Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John Hunter |
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Birthdate | February 13, 1728 |
Birth Place | Scotland |
Age (in 2024) | 296 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Doctor |
John Hunter is best known as Doctor who has born on February 13, 1728 in Scotland. Currently, John Hunter is 296 years, 9 months and 19 days old. John Hunter will celebrate 297th birthday on Thursday, 13th of February 2025. Below the countdown to John Hunter upcoming birthday.
Scottish surgeon who championed the application of the scientific method in medicine and became one of the most respected doctors of his day. He is the namesake of The Hunterian Society of London and contributed greatly to the medical field's understanding of bone growth, digestion, inflammation and other processes of the human body.
He got his start in medicine as an assistant in dissections to his brother William, who was an anatomist. He later served as an Army surgeon in the early 1760's.
He was the teacher and friend of Edward Jenner, who created the smallpox vaccine.
He married poet Anne Hunter in 1771 and had four children with her, two of whom died in infancy.
He was made Surgeon General by Prime Minister William Pitt in 1790.
John Hunter is 296 years old today.
John Hunter was born on February 13, 1728 in Scotland.
John Hunter zodiac sign is Aquarius.
John Hunter was best known as Doctor.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about John Hunter's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with John Hunter's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1983 | A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people. |
1984 | Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
1990 | German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. |
1991 | Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed. |
1996 | The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre). |
2001 | An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944. |
2004 | The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". |
2007 | Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. |
2008 | Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. |
2010 | A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. |
2011 | For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. |
2012 | The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. |
2017 | Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. |
2021 | Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial. |
2021 | A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico. |
1983 | The birth of Mike Nickeas, Canadian baseball player |
1983 | The birth of Anna Watkins, English rower |
1984 | The birth of Hinkelien Schreuder, Dutch swimmer |
1985 | The birth of Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress |
1986 | The birth of Luke Moore, English footballer |
1986 | The birth of Aqib Talib, American football player |
1987 | The birth of Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of Ryan Goins, American baseball player |
1988 | The birth of Eddy Pettybourne, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player |
1989 | The birth of Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Eliaquim Mangala, French footballer |
1991 | The birth of Junior Roqica, Australian-Fijian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Vianney, French singer |
1994 | The birth of Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer |
2001 | The birth of Kaapo Kakko, Finnish ice hockey player |
2014 | The death of Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Ralph Waite, American actor and activist (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Faith Bandler, Australian activist and author (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (b. 1923) |
2016 | The death of O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet and academic (b. 1931) |
2016 | The death of Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1936) |
2017 | The death of Ricardo Arias Calderón, Panamanian politician (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and activist (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Kim Jong-nam, North Korean politician (b. 1971) |
2017 | The death of E-Dubble, American rapper (b. 1982) |
2018 | The death of Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (b. 1936) |
2021 | The death of Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician (b. 1945) |
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