Edward Jenner17 May 1749, British
Physicians
Benjamin Rush04 January 1746, American
Samuel Hahnemann10 April 1755, German
Founder of Homeopathy
René Laennec17 February 1781, French
Inventor of Stethoscope
James Parkinson11 April 1755, British
Surgeon
Peter Mark Roget18 January 1779, British
Lexicographer
Lyman Hall12 April 1724, American
Signer of United States Declaration of
Matthew Thornton1714 AD, American
Jean-Paul Marat24 May 1743, Swiss, French
Politician, Journalist, Physician, Physicist,
Robert Liston28 October 1794, British
Surgeon
Joseph Warren11 June 1741, American
Military physician, Physician
Franz Mesmer23 May 1734, German
Physician, Astrologer
Johann Friedrich Struensee05 August 1737, German
Politician, Physician
Luigi Galvani09 September 1737, Italian
Anatomist, Physicist, Physician, University
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin28 May 1738, French
Physician, Politician, Inventor
François Quesnay04 June 1694, French
Philosopher, Economist, Physician,
George Bass30 January 1771, Australian, British
Explorer, Surgeon
Thomas Bowdler11 July 1754, British
Physician, Chess player
Thomas Addison02 April 1793, British, Scottish
Physician, scientist
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier12 August 1737, French
Botanist, Pharmacist, Physician, Agronomist,
Anson Jones20 January 1798, American
Politician
Charles Bell12 November 1774, British
Anatomist, Neuroscientist, Surgeon, Writer,
Dominique Jean Larrey08 July 1766, French
Military physician, Surgeon
Jan Ingenhousz08 December 1730, Dutch
Botanist, Physician, Physicist
Franz Joseph Gall09 March 1758, German
Physician, Neuroscientist
Thomas Hodgkin17 August 1798, British
Physician, Hematologist
William Cullen15 April 1710, British, Scottish
Physician, Chemist, Farmer, Academic, University
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard24 April 1774, French
Physician, Educationist
Ernst Heinrich Weber24 June 1795, German
Psychologist, Physician
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille22 April 1797, French
Physician, Physicist, Mathematician
John Elliotson29 October 1791, British
Physician, University teacher
Dorothea Erxleben13 November 1715, German
Physician
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Thomas Young13 June 1773, British
Physician
James Barry09 November 1795, British
military physician, Surgeon
John Hunter13 February 1728, Scottish
military physician, physician, university teacher
James Braid19 June 1795, Scottish
hypnotist, physician, hypnotherapist
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec17 February 1781, French
John Rolph04 March 1793, Canadian
Physician