Famous individuals with diseases, date of death before 1500

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Disputed / debated diagnoses

• Lucius Verus, Co-Emperor of Rome, (130-169; aged 38; one recorded CoD was stroke [1]; he died during The Antonine Plague, and therefore, he may have died of smallpox or measles.)

 

Parasitic infections and diseases

• Malaria 
• Tutankhamun (1342BC - 1325BC; aged 18-19; confirmed by genetic evidence of multiple strains of Plasmodium falciparum)

 

Psychiatric and neuropsychiatric diseases

• Depression
  

 

Vascular diseases

• Stroke
• Nerva, Emperor of Rome (30-98; aged 67; likely CoD)
  
• Trajan, Emperor of Rome (53-117; aged 63; likely CoD)

 

Wounds, injuries, and sequelae thereof

• Bone fracture
  
• Tutankhamun (1342BC - 1325BC; aged 18-19; left leg; open fracture without signs of wound healing; confirmed by CT scanning; likely CoD)
  

 

Sources

1. Incerti Auctoris; Epitome de Caesaribus; 16.5. "Qui Verus, inter Altinum atque Concordiam iter faciens, ictu sanguinis, quem morbum Graeci apoplhxin vocant, undecimo imperii anno exstinctus est". "Verus...by a stroke of blood, which disease the Greeks call apoplexy... he was killed."