[edit] Events [edit] Arts and literature [edit] Births - 7 February - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (d.1952).
- 11 March - Tom Clarke, nationalist, rebel and organiser of the Easter Rising, executed (d.1916).
- 19 April - Patrick Stone, Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (d.1942).
- 20 April - Thomas Myles, surgeon, Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for the Irish Volunteers in 1914 (d.1937).
- 19 May - William Morgan Jellett, Irish Unionist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom (d.1936).
- 1 August - Alan Joseph Adamson, politician in Canada (d.1928).
- 22 August - William Dowler Morris, mayor of Ottawa (d.1931).
- 5 October - Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer (d.1942)
- 1 November - W. H. Grattan Flood, musicologist and historian (d.1928).
- 1 November, John Joly, scientist (d.1933).
[edit] Full date unknown [edit] Deaths - 29 January - John Connors, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in the Crimea (b.1830).
- 3 March - William Brown, creator and first admiral of the Argentine Navy (b.1777).
- 9 April - Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (b.1830).
- 11 July - John Egan, businessman and politician in Ottawa (b.1811).
- 10 August - John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (b.1780).
- 19 September - John Purcell, soldier, receipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India, later killed in action (b.1814).
- 23 September - John Nicholson, military hero in India (b.1822).
- 17 December - Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale (b.1774).
[edit] Full date unknown [edit] References - ^ Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds) (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork, Ireland: The Mercier Press. pp. p 376.
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