Updated at November 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Hunter |
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Birthdate | May 23, 1718 |
Birth Place | Scotland |
Age (in 2024) | 306 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Doctor |
William Hunter is best known as Doctor who has born on May 23, 1718 in Scotland. Currently, William Hunter is 306 years, 5 months and 21 days old. William Hunter will celebrate 307th birthday on Friday, 23rd of May 2025. Below the countdown to William Hunter upcoming birthday.
Remembered as one of Great Britain's leading obstetricians of the Eighteenth Century, this Scottish doctor and anatomy teacher is perhaps most famous as the medical instructor and older brother of the renowned surgeon John Hunter.
After studying medicine under William Cullen at the University of Glasgow, he trained with William Smellie at St. George's Hospital, London.
Though remembered primarily for his work in the medical field of obstetrics, he also contributed to orthopedics, penning an important 1743 paper on the topic of cartilage injuries.
He was the brother-in-law of poet Anne Hunter (the wife of surgeon John Hunter) and the uncle of Agnes Hunter (who later became the wife of prominent Scottish military man and politician James Campbell of Inverneill).
In the 1760s, he became the personal physician of King George III's wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Queen Charlotte).
William Hunter is 306 years old today.
William Hunter was born on May 23, 1718 in Scotland.
William Hunter zodiac sign is Gemini.
William Hunter was best known as Doctor.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William Hunter's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1992 | Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions. |
1995 | The first version of the Java programming language is released. |
1998 | The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes. |
2002 | The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland. |
2006 | Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts. |
2008 | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries. |
2013 | A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington. |
2014 | Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. |
2015 | At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma. |
2016 | Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, kill at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen. |
2016 | Eight bombings are carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people are killed and at least 200 people injured. |
2017 | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares martial law in Mindanao, following the Maute's attack in Marawi. |
2021 | A cable car falls from a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, killing 14 people. |
2021 | Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich. |
2022 | Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party is sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia after winning the 2022 Australian federal election, ending 9 years of conservative rule. |
1991 | The birth of Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer-songwriter |
1991 | The birth of César Pinares, Chilean footballer |
1996 | The birth of Katharina Althaus, German ski jumper |
1996 | The birth of Emmanuel Boateng, Ghanaian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Razvan Marin, Romanian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Pedro Chirivella, Spanish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Coy Craft, American footballer |
1997 | The birth of Joe Gomez, English footballer |
1997 | The birth of Gustaf Nilsson, Swedish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Sam Timmins, New Zealand basketball player |
1998 | The birth of Sérgio Sette Câmara, Brazilian racing driver |
1998 | The birth of Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter |
1999 | The birth of James Charles, American internet personality |
1999 | The birth of Trinidad Cardona, American singer and songwriter |
2000 | The birth of Felipe Drugovich, Brazilian-Italian racing driver |
2012 | The death of Paul Fussell, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Epy Guerrero, Dominican baseball player, coach, and scout (b. 1942) |
2013 | The death of Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, Turkish police officer and politician, 15th Governor of Istanbul Province (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934) |
2013 | The death of Flynn Robinson, American basketball player (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev, Russian linguist and academic (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Anne Meara, American actress, comedian and playwright (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Aleksey Mozgovoy, Ukrainian sergeant (b. 1975) |
2015 | The death of Alicia Nash, Salvadoran-American physicist and engineer (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Roger Moore, English actor (b. 1927) |
2020 | The death of Hana Kimura, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1997) |
2021 | The death of Ron Hill, English long-distance runner (b. 1938) |
2021 | The death of Eric Carle, American children's book designer, illustrator, and writer best known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar (b. 1929) |
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