Gabriel Attal, Rosa Bonheur, Karl Meier («Rolf»), Barbara Hammer, Selma Lagerlöf
Born: Gabriel Attal (1989), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Karl Meier («Rolf») (1897)
Died: Barbara Hammer (2019), Selma Lagerlöf (1940)
Born on this day
16MarBorn 198937th birthday
Gabriel Attal
A French politician who became the Fifth Republic’s youngest prime minister and its first openly gay one.
16MarBorn 1822204th birthdayRosa Bonheur
The most famous woman painter of the 19th century needed a police permit to wear trousers – and lived for over forty years with Nathalie Micas.
16MarBorn 1897129th birthdayKarl Meier («Rolf»)
Under the name “Rolf” he edited “Der Kreis”, the Zurich magazine that kept gay life alive in Europe through war and repression.
Died on this day
16MarDied 20197th anniversary of death
Barbara Hammer
Across more than 80 moving-image works, she explored lesbian desire, the body and the gaps in queer history.
16MarDied 194086th anniversary of deathSelma Lagerlöf
The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature loved women – as her letters to two companions reveal.