deaths
October 18, 1886
Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (born 1796)

Philipp Franz von Siebold
Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician, botanist and traveller. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna and the introduction of Western medicine in Japan. He was the father of the first female Japanese doctor educated in Western medicine, Kusumoto Ine.