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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Golf 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths

Events

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 3 - 0 Distillery

Golf

• Irish Open is won by Fred Daly (Northern Ireland).

Births

January to June

• 9 February - Séan Neeson, Alliance Party of Northern Ireland politician.
• 26 March - Carmel Hanna, SDLP MLA.
• 30 April - Fred Cobain, Ulster Unionist Party MLA
• 4 May - John Watson, racecar driver.
• 22 May - George Best, footballer (d. 2005).
• 25 May - Norah Beare, former Ulster Unionist and now Democratic Unionist Party politician.
• 21 June - Kate Hoey, Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
• 30 June - Allan Hunter, footballer.

July to December

• 31 October - Stephen Rea, actor.
• 28 November - Barry Devlin, former bass-player with Horslips.
• 31 December - Bryan Hamilton, footballer and football manager.

Full date unknown

• Tom McGurk, poet, journalist and broadcaster.
• Freddie Scappaticci, accused of being a high-level double agent in the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

Deaths

• 23 August - Samuel Cunningham, politician and Irish Privy Councillor (b.1862).
• Jack White, soldier, trade unionist, one of the co-founders of the Irish Citizen Army (b.1879).