Malaria has killed millions and many more have suffered from it.
During the past 100 years, nearly 150 million to 300 million people
would have died from the effects of malaria, accounting for 2-5% of
all deaths. In the early part of the century, malaria probably
accounted for 10% of global deaths to malaria and in India it
probably accounted for over half. Here is a list of some of the more famous human beings who died or suffered from malaria.
The Rich and The Famous Who Died of Malaria:
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Emperor Titus Caesar Vespasianus Augustus died of fever, probably malaria, in AD 81
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Alexander the Great is believed to have died of malaria in 323 BC, on the
route to India beyond Mesopotamia
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Alaric, King of the Goths, died of malaria in fourth century AD
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St. Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, died after
a 10 day febrile illness that could have been malaria
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Otto II, King of the Germans and Emperor of Rome died on malaria on 7
Dec., 983
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Pope Gregory V is thought to have
died of malaria in 999
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Pope Damasus II died in 1048 after only about 3 weeks in office, probably
of malaria
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Friedrich IV, Herzog von Schwaben died of malaria on 19 August 1167
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German King and Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich died of malaria in 1197
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Genghis Khan, the Mongol overlord of the 13th Century who set up the
largest land empire ever known, is believed to have suffered from a malaria
like illness in the spring of 1227, even as he was nursing his injuries. After
several months of sickness, the Great Khan died. He was about sixty years old.
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Richard, Earl of Cornwall died on 2 April 1272 of having been bled for ague
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Henry of Luxemburg died at Siena of a fever, probably malaria, on 24
August 1313
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Dante, Italian poet died of malaria 1321
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Byzantine Emperor Andronicus III Palaeologus is thought to have died of
malaria in 1341
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In 1351, the much feared and
ruthless ruler, Sultan Muhammed bin Tughluk contracted malaria while on a
military campaign against rebels and within a short time succumbed to the
disease.
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King Edward IV died in 1483 of various complications, including malaria
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One pope after another succumbed to malaria. Pontiffs from the north were
especially vulnerable, and sometimes candidates for the papacy were difficult
to find. The cardinals, too, were not immune, and consistently lost members to
fever when gathering to choose a new pope. Finally, in the fourteenth century,
foreign popes were no longer permitted to live in Rome, due to fear of "Roman
fever."
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Pope Leo X died of malaria in 1521
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Pope Sixtus V died of malaria in 1590
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Giambattista Castana was elected Pope Urban VII in 1590, but died of malaria
before his coronation
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In 1623, when the Sacred College of Cardinals was convened to choose a
successor to Pope Gregory XV, malaria felled many of these clergymen.
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Roman Emperor Charles V supposedly died of malaria in 1558
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Ethiopian Emperor Minas became ill with malaria and then died in 1563
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Spanish Explorer Alvaro Mendana de Neira, discoverer of the Soloman Islands
in 1568, died of malaria in 1595
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Caravaggio, Italian painter probably died of malaria in 1610
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Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, died of malaria in 1658
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Lord Byron died of malaria in Greece in 1824
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Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry supposedly contracted malaria
in Venezuela and died of the disease in 1819
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Josef Ressel, inventor of the propeller, died in 1857 of malaria
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King Mongkut of Thailand died of malaria in 1868
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Rebka Chenashu (Ethiopian 200m and 400m bonze medalist) died of malaria
in 2003 at age 17
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Amrish Puri (Indian Film Actor) died in January 2005 of a blood clot
to the brain while being treated for malaria
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Francis Ona, the Bougainville secessionist leader of Papua New Guinea,
died of malaria at the age of 52 on 24 July, 2005
The Rich and The Famous Who Suffered From Malaria:
American Presidents Who Suffered From Malaria:
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George Washington, (1st President, 1789-1797): Developed
his first bout with malaria in Virginia in 1749 at age 17.
He had periodic attacks, recorded in 1752, 1761, 1784, and
1798.
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James Monroe (5th President, 1817-1825) caught malaria
while visiting a swampy area along the Mississippi in 1785.
