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Martin O'Meara, VC, was an Irish-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Crossy, died
Martin O'Meara, VC, was an Irish-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Crossy, died Martin O’Meara, VC (6 November 1885 – 20 December 1935) was an Irish-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. …

Llewelyn Powys, Welsh writer, died
Llewelyn Powys, Welsh writer, died Llewelyn Powys (13 August 1884 – 2 December 1939) was a British essayist, novelist and younger brother of John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys. …

Ornithologist and painter Archibald Thorburn died.
Ornithologist and painter Archibald Thorburn died. …

Birth of Thomas Kineally, Irish Australian author of Schindler’s List which was originally called Schindlers Ark
Birth of Thomas Kineally, Irish Australian author of Schindler’s List which was originally called Schindlers Ark …

Oliver Napier, born
Oliver Napier, born Sir Oliver Napier (11 July 1935 – 2 July 2011) was the first leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. In 1974 he served as the first and only Legal Minister and head of the Office of Legal Reform in the Northern Ireland power-sharing executive set up by the Sunningdale Agreement. …

Jack Charlton, footballer and manager, born
Jack Charlton, footballer and manager, born …

Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the ballad Galway Bay, died
Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the ballad Galway Bay, died Francis Arthur Fahy (29 September 1854 – 1935) was an Irish nationalist, songwriter and poet. He is probably best remembered as the composer of the evergreen “The Ould Plaid Shawl”. He collaborated with various composers, including Alicia Adélaide Needham, an associate of the Royal Academy of Music. …

John J. R Macleod, Scottish-Canadian physiologist and winner of 1923 Nobel Prize, died.
John J. R Macleod, Scottish-Canadian physiologist and winner of 1923 Nobel Prize, died. John James Rickard Macleod, FRS, FRSE (6 September 1876 – 16 March 1935), was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. …

Robert Watson Watt demonstrated radar for the first time
Robert Watson Watt demonstrated radar for the first time …

Thomas Murphy, a playwright, is born
Thomas Murphy, a playwright, is born …