Frida Kahlo
At eighteen the bus she was riding collided with a tram: an iron handrail went through her pelvis and her spine was broken in three places. Thirty-odd operations followed, and corsets, and pain for the rest of her life. She began to paint lying in plaster with a mirror above the bed: of her hundred and forty-three canvases, fifty-five are self-portraits. Twice married to Diego Rivera, an affair with Trotsky, the Communist Party, Mexican folk art and Aztec myth in pictures of miscarriage, surgery and endurance. Breton counted her a surrealist; she answered that she painted her own life, not dreams. Her only solo show at home opened in 1953, a year before her death: the doctors forbade her to get up, and she came to it in her bed.
She was born in Coyoacán on 6 July 1907 at 08:30 local time; the hour is on her birth certificate. She herself gave 1910 as the year of her birth, so that it would coincide with the start of the Mexican Revolution.