, who once fought Jack Dempsey for the World Heavyweight Boxing title, died on 1 January 1924.
• Helena Modjeska, Victorian actress, died on 8 April 1909.^[28]
• Wayne Munn, professional wrestler and collegiate football player, died in 1931.
• Commodore Nutt, the famous dwarf, died on 25 May 1881.
• Ouray, Tabeguache Ute chief, died on 24 August 1880.
• Mary Ewing Outerbridge, American tennis pioneer, died on 3 May 1886.
• Isaac C. Parker, US federal judge known as "The Hanging Judge," died on 17 November 1896.^[29]
• Howard Pyle, American illustrator, died on 9 November 1911.^[30]
• Thomas Brackett Reed, American politician from Maine and 32nd Speaker of the US House of Representatives, died on 7 December 1902.^[31]
• Bass Reeves, Old West lawman; his death in 1910 was attributed to Bright's disease.^[32]
• Henry Hobson Richardson, prominent North American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque, died on 27 April 1886.
• Albert Charles "Al" Ringling, eldest of the Ringling brothers, died on 1 January 1916.^[33]
• Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, first wife of Theodore Roosevelt, died on 14 February 1884 due to kidney failure caused by Bright's disease that was worsened due to pregnancy.^[34]
• Paddy Ryan, American bare-knuckle boxing heavyweight champion, died on 14 December 1900. Bright's disease was a disease among some early boxers who took frequent pounding to the abdomen in their bouts.^[35]
• Richard Warren Sears, an American businessman and co-founder of the department store chain Sears, Roebuck and Company, died on 28 September 1914.^[36]
• Jimmy Sebring, who played in the 1903 World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates and was the first player in World Series history to hit a home run, died on 22 December 1909.
• Charles Sumner Sedgwick, architect based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, died in 1922.
• Louis "French Louie" Seymour, woodsman, died on 28 February 1915.
• Kate Shelley, railroad heroine and the first woman in the United States to have a bridge named after her, the Kate Shelley High Bridge, died on 21 January 1912.^[37]
• James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States from 1909 until his death on 30 October 1912.^[38]
• Luke Short, famed gunfighter, was diagnosed with Bright's disease in early 1893, but died on 8 September of that year due to edema.
• Charles H. Spurgeon, London pastor known as "The Prince of Preachers", died in 1892.^[39]
• Robert Stroud, "the Birdman of Alcatraz," was diagnosed with Bright's disease at Fort Leavenworth Pentitentiary shortly after he began his original sentence, but lived on until 21 November 1963.
• Alfred H. Terry, an important Union Major General and, later, commanding officer of Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, died on 16 December 1890.
• Virgilio Tojetti, Italian-American painter^[40] and the son of Domenico Tojetti, died on 27 March 1901.^[41]
• Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer, died on 28 June 1915.
• Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University, died on 14 November 1915.
• Stanford White, prominent New York architect, diagnosed by autopsy after being killed by a shooting on 25 June 1906.
• Tennessee Williams had it as a child, resulting from diphtheria. He was unable to walk for a long time.
• Ellen Axson Wilson, first wife of Woodrow Wilson, died on 6 August 1914.^[42]
• Ross Youngs, Baseball Hall of Famer, died on 22 October 1927.