27 Sunday

August/September

Richard Cornish, a ship's master, allegedly rapes his steward Richard Williams aboard the Ambrose, at anchor in Virginia's James River, and is subsequently sentenced to death, 1624.

28 Monday

Saint Augustine, greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, who in his Confessions discusses his passionate love for another youth, dies in Hippo, 430 A.D.

29 Tuesday

English playwright John Fletcher, who shared the bed of his partner Francis Beaumont, dies in London, 1625.

30 Wednesday

The Renaissance painter Correggio (né Antonio Allegri), many of whose paintings are noted for the almost unearthly beauty of their male nudes, born at Correggio, 1494.

31 Thursday

Theophile Gautier, French author of the classic lesbian novel Mlle. de Maupin, born at Tarbes, 1811.

1 Friday

American sculptor Emma Stebbins, who lived with actress Charlotte Cushman as her lover for nineteen years, in New York City, 1815.

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2 Saturday

Winifred Ellerman, better known as the novelist Bryher, whose marriage to homosexual writer Robert McAlmon was a marriage de convenance and whose relationship with poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) was far more lasting, born at Margate, Kent, England, 1894.

Conrad Veidt:

He starred in offscreen appearances at prewar Berlin dancing bars.