Sunday 1 May 2011

1st May

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LGBT people born 1st May:


1874 – Romaine Brooks – US Artist – Died 7th December 1970


1881 – Mary MacLane – Canadian Author / Screenwriter / Actress – Died 6th / 7th August 1929


1922 – Tad Mosel – US Playwright / Screenwriter – Died 24th August 2008


1935 – Julian Mitchell – UK Screenwriter / Author


1943 – Ian Campbell Dunn – UK Activist – Died 10th March 1998


1960 – Iain Smith – UK Politician


1967 – Scott Coffey – US Actor / Director


1970 – Octavia St Laurent [or 16th March 1964] – US Entertainer – Died 17th May 2009


1980 – Jacek Dehnel – Polish Poet / Author / Painter



And those who died:


1960 – Dorothy Bussy – UK Author / Translator – Born 24th July 1865


1968 – Harold Nicolson – UK Author / Diplomat / Politician – Born 21st November 1886


1978 – Sylvia Townsend Warner – UK Author / Poet – Born 6th December 1893


2001 – Bryan Derbyshire – UK Journalist / Editor / Entrepreneur – Born 9th September 1943


2002 – John Nathan-Turner – UK Producer – Born 12th August 1947


2003 – Paul Moore – US Bishop / Marine – Born 15th November 1919


2005 – Edward von Kloberg, III – US Lobbyist – Born 9th January 1942


2008 – Bernard Archard – UK Actor – Born 20th August 1916



Event in LGBT History:


2009 – Same-sex marriage legalised in Sweden from this date


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