February 16

1866 Johann Strauss I, composer - Radetsky March. Had a very famous son.
1876 George Macauley Trevelyan, historian
1922 Geraint Evans, bass-baritone
1935 Sonny 'I've Got You' Bono
1942 Kim Chong-Il, undisputed President of the Axis-of-Evil
1943 Anthony Dowell, ballet dancer
1954 Michael Holding, cricketer, immortalised, as a batsman, by Brian Johnson, when the bowler was Willey.
1959 John 'You Can Not Be Serious' McEnroe
1961 Andy Taylor, one of the Taylors of Duran Duran. Eminently forgettable
1964 Christopher Eccleston very great actor, soon to be Dr Who
1973 Cathy Freeman, Olympic Great