07-15-1953 Alicia Bridges – Born in Lawndale, North Carolina. She is an American singer. Co-wrote and performed her international hit I Love the Nightlife in 1978. Bridges is openly lesbian….
06-14-1960 Jane Lynch – Born in Evergreen Park, Illinois. She is an American comedian, actress, and singer. She gained fame in Christopher Guest’s improv rockumentary pictures, such as Best in…
07-13-1863 – 09-05-1947 Mary Emma Woolley – Born in South Norwalk, Connecticut. She was an American educator, peace activist, and women’s suffrage supporter. Woolley was the first female student to…
07-12-1866 – 01-29-1929 La Goulue (b. Louise Weber) – Born into a Jewish family from Alsace, France. The family moved near Paris, where her mother worked in a laundry….
07-11-1931 – 07-08-2018 Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm) – Born in New York City, New York, he grew up in Long Beach, California. He was an American actor, singer,…
07-10-1640 – 04-16-1689 Aphra Behn – Born in Canterbury, United Kingdom. She was a British playwright, poet, translator, and fiction writer. Behn was one of the first women to earn…
07-09-1937 David Hockney – Born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He is an artist and major contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. He is considered…
07-08-1886 – 12-16-1973 Frances M. Witherspoon – Born in Meridian, Mississippi. She was an American writer and activist. She and her life-partner, Tracy Dickinson Mygatt, founded the New York…
07-07-1899 – 01-24-1983 George Cukor – Born in the Lower East Side, New York City, New York. He was an American film director. Cukor directed The Philadelphia Story (1940), Born…
07-06-1925 – 08-12-2007 Merv Griffin – Born in San Mateo, California. He was an American TV host, singer, and media mogul. Griffin never acknowledged he was gay, though it became…
