July 7 in Medical History
23 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Two Steps Forward, Three to the SideBritish runner Jim Peters , 17 minutes ahead of his nearest rival, collapses on the final stadium lap of the Commonwealth Games marathon in Vancouver
- Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
- It is reported that British "Culture Club" singer Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
- Mississippi closes all its beaches due to toxic algae bloom due to flooding of the Mississippi River
- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announces he has tested positive for COVID-19
- India surpasses Russia to become the world's third-worst affected country, daily COVID-19 cases exceeding 20,000 and total cases over 700,000
- Texas records more than 10,000 daily cases of COVID-19 for the 1st time
- Violent protests in Belgrade, Serbia, at government announcement of weekend lockdown due to COVID-19 surge
Born on this day
- Camillo GolgiItalian physician and medical researcher ( Nobel Prize in Medicine 1906), born in Corteno, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Austrian Empire (1843-1926)
- Heinrich RosenthalEstonian physician and author (died 1916)
- Lillien Jane MartinAmerican psychologist who founded the world's 1st gerontology clinic in San Francisco, born in Olean, New York (d. 1943)
- Nettie StevensAmerican geneticist (discovered sex chromosomes), born in Cavendish, Vermont (d. 1912)
- Natalia BekhterevaRussian neuroscientist and psychologist (died 2008)
- Kapelwa Sikota Zambian nurse and health official (died 2006)Kapelwa Sikota Zambian nurse and health official (died 2006)
- Michel OdentFrench obstetrician and advocate for natural approaches to childbirth (Birth Reborn), born in Bresles, France (d. 2025)
- T. J. BassAmerican physician and author (died 2011)
- Chris StampBritish music producer, psychodrama therapist and manager (The Who, Jimi Hendrix), born in London, England (d. 2012)
- Ian WilmutEnglish-Scottish embryologist and academic (died 2023)
- Phyllis GardnerAmerican pharmacology professor and noted critic of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, born in Ames, Iowa (d. 2025)
Died on this day
- William TurnerBritish ornithologist and botanist (born 1508)
- Arthur Conan DoyleBritish author who brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice, dies at 71 (1859-1930)
- Gottfried BennGerman physician, pathologist, poet, and essayist (Morgue and other Poems), dies at 70
- John MoneyNew Zealand-American psychologist and sexologist, dies at 84