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This day in history · 8 November

1922Dr. Chris Barnard, medical practitioner who performed the first heart transplant, is bornDr. Chris Barnard is born Christiaan Neethling Barnard, medical practioner who performed the first heart transplant, was born in Beaufort West, Western Cape. Dr. Barnard studied medicine at the University of Cape Town.

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