Charles Best (medical scientist)

Charles Herbert Best, was an American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin with Frederick Banting. He served as the chair of the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at the University of Toronto and was further involved in research concerning choline and heparin.

27 February 1899

Born on the same birth day (27 February): Denis Whitaker • February 27 • Gidon Kremer • John Steinbeck • Joseph Grinnell • Josh Groban • Lúcio Costa • Morten Lauridsen • N. Scott Momaday • Neal Schon • Reginald Gardiner • René Clemencic • Roger Mahony • Thomas Hazlehurst (businessman) • William Nicholson (Australian politician) • Yoshikazu Okada

Born in the same month (February 1899): Arthur Bryant • Café Filho • Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney • Erich Kästner • Gale Sondergaard • George O'Hara (actor) • Georges Auric • Jibanananda Das • Lonnie Johnson (musician) • Lucio Fontana • Max Petitpierre • Norman Taurog • Ramon Novarro • Rolf Stenersen • Virginia M. Alexander