June 12 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Reagan Agrees to Medical TestsRonald Reagan says he will submit to periodic medical tests
- "Doctor Doctor", TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV
- Cab Calloway suffers a massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY
- World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer
- Danish star soccer midfielder Christian Eriksen suffers an on-field cardiac arrest during Euro 2020 game with Finland in Copenhagen; revived with a defibrillator; game controversially restarts with 1-0 Finland win
Born on this day
- Jordan Peterson1962 Canadian psychologist and author (12 Rules for Life), born in Edmonton, Alberta (64 years old)
- Robert ClarkAmerican politician (US Representative from New York, 1819-21), born in Washington County, New York (d. 1837)
- Ante KuzmanićCroatian physician and journalist (died 1879)
- Fritz Albert LipmannGerman-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)
- Mitchell RosenthalAmerican psychiatrist and founder of Phoenix House, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2022)
- Bert SakmannGerman cell physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1991), born in Stuttgart, Germany
- Jordan PetersonCanadian psychologist, professor and cultural critic
Died on this day
- Viktor HamburgerGerman experimental embryologist known for his work on nerve growth, dies at 100
- Bernie ZilbergeldAmerican psychologist and writer (The New Male Sexuality), dies of complications of diabetes at 62
- Margarete Mitscherlich-NielsenDanish-German psychoanalyst and author (born 1917)
- Frederick Pei LiChinese-American cancer epidemiologist known for helping discover Li-Fraumeni syndrome, dies at 75