September 11 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Physician Willem J. Kolff performs the first successful kidney dialysis, using his artificial kidney machine in the Netherlands
- Medical photographer Janet Parker is the last known person to die of smallpox; she contracted the infection in a laboratory in Birmingham, England
- American rock band Aerosmith postpones their "Peace Out: The Farewell Tour" after three shows due to a vocal cord injury of singer Steven Tyler (75)
Born on this day
- Mungo ParkScottish explorer (first westerner to travel the central Niger River in Africa), born in Selkirkshire, Scotland (d. 1806)
- Hawley Harvey Crippen [Dr Crippen]American homeopath and first killer to be caught with the aid of wireless telegraphy, born in Coldwater, Michigan (d. 1910)
- Jacinto ConvitVenezuelan physician and academic (died 2014)
- Rudolf VrbaSlovak-Jewish biochemist and Holocaust survivor, born in Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia (d. 2006)
- Anne DellAustralian biochemist and academic
Died on this day
- Rudolf Jakob CamerariusGerman botanist and physician (born 1665)
- Christian RakovskyBulgarian physician, journalist, and politician, Soviet Ambassador to France (born 1873)
- Salvador AllendeChilean politician (President of Chile, 1970-73) and the 1st Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through an open election, commits suspected suicide by shooting himself during a military coup at 65 (1908-1973)
- Anita HardingBritish neurologist (first identification of a mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease), dies of cancer at 42
- Albert JacquardFrench geneticist and biologist (born 1925)