Marie Curie, She died of leukemia. See Related links.
He was poisoned with a polonium-210 pellet when he was stabbed with the point of an umbrella. He died shortly afterward from radiation poisoning.
Marie Curie discovered radium and polonium with her husband Pierre Curie. She died from aplastic anemia, likely due to prolonged exposure to radiation during her research.
There have been a few high-profile cases of people dying from polonium poisoning, but the total number of deaths attributed to polonium worldwide is relatively low. Most cases of polonium poisoning are rare and typically related to accidental exposure or deliberate poisoning.
Depending on who where near the radiation poisoning?
Discovered the medical uses of X-Rays, after which her husband died of cancer (probably because of radiation poisoning).
The victims of radiation poisoning died day or weeks after the blasts.
Marie Curie died of radiation exposure in 1934 when nobody knew what it was until studies on her death reveled parts of the truth.
A post-mortem examination suggested Mr Litvinenko had died after being poisoned with the radioactive substance polonium-210.
Madame Curie
Probably not. Low levels of radiation would not linger for almost 60 years, and since the house was also not the source of the radiation, you should be just fine.
The bomb was a plutonium implosion type. The blast was large and the radiation fallout is deadly. Most of the people that died were from radiation poisoning.
Certainly Eben McBurney Byers (April 12, 1880 -- March 31, 1932) has died from radiation poisoning a while before Litvinenko, and even before Marie Curie. It's not clear, however, if he was the first.