Ireland

Charles Owen O'Conor, politician, is born in Dublin

Charles Williams, war correspondent, is born in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry

Fr. Theobald Mathew, with the support of William Martin, a quaker, founds the total abstinence movement in Cork

William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian and philosopher, is born in Blackrock, Co. Dublin

William Edward Hartpole Lecky, OM, PC, FBA (26 March 1838 – 22 October 1903) was an Irish historian, essayist, and political theorist with Whig proclivities. His major work was an eight-volume History of England during the Eighteenth Century.

James Lawlor Kiernan, Union general in Americas Civil War, was born in Mount Bellew, County Galway

Patrick Ford, journalist in the USA, fund-raiser for Irish causes, born in Galway

Edward Hallaran Bennett, surgeon, is born in Cork

Daniel Owen considered the greatest Welsh language novelist, born

A writer, considered the national novelist of Wales. He was a natural storyteller whose works, set in his own time, introduced a wealth of vivid and memorable characters that have given him a place in Welsh literature comparable to that of Charles Dickens.

Michael Mulhall, publisher and statistician, is born in Dublin

Barry Edward OMeara, surgeon to Napoleon, dies in London