Medicine
- Thomas Starzl performs the first liver transplant, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
- James D. Hardy performs the first lung transplant.
- June - Guy Alexandre performs the first renal transplant from a heart-beating, brain-dead donor, at Saint Pierre Hospital, Leuven, Belgium.
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“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)
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—H.L. (Henry Lewis)