English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic

Brenda Milner

Brenda Milner is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. Milner is a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and a professor of Psychology at the Montreal Neurological Institute. As of 2020, she holds more than 25 honorary degrees and she continued to work in her nineties. Her work covers many aspects of neuropsychology including her lifelong interest in the involvement of the temporal lobes in episodic memory.

Born

1918

July 15

Died

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1910s

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1918 Born

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-484 Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome.
70 First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
756 An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.
1099 First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.

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The world in 1918

When Brenda arrived

april 1 The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
april 20 World War I: Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
april 21 World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
april 23 World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.

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Aníbal Cavaco Silva 1939– Portuguese economist and politician, 19th President of the Portuguese Republic Ashoke Sen 1956– Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist David Miliband 1965– English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Dorothy Fields 1905–1974 American songwriter (died 1974) Emmeline Pankhurst 1858–1928 English political activist and suffragist (died 1928) Fritz Langanke 1919–2012 German lieutenant (born 1919) Harrison Birtwistle 1934–2022 British composer (born 1934) Inigo Jones 1573–1652 English architect, designed the Queen's House (died 1652) Jan-Michael Vincent 1944–2019 American actor (born 1944)

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Abdul Haris Nasution 1918–2000 Indonesian general and politician, 12th Indonesian Minister of Defence (died 2000) Arthur Jackson 1918– American lieutenant and target shooter (died 2015) Arthur Kornberg 1918–2007 American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007) B. K. S. Iyengar 1918–2014 Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (born 1918) Chaim Herzog 1918–1997 Israeli general, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of Israel (born 1918) Dave Bartholomew 1918– American bandleader, composer and arranger (died 2019) George Allen 1918–1990 American football player and coach (died 1990) Guy Gibson 1918–1944 Anglo-Indian commander and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1944) Henry Wittenberg 1918–2010 American wrestler (born 1918)

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