November 19 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Toilet Day
Events
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestFilm adaptation of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" based stage adaptation of novel by Ken Kesey, directed by Miloš Forman and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher , is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1976)
- McCaughey septuplets (all 7 of them!) are born to Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa, as the first set of septuplets to survive infancy
- Austria becomes the first country to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory (from 1 Feb) as it announces its fourth lockdown
Born on this day
- Leopold AuenbruggerAustrian physician (invented percussion as a diagnostic technique), born in Graz, Duchy of Styria (d. 1809)
- Janez BleiweisSlovenian journalist, physician, and politician (died 1881)
- Luc Tourneir [Christian J. H. Engles] Netherland-Curaçaon poetartist, and doctor, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1980)
- George E. PaladeRomanian-American cell biologist (ribosomen, Nobel 1974), born in Iași, Romania (d. 2008)
- Earl Wilbur SutherlandJr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)
- Margaret Turner-WarwickEnglish physician and academic (died 2017)
- Rashad KhalifaEgyptian-American biochemist and imam, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1990)
- Tommy ThompsonAmerican politician (42nd Governor of Wisconsin), born in Elroy, Wisconsin
Died on this day
- Mary BernheimEnglish biochemist who discovered monoamine oxidase, and professor (Duke Medical School), dies at 95
- John R. VaneEnglish pharmacologist (Nobel 1982), dies at 77
- Frederick SangerBritish biochemist (worked out structure of insulin, developed Sanger sequencing to sequence complete genome, Nobel Prize 1958, 1980), dies at 95
- Rosalynn Carter (née Smith)American activist and First Lady (1977-81), dies at 96