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): Alex Holmes • Bede Jarrett • Charles Percier • Charlie Connelly • Connie B. Gay • Dinos Dimopoulos • George Herriman • John Callaway • Joop Donkervoort • Melville Elijah Stone • Paul Molitor • Ron Dante • Somin (singer) • Stephen Ireland • Tímea Nagy • Werner Stengel

Born in the same month (August 1920): Charles Gibson (historian) • Charlie Shavers • George Tooker • Godfrey Evans • Helen Thomas • James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead • Judy Cassab • Leo Chiosso • Maureen O'Hara • Max Fatchen • Ray Bradbury