June 13 in Medical History
28 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- International Albinism Awareness Day (international)
Events
- Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
- South Carolina physician William Demosthenes Crum is appointed the US minister to Liberia
- Longest recorded attack of hiccups begins when Charles Osborne gets the hiccups and continues for 68 years; he dies 11 months after they stop
- Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine laid in Bronx
- Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer
- G7 summits ends in Cornwall, England, with leaders promising one billion vaccine doses for poorer nations
- Music ConcertThe Rolling Stones cancel concert in Amsterdam due to singer Mick Jagger testing positive for COVID-19
Born on this day
- Jan Marek MarciCzech medical doctor and scientist (died 1667)
- Thomas YoungBritish physician and physicist (light interference), born in Milverton, Somerset, England (d. 1829)
- Heinrich HoffmannGerman psychiatrist and author (died 1894)
- Jules BordetBelgian bacteriologist (syphillis, Nobel 1919), born in Soignies, Belgium (d. 1961)
- Paul NeumannAustrian swimmer and medical doctor (died 1932)
- Leo KannerAustrian-American psychiatrist and social activist known for his work related to autism, born in Klekotów, Austria-Hungary (d. 1981)
- Jerome LejeuneFrench physician and geneticist (discovered chromosome responsible for Downs Syndrome), born in Montrouge, France (d. 1994)
- Irvin D. YalomAmerican psychotherapist and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, born in Washington, D.C.
- Dallas LongAmerican athlete (Olympic gold Shot put 1964; WR x 6), born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas (d. 2024)
- Christine BeasleyEnglish nursing administrator
- Paul L. ModrichAmerican biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- Ulla SchmidtGerman educator and politician, German Federal Minister of Health
Died on this day
- Dorothea Erxleben (née Leporin)German first female medical doctor, dies of breast cancer at 46
- Henry GrayEnglish anatomist and surgeon (born 1827)
- Joseph ŠkodaBohemian physician, dies at 75
- [Robert] Lawson TaitScottish-born pioneering surgeon performed first salpingectomy for ectopic pregnancy, dies at 54
- Jonathan HutchinsonEnglish surgeon and scientist, dies at 84
- Shibasaburo KitasatoJapanese physician (b. 1851)
- Georg von BekesyHungarian-American physician and physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961 - work on the inner ear), dies at 73
- Olivério PintoBrazilian zoologist and medical doctor (born 1896)