On this day
05
November

Penny Wong, Luis Cernuda

Born: Penny Wong (1968)
Died: Luis Cernuda (1963)

Born on this day

05NovBorn 196858th birthday

Penny Wong

Born in Malaysia, she became Australia’s first Asian-born cabinet minister and its first openly gay foreign minister.

Died on this day

05NovDied 196363rd anniversary of death

Luis Cernuda

A poet of the Generation of ’27 who wrote openly about love between men in the 1930s – and spent the rest of his life in exile.