W. Somerset Maugham, Peter Tatchell, Virginia Woolf, Philip Johnson
Born: W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Peter Tatchell (1952), Virginia Woolf (1882)
Died: Philip Johnson (2005)
Born on this day
25JanBorn 1874152nd birthday
W. Somerset Maugham
Once the highest-paid author in the world, he lived on the Riviera for decades with his partner Gerald Haxton.
25JanBorn 195274th birthdayPeter Tatchell
Beaten, arrested and vilified for decades, the campaigner has fought for LGBTQ rights from Bermondsey to Moscow.
25JanBorn 1882144th birthdayVirginia Woolf
The great modernist writer wrote “Orlando”, a novel about changing sex, as a love letter to Vita Sackville-West.