August 5 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
- English pop-punk rocker Billy Idol is admitted to the hospital after drug overdose in Los Angeles, California
- Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
- The world's first bovine stem cell lab-grown burger is eaten in London
- Baseball HistoryMLB bans New York Yankees infielder Alex Rodriguez for 211 games due to the Biogenesis Laboratories scandal
- The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.
- Australian woman Kerry Robertson is confirmed as the first person to use a new assisted dying law to end her life in Victoria a month earlier
- Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts (80) announces he will be unable to accompany the band on its 2021 U.S. tour based on medical advice, with American Steve Jordan tapped to fill in
- Australia's second most populous state Victoria enters its sixth COVID-19 lockdown, enacting stage four restrictions statewide in reaction to six new COVID-19 cases recorded that morning.
Born on this day
- Oswaldo CruzBrazilian physician and epidemiologist, born in São Luis do Paraitinga, Brazil (d. 1917)
- Jesse RothAmerican endocrinologist known for his work on the cause of Type 2 diabetes, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2026)
- Xavier TriasSpanish pediatrician and politician, 118th Mayor of Barcelona
Died on this day
- Ferdinand Ritter von HebraAustrian physician (b. 1816)
- Emil AbderhaldenSwiss physiologist and biochemist, dies at 73
- Jesse Leonard Steinfeld11th US Surgeon General (1969-73), dies at 87
- Hawa AbdiSomali human rights activist and physician (born 1947)