2012 Death Joseph Murray, a Nobel prize winner, plastic surgeon and the first person to perform a kidney transplantation, dies at age 93 2011 Event Right-to-die activist Jack Kevorkian dies in Royal Oak, Michigan; his death caused by pneumonia and kidney problems 1997 Death James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90 1994 Death M Vink, surgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant), dies at 78 1994 Death William Levitt, builder (Levittown), dies of kidney failure at 86 1994 Death Pat Buttram, actor (Haney-Green Acres), dies of kidney failure at 78 1993 Death [Irving Paul] "Swifty" Lazar, superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86 1993 Death Josephine Rich Corday, vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79 1992 Death Thelma Orloff, entertainer, dies of kidney failure at 76 1992 Death Patrick Peyton, Rosary Priest, dies of kidney failure at 83 1992 Death Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72 1991 Death Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78 1990 Death Robert Cummings, actor (Love that Bob), dies of kidney failure at 82 1990 Death Dorothy Mackaill, actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87 1990 Death Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68 1990 Death Dexter Gordon, Jazz saxophonist, dies of kidney failure at 67 1990 Death Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob and Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68 1988 Death John Carradine, actor (Ten Commandments), dies of kidney failure at 82 1983 Death Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure 1983 Death Paul Fix, actor (Rifleman), dies at 82 of kidney failure 1980 Death Carl Radle, bassist (Derek and Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment 1975 Event 1st televised kidney transplant on the Today Show 1950 Event 1st kidney transplant, Chicago 1911 Birthday Willem J. Kolff, Dutch/U.S. internist/inventor, Artificial Kidney
