I missed this last year, or if I saw it I've forgotten, for the obvious reasons. Here's the birthgays from Tom Heald's daily Pridelets:
> BIRTHGAYS (and the occasional straights)
> * 1632 - Anglo-Welsh poet Katherine Philips
> * 1879 - novelist, short story writer, and essayist E.M. Forster
> * 1883 - Western poet Charles "Badger" Clark
> * 1895 - Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover
> * 1909 - eventual straight ally Arizona Senator and Presidential
> candidate Barry M. Goldwater
> * 1927 - Visionary choreographer Maurice Béjart
> * 1931 - Philanthropist, first openly gay U.S. Ambassador and Spam
> heir James Catherwood Hormel
> * 1933 - Satirical modern playwright "Joe" (John Kingsley) Orton
> * 1944 - Director Eloy de la Iglesia
> * 1947 - Artist Nahum B. Zenil
> * 1976 - Philadelphia Gay News