inventors who died of pneumonia

Joseph Bramah (1748 - December 9 1814), born Stainborough, Yorkshire, England

John Kanzius (born 1944), the American inventor, radio and TV engineer and one-time station owner from Erie, Pennsylvania, who has invented a method that he claims has the potential to treat cancer

John "Jack" Higson Cover, Jr. (April 6, 1920 – February 7, 2009), the inventor of the Taser stun gun

Lester William Polsfuss, known as Les Paul (June 9, 1915 – August 13, 2009), the American innovator, inventor, musician and songwriter

Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19 1906 – March 11 1971), the American inventor

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826), the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776)

Stonewall Jackson (born November 6, 1932), the Country musician who achieved his greatest fame during Country's Golden Honky Tonk Era in the late 50's and early 60's. He, named after the famous general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (April 20, 1871 – February 5, 1922), the engineer and inventor from Croatia

Benjamin Franklin (- April 17 1790), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America

Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822 - 1882), the Polish-Armenian pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer, who in 1856 built the first oil refinery in the world

George P. Nissen (born February 1, 1914 in Blairstown, Iowa), the American gymnast and inventor who developed the modern trampoline and made trampolining a worldwide sport

Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg (December 18, 1922 - November 11, 2006), the American microbiologist and immunologist and pioneer of bacterial genetics

Henry Edward "Ed" Roberts (September 13, 1941 - April 1, 2010), the American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who designed the first commercially successful personal computer in 1975

Major General George Owen Squier (March 21, 1863 - March 24, 1934), born in Dryden, Michigan, United States

Major General George Owen Squier (March 21, 1865- March 24, 1934), born in Dryden, Michigan, United States

Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822 - 1882), the Polish pharmacist and inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil

Hugh Bradner (November 5, 1915 - May 5, 2008), the American physicist at the University of California who is credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit, which helped to revolutionize scuba diving

Dr. George Rieveschl (b. 1916, Arlington Heights, Ohio - September 27, 2007), the American chemist and professor

Larry Stevenson, the inventor of the kicktail, the bent-upwards end of a skateboard, which made most of today's skateboarding tricks possible and essentially revolutionized the sport

Siegfried Hansen (1922-June 28,2002), the American electrical engineer inventor credited with development of space suit