Famous People With Gout

I looked at famous people with gout a long time ago.

This was part of a “gout entertainment” section where I looked at humor and other interesting aspects of gout.

I got as far as introducing Alfred Lord Tennyson, but the project seemed to take more time than it was worth. Certainly, except for one or two enthusiastic gout sufferers, there seemed to be little interest, and I stopped working on the project.

As part of my website reorganization, I am going to republish the old pages in this new format. At the same time, I will share my list of famous people with gout. If you want to add to this, or want me to do some more research, let me know in the gout forum.

Famous People With Gout List

Person	Occupation	Date Of Birth	Died	Famous for
Ansel Adams	Photographer	20 February 1902	22 April 1984	Yosemite photographer
Alexander the Great	Royalty	Jul-356 BC	10-Jun-323 BC	World conqueror
Georges d’Amboise	Religion	30 December 1903	25-May-1510	Prime Minister under Louis XII
Queen Anne	Royalty	6-Feb-1665	1-Aug-1714	Queen of England, 1702-14
Benedict Arnold	Military	14-Jan-1741	14-Jun-1801	Betrayed colonists to British
William Waldorf Astor	Publisher	31-Mar-1848	18 October 1919	The Observer
Sir Joseph Banks	Botanist	13-Feb-1743	19-Jun-1820	Accompanied James Cook
Ludwig van Beethoven	Composer	17-Dec-1770	26-Mar-1827	Prominent composer
Georges Boulanger	Military	29-Apr-1837	30-Sep-1891	French general-turned-politician
William Boyce	Composer	7-Feb-1710	7-Feb-1779	Cathedral Music
Ford Madox Brown	Painter	16-Apr-1821	6-Oct-1893	English historical painter
Sir Richard Burton	Explorer	19-Mar-1821	20-Oct-1890	Translated The Arabian Nights
John Calvin	Religion	10-Jul-1509	27-May-1564	French Protestant Reformation
Girolamo Cardano	Doctor	24-Sep-1501	21-Sep-1576	De Subtilitate
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione	Painter	23-Mar-1609	5-May-1664	Italian pastoral painter
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh	Politician	18-Jun-1769	12-Aug-1822	Architected Napoleon’s defeat
William Cecil	Government	13-Sep-1520	5-Aug-1598	Closest advisor to Elizabeth I
Neville Chamberlain	Politician	18-Mar-1869	09 November 1940	Architect of appeasement
Charlemagne	Royalty	c. 747 AD	28-Jan-814 AD	Holy Roman Emperor
Dick Cheney	Politician	30 January 1941		Dubya’s VP, ex-CEO of Halliburton
Lord Clarendon	Government	18-Feb-1609	9-Dec-1674	The Clarendon Code
Pope Clement XII	Religion	7-Apr-1652	6-Feb-1740	Roman Catholic Pope, 1730-40
Grover Cleveland	Head of State	18-Mar-1837	24 June 1908	22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Poet	21-Oct-1772	25-Jul-1834	Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Wilkie Collins	Novelist	8-Jan-1824	23-Dec-1889	The Moonstone
Christopher Columbus	Explorer	21 December 1903	20-May-1506	Rediscovered the New World
William Congreve	Playwright	24-Jan-1670	19-Jan-1729	The Way of the World
Leonardo Da Vinci	Artist	15-Apr-1452	2-May-1519	Mona Lisa, The Last Supper
Erasmus Darwin	Naturalist	12-Dec-1731	18-Apr-1802	English naturalist, very bad poet
Charles-François Daubigny	Painter	15-Feb-1817	19-Feb-1878	French painter of landscapes, ducks
