September 27 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian feast days: — Cosmas and Damian
- National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
Events
- Dutch Moluccan fleet of the Fifth Expedition, under the command of Wolfert Harmensz, lands on Mauritius suffering from scurvy, where they hunt and document the dodo
- Elton John CollapsesElton John , sick with the flu, collapses at the Hollywood Universal Amphitheater
- Houston officials confirm the water supply around Lake Jackson, Texas, is contaminated with a brain-eating amoeba following the death of a six-year-old boy
Born on this day
- Guillaume RondeletFrench naturalist famous for his study of marine animals, born in Montpellier, France (d. 1566)
- Albert EllisAmerican psychologist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2007)
- Benjamin RubinAmerican microbiologist (died 2010)
- Robert EdwardsEnglish physiologist, 1st IVF program, Nobel Prize 2010, born in Batley, Yorkshire (d. 2013)
- Barron LernerAmerican physician and medical historian, born in Boston, Massachusetts
Died on this day
- Bernard CourtoisFrench chemist and pharmacist (born 1777)
- Julius Wagner-JaureggAustrian psychiatrist (1st psychiatrist to win Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1927 for malaria inoculation for dementia paralytica), dies at 83
- Coenraad van Emde BoasDutch sexologist, dies at 77
- Mohammad NajibullahPresident of Afghanistan (1987-92), executed at 49
- John E. MackAmerican psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)
- Balaji SadasivanSingaporean politician and neurosurgeon (b. 1955)
- Russell M. NelsonAmerican surgeon and the 17th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2018-25), dies at 101