The human brain

The Thalamus: 

• Wilhelm His Sr. (9 July 1831 – 1 May 1904) 
• Johannes Peter Müller (14 July 1801 – 28 April 1858)
• Robert Remak (26 July 1815 – 29 August 1865) 
• Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902)
• Albert von Kölliker (6 July 1817 – 2 November 1905)
• August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (17 January 1834 – 5 November 1914)
• Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) 
• Wilhelm His Jr. (29 December 1863 – 10 November 1934) 
• Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff (January 22, 1854 – May 1, 1900) 
• Theodor Hermann Meynert (15 June 1833 – 31 May 1892)

Yesterday, because of the recent “Brain Theme” pattern cluster, I decided to follow the trail by investigating the human brain Wikipedia page, limiting my search to the section re Modern Period, where on investigating the notable persons mentione, I found the following: 

• John Hughlings Jackson (4 April 1835 – 7 October 1911) 
• Walter Edward Dandy (April 6, 1886 – April 19, 1946)
• Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley  (14 April 1857 – 16 July 1916) 
• Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939)
• Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934)
• Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (6 October 1836 – 23 January 1921) 
• Rafael Lorente de Nó (April 8, 1902 – April 2, 1990) 
• Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) 
• Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923)
• Mariano Benlliure (8 September 1862 - 9 November 1947)
• Paul Donald MacLean (May 1, 1913 – December 26, 2007)
• Averill Abraham Liebow (March 31, 1911 - May 31, 1978)
• Stanley Cobb (December 10, 1887 – February 25, 1968) 
• John Farquhar Fulton (November 1, 1899 – May 29, 1960)
• Arthur Koestler ( 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) 
• Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996)
• David McKenzie Rioch (July 6, 1900 – September 11, 1985)
• Camillo Golgi (7 July 1843 – 21 January 1926) 
• Francis Otto Schmitt (November 23, 1903 – October 3, 1995) 
• Stephen William Kuffler (August 24, 1913 – October 11, 1980) 
• Pierre Paul Broca (28 June 1824 – 9 July 1880)
• Carl (or Karl) Wernicke (15 May 1848 – 15 June 1905) 
• Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952)
• John Farquhar Fulton (November 1, 1899 – May 29, 1960)
• Korbinian Brodmann (17 November 1868 – 22 August 1918) 
• James Wenceslas Papez (1883–1958)
• Margaret Alice Kennard (September 25, 1899—December 12, 1975)
• Walter Reed (September 13, 1851 – November 22, 1902)

Note

František Hrúzik (1 May 1927 – 9 August 2021 )

Jan Mayman (died 9 August 2021) 

Nadir Tedeschi (11 August 1930 – 9 August 2021)

Carl E. "Chucky" Thompson (July 12, 1968 – August 9, 2021)

Carlton H. Colwell (27 June 1926 – 9 August 2021) 

Walter Yetnikoff (August 11, 1933 – August 8, 2021) 

Jaan Kaplinski (22 January 1941 – 8 August 2021^[1])

Stefan Kapłaniak "Cenek" (born 10 April 1933)