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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 2000 Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80 1996 Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81 1995 Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79 1995 Alberto Burri, Italian 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 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 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, Hungarian/U.S. children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 1963 William Carlos Williams, U.S. physician/poet, dies at 79 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 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 Lord Walton of Detchant, physician, Warden of Green College Oxford 1944 Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer, dies at 74 1942 Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian 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, born in Baglan, Wales, physician, head of the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge 1935 Louis Keith, born in Chicago, physician, expert on multiple-births 1933 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 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 1920 Alex Comfort, born in England, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, wrote "The Joy of Sex", a scholarly approach to sexual behavior 1919 John Cox, Flemish/U.S. 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, born in Netherlands, 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 1898 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 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, Czechoslovakian physician, stage, author and 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 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 Brigadier General 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 and abolotionist, signed Declaration of Independence, 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 / U.S. physician and signer Declaration of Independence, 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 and judge, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 65 1793 Jared Kirtland, U.S., physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries 1790 Lyman Hall, U.S. physician and signer Declaration of Independence, 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 and signer, Declaration of Independence 1745 Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry 1744 John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist 1738 Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor, guillotine 1738 John Pindar, 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 Declaration 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, born in Switzerland, physician and 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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