Birth of Magnus Magnusson, writer, broadcaster and question master in TV programme Mastermind.
October 12, 1929
Birth in Portrush of Fred Daly, the only Irishman to win a golf major - the British Open in 1947
October 12, 1911
Jerome Connor, sculptor, is born near Anascaul, Co. Kerry
October 12, 1876
French fleet intercepted off Donegal. Wolfe Tone captured when The Hoche strikes its colors
October 12, 1798
Peter Drake, soldier and memoir author, is born in Co. Meath
October 12, 1671
Archbishop Rinuccini arrives in Ireland
October 12, 1645