Born this day
General Charles George Gordon (1833 - 1885) BritishBritish General, also known as "Chinese Gordon", or as "Gordon of Khartoum", for the famous battle in which he died.
Colette (1873 – 1954) French
Author
Richmond Barthe (1901 – 1989) US
Sculptor
John Normington (1937 – 2007) UK
Actor
Guido Bachmann (1940 – 2003) Swiss
Author / Actor
Joel Crothers (1941 – 1985) US
Actor
Bobbi Campbell (1952 – 1984) US
Nurse / Drag Queen / Activist
Frederique Spigt (1957 – ) Dutch
Singer / Songwriter / Composer / Presenter
Adrian Lee Kellard (1959 – 1991) US
Artist
Benjamin Smoke (1960 – 1999) US
Musician
Tyler Riggz (1975 – ) US
Police / Porn
Nadia Almada (1977 – ) Portuguese
Reality TV [Big Brother]
Blake Riley (1986 – ) US
Porn
Died this day
Richard Loeb (1905 - 1936) USMurderer
Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947) Venezuelan / French
Composer / Conductor / Musician / Critic
Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960), US
Author, anthropologist, and folklorist during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, a book heralded as “one of the most poetic works of fiction by a black writer in the first half of the 20th century, and one of the most revealing treatments in modern literature of a woman’s quest for satisfying life.”
Josephine Herbst (1892 - 1969) US
Author / Historian / Journalist / Literary Critic
Bryher [Annie Winifred Ellerman] (1894 - 1983) UK
Author / Poet / Editor
Jerry Mills (1951 - 1993) US
Cartoonist
Sodomy in history, January 28th
1965 — The Maine Supreme Court rules that penetration is an essential element in the crime of sodomy.
1977 — The Kentucky Supreme Court rules that the alleged homosexuality of a sodomy "victim" is irrelevant under state law.
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