Daniel Defoe	Author	Sep-1660	24-Apr-1731	Robinson Crusoe
John Demjanjuk	Criminal	03 April 1920		Retired auto worker convicted for Nazi past
Charles Dickens	Novelist	7-Feb-1812	9-Jun-1870	Oliver Twist
Rudolf Diesel	Inventor	18-Mar-1858	30 September 1913	Inventor of the diesel engine
Benjamin Disraeli	Head of State	21-Dec-1804	19-Apr-1881	UK Prime Minister, 1874-80
John Donne	Poet	20 April 1904	31-Mar-1631	Anniversaries
John Dryden	Poet	19-Aug-1631	1-May-1700	Absalom and Achitophel
Allen W. Dulles	Spy	7-Apr-1893	29 January 1969	CIA Director, 1953-61
William Pitt the Elder	Head of State	15-Nov-1708	11-May-1778	Seven Years War
Quintus Ennius	Poet	c. 239 BC	c. 170 BC	Founder of Roman literature
Henry Fielding	Novelist	22-Apr-1707	8-Oct-1754	Tom Jones
Charles James Fox	Politician	24-Jan-1749	13-Sep-1806	U.K.’s first Foreign Secretary
Benjamin Franklin	Diplomat	17-Jan-1706	17-Apr-1790	American founding father
Frederick the Great	Royalty	24-Jan-1712	17-Aug-1786	King of Prussia 1740-86
Galileo Galilei	Astronomer	15-Feb-1564	8-Jan-1642	Copernican observational astronomer
King George IV	Royalty	12-Aug-1762	26-Jun-1830	King of England 1820-30
Edward Gibbon	Historian	8-May-1737	16-Jan-1794	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Goethe	Author	28-Aug-1749	22-Mar-1832	Most influential German writer
Thomas Gray	Poet	26-Dec-1716	30-Jul-1771	An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
William Grayson	Politician	01 October 1904	12-Mar-1790	US Senator from Virginia, 1789-90
Alec Guinness	Actor	02 April 1914	05 August 2000	Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars
Alexander Hamilton	Government	11-Jan-1757	12-Jul-1804	Primary author of The Federalist Papers
Sir William Rowan Hamilton	Mathematician	3-Aug-1805	2-Sep-1865	Inventor of Quaternions
John Hancock	Politician	23-Jan-1737	8-Oct-1793	First signer of the Declaration of Independence
William Harvey	Doctor	1-Apr-1578	3-Jun-1657	Discovered circulation of blood
King Henry VIII	Royalty	28-Jun-1491	28-Jan-1547	King of England, 1509-47
Hermann Hesse	Author	2-Jul-1877	09 August 1962	Siddhartha
Pope Honorius IV	Religion	c. 1210	3-Apr-1287	Roman Catholic Pope, 1285-87
John Hunter	Doctor	13-Feb-1728	16-Oct-1793	English pathologist
Thomas Jefferson	Head of State	13-Apr-1743	4-Jul-1826	3rd US President, 1801-09
Samuel Johnson	Lexicographer	18-Sep-1709	13-Dec-1784	A Dictionary of the English Language
Pope Julius III	Religion	10-Sep-1487	23-Mar-1555	Roman Catholic Pope, 1550-55
Kublai Khan	Royalty	23-Sep-1215	18-Feb-1294	Mongol Emperor, 1260-71
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille	Astronomer	15-May-1713	21-Mar-1762	Coelum Australe Stelliferum
Gottfried Leibniz	Mathematician	1-Jul-1646	14-Nov-1716	Co-Inventor of calculus
Jared Leto	Actor	26 December 1971		Harry in Requiem for a Dream
Carolus Linnaeus	Botanist	23-May-1707	10-Jan-1778	Created a taxonomy of the species
Louis XVIII	Royalty	17-Nov-1755	16-Sep-1824	King of France, 1814-15 & 1815-24
Lucian	Author	120 AD	c. 180 AD	Dialogues of the Dead
Karl Marx	Economist	5-May-1818	14-Mar-1883	Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
