Queers in History: January 8th in Queer History

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."

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