We have a newspaper every day, and one of the things i always look at as well as weather reports from around the world, is birthdays. I always wonder if there is some link between the people whose birthday it is in terms of paths they have chosen in life, or what they excel at;quite often I don’t know all the names, but today I did for most of them and it was especially interesting to see their different reasons for celebrity:
- Major Sir Hereward Wake – 14th baronet, winner of the Military Cross in WW2 – 99
- Sir Andrew Derbyshire – architect – 92
- Desmond Tutu – Archbishop Emeritus of Capetown – 84
- Dr Mark Girouard – writer – 84
- Major General Julian Thompson – ex Commander, 3rd Commando brigade – 81
- Thomas Kennealy – author – 80
- Christopher Booker – journalist – 78
- Ann Jones – Wimbledon ladies Champion 1969 – 77
- Professor Sir Harold Kroto – Nobel Prize for chemistry 1996 – 76
- Clive James – writer – 76
- Lord Glenarthur – ex government minister – 71
- Air Chief Marshall Sir Peter Squire – ex Chief of air staff – 70
- Professor David Wallace – ex Master of Churchill College Cambridge
- Mike Casebourne – ex chief executive – 70
- Dame Jenny Abramsky – broadcaster – 69
- Yo-Yo Ma – cellist – 60
- Jayne Torville – skater – 58
- Simon Cowell – impresario – 56
Eighteen birthdays of people who have made it to the top of their profession:
1 architect
1 scientist
1 archbishop
1 politician
1 show business
1 musician
1 executive
2 sports stars
2 journalists
3 military
4 writer/journalist
These people are all Librans, if you believe in astrology, but I don’t think you could really draw any proper conclusion about dates of birth being significant in affecting someone’s life… could you?
Lois Elsden 