8th

Total results: 13

Mary MacSwiney, Irish patriot, dies

Paddy Devlin, socialist politician, is born in Belfast

Sir James Comyn, lawyer, is born in Dublin

Francis MacManus, novelist, is born

Charles Gavan Duffy, Young Irelander, is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

Novelist Eric Linklater, son of an Orkney master mariner, born in Wales.

Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows born in Edinburgh

Tom Horan, Australian cricketer, is born