Happy 177th Birthday Sherlock Holmes!
Today, January 6th, 2025, was Sherlock Holmes’s birthday!
Well, not really.
Sixty-something years ago, William Baring-Gould wrote a supposed biography of the fictional detective which pronounced January 6th to be his birth date, and Sherlockians everywhere—judging by the “Happy 171st Birthday Sherlock Holmes!” Facebook posts I’m seeing—continue to celebrate it.
I don’t.