On this day
25
September

Pedro Almodóvar, bell hooks, Marquis de Custine, Victoria Kent, Alejandra Pizarnik

Born: Pedro Almodóvar (1949), bell hooks (1952)
Died: Marquis de Custine (1857), Victoria Kent (1987), Alejandra Pizarnik (1972)

Born on this day

25SepBorn 194977th birthday

Pedro Almodóvar

The great director of post-Franco Spain fills his films with passionate women, gay desire and trans heroines.

25SepBorn 195274th birthday

bell hooks

Her writing connected race, gender and class with questions of education, belonging and love.

Died on this day

25SepDied 1857169th anniversary of death

Marquis de Custine

After a beating in 1824, Paris society shut him out without any law – yet he lived openly with his partner and wrote a classic about Russia.

25SepDied 198739th anniversary of death

Victoria Kent

Spain’s pioneering woman lawyer reformed the prisons of the Republic – and spent forty years in exile with her American partner.

25SepDied 197254th anniversary of death

Alejandra Pizarnik

Her brief, intense poems made silence, desire and the limits of language central to Argentine poetry.