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): Dennis Kruppke • Duván Zapata • Edvard Drabløs • Etan Thomas • Jean-Henri d'Anglebert • Jeff Porcaro • Peter Collinson (film director) • Peter Law • Rachel Maddow • Whittaker Chambers

Born in the same month (April 1919): Billy Vaughn • Clairette Oddera • Don Cornell • Donald J. Cram • Ervin Drake • Howard Keel • István Anhalt • J. Presper Eckert • John Houbolt • K. Saraswathi Amma • Madalyn Murray O'Hair • Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece) • Pedro Ramírez Vázquez • Roger Doucet • Roland Gaucher • Shamshad Begum • Sol Kaplan