On this day
18
March

Marquis de Custine, Guido Westerwelle

Born: Marquis de Custine (1790)
Died: Guido Westerwelle (2016)

Born on this day

18MarBorn 1790236th birthday

Marquis de Custine

After a beating in 1824, Paris society shut him out without any law – yet he lived openly with his partner and wrote a classic about Russia.

Died on this day

18MarDied 201610th anniversary of death

Guido Westerwelle

A German liberal politician who became the country’s first openly gay foreign minister.