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November 16, 1935

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Elizabeth Drew

1935Elizabeth Drew, American journalist and author[†]

Elizabeth Drew is an American political journalist and author.

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

1935Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-Lebanese cleric, educator, and author (died 2010)[†]

Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah was a prominent Lebanese-Iraqi Twelver Shia cleric. Born in Najaf, Iraq, Fadlallah studied Islam in Najaf before moving to Lebanon in 1952. In the following decades, he gave many lectures, engaged in intense scholarship, wrote dozens of books, founded several Islamic religious schools, and established the Mabarrat Association. Through the aforementioned association, he established a public library, a women's cultural center, and a medical clinic.

Magdi Yacoub

1935Magdi Yacoub, Egyptian-English surgeon and academic[†]

Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub is a Coptic Egyptian-British retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London, best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surgeon Donald Ross, adapting the Ross procedure, where the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the person's own pulmonary valve, devising the arterial switch operation (ASO) in transposition of the great arteries, and establishing the heart transplantation centre at Harefield Hospital in 1980 with a heart transplant for Derrick Morris, who at the time of his death was Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant recipient. Yacoub subsequently performed the UK's first combined heart and lung transplant in 1983.