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): Aleksey Dmitrik • Chi Onwurah • David Cassidy • Edward Walter Maunder • Fabian Hamilton • Ferdinand von Lindemann • Germinal Pierre Dandelin • Giovanny Espinoza • Herbert Grönemeyer • Jeremy Beadle • José Gautier Benítez • Luke Kibet Bowen • Martin Brasier • Muretus • Ned Miller • Pietro Nardini • Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden • Simon Kapwepwe • Tony Earl
Born in the same month (April 1892): Arthur Harris • Corrie ten Boom • Donald Wills Douglas Sr. • Edith Södergran • Eugene Houdry • Freddie Dixon • Germaine Tailleferre • Italo Mus • Juan Belmonte • Julius Hirsch • Lowell Thomas • Maud Hart Lovelace • Raymond Bonney • Richard Neutra • Robert Watson-Watt • V. Gordon Childe • Vernon Johns