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Cicely Saunders

1918 - 2005

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Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005) was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cicely Saunders is the 262nd most popular physician (up from 266th in 2019), the 1,490th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,367th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Cicely Saunders ranks 262 out of 726. Before her are Leonhart Fuchs, Joseph Erlanger, Gavriil Ilizarov, Wim Eijk, May-Britt Moser, and Karl Adolph von Basedow. After her are Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, François Magendie, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Clarke Abel, Bernard Kouchner, and Friedrich Kasimir Medikus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Cicely Saunders ranks 87. Before her are Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Richard Winters, Fernando Peyroteo, Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, Fanny Blankers-Koen, and E. Howard Hunt. After her are Lucian Pulvermacher, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Philip José Farmer, Thomas Gordon, Jean-Marie Loret, and Ian Stevenson. Among people deceased in 2005, Cicely Saunders ranks 73. Before her are Barrington Moore Jr., Maurice Trintignant, John Garang, Hunter S. Thompson, Narriman Sadek, and Augusto Roa Bastos. After her are Robert Moog, Dana Elcar, Julio César Turbay Ayala, Will Eisner, Álvaro Cunhal, and Yao Wenyuan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Cicely Saunders ranks 1,490 out of 8,785. Before her are Desmond Morris (1928), Edward Fox (1937), Marc Bolan (1947), Emily Davison (1872), Charles Bennett (1870), and Tom Scott (1984). After her are Henry Pelham (1694), Gareth Bale (1989), Patrick Head (1946), Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1375), Peter Robinson (1948), and Ryan Giggs (1973).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Cicely Saunders ranks 18. Before her are Hans Sloane (1660), Thomas Willis (1621), Frederick Griffith (1879), John Langdon Down (1828), Mungo Park (1771), and James Lind (1716). After her are Clarke Abel (1780), Henry Gray (1827), Thomas Addison (1793), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), William Gull (1816), and John Latham (1740).

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