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2011 Event - Physician Conrad Murray, is found guilty of manslaughter in the death of the American entertainer Michael Jackson

2004 Death - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, writer/physician, On Death and Dying, dies at 78

2003 Death - Laurel Clark, astronaut, physician on the Columbia mission, STS-107, dies at 41

2000 Death - Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80

1996 Death - Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81

1995 Death - Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79

1995 Death - Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79

1993 Death - Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84

1993 Death - Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies

1993 Death - Albert Sabin, physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86

1993 Death - Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician, dies

1990 Death - Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73

1989 Death - Joseph Wybran, Belgian physician/Jews foreman, murdered

1987 Event - National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C.

1986 Death - Paul Tournier, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings, dies from carcinoma, Troinex, Switzerland

1986 Death - Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99

1981 Death - A[rchibald] J[oseph] Cronin, physician/author (Citadel), dies at 84

1975 Death - Laszlo Nemeth, Hungarian physician/author (Galilei/Iszony), dies at 73

1967 Death - Bela Schick, Hungarian/U.S. children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90

1963 Death - William Carlos Williams, U.S. physician/poet, dies at 79

1961 Event - 1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell

1958 Death - Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician, dies at 72

1956 Birthday - Jay C. Buckey, New York City, physician/astronaut, STS-58 alt, sk: 90

1956 Death - Fritz Kunkel, German physician/charachterologist, dies at 66

1954 Death - Francis B Young, British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69

1952 Death - Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81

1952 Birthday - Bill Frist, born in Nashville, Tennessee, physician, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, U.S. Senate Majority Leader 2003 - 2007

1951 Death - Phillippus Paracelsus, physician/alchemist, dies at 48

1947 Birthday - Luc Journet, Belgian physician, Order of Zonnetempel

1946 Birthday - Deepak Chopra, born in Punjab, British India, author, speaker, physician, co-founded the Chopra Center, made cameo appearance in movie, 'The Love Guru', 2008

1946 Birthday - Lord Walton of Detchant, physician, Warden of Green College Oxford

1944 Death - Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer, dies at 74

1942 Death - Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50

1941 Death - Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist/educationalist, dies at 74

1940 Birthday - Ana Isabel Anderson-Imbert, physician, rheumatologist

1940 Birthday - Joseph L. Goldstein, born in Sumter, South Carolina, physician, Nobel-1985

1938 Birthday - Helen Caldicott, born in Melbourne, Australia, physician/anti-war activist

1938 Birthday - Keith Peters, born in Baglan, Wales, physician, head of the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge

1935 Birthday - Louis Keith, born in Chicago, physician, expert on multiple-births

1933 Birthday - Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools

1928 Birthday - Zacharias J de Beer, South African physician/MP, DP

1925 Death - Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies

1923 Death - Max Nordau, Sudfeld, German physician/zionists leader, dies at 73

1920 Birthday - Alex Comfort, born in England, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, wrote "The Joy of Sex", a scholarly approach to sexual behavior

