Henry Darger

Henry Joseph Darger Jr. was an American writer, novelist and artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois. He has become famous for his posthumously recovered 15,145-page manuscript for a fantasy novel titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor illustrations for the story and two further works of literature.

12 April 1892

Born on the same birth day (12 April): Benjamin Libet • Brad Miller (basketball) • Claire Danes • Dorothy Cumming • Hamengkubuwono IX • Jan Tinbergen • Jonathan Pitroipa • Nikolay Przhevalsky • Sehun • Simon Kapwepwe • Steve Stevaert • Tulsi Gabbard • Valentin Stocker • Zawgyi (writer)

Born in the same month (April 1892): Arthur Harris • Claire Windsor • Corrie ten Boom • Donald Wills Douglas Sr. • Dora Richter • Edith Södergran • Freddie Dixon • Howard Mumford Jones • Julius Hirsch • Lowell Thomas • Mary Pickford • Maud Hart Lovelace • Raymond Bonney • Richard Neutra • Robert Watson-Watt • Theo Osterkamp • V. Gordon Childe • Vernon Johns