On this day
03
August

Nemo, Roger Casement, Colette

Born: Nemo (1999)
Died: Roger Casement (1916), Colette (1954)

Born on this day

03AugBorn 199927th birthday

Nemo

Nemo made non-binary self-discovery part of a Eurovision-winning song and used the resulting platform to speak about recognition and political responsibility.

Died on this day

03AugDied 1916110th anniversary of death

Roger Casement

Roger Casement exposed colonial violence in Africa and South America. After his conviction for treason, accounts of his private sexual life were used against appeals for mercy.

03AugDied 195472nd anniversary of death

Colette

She turned experience as a writer, performer and working woman into fiction attentive to desire, ageing and the cost of independence.