Edwin D. Kilbourne was born on 10 July 1920 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was married to Joy Schmid. He died on 21 February 2011 in Branford, Connecticut, USA.
Virologist who developed a way to manufacture yearly batches of an influenza vaccine. Acting on Kilbourne's belief that an influenza epidemic was imminent in the wake of a death of a Fort Dix soldier from influenza in 1976, then-President Gerald Ford ordered that 200 million Americans be vaccinated.