1919 Birthday - John Cox, Flemish/U.S. painter/dir, Museum of Fine Physician, Boston

1918 Birthday - Lord Winstanley, physician/British MP, Labour

1918 Death - Botkin, personal physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death

1918 Death - John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies

1916 Birthday - Anita V Figueredo, physician/humanitarian

1916 Death - Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, physician, dies

1916 Death - Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist, dies at 73

1915 Birthday - William Howell Masters, sex author/physician

1915 Birthday - Alberto Burri, Italian physician, sculptor and abstract painter

1915 Birthday - Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher

1915 Death - George Mimot, physician (Nobel-1934), dies

1914 Death - Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84

1913 Birthday - Ben[jamin S] Polak, born in Netherlands, physician/communist/resistance fighter

1913 Birthday - Douglas Black, physician

1913 Birthday - Gordon Wolstenholme, physician

1911 Birthday - Charles Fletcher, physician/CEO, ASH

1911 Birthday - Elsie Agnes Giorgi, physician/humanitarian

1910 Event - William D. Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia

1910 Death - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89

1910 Birthday - Eric Scowen, physician

1909 Birthday - Helen O Dickens, Henderson, U.S. physician/gynaecologist

1908 Birthday - Everhardus J van Romondt, physician/Dutch Antillean minister of Eco

1907 Birthday - Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician

1905 Death - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85

1904 Birthday - William Hitzig, Austria, Maxwell physician

1904 Death - Niels Ryberg Finnen, Danish physician (Nobel 1903), dies

1904 Birthday - Mary Calderone, physician and president and co-founder of the SIECUS

1902 Birthday - Edward Wayne, physician, Queen of Scotland

1901 Birthday - Charles Huggins, Canada, U.S. physician

1901 Birthday - Laszlo Nemeth, Hungarian physician/author, Gyasz/Galilei

1899 Birthday - Georg von Bekesy, born in Budapest, Hungary, physician, Nobel-1961

1898 Birthday - Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician, Nobel 1974

1898 Birthday - Paul Tournier, born in Geneva, Switzerland, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings

1896 Birthday - Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician, cortisone-Nobel

1895 Birthday - Andre Cournand, physician

1894 Death - Willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian, dies at 71

1892 Event - Dr. Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal

1891 Birthday - Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician, stage, author and resistance fighter

1887 Birthday - Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician

1886 Birthday - Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician, Artus Quellin

1885 Birthday - George Minot, U.S., physician, worked on anemia, Nobel 1934

1885 Death - Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63

1885 Birthday - Willem H. Winkel, Dutch physician/founder, Red Cross of Curacao

1884 Birthday - Francis B Young, British physician/writer, White Ladies

1882 Event - 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office

1880 Birthday - Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet

1877 Death - Jared Kirtland, U.S. physician/naturalist, dies

1876 Death - Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67

1874 Death - Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary, dies at 79

1874 Birthday - Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian physician, Reaction of Pirquet

1873 Birthday - Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician, Nobel-1936

1873 Death - David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60

1872 Birthday - Alfons van de Perre, Flemish physician/MP

1869 Birthday - Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer

1869 Birthday - Alice Hamilton, physician/writer, workmen's compensation laws

1867 Birthday - Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist

1866 Death - Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam physician/social activist, dies at 53

1862 Birthday - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician, Nobel 1911

1860 Birthday - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist, Nobel 1903

1860 Death - Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67

1859 Birthday - Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, physician/linguist, Esperanto

1859 Birthday - Havelock Ellis, U.S. physician/sexologist, Psychology of Sex

1854 Birthday - Aletta Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician

1850 Death - William Prout, physician/chemist, dies

1849 Birthday - Dudley Allen Sargent, U.S., physician/educator, Harvard U gymnasium

1849 Death - Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician, dies

1849 Birthday - William Osler, born in Canada, physician/author, circulatory system

1849 Event - Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US

1843 Birthday - Camillo Golgi, Italy, physician, cytologist, Nobel 1906

1843 Death - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88

1842 Birthday - Dr. Crawford Long, 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic

1842 Birthday - Anne CAI van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist

1840 Birthday - Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician

1838 Birthday - John Shaw Billings, U.S., librarian and army physician

1838 Death - Francesco Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician on St. Helena, dies at 57

1834 Birthday - Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis

1831 Death - Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55

1831 Birthday - John Bratton, Old Reliable, U.S. physician/Confederate Brigadier General

1829 Birthday - Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author, Roland Blake

1828 Death - Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology), dies at 70

1824 Birthday - Elisha Harris, U.S., physician/found American Public Health Assoc

1823 Birthday - Willem J F Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian

1822 Birthday - Alfred Meissner, Austrian physician/writer

1822 Birthday - Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician, stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease

