Happy Birthday, December 25
Apart from the Great JC, who is supposed to have been born on Christmas Day, so have many famous people. They include:
Sir Isaac Newton – the greatest scientist who ever lived and an Englishman through and through.
The Calendar changed in 1752, 11 days were removed so under the current Gregorian Calendar, his date of birth is January 4, 1743 instead of December 25, 1742. Whatever, his contribution to science remains unsurpassed, and outside of science he was a man of many talents, including a brief tenure as an MP. Sadly, like so many gifted men, he died without issue, but any son of his would have lived in his shadow.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born Christmas Day 1876. Although best known as the founder of Pakistan, he qualified as a barrister in England then returned to his native India to practise law. Jinnah died in office as the first Governor-General of the new state on September 11, 1948 and was buried in a mausoleum named after him at Karachi.
Unlike Christians, Pakistani Moslems don’t appear to take a day off to celebrate his birth, which is why I was able to eat my Christmas dinner of lamb biriyani in my local Pakistani diner.
Another famous Moslem leader was born on Christmas Day; Anwar Sadat, in 1918. Unlike Jinnah, who came from a wealthy family, Sadat was born into poverty. After a military career, he entered politics rising to the Presidency of Egypt, a post he held until his assassination on October 6, 1981, his reward for attempting to bring a lasting peace to the region.
Singer-songwriter Ann Lennox was born Christmas Day 1954; another singer-songwriter, Dido Armstrong, was born seventeen years later. She shares her birth date with an individual who has since become notorious; Justin Trudeau, the mangina dictator of Canada, born 1971. Trudeau’s father Pierre was also Prime Minister of Canada, and a reasonably competent one. Justin on the other hand showed his true colours during the now infamous worldwide covid lockdowns and the truckers’ strike when he smeared his opponents as far right – something that has become de rigueur since – and froze people’s bank accounts. Concerned with his increasingly tyrannical rule, especially with regard to censorship, many Canadians have fled the country, one of the most noted being David Freiheit, a lawyer who relocated to Florida and is now an influential YouTube vlogger.
One person who won’t be celebrating her birthday today is Ghislaine Maxwell who was born in 1961. Although she is far less toxic than Justin Trudeau, she has been thoroughly demonised by both the mainstream media, many politicians and people on social media, the right as well as the left.
She is now in her sixth year of confinement having been sentenced to twenty years for, in effect, the crimes of the late Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell’s family insist she is innocent, a ludicrous claim, but if convicted of similar crimes in England she would have been released by now.