There are a few more associated birthdays to mention.
Stella Benson shares the day of her birth, January 6th, with Eric Frank Russell and John DeLorean.
January 6th is also said to be Sherlock Holmes’s birthday.
Stella Benson shares the year of her birth, 1892, with J. R. R. Tolkien, who was born a few days earlier.
Incidentally, Lucy M. Boston was also born in 1892, as was Basil Rathbone, the actor who played Holmes in major Hollywood films.
By coincidence, both Tolkien and Rathbone were born in South Africa.
Sherlock Holmes is deduced to have been born on January 6th 1854:
