16th

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Former Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Forsyth born.

City of Glasgow Fighter Squadron (No, 602) shoots down the first enemy aircraft over Britain after an attack on the River Forth.

Poet George Mackay Brown born.

Michael Collins is born in Clonakilty, Co. Cork

Oscar Wilde, playwright, novelist and essayist is born in Dublin

Cavan-born Thomas Baron von Brady, general in the Austrian army, dies in Vienna

Robert Fergusson Scottish poet, died.

Proclamations against Catholic clergy and schools in Ireland are issued