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): Adriel Ochoa • Adrián Alonso • Charles Huot • Erwin Komenda • Gordon Chater • Horst Ludwig Störmer • Johann Georg Reutter • Julian Anderson • Leo Robin • Mehdi Ballouchy • Mitsuru Nagata • Olaf Kölzig • Peter Jackson (footballer, born 1961) • Richard Loe • Robert Glasper • Sun Wen (footballer) • Young Man Kang

Born in the same month (April 1917): David Westheimer • Dorian Leigh • Grigori Kuzmin • Helen Forrest • Jean Lucas (racing driver) • Johannes Bobrowski • Marvin Miller • Maya Deren • Melville Shavelson • Robert Cornthwaite (actor) • Robert Manzon • Roman Matsov • Yvette Chauviré