Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of his life and various media appearances. Before becoming well known, he was an artist's model, hence the title of his most famous work, The Naked Civil Servant. He afterwards became a gay icon due to his flamboyant personality, fashion sense and wit. His iconic status was occasionally controversial due to his remarks about subjects like the AIDS crisis, inviting censure from gay activists including human-rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.

25 December 1908

Born on the same birth date (25 December 1908): Ernest L. Massad • Jo-Jo Moore

Born on the same birth day (25 December): Alastair Cook • Barry Goldberg • China Machado • Christina of Saxony • Daisuke Miura • Hilary Spurling • Jeanne Hopkins Lucas • Joãozinho (footballer, born 1988) • Lisa Origliasso • Louis Lane • Oscar Lewis • Otto Frederick Hunziker • Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester • Ram Narayan • Ravish Malhotra • Rickey Henderson • Sydney, Lady Morgan • Willy Taveras • Zora Arkus-Duntov

Born in the same month (December 1908): Baby Face Nelson • Celia Johnson • Elizabeth Alexander (scientist) • Ernest L. Massad • Gertrude Bancroft • Helmut Gollwitzer • Hákun Djurhuus • Jo-Jo Moore • Magnus Pyke • Manoel de Oliveira • Miklós Szabó (middle-distance runner) • Morey Amsterdam • Pierre Graber • Ralph Hill (runner) • Ranganathananda • Simon Wiesenthal