Oswaldo Cruz

Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, was a Brazilian physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.

5 August 1872

Born on the same birth day (5 August): Betty Oliphant • Colin McRae • Darren Shahlavi • Esteban Gutiérrez • Harold Holt • Kanon Suzuki • Konrad Hurrell • Marians Pahars • Matthew Caws • Pierre-Emile Højbjerg • Roberta Dodd Crawford • Tim Wilson (comedian) • Tobias Regner • Wassily Leontief • Wayne Bridge

Born in the same month (August 1872): Archduke Joseph August of Austria • Aubrey Beardsley • George E. Stewart • Haakon VII • Max Beerbohm • Richard Willstätter • Sri Aurobindo • Tanguturi Prakasam • William Manuel Johnson