Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Upon birth, Calliope was stricken with the plague. Grief stricken and angry, Macduff swears revenge. Just as she was recovering, he himself was stricken down. Elsa is stricken with grief and falls to the ground dead. When Felix died in 1967, Irina was stricken by grief and died three years later. He was stricken by poverty during this period, resulting in his ill health. During his early life, Tesla was repeatedly stricken with illness. He was stricken with poverty and boils. Among those stricken by illness was General Joseph Wheeler. Superman appears to have been fatally stricken. After Chancellorsville, Perry was stricken with typhoid fever. Trilby is stricken with a nervous affliction. After the meeting with Gosch, Luciano was stricken with a heart attack and died. He was already stricken with tuberculosis, however.