Bright's Disease - Notable People With Bright's Disease

Notable People With Bright's Disease

• Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer
• Alexander III, Tsar of Russia
• Paul Edward Anderson, weightlifter and "The Strongest Man in the World"
• Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States
• Harry Arundel, professional baseball player
• Abu Bakar of Johor, Sultan of Johor (died 1895)
• Washington Bartlett, Mayor of San Francisco and Governor of California
• James Gillespie Blaine, U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time Secretary of State and nominee for president in 1884, developed Bright's disease and died in 1893.
• Madame Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society and author of The Secret Doctrine
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer
• Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian author of the novel The Master and Margarita as well as various other novels and plays
• John Bunny, American vaudeville and silent film comedian, 1915
• George-Étienne Cartier, one of the fathers of the Canadian Confederation
• Lydia Cassatt, older sister of the artist Mary Cassatt
• Lorne Chabot, professional hockey player
• Ty Cobb, Hall of Fame baseball player
• James Creelman, Canadian yellow journalist, died of the disease in February 1915 on his way to cover World War I from the German front
• Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman
• Jessie Bartlett Davis, contralto; mentress of Carrie Jacobs-Bond
• Emily Dickinson, American poet
• Catherine Eddowes, fourth victim of the canonical five murdered by Jack the Ripper in 1888
• Henry Edwards (entomologist)
• Arnold Ehret (1866–1922) a diet reformer, had cured himself of Bright's disease after he had been given up by medical doctors and after a nature cure could bring him only temporary relief. He discovered that fasting and a diet "free of mucus and albumin", consisting mainly of fruits cured not only his illness but other chronic disease.
• Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818–1877), American writer and poet
• Father Frederick William Faber, C.O., (1814-1863) English Catholic priest and noted hymn writer, founder of the Brompton Oratory
• Andrew Hull Foote (1806-1863), Federal naval officer during the American Civil War
• May Agnes Fleming (1840–1880), Canadian-American writer
• Sydney Greenstreet (1879–1954), English actor
• Dean Hart, professional wrestler (member of the Hart family)
• Harry T. Hays, Confederate Army general and Louisiana politician
• David B. Hill (1843-1910), American politician and Governor of New York
• Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), English novelist and journalist
• Robert Wood Johnson I (1845-1910), one of the founders of Johnson & Johnson and its first CEO
• David Laʻamea Kamanakapuʻu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua (1836-1891), King of Hawaii from 1874 to 1891
• Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of assassinated Irish revolutionary leader and chairman of the Provisional Government Michael Collins (all of her five siblings also suffered from the disease)
• Aldo Leopold, environmentalist
• H. P. Lovecraft, science-fiction/horror author died from a combination of Bright's disease and intestinal cancer
• Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1764–1820), Scottish explorer, first European to traverse North America and commercial partner in the North West Company
• Rowland Hussey Macy, founder of RH Macy & Company (Macy's department store)
• Abbot Gregor Mendel, O.S.A., friar and scientist whose paper Experiments in Plant Hybridization showed that inheritance follows specific laws. His research led to the science of genetics
• Father Edward McGlynn, Roman Catholic priest and social reformer from New York City, 1900
• John Milne, British seismologist, father of modern seismology, died of Bright's Disease.
• Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress, real-estate investor, and philanthropist, 1909
• Commodore Nutt, dwarf who became famous working for P T Barnum
• Chief Ouray, Native American peacemaker, chief of the Ute nation (1833–1880)
• Isaac Parker, "Hanging Judge" of the American West
• Linus Pauling, chemist and two-time Nobel laureate was successfully treated for a severe form of Bright's disease by Thomas Addis
• Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911), American illustrator and writer
• Bass Reeves, the first black commissioned United States deputy marshal west of the Mississippi River, 1910
• Henry Hobson Richardson, American architect, died of the disease in 1886
• Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, first wife of Theodore Roosevelt
• Hannah de Rothschild, Jewish English countess and philanthropist
• Richard Warren Sears, founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company
• Jimmy Sebring, professional baseball player
• Kate Shelley, Irish-American woman famous for crossing a damaged railroad bridge in a storm to save a train full of passengers
• Father Edward Sorin, C.S.C., founder of the University of Notre Dame and St Edward's University
• Charles Haddon Spurgeon, English Baptist pastor in London, nicknamed "The Prince of Preachers"
• Bram Stoker (1847–1912), writer of Dracula. Died having suffered from Bright's disease and two separate strokes.
• Victor Trumper, Australia's legendary batsman, one of the best "wet wicket" cricketers Australia ever produced, 1915
• George Tyrrell, modernist Roman Catholic priest
• Ellen Wilson, first wife of US President Woodrow Wilson
• Ross Youngs (1897–1927), professional baseball player; Giants outfielder and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Louis Van Zelst,a hunchback who was a mascot for University of Pennsylvania and The Philadelphia Athletics until his death from Bright's Disease in 1915