In what year was Frida Kahlo born?

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907.

Her birth date was July 6, 1907, and her birthplace was Coyoacán, a district now incorporated into Mexico City. Kahlo sometimes gave 1910 as her birth year because she wanted her life to be symbolically connected with the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910. Biographical records and her birth certificate support 1907 as the actual year.

That choice of 1910 was not simply a clerical mistake. Kahlo deliberately presented herself as a child of revolutionary modern Mexico, and the revised date fit her public identity and political outlook. This is why both 1907 and 1910 can appear in discussions of her life, although they do not have the same status.

Kahlo attended Mexico City’s National Preparatory School and originally planned to study medicine. A serious bus accident in 1925 changed her path and eventually led her toward painting as a central vocation.