June 27 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- National PTSD Awareness Day (United States)
Events
- The British Medical Research Council publishes a report suggesting a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
- Gray's AnatomySpalding Gray 's one-man show "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater, NYC, after an encore run of 8 performances
- US Supreme Court strikes down Texas law restricting abortion 5-3
- 51 migrants die after being found inside an abandoned truck in San Antonio, Texas in extreme heat, with 16 people hospitalized
Born on this day
- Hans SpemannGerman embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1935), born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1941)
- Frank Rattray LillieAmerican zoologist and embryologist (died 1947)
- João Guimarães RosaBrazilian writer (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands), born in Cordisburgo, Brazil (d. 1967)
- Charles ShayNative American soldier and Army medic at Normandy, born in Bristol, Connecticut (d. 2025)
- Wilhelm 'Willy' BurgdorferSwiss-American medical entomologist known for discovering the cause of Lyme disease, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 2014)
- Leonard LermanAmerican geneticist and biologist (died 2012)
- Rudy PerpichAmerican politician, 34th & 36th Governor of Minnesota, born in Carson Lake, Minnesota (d. 1995)
Died on this day
- Anarcha Westcott"Mother of Modern Gynecology", enslaved African woman whose forced experimental surgeries advanced modern gynecology, dies at about 41 (b. 1828)
- Fayette PinkneyAmerican pop and disco singer (The Three Degrees, 1963-76 - "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)"; "When Will I See You Again?"), and psychologist, dies of acute respiratory failure at 61
- William McBrideAustralian obstetrician (born 1927)
- Martha Nierenberg [née Weiss de Csepel]Hungarian-American biochemist, furniture designer and co-founder of Dansk Designs, dies at 96