Frederick Banting
Born: November 14, 1891
Died: February 21, 1941
Buried at: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
Date of Birth 1891-11-14 Place of birth: Alliston, Ontario
Date of Death 1941-02-21 Place of death: near Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland Cause of death: Airplane crash
Also known as Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Frederick Banting was the discoverer of insulin and winner of a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923 shared with J.J.R. Macleod
Inscription: FREDERICK GRANT BANTING
1891 KBE 1941
HENRIETTA E. BALL BANTING
1912 M.A., M.D., FR, COC, LLD 1976
Interment Info Section 29, Lot 29, of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, in Toronto.
Web references:
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1941-sir-frederick-banting-dies-in-plane-crash
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-frederick-grant-banting
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