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- Lawrence D'Orsay born in Peterborough, England. Well-known in drama and comedy theatre from the 1880's, perhaps more notable for his starring role in 'The Earl of Pawtucket' at the Manhattan Theatre in 1903. A brilliant star in at least 8 Hollywood comedy and drama movies, he played the typical English monocled upper-class character often seen as Lords or Colonels, making his film debut in 'The Border Detective' a short western made at the American Film Co in 1912, perhaps best remembered as Hon. George Vane-Basingwell in Lawrence C. Windom's 'Ruggles of Red Gap' a western/comedy co-starring Taylor Holmes in 1918, his last screen appearance he played the role of Lord Elton in D.W. Griffith's 'The Sorrows of Satan' starring Adolphe Menjou and Carol Dempster at the Paramount studios in 1926. Died in London in 1931 age 78.
- Lili Elbe was a Danish artist and writer who was assigned male at birth, experienced what is now called gender dysphoria, and underwent the world's first documented sex reassignment surgery. Born as Einar Wegener studied art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and met Gerda Gottlieb there. The two fell in love and got married about 1905. Wegener realized his true gender identity when Gerda, a successful painter and fashion illustrator, asked him to don women's clothing and sit as her model. The couple eventually moved to Paris, where Wegener felt free to appear in public sometimes as Einar Wegener and sometimes as Lili Elbe. The first of five highly experimental surgeries that Elbe underwent was performed in 1930. She died of complications not long after the fifth procedure in 1931. During her last year she published her autobiography "From Man to Woman: Lili Elbe's Confessions" under her pen-name Lili Elvenes. Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe's and Gerda Wegener's life was dramatized by David Ebershoff in his novel "The Danish Girl" published in 2000. The book was filmed by Tom Hooper in 2015 featuring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander as the Wegener couple.