On this day
15
October

Michel Foucault, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Born: Michel Foucault (1926)
Died: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1988)

Born on this day

15OctBorn 1926100th birthday

Michel Foucault

He examined how institutions shape ideas of madness, crime and sexuality, giving later queer thinkers new ways to question what society calls normal.

Died on this day

15OctDied 198838th anniversary of death

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

An outsider as a gay man of mixed heritage, he wrote some of the longest and most difficult piano works ever – and banned their performance for forty years.