16th December

LGBT people born today:

1899 – Sir Noel Coward – UK Actor / Author / Musician – Died 26^th March 1973

1901 – Margaret Mead – US Anthropologist – Died 15^th November 1978

1915 – Hazel Barnes – US Philosopher / Author – Died 18^th March 2008

1917 – Arthur C Clarke – UK Author / Presenter – Died 19^th March 2008

1923 – Gerald Glaskin – Australian Author – Died 2000

1946 – Barbara Smith – US Author / Activist

1946 – Beverly Smith – US Author / Activist

1948 – Christopher Biggins – UK Actor / Presenter

1951 – Bonnie Dumanis – US District Attorney

1958 – Edward Barnes – US Composer / Music Producer

1961 – Ron Athey – US Performance Artist

1974 – Kanako Otsuji – Japanese Politician / Activist

And those who died:

1965 – W Somerset Maugham – UK Author – Born 25^th January 1874

1988 – Sylvester James – US Singer – Born 6^th September 1947

1991 – Pier Vittorio Tondelli – Italian Author – Born 14^th September 1955

1997 – Richard Warwick – UK Actor – Born 29^th April 1945

2003 – Alfred Lynch – UK Actor – Born 26^th January 1931

2005 – John Spencer – US Actor – Died 20^th December 1946