Edouard Wyss-Dunant

Edouard Wyss-Dunant was a Swiss physician and alpinist. He had a distinguished career in medicine, both in his own country and abroad. He published a number of treatises in his professional capacity and was the author of several mountaineering books. He is best known for his leadership of the Swiss Expedition to Everest of 1952.

17 April 1897

Born on the same birth date (17 April 1897): Nisargadatta Maharaj • Thornton Wilder

Born on the same birth day (17 April): Augustus Edward Hough Love • Bella Freud • Billy Fury • Cynthia Ozick • George Adamski • Heinz Putzl • Nicolas Nabokov • Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie • Roger Twose • Urs Wild • Vladimir Polyakov (pole vaulter) • William Holden

Born in the same month (April 1897): Ardito Desio • Douglas Sirk • Folke Jansson • Jiroemon Kimura • John B. Gambling • Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood • Peter de Noronha • Prafulla Chandra Sen • Thornton Wilder • Walter Winchell