September 21 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Jews in Zurich, Switzerland, are accused of poisoning wells
- Reggae singer Bob Marley collapses while jogging in New York City's Central Park; medical exam finds his cancer had spread to his brain, lungs, and liver
- George Clooney is injured in a motorcycle accident in Weehawken, New Jersey
- Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.
- Zuckerberg Pledges $3BFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to medical research to "cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century"
- "Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness reveals he is living with HIV and is a sexual abuse survivor, ahead of the publication of his autobiography
- Canadian province of Quebec expands restrictions, declaring it is in a second COVID-19 wave as cases across the country average 1,000 a day
- COVAX Vaccine-Distribution InitiativeWHO Director Tedros Ghebreyesus says countries representing 2/3 of the world's population have joined its COVAX vaccine-distribution initiative to deliver 2 billion doses by end 2021
Born on this day
- Fanny SearlsAmerican biologist (died 1939)
- Charles NicolleFrench bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1928), born in Rouen, France (d. 1936)
- Özgür ÖzelTurkish pharmacist and politician
Died on this day
- Girolamo CardanoItalian mathematician and astrologer (Ars Magna-1545), dies at 74 (1501-1576)
- José Celso BarbosaPuerto Rican physician, sociologist and political leader, dies at 64
- Bernardo HoussayArgentine physiologist (Nobel 1947), dies at 84
- Walter VogtSwiss writer (Wüthrich) and psychiatrist, dies at 61
- Rajini ThiranagamaSri Lankan physician and academic (born 1954)
- Rudy PerpichAmerican politician, 34th & 36th Governor of Minnesota, dies at 67
- Sabine ZlatinPolish-born French nurse, who tried save Izieu children from Nazis, dies at 89
- Leonid RogozovRussian physician and surgeon (born 1934)
- Shuping WangChinese doctor who exposed China's HIV crisis, dies at 59