Ireland

Birth of Irish Nationalist Party leader John Redmond in Ballytrent, Co. Wexford

Birth at Holytown of John Keir Hardie, coal miner and founder of the Labour Party.

George Bernard Shaw, born

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

William Massey, New Zealand Prime Minister, is born in Londonderry

William Ferguson Massey PC (26 March 1856 – 10 May 1925) was a politician who served as the 19th prime minister of New Zealand from May 1912 to May 1925. He was the founding leader of the Reform Party, New Zealand’s second organised political party, from 1909 until his death.

Frank Harris, writer and journalist, is born in Galway

Alfred Denis Godley, classical scholar and writer, is born in Ashfield, Co. Cavan

Alfred Denis Godley (22 January 1856 – 27 June 1925) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar and author of humorous poems.

Joseph Haydn, Irish journalist, author of Dictionary of Dates, dies

Joseph Timothy Haydn, (1788/1793–1856), newspaper editor and compiler of reference works, was born in Lisbon in 1788 or 1793, the son of Thomas Haydn, a protestant Irish expatriate. He was educated in Portugal before he moved to Dublin in 1818 to found The Stage, an unsuccessful review of Dublin theatres, having earlier ghost-written a History of the Azores for Thomas Ashe, a self-appointed ‘captain of the light dragoons'.

Birth of Feargus Edward O’Connor, Chartist leader

Last ever Donnybrook Fair, held in Dublin since 1204. The general uproar of the annual event results in its suspension

Timothy Michael Healy, Irish politicians, born in Bantry, Co. Cork