On this day
16
October

Mary Daly, Oscar Wilde, Jacques Picoux

Born: Mary Daly (1928), Oscar Wilde (1854)
Died: Jacques Picoux (2016)

Born on this day

16OctBorn 192898th birthday

Mary Daly

A Catholic theologian who left the Church to become one of the most radical voices of lesbian feminism.

16OctBorn 1854172nd birthday

Oscar Wilde

The wittiest writer of Victorian London was sent to prison for loving men – and became a symbol of gay persecution.

Died on this day

16OctDied 201610th anniversary of death

Jacques Picoux

After 35 years together, the law treated him as a stranger to his partner – his death gave Taiwan’s fight for marriage equality new urgency.