Richard Doll

Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll was a British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century and made important contributions to that discipline. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was credited with being the first to prove that smoking increased the risk of lung cancer and heart disease.

28 October 1912

Born on the same birth day (28 October): Abdelkader Fréha • Agnes Obel • Anton Schlecker • Auguste Escoffier • Bernie Ecclestone • Cleo Laine • Graham Bond • Joan Plowright • Maria Sergejeva • Peter Coyne (rugby league) • Pierre Boivin • Robert Liston

Born in the same month (October 1912): Alfred Klingler • Alfredo Pián • Clifford Hansen • Don Byas • Don Siegel • Fritz Fischer (medical doctor) • Georg Solti • Jack Owens (singer-songwriter) • Kathleen Ollerenshaw • Minnie Pearl • Murray Golden • Nellie Lutcher • October 2 • Peter Gellhorn • Peter Walker (racing driver) • Pope John Paul I • President of Peru • Ram Vilas Sharma • Theodore Marier