April 16 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- National Healthcare Decisions Day (United States)
- World Voice Day
Events
- LSDSwiss scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD
- Nationwide State of Emergency declared in Japan till 6 May due to the worsening COVID-19 outbreak
- Spanish extreme athlete Beatriz Flamini exits a deep cave in Granada, Spain, after spending 500 days isolated underground in probable world record, as part of social isolation experiment
Born on this day
- Hans SloaneIrish physician, naturalist and collector (provided foundation of the British Museum), born in Killyleagh, Ulster, Ireland (d. 1753)
- Joseph BlackScottish chemist and physicist known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat and carbon dioxide, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1799)
- Stewart AdamsBritish pharmacologist (developed Ibuprofen), born in Byfield, England (d. 2019)
- Pierre FabreFrench pharmacist, founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre (died 2013)
- Michael BarrattAmerican physician and NASA astronaut (Expedition 19/20, STS-133, SpaceX Crew-8 mission), born in Vancouver, Washington
Died on this day
- Pieter van der HoogDutch bacteriologist, dermatologist, and Islamicist (born 1888)
- Felix KerstenBaltic-German Finnish masseuse physical therapist and personal trainer to Heinrich Himmler who helped save people from Finns from Nazi persecution, dies at 61
- Jean Alexandre BarréFrench neurologist who helped identify the Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome, dies at 86