February 9

1885 Alban Berg, composer. I have never knowingly heard any music by him, but undeterred, I shall be going to ENO's production of his Lulu in April.
1926 Garret FitzGerald, former Taiseoch. I saw him once, when he delivered the Hugh Gaitskill Memorial Lecture at Nottingham University.
1940 Smokey Robinson
1944 Alice Walker - The Color Purple
1957 Gordon Strachan. I've met him so many times. I ought to scan a photo of him in, but it really is too much effort, even though I thoroughly admired as a footballer and he was always pleasant to me
1960 Holly Johnson
1965 Lennox Lewis
1985 David Gallagher - he's some sort of actor, but I wouldn't have heard of him but for the google searches combining his name with 'underwear'...