Sadi Carnot, physicist, a pioneer of thermodynamics (d. 1832)
Charles X, King of France (d. 1836)
James K. Polk, eleventh president of the United States (d. 1849)
Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian soldier and German military theorist (d. 1831)
Elliot Bovill, Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements (1893)
Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor, engineer and futurist known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system, contracted cholera in 1873 at the age of 17. He was bedridden for nine months, and near death multiple times, but survived and fully recovered. In popular culture
Unlike tuberculosis ("consumption") which in literature and the arts was often romanticized as a disease of denizens of the demimonde or those with an artistic temperament, cholera is a disease which almost entirely affects the lower-classes living in filth and poverty. This, and the unpleasant course of the disease – which includes voluminous "rice-water" diarrhea, the hemorrhaging of liquids from the mouth, and violent muscle contractions which continue even after death – has discouraged the disease from being romanticized, or even the actual factual presentation of the disease in popular culture. The 1889 novel Mastro-don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga presents the course of a cholera epidemic across the island of Sicily, but does not show the suffering of those affected. In Thomas Manns novella Death in Venice, first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig, Mann "presented the disease as emblematic of the final bestial degradation of the sexually transgressive author Gustav von Aschenbach."
External links

Prevention and control of cholera outbreaks: WHO policy and recommendations
Cholera—World Health Organization
Cholera – Vibrio cholerae infection—Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"Cholera" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 262–267.