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Accidental

Alcott, Louisa May - Poisoning
Amis, Sir Kingsley - Fall
Belloc, Hilaire - Shock
Bezzerides, A.I. - Fall
Buchan, John - Fall
Butler, Octavia E. - Fall
Camus, Albert - Car crash
Capote, Truman - Overdose
Farrell, J. G. - Drowned
Mahfouz, Naguib - Fall
Mitchell, Margaret - Car accident
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - Plane crash
Sebald, W.G. - Car crash
Shaw, Bernard - Fall
Vonnegut, Kurt - Fall

Addison's disease

Jane Austen

Alzheimer's

Blyton, Enid
Hayes, Joseph
Jolley, Elizabeth
Laxness, Halldór
Layton, Irving
Murdoch, Iris

Aneurysm

Benitez-Rojo, Antonio
Diehl, William

Anthrax

Anzengruber, Ludwig

Bronchitis

Collins, Wilkie

Cancer

Andersen, Hans Christian - Liver
Andrews, Lucilla - Lung
Asena, Duygu - Brain
Baldwin, James - Stomach
Benson, E.F. - Throat
Boylan, Clare - Ovarian
Buck, Pearl S.
Bukowski, Charles - Leukaemia
Buzo, Alex - Small Cell
Carpentier, Alejo
Carter, Angela - Lung
Coren, Alan - Lung
Copass, Jake - Leukaemia
Cox, Nigel
Cresswell, Helen - Ovarian
Dahl, Roald - Leukaemia
Daly, Maureen - Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Deakin, Roger - Brain
Dowd, Siobhan - Breast
Erdman, Paul E.
Fraser, George MacDonald
Galsworthy, John - Brain
Genet, Jean - Throat
Hall, Radclyffe - Stomach
Hammett, Dashiell - Lung
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Stomach
Hope, Anthony - Throat
Huxley, Aldous - Throat
Huysmans, Joris-Karl - Mouth
Isherwood, Christopher
Kelly, Lelia - Breast
Kempowski, Walter
Kyung-Ni, Park - Lung
Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di - Lung
Lovecraft, H. P. - Intestine
McGahern, John
Mitford, Nancy - Hodgkin's lymphoma
Müller, Heiner
Nathan, Melissa
Neruda, Pablo - Prostate
Nesbit, E. - Lung
O'Brien, Flann
O'Faolain, Nuala - metastatic
Oliphant, Margaret - Colon
Paley, Grace - Breast
Pasternak, Boris - Lung
Paz, Octavio
Perec, Georges - Lung
Rattigan, Sir Terence - Bone
Scott, Paul
Seuss, Dr.
Shelley, Mary - Brain
Sorrentino, Gilbert - Lung
Spears, Steve J. - Brain
Stewart, Fred Mustard
Strindberg, August - Stomach
Stromme, Elizabeth - Gastric
Süto, András - Melanoma
Tavener, Mark
Viertel, Peter - Lymphoma
Wasserstein, Wendy - Lymphoma
White, Antonia
Zinoviev, Alexander - Brain

Cirrhosis

Henry, O.
Kerouac, Jack

Complications of Surgery

Abbey, Edward - Esophageal bleeding

Diabetes

Behan, Brendan
Böll, Heinrich
Bunker, Edward
Ford, John M
Hanff, Helene
Siciliano, Enzo

Emphysema

Beckett, Samuel
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Moix, Terenci
St John, Madeleine

Euthanasia

Voskuil, J.J.

Fever

Bunyan, John
Lewis, Matthew Gregory

Gout

Milton, John

Heart Attack / Failure

Adams, Douglas
Agee, James
Akhmatova, Anna
Algren, Nelson
Auden, W.H.
Bauer, Wolfgang
Blok, Alexander
Brecht, Bertolt
Brodsky, Joseph
Buchheim, Lothar-Günther
Bunin, Ivan
Carballido, Emilio
Cela, Camilo Jose
Conan Doyle, Arthur
Coward, Sir Noel
Craik, Dinah Maria
Dick, Philip K
Dundy, Elaine
Faulkner, William
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fleming, Ian
Forbes, Colin
Gemmell, David
Golding, Sir William
Grant, Charles L.
Guiver, Patricia
Hoffman, Lee
Irving, Washington
Jones, James
Lem, Stanislaw
Levin, Ira
Ludlum, Robert
Malamud, Bernard
Mann, Thomas
Markham, E. A.
Rand, Ayn
Rao, Raja
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Steinbeck, John
Taylor, Theodore
Thiele, Colin
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
Werfel, Franz
Wood, Mrs Henry
Yizhar, S.

Hepatitis

Head, Bessie

HIV / AIDS

Asimov, Isaac

Infection

Dahlbeck, Eva

Jaundice

Fielding, Henry

Kidney Failure

Bulgakov, Mikhail
Eliot, George
Gabre-Medhin, Tsegaye
Lewis, C.S.
Mailer, Norman
Rahman, Shamsur

Killed In Action

Owen, Wilfred

Liver Failure

Milligan, Spike
Seranella, Barbara
Wheatley, Dennis

Malaria

Dante

Meningitis

Mark, Jan
Manzoni, Alessandro

Murdered/ Executed

Anjuman, Nadia
Babel, Isaac
Bodenheim, Maxwell
Childers, Erskine
Lorca, Federico Garcia

Natural Causes / Old Age

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
Aleixandre, Vicente
Anagnostakis, Manolis
Andric, Ivo
Auld, William
Bagnold, Enid
Bedford, Sybille
Bellow, Saul
Blumenfeld, Simon
Brakman, Willem
Benschop, Nel
Cain, James M.
Canetti, Elias

