December 8 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- UFC 231: Holloway vs. OrtegaBrian Ortega fights Max Holloway at UFC 231 and loses by doctor stoppage, earning Fight of the Night
- First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.
- The UK begins vaccinating for COVID-19 using the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
- Canadian pop singer Celine Dion reveals via Instagram that she has been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS), a rare neurological disorder
Born on this day
- Anton de HaenAustrian medical expert (Ratio Medendi), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1776)
- Johann Georg von ZimmermannSwiss philosophical author and physician, born in Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland (d. 1795)
- Jan IngenhouszDutch-English physiologist (discovering photosynthesis) and personal physician of Maria Theresa, born in Breda, Staats-Brabant, Dutch Republic (d. 1799)
- Friedrich Traugott KützingGerman pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (died 1893)
- Ernst MoroAustrian physician and pediatrician (Moro reflex), born in Laibach, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary (d. 1951)
- Ferdie PachecoAmerican physician (cornerman for Mohammad Ali) and boxing analyst (NBC, Showtime), born in Tampa, Florida (d. 2017)
- Sherwin B. Nuland [Shepsel Ber Nudelman]American surgeon and author (How We Die; Lost in America), born in the Bronx, New York (d. 2014)
- Thomas R. CechAmerican chemist (Nobel laureate, 1989), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Khaw Boon WanSingapore Health Minister, born in Penang, Malaysia
- Bob GreeneAmerican physiologist and author
- Jim Yong KimSouth Korean-American physician, anthropologist and President of the World Bank, born in Seoul, South Korea
Died on this day
- Nathan AlcockEnglish physician (b. 1707)
- Willem Jan Frans NuyensDutch physician and Roman Catholic historian, dies at 71
- Sheila QuinnBritish nurse and adviser (British Red Cross), dies at 96
- David WeatherallEnglish physician, geneticist, and academic (born 1933)
- Jerome LowensteinAmerican professor of medicine and the founding publisher of the Bellevue Literary Press, dies at 92