Ireland

Kathleen Behan, née Kearney, Mother of All the Behans and folk singer is born in Dublin

Birth in Castlebar of singer Margaret Burke Sheridan

Birth in Belfast of Sean McEntee, Fianna Fail politician

Last official bare knuckle title fight

Jack Kilrain is perhaps best known for challenging champion John L. Sullivan in 1889 in the last world heavyweight championship prizefight decided with bare knuckles under London Prize Ring rules in history.

Helen Waddell, Irish scholar, translator and novelist, is born in Tokyo

Patrick McGilligan, pro-Treaty nationalist and politician, is born in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry

Actor Barry Macollum is born

Barry Macollum, born on April 6, 1889, in what is now Northern Ireland, established a distinguished career as an actor in the United States, notably in both film and television. His career spanned several decades, during which he became known for his versatile roles in a variety of films and TV shows.

Robert Gibbings, illustrator and writer, is born in Cork

Robert John Gibbings (23 March 1889 – 19 January 1958) was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood engraver and sculptor, and for his books on travel and natural history.

Harry Clarke, artist, known chiefly for stained-glass work, is born in Dublin

Henry Patrick Clarke RHA (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement.

Richard Piggott is exposed as forger of Times Phoenix Park letters

Richard Pigott (1835 – 1 March 1889) was an Irish journalist, best known for his forging of evidence that Charles Stewart Parnell of the Irish National Land League had been sympathetic to the perpetrators of the Phoenix Park Murders. Parnell successfully sued for libel and Pigott shot himself.