Natural Causes / Old Age

Campton, David
Chraïbi, Driss
Christie, Agatha
Claesson, Stig
Disraeli, Benjamin
Domin, Hilde
Dykeman, Wilma
Elytis, Odysseus
Falkner, John Meade
Faludy, György
Ficowski, Jerzy
Gibbons, Stella
Godey, John
Gower, John
Gyllensten, Lars
Haggard, H. Rider
Hamsun, Knut
Harrer, Heinrich
Hatar, Gyozo
Haylock, John
Henestrosa, Andrés
High, Philip E.
Hudson, William Henry
Idilbi, Ulfat
Isahakyan, Avetik
Jimenez, Juan Ramon
Johnson, Eyvind
Kiely, Benedict
Knox-Mawer, June
Lampo, Hubert
Lanzmann, Jacques
Lee, Laurie
L'Engle, Madeleine
Lincoln, John
Lind, Jakov
Loynaz, Dulce Maria
Machen, Arthur
Malerba, Luigi
Marsh, Ngaio
Masson, David I.
Meredith, George
Milosz, Czeslaw
Moos, Lotte
Newby, Eric
Newby, P.H.
Olsen, Tillie
O'Neill, Judith
Otero, Lisandro
Phillips, Thomas Hal
Pontoppidan, Henrik
Rathbone, Julian
Ros, Amanda McKittrick
Sachs, Nelly
Schwarz-Bart, André
Seghers, Anna
Seifert, Jaroslav
Simon, Claude
Somlyó, György
Spillane, Mickey
Sujatha
Szepes, Mária
Troyat, Henri
Tucker, Wilson
Viereck, Peter
Voltaire
Wolkers, Jan
Wyndham, Joan
Yglesias, Helen
Zweig, Arnold

Oedema

Cervantes, Miguel de
Sartre, Jean-Paul - Lung

Pancreatitis

Gardiner, John Reynolds

Parkinson's

Betjeman, Sir John
Peake, Mervyn
Torrington, Jeff

Plague

Fletcher, John

Pleurisy

Hardy, Thomas

Pneumonia

Barrie, J. M.
Carroll, Lewis
Creeley, Robert
Goedicke, Patricia
Green, Gerald
Hauptmann, Gerhart
Kunitz, Stanley
Nobuo, Kokima
Orr, Mary
Sharp, William
Sheldon, Sydney
Thomas, Dylan
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Umbral, Francisco
Wallace, Edgar
Whitney, Phyllis A.

Post-Polio Syndrome

Wilson, Robert Anton

Progressive Superanuclear Palsy

Hassler, Jon

Pulmonary Fibrosis

Benchley, Peter

Respiratory Illness / Failure

Clarke, Arthur C.
Hergé
Hyder, Qurrat-ul-Ain
McClure, James
Prather, Richard S.
Qasimi, Ahmad Nadeem
White, Patrick - asthma complications

Septicaemia

Cabrera Infante, Guillermo

Starvation

Gogol, Nikolai

Stroke / Cerebral Haemorrhage

Baum, L. Frank
Bernau, George
Churchill, Sir Winston
Collins, Larry
Dickens, Charles
Fitzgerald, Penelope
Hargreaves, Roger
Jerome, Jerome K
Kaputikyan, Silva
Kipling, Rudyard
McCullers, Carson
Milne, A.A.
Norris, Leslie
Ogilvie, Elizabeth
Quasimodo, Salvatore
Pearce, Philippa
Rubens, Bernice
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Thackeray , William
Uhse, Bodo
Wharton, Edith

Suicide

Fergusson, Robert
Hemingway, Ernest - Gunshot
Horse, Harry
Kawabata, Yasunari - Gas
Levi, Primo - Fall
Lowry, Malcolm - Overdose
Mayakovsky, Vladimir - Gunshot
Mishima, Yukio - Seppuku
Pavese, Cesare - Overdose
Uhnak, Dorothy - Overdose
Zweig, Stefan - Overdose

Tuberculosis

Hasek, Jaroslav
Jefferies, Richard
Orwell, George
Parra, Teresa de la
Södergran, Edith

Typhus

Frank, Anne

Ulcer

Joyce, James

Unknown

Asturias, Miguel Angel
Behn, Aphra
Belsevica, Vizma
Berggolts, Olga
Bergson, Henri
Bjørnson, Bjørnstierne
Blake, William
Bryl, Yanka
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chesterton, G.K.
Defoe, Daniel
Deniau, Jean-Francois
Dibdin, Michael
Eames, Marion
Gjellerup, Karl
Grahame, Kenneth
Grimm, Brothers
Grossmith, George & Weedon
Karlfeldt, Erik Axel
Kingsley, Charles
koning, Hans
Lofting, Hugh
Lope de Vega
Machiavelli
Mann, Heinrich
Marryat, Captain Frederick
Massinger, Philip
Mazisi, Kunene
McGown, Jill
Moinot, Pierre
Montgomery, L. M.
Neruda, Jan
Pirandello, Luigi
Poe, Edgar Allan
Potter, Beatrix
Probst, Pierre
Prudhomme, Sully
Reid, Captain Mayne
Reymont, Wladyslaw
Shakespeare, William
Spark, Muriel
Spyri, Johanna
Tagore, Rabindranath
Thirkell, Angela
Thompson, Flora
Trollope, Anthony
Turgenev, Ivan
Undset, Sigrid
Vos, Ida
Waltari, Mika
Williams, Charles
Williamson, Henry
Woolrich, Cornell
Yeats, W. B.

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