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): André Weinfeld • Anthony Fokker • Blaine Neal • Charlie McDermott • Christopher Allsopp • Dickey Simpkins • Don Prudhomme • Hilary Rhoda • Johann Georg Reutter • Karl Staaf • Leyre Romero Gormaz • Patrick Hernandez • Philipp Peter • Robert Glasper • Robert Volkmann • Ryota Moriwaki • Shaheen Afridi • Warren Haynes

Born in the same month (April 1917): Bea Wain • Bill Clements • James Kee • Johannes Bobrowski • Sal Maglie