Joseph Murray

Joseph Edward Murray was an American plastic surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954.

1 April 1919

Born on the same birth day (1 April): Abbé Prévost • Alberto Zaccheroni • Anamaria Marinca • Brendan Byrne • David Gilliland • Debbie Reynolds • Ferenc Puskás • Hugo Ibarra • John Morris (cricketer, born 1964) • Julia Harting • Memos Makris • Oliver Turvey • Peter Law • Sergio Scariolo • Sophie Germain • Sydney Newman • Toshiro Mifune • Vladimir Pozner Jr. • William Manchester • Álex Palou

Born in the same month (April 1919): Alberto Breccia • Billy Vaughn • Carl Lindner Jr. • Chavela Vargas • Clairette Oddera • Delfo Cabrera • Don Cornell • Donald J. Cram • Esther Afua Ocloo • Finn Helgesen • Glafcos Clerides • István Anhalt • John Houbolt • Licio Gelli • Merce Cunningham • Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece) • Raymond Carr • Sol Kaplan