He continued to have bouts for many years
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Andrew Jackson (7th President, 1829-1837) is thought to
have contracted malaria in Florida swamps during the
Seminole campaigns of 1818-1821
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Abraham Lincoln (16th President, 1861-1865) had periodic
bouts of malaria when growing up
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Ulysses S. Grant (18th President, 1869-1877) had malaria throughout the 1850's
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James A. Garfield (20th President, 1881) developed
malaria in 1848 in Ohio at age 16
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Theodore Roosevelt (26th President, 1901-1909) acquired
malaria during a visit to Brazil in 1914
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John F. Kennedy (35th President, 1961-1963) acquired
malaria during World War II, about 1943
Royalty
- Belisarius in Rome in 536
- Emperor Kangxi (Emperor of the Qing dynasty, 1661-1722) was cured of malaria by French Jesuit missionaries in about
1693
- Louisa Maria, Queen of Spain, was cured of malaria with quinine in 1678
- James I
- King Charles II had recorded bouts of malaria in 1678 and 1679 and was
cured using quinine
- Hannibal's
wife and son
- Emperor Isabel
- Felipe II
- Felipe IV
- Felipe V
- Fernando VI
- Carlos II
And many others.....
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Christopher Columbus (had to cut short his fourth voyage to the new world
in 1503, again attempting to find a sea route to Asia, due (in part) to malaria)
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Cesare Borgia in 1503
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, surgeon and writer of Sherlock Holmes fame
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Alfred Russell Wallace, co-discoverer along with Charles Darwin of the concept
of Natural Selection
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Meriwether Lewis, explorer
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Henry Morton Stanley and Dr. David Livingstone, famed explorers
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Jefferson Davis, Politician and Provisional President of the Confederate
States of America
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Lucretia Garfield, first lady to President Garfield
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George B. McClellan, Civil war general
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Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam revolutionary leader
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Jesse James
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General John J. Pershing
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Mahatma Gandhi, Father of Indian nation
- Ernest Hemingway, celebrated author
- Lord Horatio Nelson
- Leon Trotsky
- Eugene O'Neill, Playwrite
- Sir Harry Secombe
- Ross Kemp (Former East Enders star)
- Santa Teresa de Jesús
- Hernán Cortés
- Don Adams (Actor and director)
- Errol Flynn (Actor)
- Peta Wilson (Actress)
- Carol Landis (Actress)
- Raymond Burr (Actor)
- Audie Murphy (Actor and war hero)
- Michael Caine (Actor)
- Christopher Lee (Actor)
- Michael Dudikoff (Actor)
- Jeremy Piven (Actor)
- Al Jolson
- Jane Goodall, naturalist
- Davy Crockett, outdoorsman and congressman
- Steve Reeves (Body builder)
- Chris Matthews (MSNBCs Hardball)
- Anderson Cooper (Former ABC news correspondent)
- Roberto Clemente (Baseball player)
- Wilson Kipeter (800m champion)
- Yakubu Aiyegbeni (Soccer star)
- Dikembe Mutombo (Star center for the New Jersey Nets)
- Ezekiel Kemboi (Olympic 3000m steeplechase champion of Kenya)
- Mother Teresa was hospitalized with malaria in 1993
- Leander Paes, Indian tennis star
and many others.....
Some NEW victims of malaria:
- Didier Zokora, the Ivory Coast international playing for Tottenham
had a mild bout of malaria in Oct 2006 [See]
- Paul Smith, aged 30, a British oil worker kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria died
of malaria while still a hostage held in mosquito infested swamps. Paul and
colleagues were snatched on October
3, 2006 inside the Exxon Mobil residential compound in Eket [See]
- DR Congo's Lomana Lua Lua was struck down by malaria while
on international duty in September 2005 [See]
Sources:
Also See
History of
Origin of Malaria
Parasite And Its Spread
History of Malaria During
Wars and Upheavels
Malaria In
Ancient
Literature
History of
Scientific Discoveries on Malaria
History of
Anti
Malaria treatment
History of Malaria
Control
History of Malaria
And Its Control In India |
