January 16 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian feast day: — Blaise (Armenian Apostolic)
Events
- A radiation detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States, detects radioactivity after a truck carrying rebar accidentally passed through the laboratory's area, revealing a contamination incident that occurred in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the previous month.
- At 66 years old, Romanian university lecturer Adriana Illiescu becomes the oldest birth mother in the world
- India begin the vaccination of its 1.3 billion people for COVID-19
- Đoković DeportedUnvaccinated World #1 tennis player Novak Đoković is deported by the Australian government on "health and good order" grounds, without playing in the Australian Open
Born on this day
- Johann Conrad BrunnerSwiss anatomist (died 1727)
- Leonor MichaelisGerman enzyme kinetic theorist known for the Michaelis–Menten equation, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1949)
- Maximilian FinkAustrian-American neurologist, psychiatrist and advocate for electroconvulsive therapy, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2025)
- Elaine MurphyBaroness Murphy, English academic and politician
- Laura Schlessinger"Dr. Laura", American talk radio host and author (The Dr. Laura Program), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Andrew RefshaugeAustralian physician and politician, 13th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
- Jerry M. LinengerAmerican astronaut (STS 81/84), born in Eastpointe, Michigan
Died on this day
- Thaddeus William HarrisAmerican naturalist (b. 1795)
- Arnold AletrinoDutch physician, criminologist, and author (From Death), dies at 57
- Bertram WainerAustralian physician pro-abortion access campaigner, dies of a heart attack at 58
- Stanley BiberAmerican physician and pioneer of transgender surgery, dies of pneumonia at 82