September 29 in Medical History
23 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- People of Krems, Austria, accuse Jews of poisoning wells
- Wilson Suffers Heart AttackSoul singer Jackie Wilson suffers a heart attack while singing on stage at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, New Jersey; he survives but never fully recovers, spending most of his final eight years in a coma
- Second Chamber recognizes Dutch liberal/social democratic abortion law
- First of seven cyanide-laced Chicago Tylenol victims dies; six others consume the contaminated capsules and ultimately die from them
- Elizabeth Taylor to Betty FordElizabeth Taylor undergoes substance abuse rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Center and meets construction worker and future husband Larry Fortensky
- Johnson Abortive ReturnMagic Johnson announces his return to play basketball but does not follow through
Born on this day
- Michael ServetusSpanish theologian and physician (Christianism Rostituta), born in Villanueva or Tudela, Spain (d. 1553)
- Nancy Leftenant-ColonAmerican Army nurse and major, first Black woman to join US Army Corps in 1946, born in Goose Creek, South Carolina (d. 2025)
- Peter D. MitchellEnglish chemist, (1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry), born in Mitcham, England (d. 1992)
- David AtkinsonBritish air marshal, and honorary physician to the Queen Elizabeth II, born in Hartlepool, England (d. 2013)
- Edith Eva Eger [née Elefánt]Hungarian-American Holocaust survivor, clinical psychologist and author (The Choice: Embrace the Possible), born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia (d. 2026)
- Mihály CsíkszentmihályiHungarian- American psychologist (concept of "flow"), born in Rijeka, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2021)
- Masoud PezeshkianIranian cardiac surgeon and politician, President of Iran (2024-), born in Mahabad, Iran
Died on this day
- David Keith BallowScottish-Australian doctor (born 1804)
- Chapin A. HarrisAmerican dentist who founded the America Society of Dental Surgeons, dies at 54
- Bernhard von LangenbeckGerman surgeon and founder of Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, dies at 76
- Willem EinthovenDutch physiologist and inventor of the electrocardiodiogram (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1924), dies at 67
- Hubert Maitland TurnbullBritish pathologist (born 1875)
- John GoodwinBritish soldier and medical practitioner, 14th Governor of Queensland (born 1871)
- Harold Alexander AbramsonAmerican physician (born 1889)
- William H. Sebrell Jr.American nutritionist, 7th Director of the National Institutes of Health (born 1901)
- C. David MarsdenBritish neurologist (born 1938)
- Audrey EvansBritish pediatric oncologist and co-founder of the first Ronald McDonald House, dies at 97