births
April 6, 1917
Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author (died 2011)

Leonora Carrington
Mary Leonora Carrington was a British-born, naturalised 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.