Happy February Birthdays!

Born This Way On This Day

Last Updated = 06-30-25

February isn’t just about chocolate hearts and Valentine’s Day cards—it’s also a time to celebrate the birthdays of some LGBTQ historical heroes and Queer Pioneers:

• 02-01 = Clark Gable (1901-1960) = American actor

• 02-01 = Gina Ortiz Jones (1981- ) = American intelligence officer and politician

• 02-01 = Langston Hughes (1902-1967) = American writer and activist

• 02-01 = Sherman Hemsley (1938-2012) = American actor and singer

• 02-02 = Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) = English physician and writer

• 02-02 = Liz Smith (1923-2017) = American journalist and author

• 02-03 = Emile Griffith (1938-2013) = American boxer

• 02-03 = Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) = American expatriate writer

• 02-03 = Helen Stephens (1918-1994) = American sprinter

• 02-03 = Jonathan Ned Katz (1938- ) = American author and historian

• 02-03 = Kenneth Anger (1927-2023) = American filmmaker and writer

• 02-03 = Li Yinhe (1952- ) = Chinese sociologist, sexologist, and activist

• 02-03 = Nathan Lane (1956- ) = American actor

• 02-04 = Martin Greif (1938-1996) = American publisher and writer

• 02-04 = Jared French (1905-1988) = American artist and photographer

• 02-04 = Jonathan Larson (1960-1996) = American composer and playwright

• 02-05 = William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) = American writer

• 02-06 = Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665-1714) = English royalty

• 02-06 = Ramon Novarro (1899-1968) = Mexican-American actor

• 02-07 = Buster Crabbe = (1908-1983) = American swimmer and actor

• 02-07 = Dee Rees (1977- ) = American filmmaker

• 02-07 = Suzy Eddie Izzard (1962- ) = British comedian and actor

• 02-07 = Mark Tewksbury (1968- ) = Canadian swimmer and activist

• 02-08 = Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) = American writer

• 02-08 = James Dean (1931-1955) = American actor

• 02-08 = Ralph Chubb (1892-1960) = English poet, printer and artist

• 02-09 = Alice Walker (1944- ) = American writer

• 02-09 = Amy Lowell (1874-1925) = American poet

• 02-09 = Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (1989- ) = Finnish swimmer

• 02-09 = Gabriel Rotello = (1953- ) = American journalist and OutWeek founder

• 02-09 = Holly Johnson (1960- ) = British singer-songwriter

• 02-10 = Bill Tilden (1893-1953) = American tennis player

• 02-10 = Charles Henri Ford (1908-2002) = American writer and artist

• 02-10 = Ken “Snakehips” Johnson (1914-1941) = British musician and bandleader

• 02-10 = Peter Allen (1944-1992) = Australian singer-songwriter

• 02-11 = Ellen Day Hale (1855-1940) = American artist

• 02-11 = Tammy Baldwin (1962- ) = American politician

• 02-12 = Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) = American lawyer and politician

• 02-12 = George Smitherman (1964- ) = Canadian politician

• 02-12 = Latrice Royale (1972- ) = American drag queen

• 02-12 = Patricia Field (1941- ) = American costume designer and stylist

• 02-12 = Philip, Prince of Eulenburg (1847-1921) = German politician and diplomat

• 02-13 = Grant Wood (1891-1942) = American artist

• 02-13 = Monroe Wheeler (1899-1988) = American publisher and museum curator

• 02-14 = Josh Senter (1980- ) = American screenwriter and producer

• 02-14 = Kevyn Aucoin (1962-2002) = American makeup artist and author

• 02-14 = Nina Hamnett (1890-1956) = British artist

• 02-15 = Bill T. Jones (1952- ) = American choreographer, director, and dancer

• 02-16 = Cesar Romero (1907-1994) = American actor

• 02-16 = John Schlesinger (1926-2003) = English actor and director

• 02-16 = Katharine Cornell (1893-1974) = American actor, writer, and producer

• 02-16 = John Tartaglia (1978- ) = American actor, singer, and puppeteer

• 02-17 = Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854-1902) = German steel manufacturer and head of Krupp

• 02-17 = Peter Karlsson (1966-1995) = Swedish hockey player

• 02-18 = Audre Lorde (1934-1992) = American writer and civil rights activist

• 02-18 = Jillian Michaels (1974- ) = American trainer and tv personality

• 02-19 = Beth Ditto (1981- ) = American singer-songwriter

• 02-19 = Carson McCullers (1917-1967) = American writer

• 02-19 = Chappell Roan (1998- ) = American singer-songwriter

• 02-19 = F. O. Matthiessen (1902-1950) = American historian and literary critic

• 02-19 = Jackie Curtis (1947-1985) American actor and playwright

• 02-19 = Liz Carmouche (1984- ) = American mixed martial arts fighter

• 02-19 = Monét X Change (1990- ) = Saint Lucian-American drag queen, singer, podcaster, and tv personality

• 02-20 = Hubert de Givenchy (1927-2018) = French fashion designer

• 02-20 = John Browne (1948- ) = English business executive

• 02-20 = Roy Cohn (1927-1986) = American attorney

• 02-20 = William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872-1938) = British politician

• 02-21 = Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) = French writer

• 02-21 = Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) = American lawyer, educator, and politician

• 02-21 = Chuck Palahniuk (1962- ) = American writer

• 02-21 = David Geffen (1943- ) = American record executive and film producer

• 02-21 = Elliot Page (1987- ) = Canadian actor and film producer

• 02-21 = Gary Lockwood (1937- ) = American actor

• 02-21 = Isaac Julien (1960- ) = British filmmaker and visual artist

• 02-21 = Joe Alwyn (1991- ) = English actor

• 02-21 = John Henry Newman (1801-1890) = English theologian and cardinal

• 02-21 = Nina Simone (1933-2003) = American singer-songwriter and pianist

• 02-21 = Sophie Turner (1996- ) = English actor

• 02-21 = Tituss Burgess (1979- ) = American actor and singer

• 02-21 = W. H. Auden (1907-1973) = Anglo-American poet

• 02-21 = Zachary Scott (1914-1965) = American actor

• 02-22 = Billy Name (1940-2016) = American photographer and filmmaker

• 02-22 = Drew Barrymore (1975- ) = American actor and talk show host

• 02-22 = Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) = American poet and playwright

• 02-22 = Jane Bowles (1917-1973) = American writer and playwright

• 02-22 = Kimball Allen (1982- ) = American writer, journalist, playwright, and actor

• 02-23 = George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) = German-British composer

• 02-23 = Paul Morrissey (1938-2024) = American filmmaker

• 02-24 = Doric Wilson (1939-2011) = American playwright, director, producer, critic, and gay rights activist

• 02-25 = Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) = German artist

• 02-26 = Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) = English writer

• 02-26 = Jane Wagner (1935- ) = American writer, director, and producer

• 02-26 = Jenna Wolfe (1974- ) = Jamaican-American anchor

• 02-26 = Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962) = American heiress

• 02-26 = Mwanga Ii Of Buganda (1868-1903) = King of Bugandak

• 02-27 = Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958) = American teacher and writer

• 02-27 = Libby Davies (1953- ) = Canadian politician

• 02-28 = Kehinde Wiley (1977- ) = American artist

• 02-28 = Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) = French philosopher and writer

• 02-28 = Stephen Spender (1909-1995) = English writer

• 02-28 = Tommy Tune (1939- ) = American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer

• 02-28 = Vincente Minnelli (1903-1986) = American theatre and film director

• 02-29 = Pedro Zamora (1972-1994) = Cuban-American AIDS educator and tv personality

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