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Birth of W.B. Yeats in Dublin

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Birth of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse; astronomer and telescope constructor, in York

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Birth of William Thomas Cosgrave , Irish statesman and father of Liam Cosgrave*. A member of Sinn Féin, he fought in the Easter Rebellion and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Freed a year later, he was elected to the British Parliament in 1918 but pro

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Bob Fitzsimmons, Cornish boxer, worlds middleweight champion 1891- worlds heavyweight champion 1897- born.