March 29 in Medical History
28 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
- Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor
- Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
- Academy AwardsActress Elizabeth Taylor presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her AIDS/HIV activism at 65th Academy Awards
- The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Nigeria LockdownNigerian President Muhammadu Buhari orders a lockdown in the cities of Lagos and Abuja after the country records 97 COVID-19 cases and one death
- COVID-19 PandemicUS infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci warns America may see between 100,000 - 200,000 deaths from COVID-19
- BA.2 version of Omicron is now the dominant form of COVID-19 in America according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- US FDA authorizes a second Pfizer or Moderna booster shot for people over 50 or immunocompromised
Born on this day
- Santorio SanctoriusVenetian physiologist and physician (invented thermometer), born in Venice (d. 1636)
- Thomas CoramEnglish sea captain and philanthropist (Founder of the Foundling Hospital), born in Lyme Regis, Dorset (d. 1751)
- Ludwig BüchnerGerman philosopher and physician, born in Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse by the Rhine, German Confederation (d. 1899)
- Donald Dexter Van SlykeAmerican chemist (Micromanometric analysis), born in Pike, New York (d. 1971)
- Clarke FraserAmerican-Canadian geneticist and academic (died 2014)
- John R. VaneEnglish pharmacologist (Nobel 1982), born in Tardebigg, Worcestershire (d. 2004)
- William CharetteAmerican navy Hospital Corpsman and Medal of Honour recipient, born in Ludington, Michigan (d. 2012)
- Frank BoweAmerican academic (died 2007)
- Christopher LawfordAmerican sobriety advocate, activist (World Health Organization, United Nations), author, actor (All My Children, 1992-95), and son of Patricia Kennedy and Peter Lawford, born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2018)
Died on this day
- Thomas CoramEnglish sea captain and philanthropist (Founder of the Foundling Hospital), dies at 83
- Johann Heinrich PottPrussian physician and chemist (born 1692)
- William BowmanBritish anatomist, dies at 75
- Edward Adrian WilsonEnglish physician and explorer (born 1872)
- Gaspard FauteuxCanadian dentist and politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1898)
- Helene Deutsch [Rosenbach]Polish-American psychoanalyst, dies at 97
- Luther Terry9th Surgeon General of the United States, dies at 73
- Norman PirieBritish biochemist and virologist (born 1907)
- Carlo UrbaniItalian physician (SARS) (b. 1956)
- Patty DukeAmerican Academy and Emmy awarding actress (The Miracle Worker; The Patty Duke Show), and mental health advocate, mother of Sean Astin, dies of sepsis from a ruptured intestine at 69 (1946-2016)