August 27 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Transsexual Renée Richards is barred from competing in the US Tennis Open
- Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls the international response to Ebola “irresponsible” and “slow and derisory”
- Former Spice Girl Mel B announces she is entering rehab for alcohol and sex addiction following her acrimonious divorce
Born on this day
- RhazesPersian polymath (died 925)
- Edmund WojtyłaPolish doctor (died 1932)
- Patience EdneyBritish nurse and communist, born in Orpington, Kent, England (d. 1996)
- Roelof KruisingaDutch physician and politician, Minister of Defence for The Netherlands (died 2012)
- Flossie Wong-Staal [Yee Ching Wong]Chinese-American virologist, molecular biologist and the first scientist to clone HIV, born in Guangzhou, China (d. 2020)
- Rajesh ThakkerEnglish physician and academic
- Chantal DjotodiaBeninese-Central African nurse and politician
Died on this day
- Hieronymus MünzerGerman humanist, geographer and physician, toured and wrote about the Iberian peninsula, dies
- Kusumoto Inefirst Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (born 1827)
- William Maddock BaylissBritish physiologist, co-discoverer of hormones, dies at 64
- William HitzigAustrian Maxwell physician, dies at 78
- Joy Browne [née Oppenheim]American psychologist and media personality (The Dr. Joy Browne Show; Up Close and Personal), dies at 71