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Last Updated = 04-28-25

April isn’t just about blooming flowers and springtime vibes—it’s also a time to celebrate the birthdays of some LGBTQ historical heroes and Queer Pioneers:

  • 04-01 = Rachel Maddow (1973- ) = American journalist and author

  • 04-02 = Alec Guinness (1914-2000) = English actor

  • 04-02 = David Bohnett (1956- ) = American philanthropist and tech entrepreneur

  • 04-02 = Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) = Danish writer

  • 04-02 = Linda Hunt (1945- ) = American actor

  • 04-02 = R.W. Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969) = English biographer and historian

  • 04-03 = Anne Lister (1791-1840) = English landowner and diarist

  • 04-03 = Cat Cora (1967- ) = American chef and tv personality

  • 04-03 = David Hyde Pierce (1959- ) = American actor

  • 04-03 = Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) = American photographer

  • 04-03 = Hayley Kiyoko (1991- ) = American singer and actor

  • 04-03 = Marlon Brando (1924-2004) = American actor

  • 04-03 = William Bast (1931-2015) = American screenwriter and author

  • 04-04 = Anthony Perkins (1932-1992) = American actor

  • 04-04 = Clive Davis (1932- ) = American record producer and executive

  • 04-04 = Graham Norton (1963- ) = Irish actor and talk show host

  • 04-04 = Robert Bauman (1937- ) = American politician and author

  • 04-04 = Toddrick Hall (1985- ) = American singer, choreographer, and YouTuber

  • 04-05 = Lukas Ridgeston (1974- ) = Slovak actor and director

  • 04-05 = Nigel Hawthorne (1929-2001) = British actor

  • 04-05 = Spencer Tracy (1900-1967) = American actor

  • 04-05 = Thomas Hitzlsperger (1982- ) = German soccer player

  • 04-06 = Gale Wilhelm (1908-1991) = American writer

  • 04-06 = Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) = English-Mexican painter and author

  • 04-06 = Monika Treut (1954- ) = German filmmaker

  • 04-06 = Rick Cosnett (1983- ) = Zimbabwean-Australian actor and producer

  • 04-06 = Rob Epstein (1955- ) = American filmmaker

  • 04-07 = Billie Holiday (1915-1959) = American jazz and blues singer

  • 04-07 = Christopher Wood (1901-1930) = British painter

  • 04-07 = Harry Hay (1912-2002) = American activist and labor advocate

  • 04-07 = Janis Ian (1951- ) = American singer-songwriter and musician

  • 04-07 = Martha May Eliot (1891-1978) = American pediatrician

  • 04-07 = Oreste Pucciani (1916-1999) = American academic

  • 04-08 = Michael Bennett (1943-1987) = American dancer, choreographer, and director

  • 04-08 = Roberta Cowell (1918-2011) = British driver and WWII fighter pilot

  • 04-08 = Robin Tyler (1942- ) = Canadian comedian and activist

  • 04-08 = Theresa Sparks (1949- ) = American business executive and politician

  • 04-09 = Cynthia Nixon (1966- ) = American actor

  • 04-09 = Drew Shafer (1936-1989) = American activist

  • 04-09 = Harris Wofford (1926-2019) = American attorney and politician

  • 04-09 = Kristen Stewart (1990- ) = American actor

  • 04-09 = Lil Nas X (1999- ) = American singer-songwriter

  • 04-09 = Marc Jacobs (1963- ) = American-French fashion designer

  • 04-10 = Chyler Leigh (1982- ) = American actor, singer, and model

  • 04-10 = Frances Perkins (1880-1965) = American workers-rights advocate

  • 04-10 = Gro Hammerseng-Edin (1980- ) = Norwegian handball player

  • 04-10 = Tom Spencer (1948-2023) = British politician

  • 04-11 = Christine Hallquist (1956- ) = American politician

  • 04-11 = Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) = American writer

  • 04-11 = Joel Grey (1932- ) = American actor, singer, dancer, and director

  • 04-11 = Michael Callen (1955-1993) = American singer-songwriter, author, and activist

  • 04-12 = Amy Ray (1964- ) = American singer-songwriter

  • 04-12 = Magda Szubanski (1961- ) = Australian actor, comedian and writer

  • 04-12 = Slava Mogutin (1974- ) = New York-based Russian artist and author

  • 04-12 = The Vivienne (1992-2025) = Welsh drag queen

  • 04-12 = Willi Ninja (1961-2006) = American dancer, choreographer, and voguer

  • 04-13 = Deborah Batts (1947-2020) = America lawyer and judge

  • 04-13 = Lanford Wilson (1937-2011) = American playwright

  • 04-13 = Ole von Beust (1955- ) = German politician

  • 04-14 = André Boisclair (1966- ) = Canadian politician

  • 04-14 = Ben Kimura (1947-2003) = Japanese-American painter

  • 04-14 = Da Brat (1974- ) = American rapper

  • 04-14 = John Gielgud (1904-2000) = English actor

  • 04-14 = José María Mendiluce (1951-2015) = Spanish writer and politician

  • 04-14 = Larissa França (1982- ) = Brazilian beach volleyball player

  • 04-15 = Bessie Smith (1894-1937) = American singer and actor

  • 04-15 = George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) = American photographer

