Manos Hadjidakis, Robert Opel, Marianne Hoppe
Born: Manos Hadjidakis (1925), Robert Opel (1939)
Died: Marianne Hoppe (2002)
Born on this day
23OctBorn 1925101st birthday
Manos Hadjidakis
The composer of “Never on Sunday” won an Oscar and shaped modern Greek music – and did not hide his homosexuality in a conservative society.
23OctBorn 193987th birthdayRobert Opel
He streaked naked across the Oscars stage in 1974 – and later ran one of the first galleries for gay erotic art, showing Tom of Finland and Mapplethorpe.