Brittney Griner, Mikhail Kuzmin, Martina Navratilova
Born: Brittney Griner (1990), Mikhail Kuzmin (1872), Martina Navratilova (1956)
Born on this day
18OctBorn 199036th birthday
Brittney Griner
A three-time Olympic champion, she returned to basketball after nearly ten months in Russian detention.
18OctBorn 1872154th birthdayMikhail Kuzmin
His 1906 novel “Wings” was the first in Russian to tell of love between men with a happy ending.
18OctBorn 195670th birthdayMartina Navratilova
She won nine Wimbledon titles and came out in 1981 – at the height of her career, at a time when it could have cost her everything.