On this day
26
September

Gloria Anzaldúa, Enzo Francone, Bessie Smith

Born: Gloria Anzaldúa (1942), Enzo Francone (1947)
Died: Bessie Smith (1937)

Born on this day

26SepBorn 194284th birthday

Gloria Anzaldúa

A Chicana writer whose work made the border a way of thinking about language, identity and power.

26SepBorn 194779th birthday

Enzo Francone

During the 1980 Moscow Olympics he chained himself up on Red Square to protest against the Soviet ban on homosexuality.

Died on this day

26SepDied 193789th anniversary of death

Bessie Smith

The “Empress of the Blues” made Black women’s lives and desires central to some of the era’s most influential recordings.