August 4 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- British Red Cross Society is formed
- Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant is seriously injured in a car crash in Rhodes, Greece
- South African Oscar Pistorius becomes the first double-leg amputee to compete at the Olympics in the 400 m event in London; he is out in the semifinals
- COVID-19 infection spike forces a return to lockdown in Manila and surrounding provinces in the Philippines, affecting 27 million people as cases surpass 100,000
- UN says COVID-19 pandemic creates the biggest educational disruption in history, affecting nearly 1.6 billion students in 190 countries, 94% worldwide
- Globally known COVID-19 cases surpass 200 million, with the death toll at 4.2 million, according to Johns Hopkins
Born on this day
- Carl Reinhold August WunderlichGerman physician (established normal temperature as 37 °C (98.6 °F)), born in Sulz am Neckar (d. 1877)
- Michael Scott Montague FordhamEnglish child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, born in Kensington, London (d. 1995)
- Sue Bender [Marjorie Sue Rosenfeld]American family therapist and author (Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish), born in the Bronx, New York (d. 2025)
- Ted StricklandAmerican politician, Governor of Ohio (2007-2011), born in Lucasville, Ohio
- Peter GoodfellowEnglish geneticist and academic
- Kate SilvertonEnglish journalist
Died on this day
- Daniel Hale WilliamsAmerican heart surgeon who performed the 1st open heart surgery , dies at 73 (1858-1931)
- Edgar AdrianEnglish physiologist (Nobel 1932-function of neurons), dies at 87
- Frederick Chapman RobbinsAmerican pediatrician and virologist and Nobel Prize laureate 1954, dies at 86