Ernst von Bergmann

Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann was a Baltic German surgeon. He was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery.

16 December 1836

Born on the same birth day (16 December): A. N. R. Robinson • Anna Popplewell • Benjamin Kowalewicz • Billy Gibbons • Mira Antonitsch • Ruth Johnson Colvin • Viktor Bunyakovsky

Born in the same month (December 1836): Franz von Lenbach