Richard Cotton (geneticist)

Richard Cotton AM was an Australian medical researcher and founder of the Murdoch Institute and the Human Variome Project. Cotton focused on the prevention and treatment of genetic disorders and birth defects.

10 November 1940

Born on the same birth day (10 November): Andrés Avelino Cáceres • Bob Lindner • Deborah Cameron (linguist) • Diplo • Franz Anton Ries • Freddy Loix • Hans-Rudolf Merz • John Bevis • John III, Duke of Cleves • Karl Shapiro • Kate Seredy • Kevin Spraggett • Mackenzie Foy • Robert Jones (rugby union, born 1965) • Silvestre Reyes • Surendranath Banerjee • Tony Snell (basketball)

Born in the same month (November 1940): Antonio Skármeta • Elke Sommer • Henry T. Yang • Janet Lawson • Jim Bakken • Natalia Makarova • Oscar Espinosa Chepe • Percy Sledge • Reinhard Furrer • Shyamal Kumar Sen