BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 325                 Wednesday, 20 November 2024         Antwerpen		
All in the Family
Groote Schuur Hospital

Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa.

Related events:

  1. Sunday 3rd of December 1967 (x) Louis Washkansky becomes the first man to have a human-to-human heart transplantation
    Washkansky lived for 18 days.

  2. Thursday 21st of December 1967 (-) Louis Washkansky dies of pneumonia
    Washkansky lived eighteen days after the transplant.

  3. Tuesday 2nd of January 1968 (x) Dentist Philip Blaiberg becomes the second man to have a heart transplant
    Blaiberg lived nineteen months with his new heart.

  4. Sunday 17th of August 1969 (-) Dentist Philip Blaiberg dies of a final rejection of his new heart
    Blaiberg was the man who lived longest with a transplanted heart.