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 • Ari Stidham • Carl Yastrzemski • Cecil Kellaway • Drew Hutchison (baseball) • Dua Lipa • George Herriman • Jang Hyun-kyu • LaMelo Ball • Layne Staley • Marius Bezykornovas • Max Scheler • Pac (wrestler) • Peter Taylor (Australian cricketer) • Pierre Guérin de Tencin • Randall Cobb (American football) • Robbie Rochow • Stephen Ireland • Tinga Seisay • Trey Gowdy • Willis R. Whitney

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