20th March

LGBT people born today:

1891 – Edmund Goulding – US Director – Died 24^th December 1959

1894 – Eyre de Lanux – US Author / Artist – Died 8^th September 1996

1908 – Michael Redgrave – UK Actor / Author / Director – Died 21^st March 1985

1915 – Sviatoslav Richter – Soviet Pianist – Died 1^st August 1997

1916 – Ernst van Heerden – South African Poet – Died 30^th September 1997

1928 – Anthony Blond – UK Author / Publisher – Died 27^th February 2008

1939 – Coos Huijsen – Dutch Politician

1943 – Jaime Chavarri – Spanish Actor / Director / Screenwriter [or 18^th March 1943]

1947 – John Boswell – UK Author / Historian / Professor – Died 24^th December 1994

1947 – Sue Sanders – UK Activist / Teacher

1950 – Paula Aboud – US Politician

1953 – Cydney Bernard – US Producer

1966 – Alexandra Potvin – Belgian Presenter

1970 – Cathy DeBuono – US Actress

1981 – Declan Bennett – UK Singer

1989 – Xavier Dolan – Canadian Actor / Director

???? – Paul Johnson – US Army / Porn

And those who died:

1945 – Lord Alfred Douglas – UK Author / Poet / Translator – Born 22^nd October 1870

1964 – Brendan Behan – Irish Poet / Author / Playwright – Born 9^th February 1923

1998 – Agustin Gomez-Arcos – Spanish Author – Born 15^th January 1939

Events in LGBT history:

2009 – Adoption by same-sex couples legalised in Denmark

2010 – European Ski Week in Tignes, France [runs until 27^th March 2010]