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Events on Saturday 7 October 1939 1
1869 – 1939Harvey Cushing (1869-1939)Died 7 October 1939, aged 70Cushing was an American surgeon who pioneered brain surgery and is known as the father of modern neurosurgery. He described Cushing's disease. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of William Osler.