Question: What is the birthdate of this American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who was a lifelong friend and collaborator of Harris Glenn Milstead? 

Context articles: Archivio di Nuova Scrittura
John Waters
George Cumberland
The Neon Woman
Divine (performer)
I Am Divine
Willis Hall
Gregor von Rezzori
Ishirō Honda
William James Stillman

The Archivio di Nuova Scrittura ("Archive of New Writing", "ANS") is a cultural association founded in 1988 in Milan, Italy by art collector Paolo Della Grazia.
 The archive preserves a large artistic and documentary heritage about any form of artistic expression featuring the use of both the word and the sign.
 Born from the encounter between Della Grazia and artist Ugo Carrega, in the 1990s the ANS became the main Italian research center on visual poetry, organizing exhibitions, meetings and other cultural events.
 In 1998 the Archivio di Nuova Scrittura was deposited in part at the Mart in Rovereto (library, archives and some artworks) and in part at the Museion in Bozen (artworks only).
 The artwork section of the ANS includes about 1,600 works by international artists at Mart and about 2,000 at Museion.
 The ANS archives preserve, apart from the internal archive of the association (ANS fonds), the Fraccaro-Carrega fonds, containing the papers of collector Marco Fraccaro and visual poet Ugo Carrega.
 The library section, preserved at Mart, contains more than 10,000 volumes, among them 600 artist's books and hundreds of futurist first editions, and 500 art magazines including about 100 international artist's magazines.
John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films.
George Cumberland (1754–1848) was an English art collector, writer and poet.
 He was a lifelong friend and supporter of William Blake, and like him was an experimental printmaker.
 He was also an amateur watercolourist, and one of the earliest members of the Bristol School of artists.
 He made use of his wide circle of connections to help its other members, in particular assisting and influencing Edward Bird and Francis Danby.
The Neon Woman is a comic play written by Tom Eyen.
 The play is an outrageous murder mystery set in a seedy Baltimore burlesque house run by a retired stripper (Divine).
 It was written as a vehicle for "Pink Flamingos" star Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), who had previously starred in a revival of Eyen's "Women Behind Bars".
 The cast also featured Helen Hanft, Brenda Bergman, William Duff-Griffin, Maria Duval, Sweet William Edgar, Lee Corbet, Debra Greenfield, Hope Stansbury and George Patterson, and was directed by longtime Eyen collaborator Ron Link.
 It played at Hurrah, a trendy dance club on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
 It opened on April 16, 1978, and played 84 performances, closing on July 15, 1978.
Harris Glenn Milstead, better known by his stage name Divine (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988), was an American actor, singer and drag queen.
 Closely associated with the independent filmmaker John Waters, Divine was a character actor, usually performing female roles in cinematic and theatrical appearances, and adopted a female drag persona for his music career.
I Am Divine is a 2013 American documentary film produced and directed by Jeffrey Schwarz of the Los Angeles-based production company Automat Pictures.
 The documentary focuses on the American actor, singer and drag performer Divine (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988), born Harris Glenn Milstead, a lifelong friend and collaborator of filmmaker John Waters.
Willis Edward Hall (6 April 1929 – 7 March 2005) was an English playwright and radio and television writer who drew on his working class roots in Leeds for much of his writing.
 His best-known work was a stage adaptation of the 1959 novel "Billy Liar" (1960), co-written with the book's author and Hall's lifelong friend and collaborator Keith Waterhouse.
Gregor von Rezzori (May 13, 1914 – April 23, 1998), born Gregor Arnulph Hilarius d'Arezzo, was an Austrian-born, Romanian, German-language novelist, memoirist, screenwriter and author of radio plays, as well as an actor, journalist, visual artist, art critic and art collector.
 He was fluent in German, Romanian, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish, French, and English; during his life, von Rezzori was successively a citizen of Austria-Hungary, Romania, and the Soviet Union, before becoming a stateless person and spending his final years as a citizen of Austria.
 He married Beatrice Monti della Corte.
Ishirō Honda (本多猪四郎 , Honda Ishirō , May 7, 1911 – February 28, 1993) , sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as "Inoshiro Honda", was a Japanese film director.
 He is best known for his "kaiju" and "tokusatsu" films, including several entries in the "Godzilla" series, but also worked extensively in the documentary and war genres earlier in his career.
 Honda was also a lifelong friend and collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, and worked with Kurosawa extensively during the 1980s and 1990s.
William James Stillman (June 1, 1828 – July 6, 1901) was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer.
 Educated as an artist, Stillman subsequently converted to the profession of journalism, working primarily as a war correspondent in Crete and the Balkans, where he served as his own photographer.
 For a time, he also served as United States ambassador in Rome, and afterward in Crete during the Cretan insurrections.
 He helped to train the young Arthur Evans as a war correspondent in the Balkans, and remained a lifelong friend and confidant of Evans.
 Later in life, he seriously considered taking over the excavation at Knossos from Minos Kalokairinos, who had been stopped from further excavation by the Cretan Assembly; he was, however, prevented from pursuing that goal further by a failure to obtain a firman, or permission to excavate.
 Stillman wrote several books, one of which, his "Autobiography of a Journalist", suggests that he viewed himself primarily as a writer.