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

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

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

1995 Alberto Burri, Ital physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79

1995 Alberto Burri, Ital's physician/sculptor/painter), dies at 79

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

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

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

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

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

1989 Joseph Wybran, Belgian physician/Jews foreman, murdered

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

1986 Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99

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

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

1967 Bela Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90

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

1961 Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Fren physician/author/anti-semite, dies at 67

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

1958 Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician, dies at 72

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

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

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

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

1951 Phillippus Paracelsus, physician/alchemist, dies at 48

1947 Luc Journet, Belgian physician, Order of Zonnetempel

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

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

1942 Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50

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

1940 Ana Isabel Anderson-Imbert, physician, rheumatologist

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

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

1938 Keith Peters, physician

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

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

1925 Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies

1923 Max Nordau, [Sudfeld], German physician/zionists leader, dies at 73

1919 John Cox, Flemish/US painter/dir, Museum of Fine Physician, Boston

1918 Lord Winstanley, physician/British MP, Labour

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

1918 John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies

1916 Anita V Figueredo, physician/humanitarian

1916 Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, physician, dies

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

1915 William Howell Masters, sex author/physician

1915 Alberto Burri, Italian physician, sculptor and abstract painter

1915 Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher

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

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

1913 Ben[jamin S] Polak, Neth, physician/communist/resistance fighter

1913 Douglas Black, physician

1913 Gordon Wolstenholme, physician

1911 Charles Fletcher, physician/CEO, ASH

1911 Elsie Agnes Giorgi, physician/humanitarian

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

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

1910 Eric Scowen, physician

1909 Helen O Dickens, [Henderson], U.S. physician/gynaecologist

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

1907 Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician

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

1904 William Hitzig, Austria, Maxwell physician

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

1904 Mary Calderone, physician/founder, planned parenthood

1902 Edward Wayne, physician, Queen of Scotland

1901 Charles Huggins, Canada, U.S. physician

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

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

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

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

1895 Andre Cournand, physician

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

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

1891 Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician, stage, author/resistance fighter

1887 Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician

1886 Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician, Artus Quellin

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

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

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

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

1882 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office

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

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

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

1874 Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary, dies at 79

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

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

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

1872 Alfons van de Perre, Flemish physician/MP

1869 Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer

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

1867 Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist

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

1862 Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician, Nobel 1911

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

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

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

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

1854 Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician

1850 William Prout, physician/chemist, dies

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

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

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

1849 Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US

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

1843 Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88

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

1842 Anne CAI van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist

1840 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician

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

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

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

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

1831 John Bratton, [Old Reliable], U.S. physician/Confederate Brig Gen

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

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

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

1823 Willem J F Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian

1822 Alfred Meissner, Austrian physician/writer

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

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

1821 Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician

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

1813 Benjamin Rush, physician/abolotionist (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 67

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

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

1809 Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies

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

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

1806 Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria, physician/philosopher

1803 Matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88

1802 Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist, dies at 77

1800 Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet, Ritornellen

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

1799 Jean Poiseuille, physician/physiologist, blood pressure

1795 Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author

1795 Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary

1795 Josiah Bartlett, U.S. physician/judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 65

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

1790 Lyman Hall, U.S. physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 66

1790 Marshall Hall, Basford Nottinghamshire, physician

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

1789 Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher

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

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

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

1773 Thomas Young, British philologist/physician, light interference

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

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

1758 Franz Joseph Gall, German and French physician, frenology

1755 Samuel Hahnemann, German physician and originator of homeopathy

1754 Benjamin Waterhouse, physician, smallpox vaccine pioneer

1754 Richard Mead, physician, dies

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

1749 Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination

1745 Benjamin Rush, Byberry, Pennsylvania, physician/general/signer, Decl of Indep

1745 Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry

1744 John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist

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

1738 John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet

1735 John Arbuthnot, physician/mathematician, dies

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

1731 Simon Stijl, Frisian physician/writer

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

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

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

1729 Josiah Bartlett, U.S. physician/judge/signer, Decl of Independence

1728 John Friend, physician/politician, dies

1728 John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies

1724 Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist

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

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

1718 Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63

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

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

1694 Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV

1692 Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist, Leyden jar

1686 Johann F Gronovius, Dutch physician/botany

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

1673 Richard Mead, London, physician

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

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

1654 Bernard Nieuwentyt, Dutch physician/theologist

1654 Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet

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

1635 Jan Baptista Van Helmont, physician/alchemist, dies

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

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

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

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

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

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

1585 Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist, dies at 67

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

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

1574 Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright, Polyxena

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

1567 Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician

1565 Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], theologist/physician, dies at 64

1561 Santorio Sanctorius, born in Trieste, Italy, physician and herectic, burned at stake

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

1558 Jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies

1558 Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies

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

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

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

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

1539 Antonio M Zaccaria, Italian physician/saint, dies

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

1535 Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, physician/theologian, dies

1534 Joachim Camerarius, German botanist/physician, horticulture catalog

1529 John Cuspinianus, [Spiessheimer], German physician, dies at about 55

1517 Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist

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

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

1511 Michael Servetus, Spain, physician, Christianism Rostituta

1500 Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician

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

1493 Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist, or 11/10

1484 Joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen

1482 Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician and mapmaker, dies

1463 Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher

1440 Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian

1135 Maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Corodoba Spain, philosopher and physician

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

130 Claudius Galenus, Italian physician/scholar



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