  • 04-15 = Henry James (1843-1916) = American writer

  • 04-15 = Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) = Italian painter, sculptor, and architect

  • 04-15 =Linda Perry (1965- ) = American singer-songwriter and producer

  • 04-15 = Luke Evans (1979- ) = Welsh actor and singer

  • 04-16 = Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1984- ) = American writer

  • 04-16 = Dusty Springfield (1939-1999) = English singer

  • 04-16 = Essex Hemphill (1957-1995) = American poet and activist

  • 04-16 = Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) = American dancer and choreographer

  • 04-16 = Raymond Chan Chi-chuen (1972- ) = Hongkongese politician and host

  • 04-16 = Robert Stigwood (1934-2016) = Australian-born British-resident music entrepreneur, film producer, and impresario

  • 04-17 = Michal Jagelka (1977- ) = Czech actor and voice actor

  • 04-17 = Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) = American playwright and novelist

  • 04-18 = Alice Blinn (1889-1982) = American educator and efficiency expert

  • 04-18 = Kenny Ortega (1950- ) = American director, producer, and choreographer

  • 04-18 = Maria Bello (1967- ) = American actor

  • 04-19 = Dick Sargent (1930-1994) = American actor

  • 04-19 = Prince Edmond de Polignac (1834-1901) = French aristocrat

  • 04-19 = Tim Curry (1946- ) = English actor and singer

  • 04-20 = George Takei (1937- ) = American actor, author, and activist

  • 04-20 = Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972) = French essayist and novelist

  • 04-20 = Luther Vandross (1951-2005) = American singer-songwriter

  • 04-20 = Toller Cranston (1949-2015) = Canadian figure skater and artist

  • 04-21 = Alice Wu (1970- ) = American filmmaker

  • 04-21 = Jessica Clark (1985- ) = English actor and model

  • 04-21 = John Cameron Mitchell (1963- ) = American actor and filmmaker

  • 04-21 = Ric Weiland (1953-2006) = American developer and philanthropist

  • 04-23 = Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) = English composer and suffragist

  • 04-22 = John Waters (1946- ) = American filmmaker and artist

  • 04-22 = Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) = American photographer 🌈

  • 04-23 = Charles Silverstein (1935-2023) = American psychologist and writer

  • 04-23 = Chris Beckett (1955- ) = British science fiction writer

  • 04-23 = Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) = English composer and suffragist

  • 04-23 = Élisabeth de Gramont (1875-1954) = French writer and aristocrat

  • 04-23 = Halston (1932-1990) = American fashion designer

  • 04-23 = James Buchanan (1791-1868) = American lawyer, politician, and 15th POTUS

  • 04-23 = William Shakespeare (1564-1616) = English playwright, poet, and actor

  • 04-24 = Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) = English composer and suffragist

  • 04-24 = Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952- ) = French fashion designer

  • 04-25 = Andy Bell (1964- ) = English singer-songwriter

  • 04-25 = Anja Pärson (1981- ) = Swedish alpine skier

  • 04-25 = Cy Twombly (1928-2011) = American-Italian painter and sculptor

  • 04-25 = Graham Payn (1918-2005) = South African-born English actor and singer

  • 04-25 = Jonathan Bailey (1988- ) = English actor

  • 04-25 = King Edward II (1284-1327) = King of England

  • 04-26 = Lily Parr (1905-1978) = English athlete

  • 04-26 = Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) = Austrian philosopher

  • 04-26 = Ma Rainey (1886-1939) = American singer-songwriter

  • 04-27 = Froy Gutierrez (1998- ) = American actor and singer

  • 04-27 = Jack Cole (1911-1974) = American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director

  • 04-27 = Luis Zapata (1951-2020) = Mexican writer

  • 04-27 = Rachel Morrison (1978- ) = American cinematographer and director

  • 04-27 = Russell T. Davies (1963- ) = Welsh screenwriter and producer

  • 04-28 = John Paul Hudson (1928-2002) = American activist, writer, and actor

  • 04-29 = Garrison Starr (1975- ) = American singer-songwriter

  • 04-29 = Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) = Greek poet

  • 04-29 = Jim Toy (1930-2022) = American activist and educator

  • 04-29 = Leslie Jordan (1955-2022) = American actor, comedian, writer and singer

  • 04-29 = Rod McKuen (1933-2015) = American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer

  • 04-30 = Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) = American-born memoirist

  • 04-30 = Matilda Mary Hays (1820-1897) = British actor and writer

  • 04-30 = Onir (1969- ) = Bengali Indian filmmaker

  • 04-30 = Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) = Japanese artist


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    • Happy January Birthdays!

    • Happy February Birthdays!

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    • Happy May Birthdays!

    • Happy June Birthdays!

    • Happy July Birthdays!

    • Happy August Birthdays!

    • Happy September Birthdays!

    • Happy October Birthdays!

    • Happy November Birthdays!

    • Happy December Birthdays!


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