Jérôme Lejeune

Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for his work on the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities, most especially the link between Down Syndrome and trisomy-21 and cri du chat syndrome, amongst several others, and for his subsequent strong opposition to, in his opinion, the improper and immoral use of amniocentesis prenatal testing for eugenic purposes through selective and elective abortion. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, having been declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 21 January 2021.

13 June 1926

Born on the same birth date (13 June 1926): Paul Lynde

Born on the same birth day (13 June): Ben Barba • Blair Chapman • Chris Cairns • Cody Walker (actor) • Daniel Mortimer • Helmut Lent • Jaan Pehk • Jennifer Nicole Lee • Jonathan Lucroy • Kerttu Niskanen • Mary Whitehouse • Rachel Taylor (rugby union) • Samak Sundaravej • Thomas Young (scientist) • Will Claye • Yitzhak Pundak

Born in the same month (June 1926): Arnaldo Pomodoro • Bruno Bartoletti • Carlisle Floyd • Efraín Ríos Montt • Flora MacDonald (politician) • Fred Cone (American football) • George Englund • George Robb (footballer) • Happy Rockefeller • Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah • Johnny Berry • Judith Malina • Julius W. Becton Jr. • Kenny Baker (fiddler) • Mahendra Bhatnagar • Marilyn Monroe • Paul Berg • Philip B. Crosby • Rachid Solh • Richard Schweiker • Robert Ledley