Constantine P. Cavafy, Alejandra Pizarnik, Constantine P. Cavafy, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Born: Constantine P. Cavafy (1863), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936)
Died: Constantine P. Cavafy (1933), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1951)
Born on this day
29AprBorn 1863163rd birthday
Constantine P. Cavafy
A clerk in Alexandria who became the greatest Greek poet of the 20th century – and wrote openly of desire between men.
29AprBorn 193690th birthdayAlejandra Pizarnik
Her brief, intense poems made silence, desire and the limits of language central to Argentine poetry.
Died on this day
29AprDied 193393rd anniversary of death
Constantine P. Cavafy
A clerk in Alexandria who became the greatest Greek poet of the 20th century – and wrote openly of desire between men.
29AprDied 195175th anniversary of deathLudwig Wittgenstein
One of the most important philosophers of the 20th century gave away his fortune – and loved a series of young men, as his coded diaries reveal.