Born this day
Winnaretta Singer (1865 - 1943 ) US. Heiress
Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac,was an American musical patron and heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune.
She had affairs with numerous women, never making attempts to conceal them, and never going for any great length of time without a female lover. She had these affairs during her own marriages and afterwards, and often with other married women. The affronted husband of one of her lovers once stood outside the princess's Venetian palazzo, declaring, "If you are half the man I think you are, you will come out here and fight me."
She had affairs with numerous women, never making attempts to conceal them, and never going for any great length of time without a female lover. She had these affairs during her own marriages and afterwards, and often with other married women. The affronted husband of one of her lovers once stood outside the princess's Venetian palazzo, declaring, "If you are half the man I think you are, you will come out here and fight me."
Richard Cromwell (1910 – 1960) US
Actor
Tharon Musser (1925 – 2009) US
Lighting Technician
Kerwin Mathews (1926 – 2007) US
Actor
Daniel Farson (1927 - 1997 ) UK.
British writer and broadcaster, who was a popular television personality and prominent public figure in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Graham Chapman (1941 – 1989) UK
Actor / Screenwriter
George Passmore (1942 – ) UK
Artist [Gilbert & George]
William Bonin (1947 – 1996) US
Serial Killer
David Bowie (1947 –) UK
Singer / Actor
Sir Adrian Fulford (1953 – ) UK
Judge
Nacho Duato (1957 – ) Spanish Dancer / Director
Noel Alumit (1970 – ) US Actor / Author / Activist
Charlie Condou (1973 – ) UK Actor
Rafe Judkins (1983 – ) US Reality TV [Survivor] / Screenwriter
Died this day
Arcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713) Italian
Composer / Violinist
Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)French
Poet associated with the Symbolist movement, and considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.
In 1872 he left his wife for what became a stormy relationship with Arthur Rimbaud.
Johnny Jordaan (1924 - 1989 ) Dutch
Singer
Sir Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998 ) UK
Composer
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