American-Canadian surgeon and academic (born 1891)

Wilder Penfield

Wilder Graves Penfield was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus. His scientific contributions on neural stimulation expand across a variety of topics including hallucinations, illusions, dissociation and déjà vu. Penfield devoted much of his thinking to mental processes, including contemplation of whether there was any scientific basis for the existence of the human soul.

Born

1891

January 26

Died

1976

Era

1890s

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Wilder, in brief

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Key dates

1891 Born
1976 Died

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The world in 1976

When Wilder departed

april 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
april 11 The Apple I is created.
april 13 The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
april 13 Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.

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Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964 American general (born 1880) Jack Youngblood 1950– American football player Juan Pablo Duarte 1813– Dominican philosopher and poet, founding father of the Dominican Republic (died 1876) Jules Feiffer 1929–2025 American cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, and educator (born 1929) Lucinda Williams 1953– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Mercedes Moné 1992– American wrestler Oscar Ruggeri 1962– Argentine footballer and manager Paul Newman 1925–2008 American actor, activist, director, race car driver, and businessman, co-founded Newman's Own (died 2008) Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza 1852–1905 Italian-French explorer (died 1905)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1891

Earl Warren 1891–1974 American jurist and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (born 1891) Emiliano Mercado del Toro 1891–2007 Puerto Rican-American soldier (died 2007) Fumimaro Konoe 1891–1945 Japanese lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1891) Harold Alexander 1891–1969 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (died 1969) Henry Bachtold 1891–1983 Australian soldier and railway engineer (died 1983) Henry Miller 1891–1980 American author and painter (died 1980) Max Ernst 1891–1976 German painter and sculptor (born 1891) Nelly Sachs 1891–1970 German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970) Sergei Prokofiev 1891–1953 Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1953)

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