CIRCA EVENTS 2027

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Lecture: Queen James: the life and loves of Britain’s first king @ National Portrait Gallery

Join historian and broadcaster Gareth Russell at this lecture inspired by his new book about James Stuart, the first king of Great Britain. Russell delves into the Monarchs romantic life, revealing how he fell in love three times once with George Villiers, the handsomest man in the whole world and how he was infatuated three more times including with a Highland earl and an English spy. We have so much on the six wives of Henry VIII, why not the six loves of James I? This lecture reveals James genius, liar, spendthrift, idealist, witch-hunter and the men he loved at the centre of one of the most dramatic and gripping stories in British royal history. Gareth Russell is an historian and broadcaster. His books include Young and Damned and Fair, The Ship of Dreams, Do Lets Have Another Drink and The Palace. He is the host of the podcast Single Malt History with Gareth Russell and he divides his time between Belfast and London.

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  • 01 October – Klaus Wowereit (1953–), German politician & former Governing Mayor of Berlin
  • 03 October – Erik Bruhn (1928–1986), Danish ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, actor & author
  • 03 October – Gore Vidal (1925–2012), American author, essayist & political activist
  • 05 October – John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), English poet & literary critic
  • 06 October – Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937), Polish composer & pianist
  • 07 October – Dan Savage (1964–), American sex advice columnist
  • 10 October – Wade MacLauchlan (1954–), Canadian politician, Premier of Prince Edward Island
  • 11 October – Jerome Robbins (1918–1998), American theatre producer, director & choreographer
  • 11 October – Matt Bomer (1977–), American actor
  • 13 October – Ian Thorpe (1982–), Australian freestyle swimmer, five-time Olympic Gold Medallist
  • 14 October – Isaac Mizrahi (1961–), American fashion designer & TV presenter
  • 14 October – Ben Whishaw (1980–), English actor
  • 15 October – Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher
  • 16 October – Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish writer, poet & aesthete
  • 17 October – Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh (1946–), British theatrical producer & theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals
  • 17 October – Montgomery Clift (1920–1966), American actor
  • 17 October – Mark Gatiss (1966–), English actor, screenwriter & novelist
  • 17 October – Ryan McGinley (1977–), American photographer
  • 18 October – Uzi Even (1940–), Israeli professor, former politician & 1st openly gay member of Israeli Parliament
  • 19 October – George Nader (1921–2002), American actor
  • 19 October – Robert Reed (1932–1992), American actor
  • 20 October – Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French poet
  • 21 October – William Dale Jennings (1917–2000), American LGBT rights activist, playwright & author
  • 21 October – Peter Mandelson (1953–), British Labour politician, former European Commissioner for Trade
  • 21 October – Andrew Scott (1976–), Irish actor
  • 22 October – Brian Boitano, American figure skater, 1988 Olympic Gold Medallist
  • 22 October – Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), British poet & translator
  • 22 October – Marc Shaiman (1959–), American film/TV/theatre composer, lyricist & arranger
  • 24 October – Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895–1964), French aristocrat & Monegasque royalty
  • 24 October – August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796–1835), German poet
  • 25 October – David Furnish (1962–), Canadian filmmaker & former advertising executive married to Elton John
  • 25 October – Rylan Clarke-Neal (1988–), English TV & radio presenter, singer, narrator & model
  • 26 October – Glen Murray (1957–), Canadian politician, world's first openly gay mayor of a major city (Winnipeg, MB)
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