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Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. Influenced by Japanese woodcuts, he mainly worked with black ink. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement. His works contributed to the development of Art Nouveau style. His health deteriorated until his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of 25 

Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He created a string of operas, concertos, symphonies and sonatas that profoundly shaped classical music. Throughout his life he suffered repeatedly from rheumatic fever. Later in life he experienced deep depression, periods of hysteria, and hectic creativity. Some speculate he suffered from bipolar disorder

Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, Latin&Greek Scholar. He suffered from chronic illness throughout his life. He also had syphilis. At 44 he suffered a mental collapse which lead to a complete loss of his mental faculties. His disease consisted of migraines, psychiatric disturbances, cognitive decline with dementia, and stroke. He eventually died of Pneumonia.

Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He greatly influenced the development of Western Art. He is considered to be the greatest artist of his lifetime. In order to study the human figure he examined cadavers for insight into anatomy However, the exposure to corpses had an adverse effect on his health. After years of working on the Sistine Chapel, the physical rigor of painting the ceiling had taken it’s toll. He experienced depression, deep distress, and an explosive temper. He suffered from nephrolithiasis throughout his life, and may have been the cause of his death.

Paul Klee was a Swiss/German artist. He is best known for his large body of work, influenced by cubism, surrealism, and expressionism. He suffered from scleroderma, a long term autoimmune disease that results in hardening of the skin and also affects internal organs. He suffered severe pain and discomfort until his death at age 60

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist who is known best for her self portraits. She is admired today not only as a painter but as a feminist icon. She contracted polio at the age of six and spent nine months bedridden. She suffered from spina bifida which damaged her right leg and foot, causing her to limp. She began painting after she was severely injured from a bus accident. She was impaled by a steel handrail that went through her hip and came out the other side. she also suffered fractures in her spine and hip. She began painting in the hospital during her recovery.

The Bronte Sisters were a literary family from nineteenth-century England. They were well known poets and novelists. They were heavily influenced by the death of their mother and two older sisters. Together they wrote the famous novels: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. All three suffered and died of tuberculosis.

Watteau was a French Painter who is attributed to expanding the Rococo movement beyond architecture and into painting. He died at the age of 36 after suffering from tuberculosis. He died just as his career was beginning to flourish 

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric. His father died before he was born, leaving he and his mother struggling without steady income. He was also a sickly boy. He suffered from Meniere's Disease which causes nausea and hearing issues. At the end of his life he suffered a stroke and lost the ability to speak. His greatest works are Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal.

Chuck Close is an American artists, painter, and photographer. He is known for his massive-scale portraits and his photorealist style. He was diagnosed at a young age with prosopagnosia(facial blindness), a neuromuscular condition, and dyslexia. At the age of 11, his father died and his mother fell ill with breast cancer. During this time he also suffered a kidney infection which left him bedridden for about a year. in 1988, his spinal artery ruptured which left him almost entirely paralyzed. After physical therapy, Close, who became permanently confined to a wheelchair, regained the partial use of his limbs. He continued to paint and work. 

Giorgione was a High Renaissance style Venetian painter. He was one of the first painters to paint people in a landscape setting. He died of the plague at the age of 33.

Chekhov was a leading Russian playwright and the master of modern short story in the late 19th/early 20th century. He had suffered from tuberculosis since his youth and died at the age of 44.

Keats was an English romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets. His poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in Today's English Literature. He died at the age of 25 after years of suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.