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John J. R Macleod, Scottish-Canadian physiologist and winner of 1923 Nobel Prize, died.

Richard Roberts Welsh, inventor and developer of textile machinery, died

John B. Yeats, painter and father of William Butler and Jack B. Yeats, is born in Tullylish, Co. Down

Patrick Cleburne, American Civil War Confederate General, is born in Cobh, Co. Cork

William Reeves, Church of Ireland bishop, is born in Charleville, Co. Cork

Francis Rawdon Chesney, soldier and explorer, is born in Annalong, Co. Down

Charles I's second Irish parliament meets

Richard Archdekin, Jesuit, educator and missioner to Ireland, is born in Louvain