Eudy Simelane, F. W. Murnau

Born: Eudy Simelane (1977)
Died: F. W. Murnau (1931)

Born on this day

11MarBorn 197749th birthday

Eudy Simelane

Her football career and life as an openly lesbian woman became part of a wider struggle over safety, justice and the distance between constitutional equality and everyday experience.

Died on this day

11MarDied 193195th anniversary of death

F. W. Murnau

A silent-film director who found new ways to make movement, light and shadow tell a story.