May 16 in Medical History
25 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Radio HistoryJohn Lennon visits Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to participate in a radiothon benefitting MS research, and pops into a local TV station and gives the weather forecast
- Music HistoryBrian May of rock band Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
- US Surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
- Jacqueline Onassis admitted to hospital for cancer treatment
- Human stem cells are successfully cloned
- 10-year-old girl granted special 20 week abortion request in Rohtak, India in land-mark case
- British people get drunk more than any other nation, 51 times a year according to the Global Drug Survey, with English-speaking countries drinking the most
- Taiwan imposes tough restrictions against COVID-19 as a recent spike in cases threatens their up-to-now pandemic success
Born on this day
- John BulwerBritish doctor (died 1656)
- Louis-Nicolas VauquelinFrench chemist and pharmacist (discovered chromium, beryllium), born in t Saint-André-d'Hébertot, France (d. 1829)
- Fred Conrad KochAmerican biochemist and endocrinologist (died 1948)
- Royal RifeAmerican microbiologist and instrument maker (died 1971)
- Irene IghodaroSierra Leonean doctor and social reformer, born in Freetown, Sierra Leone (d. 1995)
- Barbara BachmannAmerican microbiologist (died 1999)
- Robert Jay LiftonAmerican psychiatrist and author (The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide; Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima), born in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 2025)
- Hiroshi NakajimaJapanese physician and medical researcher (WHO Director-General, 1988-98), born in Chiba, Japan (d. 2013)
- Marco Aurelio DenegriPeruvian television host and sexologist (died 2018)
- James HerndonAmerican media psychologist, founder of Media Psychology Affiliates and writer (Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas), born in Oklahoma City
- Dafydd "Dave" WilliamsCanadian physician and astronaut (sk: STS 90), born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- Darko ŠarovićSerbian sprinter
Died on this day
- Alfred HocheGerman psychiatrist (b. 1865)
- Filip MișeaAromanian activist, physician and politician (born 1873)
- Frederick Gowland HopkinsBritish biochemist (Nobel Prize, 1929), dies at 85
- Willy HartnerGerman physician and academic (born 1905)
- Dame Margaret June ClarkWelsh Professor Emeritus of Community Nursing at Swansea University, dies at 83