Birthdate: December 28, 1882

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Vejle, Denmark

Died: September 13, 1931

Danish painter Lili Elbe, a transgender woman, became one of the first to undergo a sex reassignment surgery. She passed away after a failed uterus transplant surgery. Her autobiography, Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex, was released posthumously. She inspired the novel The Danish Girl.