References External links South African history: Louis Washkansky World's First Heart Transplant1 World's First Heart Transplant2 Denise Darvall the donor for the World's First Heart Transplant Article from Time Magazine, 29 December 1967 Article from Life Magazine, 15 December 1967 1912 births 1967 deaths Heart transplant recipients People from Cape Town South African Jews South African people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Deaths from pneumonia in South Africa Lithuanian emigrants to South Africa White South African people 1967 in medicine Grocers South African military personnel of World War II Lithuanian Jews nl:Louis Washkansky