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The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman first described the western gorilla ( they called it Troglodytes gorilla ) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia.
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* 1724 – Lyman Hall, American physician, clergyman, and statesman, signer of United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1790 )
While there he collaborated with American physician Charles Claude Guthrie in work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs as well as the head, and Carrel was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for these efforts.
* 1933 – Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States
* 1950 – Charles R. Drew, American physician ( b. 1904 )
* 1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( d. 1950 )
* 1934 – Renée Richards, American physician
* 1878 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1976 )
* 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer ( d. 1894 )
* 1906 – Sidney R. Garfield, American physician ( d. 1984 )
* 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize ( d. 1950 )
* 1833 – Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American physician ( d. 1883 )
* 1721 – John McKinly, American physician ( d. 1796 )
* 1892 – William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate ( d. 1987 )
* 1918 – Otis Ray Bowen, American physician & politician
* 1896 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate ( d. 1965 )
George Hoyt Whipple ( August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976 ) was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator.
* 1813 – James Marion Sims, American physician ( d. 1883 )
* 1933 – Edward Brandt, Jr., American physician and mathematician ( d. 2007 )
* 1904 – Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon ( d. 1950 )
* 1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )
* John C. Walker, Indiana physician and officer during the American Civil War
* John M. Walker ( 1909 – 1990 ), American physician and investment banker
* 1952 – Jerri Nielsen, American physician ( d. 2009 )
* 1858 – John L. Leal, American physician and water treatment expert who pioneered the use of chlorine disinfection ( d. 1914 )
American and missionary
Last month in Ghana an American missionary discovered when he came to pay his hotel bill that the usual rate had been doubled.
* 1788 – Adoniram Judson, American missionary ( d. 1850 )
A similar French influence is seen in classroom ASL in francophone West Africa, where ASL was introduced along with formal education for the deaf by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster.
* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
* 1923 – Nate Saint, American missionary ( d. 1956 )
* 1899 – Ezra Taft Benson, American missionary and politician, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( d. 1994 )
An American missionary in the 1850s reported a population of under 4, 000, nearly all of whom belonged to the Greek Church.
* Mary Bruins Allison ( born 1903 ), American doctor and missionary
An American development worker, reported to have been a missionary, was also killed.
One American missionary, Hilda Stump, was murdered in January 1930 after speaking out against it.
* 1850 – Annie Armstrong, American missionary ( d. 1938 )
* 1797 – Eugenio Kincaid, American missionary ( d. 1883 )
* Lott Carey, of Richmond, Virginia, the first American missionary to Liberia
He also made an especially valuable contact in American missionary Eugene Thomas, who was able to introduce Powell to several claimed eyewitnesses.
In Lost Laysen, Mitchell explores the dynamics of three male characters and their relationship to the only female character, " Courtenay Ross ", a strong-willed American missionary to the South Pacific island of " Laysen ".
* 1927 – Jim Elliot, American missionary ( d. 1956 )
* 1884 – Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic ( d. 1970 )
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* 1903 – Margaret Landon, American author and missionary ( d. 1993 )
The first known overnight stay on Whidbey Island by a non-native American was made on 26 May 1840 by a Catholic missionary during travel across Puget Sound.
* May 16 – Minnie Vautrin, American missionary and heroine of the Nanjing Massacre ( b. 1887 )
* December 2 – American missionary Jean Donovan and three Roman Catholic nuns are murdered by a military death squad in El Salvador while volunteering to do charity work during the country's civil war.
* July 12 – Louis-François Richer Laflèche, Roman Catholic Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Native American missionary ( b. 1818 )
* Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, produces the first translation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which is published with the parallel text of the Syriac Peshitta by the American Bible Society.
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