George Mason	Politician	11-Dec-1725	7-Oct-1792	Drafted Virginia’s Bill of Rights
Matthias Corvinus	Royalty	24-Feb-1443	6-Apr-1490	King of Hungary, 1458-90
Cosimo de Medici	Government	27-Sep-1389	1-Aug-1464	Uncrowned king of Florence
Michelangelo	Sculptor	6-Mar-1475	18-Feb-1564	Renaissance sculptor and painter
John Milton	Poet	9-Dec-1608	8-Nov-1674	Paradise Lost
Gouverneur Morris	Politician	31-Jan-1752	6-Nov-1816	American financier, Revolutionary politician
Pablo Neruda	Poet	12 July 1904	23 September 1973	Residencia en la Tierra
Isaac Newton	Physicist	4-Jan-1643	31-Mar-1727	Father of the clockwork universe
Nostradamus	Paranormal	14-Dec-1503	1-Jul-1566	Notoriously ambiguous prophet
Laurence Olivier	Actor	22 May 1907	11 July 1989	Shakespearean actor
Lord Palmerston	Head of State	20-Oct-1784	18-Oct-1865	Twice Prime Minister of UK
Colonel Tom Parker	Business	26 June 1909	21 January 1997	Elvis Presley’s manager
George Peabody	Business	18-Feb-1795	4-Nov-1869	American businessman, philanthropist
Albert Pike	Military	29-Dec-1809	2-Apr-1891	Confederate general, Freemason
Pope Pius II	Religion	18-Oct-1405	14-Aug-1464	Roman Catholic Pope, 1458-64
Pope Pius III	Religion	9-May-1439	18-Oct-1503	Roman Catholic Pope, 1503
Auguste Renoir	Painter	25-Feb-1841	03 December 1919	Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette
François de la Rochefoucauld	Author	15-Sep-1613	16-Mar-1680	Maxims
Peter Paul Rubens	Painter	28-Jun-1577	30-May-1640	Flemish baroque painter
Philip Schuyler	Military	11-Nov-1733	18-Nov-1804	US Revolutionary War general
Winfield Scott	Military	13-Jun-1786	29-May-1866	US Army general, Mexican campaign 1847
Pope Sergius II	Religion	?	27-Jan-847 AD	Roman Catholic Pope, 844-47
Septimius Severus	Royalty	11-Apr-146 AD	4-Feb-211 AD	Roman Emperor, 193-211 AD
William Shenstone	Poet	18-Nov-1714	11-Feb-1763	The Schoolmistress
Josias Simmler	Author	29 March 1904	24 April 1904	De Alpibus Commentarius
Sitting Bull	Military	c. 1831	15-Dec-1890	Warrior Chief of the Sioux
Sydney Smith	Religion	3-Jun-1771	22-Feb-1845	Instigated the Edinburgh Review
Gilbert Stuart	Painter	3-Dec-1755	9-Jul-1828	American portrait painter
Thomas Sydenham	Doctor	13-Sep-1624	29-Dec-1689	The English Hippocrates
Richard L. M. Synge	Chemist	28 October 1914	18 August 1994	Partition chromatography
William Howard Taft	Head of State	15-Sep-1857	08 March 1930	27th US President, 1909-13
Alfred Lord Tennyson	Poet	6-Aug-1809	6-Oct-1892	The Charge of the Light Brigade
Dylan Thomas	Poet	27 October 1914	09 November 1953	Most influential Welsh poet
Martin Van Buren	Head of State	5-Dec-1782	24-Jul-1862	8th US President, 1837-41
Queen Victoria	Royalty	24-May-1819	22 January 1901	Longest-reigning British monarch
Horace Walpole	Author	24-Sep-1717	2-Mar-1797	Wrote the first Gothic novel
William Warburton	Religion	24-Dec-1698	7-Jun-1779	Divine Legation
Harry Warren	Composer	24-Dec-1893	22 September 1981	Forty-Second Street
Anthony Wayne	Military	1-Jan-1745	15-Dec-1796	Revolutionary War general
David Wells	Baseball	20 May 1963		MLB pitcher, wrote Perfect I’m Not
Early Wynn	Baseball	06 January 1920	04 April 1999	MLB Hall of Famer