Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou is a Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.
30 December 1930
Born on the same birth date (30 December 1930): Elmira Minita Gordon • Red Rhodes • Roy Calne
Born on the same birth day (30 December): AD 39 • Bennett Miller • C. J. Wilcox • Caity Lotz • Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie • Daniel T. Barry • David Bedford (athlete) • Dick Spooner • Gianni Zuiverloon • Jack Riley (actor) • Jim Marshall (defensive end) • John Hartford • Johnny Rogers • Matt Ulrich • Mel Renfro • Michael Rodríguez (footballer) • Patrick Kerney • President of Estonia • Saša Ilić (footballer, born 1977)
Born in the same month (December 1930): Bob Guccione • David Piper (racing driver) • Elmira Minita Gordon • Gary Becker • Jaime Escalante • Jean-Luc Godard • Jim Hall (musician) • Mariam A. Aleem • Mary Rose Tuitt • Maximilian Schell • Phil Roman • Raul M. Gonzalez • Robert Joffrey • Ronnie Corbett • Roy Calne • Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores