Denton Cooley

Denton Arthur Cooley was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at clinical partner Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital and a clinical professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

22 August 1920

Born on the same birth date (22 August 1920): Ray Bradbury

Born on the same birth day (22 August): Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje • Andrés Calamaro • Carl Yastrzemski • Claude Debussy • Colm Feore • Giacomo Bonaventura • Gorch Fock (author) • Honor Blackman • Jack Dunphy • Keren Cytter • Lisy Fischer • Maximilian Bircher-Benner • Randall Cobb (American football) • Richard Armitage (actor) • Roger Cashmore • Tinga Seisay • Tokushōryū Makoto • Wendy Botha

Born in the same month (August 1920): Alex Colville • Baptiste Manzini • Charlie Shavers • Ella Raines • James Mourilyan Tanner • Lida Moser • Louis Pauwels • Maureen O'Hara • Mike Douglas • Norman Dewis • Percy Mayfield