On this day
01
October

Sarah Hegazi, Klaus Wowereit, Dorothy Arzner, Kurt Hiller

Born: Sarah Hegazi (1989), Klaus Wowereit (1953)
Died: Dorothy Arzner (1979), Kurt Hiller (1972)

Born on this day

01OctBorn 198937th birthday

Sarah Hegazi

She raised a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo in 2017 – and was imprisoned for it.

01OctBorn 195373rd birthday

Klaus Wowereit

“I’m gay – and that’s a good thing”: with one sentence in 2001 he came out and became Berlin’s mayor for thirteen years.

Died on this day

01OctDied 197947th anniversary of death

Dorothy Arzner

One of the few women directing in Hollywood’s studio era, she made films that gave women room to question the roles available to them.

01OctDied 197254th anniversary of death

Kurt Hiller

A combative writer and lawyer who fought Paragraph 175 for sixty years – through the Weimar Republic, a concentration camp and exile.