1822 Birthday - Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author, Goethe

1821 Birthday - Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician

1819 Birthday - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, Crises Commercial

1813 Death - Benjamin Rush, physician and abolotionist, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 67

1813 Birthday - Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist

1809 Birthday - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, physician/author, Old Ironsides

1809 Death - Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies

1809 Birthday - John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, Silver Fleet

1807 Death - Erasmus Darwin, physician/writer (Influence), dies

1806 Birthday - Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria, physician/philosopher

1803 Death - Matthew Thornton, Irish / U.S. physician and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 88

1802 Death - Aepinus, Franz UT Hoch, German physician/physicist, dies at 77

1800 Birthday - Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet, Ritornellen

1799 Death - John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English physician/nature investigator, dies at 68

1799 Birthday - Jean Poiseuille, physician/physiologist, blood pressure

1795 Birthday - Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author

1795 Birthday - Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary

1795 Death - Josiah Bartlett, U.S. physician and judge, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 65

1793 Birthday - Jared Kirtland, U.S., physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries

1790 Death - Lyman Hall, U.S. physician and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 66

1790 Birthday - Marshall Hall, Basford Nottinghamshire, physician

1789 Birthday - Richard Bright, England, physician, Bright's Disease/nephritis

1789 Birthday - Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher

1785 Birthday - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician and chemist, electric car 1835

1777 Death - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69

1774 Death - Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80

1773 Birthday - Thomas Young, British philologist/physician, light interference

1762 Death - Johann F Gronovius, physician/botany, dies at 76

1761 Death - Peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse Bottle), dies at 69

1758 Birthday - Franz Joseph Gall, German and French physician, frenology

1755 Birthday - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician and originator of homeopathy

1754 Birthday - Benjamin Waterhouse, physician, smallpox vaccine pioneer

1754 Death - Richard Mead, physician, dies

1753 Death - Hans Sloane, English physician (British Museum), dies at 92

1749 Birthday - Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination

1745 Birthday - Benjamin Rush, Byberry, Pennsylvania, physician, general and signer, Declaration of Independence

1745 Birthday - Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry

1744 Birthday - John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist

1738 Birthday - Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor, guillotine

1738 Birthday - John Pindar, physician/poet

1735 Death - John Arbuthnot, physician/mathematician, dies

1734 Birthday - Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist, Mesmerism

1731 Birthday - Simon Stijl, Frisian physician/writer

1730 Birthday - John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English personal physician of Maria Theresia

1730 Birthday - Gualtherius "Wouter" van Doeveren, Zealand-Flanders physician

1730 Death - Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79

1729 Birthday - Josiah Bartlett, U.S. physician/judge/signer Declaration of Independence

1728 Death - John Friend, physician/politician, dies

1728 Death - John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies

1724 Birthday - Aepinus, Franz UT Hoch, German physician/physicist

1724 Birthday - Lyman Hall, U.S. physician, signed Declaration of Independence

1721 Death - Rudolph J Camerarius, German physician (sexuality plans), dies

1718 Death - Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63

1707 Death - Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53

1700 Death - Willem ten Rhijne, Dutch physician in Batavia, dies at about 53

1694 Birthday - Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV

1692 Birthday - Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist, Leyden jar

1686 Birthday - Johann F Gronovius, Dutch physician/botany

1682 Death - Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53

1673 Birthday - Richard Mead, London, physician

1665 Birthday - Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician, sexuality plant

1660 Birthday - Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder, British Museum

1654 Birthday - Bernard Nieuwentyt, Dutch physician/theologist

1654 Birthday - Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet

1647 Death - Johan van Beverwijck, physician (Treas of Ongesontheyt), dies at 52

1635 Death - Jan Baptista Van Helmont, physician/alchemist, dies

1619 Death - Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53

1617 Death - Prosper Alpinus, Italian physician/botanist, dies at 63

1603 Death - William Gilbert, Queen Elizabeth's physician, dies at 59

1597 Death - Petrus Forestus, Dutch physician (Willem of Orange), dies

1594 Birthday - Johan van Beverwijck, Dutch physician/writer, Treasure of Health

1588 Death - Petrus Dathenus, Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies

1585 Death - Rembert Dodoens, Rembertus Dodonaeus, physician/botanist, dies at 67

1585 Birthday - Caspar Bartholin, Malmo, physician, theologian, writer on anatomy

1578 Birthday - William Harvey, born in England, physician, discovered blood circulation

1574 Birthday - Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright, Polyxena

1570 Event - Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew"

1567 Birthday - Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician

1565 Death - Alexander Alesius, Aless/Alane, theologist/physician, dies at 64

1561 Birthday - Santorio Sanctorius, born in Italy, physician

1558 Death - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician (Poetice), dies at 74

1558 Death - Jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies

1558 Death - Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies

1553 Birthday - Prospero Alpini, Italy, botanist/physician, De Medocoma Aegyptorum

1553 Death - Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burns at stake for heresy

1551 Death - Joachim Vadianus, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen, dies at 66

1541 Death - Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist, dies at 47

1539 Death - Antonio M Zaccaria, Italian physician/saint, dies

1537 Birthday - Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician, De Formato Foetu

1535 Death - Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, physician/theologian, dies

1534 Birthday - Joachim Camerarius, German botanist/physician, horticulture catalog

1529 Death - John Cuspinianus, Spiessheimer, German physician, dies at about 55

1517 Birthday - Rembert Dodoens, Rembertus Dodonaeus, physician/botanist

1514 Death - Hartmann Skull, German physician/historian (Skull's Liederbuch), dies

1512 Death - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48

1511 Birthday - Michael Servetus, Spain, physician, Christianism Rostituta

1500 Birthday - Alexander Alesius, Aless/Alane, System theologist/physician

1493 Birthday - Philippus A. Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist, Liber paramixum

1493 Birthday - Phillippus Paracelsus, born in Switzerland, physician and alchemist, or 11/10

1484 Birthday - Joachim Vadianus, von Watt, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen

1482 Death - Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician and mapmaker, dies

1463 Birthday - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher

1440 Birthday - Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian

1135 Birthday - Maimonides, Moses Ben Maimon, Corodoba Spain, philosopher and physician

865 Birthday - Rhazes, Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi, Persian physician

130 Birthday - Claudius Galenus, Italian physician/scholar













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