deaths
June 13, 1931
Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (born 1851)
Kitasato Shibasaburō
Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong during an outbreak in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin.