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): Curtis Turner • Gary Soto • George N. Briggs • Glenn Rogers • Greg Child • Harold Lockwood • J. Scott Campbell • Joyce Banda • Lakshman Kadirgamar • Michael Jackson (wide receiver) • Raymond Barre • Robin Anderson (tennis) • Tenby Davies • Tom Clancy

Born in the same month (April 1892): Arthur Harris • Claire Windsor • Corrie ten Boom • Donald Wills Douglas Sr. • Freddie Dixon • Germaine Tailleferre • Howard Mumford Jones • Italo Mus • Juan Belmonte • Julius Hirsch • Lowell Thomas • Maud Hart Lovelace • Raymond Bonney • Robert Watson-Watt • Theo Osterkamp • V. Gordon Childe