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): Aimé Bonpland • Carl Yastrzemski • Cooper Connolly • Frederick II, Elector of Saxony • GZA • James Kirke Paulding • Jean Regnault de Segrais • Leonard Pagliero • Paul Doucette • Peter Laughner • Randall Cobb (American football) • Rich Lowry • Rob Witschge • Samuel David Luzzatto • Samuel Langley
Born in the same month (August 1920): Baptiste Manzini • Bob Kennedy • Brant Parker • Charles Bukowski • Charles Gibson (historian) • Ella Raines • Godfrey Evans • H. R. Van Dongen • Herb Simpson • Leo Chiosso • Maureen O'Hara • Otis Boykin • Percy Mayfield • Prem Tinsulanonda • Raul Renter • Ray Bradbury • Shelley Winters