Leonora Carrington
Mary Leonora Carrington was a British-born, naturalized Mexican surrealist painter and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
6 April 1917
Born on the same birth day (6 April): Arvid Horn • Christopher Allsopp • Felicity Palmer • Ian MacRae • Martín Méndez • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine • Philip Henry Gosse • Richard Loe • Roy Goode • Roy Thinnes • Tanya Byron
Born in the same month (April 1917): Ella Fitzgerald • Frans Gommers • Helen Forrest • Henry Hewes (critic) • Hubertus Ernst • Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri • Johannes Bobrowski • Lloyd Bott • Marvin Miller • Robert Bloch • Robert Cornthwaite (actor) • Robert Orville Anderson • Ron Burgess (footballer) • Sal Maglie • Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli • Yvette Chauviré