Daniel Hale Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Daniel Hale Williams

American cardiologist

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1858

Place of Birth: Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 04-Aug-1931

Profession: surgeon, cardiologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 – August 4, 1931) was an American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the first documented, successful pericardium surgery in the United States to repair a wound.
He founded Chicago's Provident Hospital, the first non-segregated hospital in the United States and also founded an associated nursing school for African Americans. The heart surgery at Provident, which his patient survived for the next twenty years, is referred to as "the first successful heart surgery" by Encyclopedia Britannica.
In 1913, Williams was elected as the only African-American charter member of the American College of Surgeons.