On this day
13
July

Monique Wittig, Frida Kahlo, Alla Nazimova

Born: Monique Wittig (1935)
Died: Frida Kahlo (1954), Alla Nazimova (1945)

Born on this day

13JulBorn 193591st birthday

Monique Wittig

“Lesbians are not women”: the French writer turned lesbian existence into a radical challenge to the idea of gender itself.

Died on this day

13JulDied 195472nd anniversary of death

Frida Kahlo

A Mexican painter whose self-portraits made the body a place of pain, invention and self-definition.

13JulDied 194581st anniversary of death

Alla Nazimova

A Broadway star who became a Hollywood producer, she took artistic risks and helped shape its queer social circles.