deaths
June 22, 1970
Đặng Thùy Trâm, Vietnamese surgeon and author (born 1942)
Đặng Thùy Trâm
Đặng Thùy Trâm was a Vietnamese doctor. She worked as a battlefield surgeon for the People's Army of Vietnam and Vietcong during the Vietnam War. Her wartime diaries, which chronicle the last two years of her life, attracted international attention following their publication in 2005.