Fred Phelps

Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. was an American minister and disbarred lawyer who served as the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, worked as a civil rights attorney, and ran for statewide election in Kansas. A divisive and controversial figure, he gained national attention for his homophobic views and protests near the funerals of gay people, AIDS victims, military veterans, and disaster victims who he believed were killed as a result of God punishing the U.S. for having "bankrupt values" and tolerating homosexuality. Phelps founded the Westboro Baptist Church, a Topeka, Kansas-based independent Primitive Baptist congregation, in 1955. It has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America". Its signature slogan, "God Hates Fags", remains the name of the group's principal website.

13 November 1929

Born on the same birth date (13 November 1929): Asashio Tarō III • Robert Bonnaud

Born on the same birth day (13 November): Andrés Manuel López Obrador • C. Vann Woodward • Dan Sullivan (U.S. senator) • George Carey • George Whitefield Chadwick • Harry Hurt III • Jack Narz • Jimmy Fontana • Jordan Bridges • Juraj Kolník • Lon Nol • Peter Arnett • Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse • Roberto Boninsegna • Sara Del Rey • Whoopi Goldberg • William Bradford Huie

Born in the same month (November 1929): Alan and Marilyn Bergman • Amar Bose • Asashio Tarō III • Betta St. John • Franciszek Kokot • Gorō Naya • Hans Magnus Enzensberger • Jerry Hardin • Jimmy Piersall • Joe Hinton • Judy Crichton • Lila Kaye • Marc Favreau • Ninón Sevilla • Raymond Lefèvre • Robert Bonnaud • Robert Gover • W. E. B. Griffin