Susan La Flesche Picotte

Susan La Flesche Picotte was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree. She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe.

17 June 1865

Born on the same birth day (17 June): Burt Rutan • Carl H. Hermann • E. G. Squier • Eddy Merckx • Jacqueline Jones • Jason Hanson • Mohammed Ghazy Al-Akhras • Nicholas C. Handy • Nozomi Tsuji • Pete Browning • Phiyada Jutharattanakul • Stanislava Hrozenská • Thomas Mun

Born in the same month (June 1865): Adelaide Casely-Hayford • Albéric Magnard • Bernard Berenson • Carl Nielsen • Frederick Cook • George Lohmann • George Redmayne Murray • George V • John Monash • Karl Blossfeldt • May Whitty • Robert Henri • W. B. Yeats