24th

Total results: 11

Sorley MacLean, poet, died

Comedian and actor Billy Connolly born

Irish republican Erskine Childers is executed by the Free State government

James Stephens, Fenian, escapes from Richmond prison, Dublin

Arthur French, MP for Co. Roscommon, dies of excessive fox-hunting

Henry Blosse Lynch, soldier and explorer, is born in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo

Lawrence Sterne, clergyman, humorist, and author, is born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

John Knox, leading reformer of Church of Scotland, died