Christiaan Neethling Barnard ( 8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001 ) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.

* 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human ( 53-year-old Louis Washkansky ).

* 1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon ( d. 2001 )

* September 2 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon ( b. 1922 )

* December 3 – Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.

* November 8 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon ( d. 2001 )

* 1967 – Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant

The first success was achieved on December 3, 1967, by Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, South Africa.

He was admitted to the ICU of the Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital with a serious skull fracture.

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* 2 – Christiaan Barnard.

During the 1960s she also had an affair with heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard.

* September 2 – Christiaan Barnard ( b. 1922 ), South African cardiac surgeon.

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* January 2-Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the second successful human heart transplant, in South Africa, on Philip Blaiberg, who survives for nineteen months.

* December 3-Dr Christiaan Barnard and a team including his brother Marius perform the first successful human heart transplant, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, on Louis Washkansky, who survives for eighteen days.

It was founded in 1938 and is famous for being the institution where the first human heart transplant took place, conducted by University of Cape Town-educated surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky.

She allegedly had an affair with Dr Christiaan Barnard, the South African heart surgeon.

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Christiaan Barnard, pioneering heart transplant surgeon ( 1922 – 2001 )

In recognition of these and other achievements he was knighted in 1971 further confirming a national prominence comparable to that achieved by René Favaloro in Argentina and Christiaan Barnard in South Africa.

He was first seen by Dr. Barry Kaplan, who in July 1966 had asked if Mr Christiaan Barnard would be willing to attend Washkansky.

The procedure was performed by Christiaan Barnard.

Denise Ann Darvall ( 1943 – 3 December 1967 ) was the donor in the world ’ s first successful human heart transplant, performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, by a team of surgeons led by Christiaan Barnard.