Dennehy, soccer player. 21 April – Pádraig Horan, Offaly hurler. 12 May – Gabriel Byrne, actor. 17 May – Michael P. Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East. 21 May – Marian Finucane, broadcast presenter (died 2020). 22 May – Bill Whelan, composer of Riverdance. 25 May – John Horgan, Cork hurler. 1 June – Gemma Craven, actress. 23 June – Éamon Ó Cuív, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway West and former Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. 24 June – Bob Carlos Clarke, photographer (died 2006). 29 June – Vere Wynne-Jones, journalist, sports broadcaster (died 2006). 17 July – Michael Colgan, director, Gate Theatre. 1 August Martin Coleman, Cork hurler. Cyril Farrell, Galway hurling manager. Frances Fitzgerald, 24th Tánaiste of Ireland 3 August – Mick Flavin, country music singer. 12 August John Carty, Fianna Fáil TD and senator. Patrick Parfrey, nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist in Canada. 14 August – Dermot Desmond, businessman and entrepreneur. 23 August – David Molony, lawyer, Fine Gael TD and senator (died 2002). 26 August – Don Baker, singer songwriter. 29 August – Dick Spring, Tánaiste, leader of the Labour Party and Cabinet Minister. 5 September Brendan Cummins, Cork hurler. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, member European Court of Auditors, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister. 5 October – Michael Gaughan, Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker (died in Parkhurst Prison in 1974). 30 October – Gearoid Denvir, Gaeilgeoir, writer, academic, (former) Mayor of Camus, Co na Gaillimhe 6 December – Jan O'Sullivan, Labour Party TD for Limerick East. 10 December – Desmond Hogan, writer. December – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, musician (died 2018). Full date unknown Pat Hartigan, Limerick hurler. Edmund Lenihan, author, storyteller, lecturer and broadcaster. Séamus Looney, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler. Mick Malone, Cork hurler. Liam O'Brien, Kilkenny hurler. Michael Warren, sculptor. Deaths 24 March – Robert Johnston, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Elandslaagte, South Africa (born in 1872). 22 April – John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and founder of the Catholic Legion of Decency (born in 1877). 26 April – R. A. Stewart Macalister, archaeologist (born in 1870). 10 May – Art O'Connor, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister, lawyer and judge (born in 1888). 11 June – Stephen Gwynn, journalist, writer, poet and Nationalist politician (born in 1864). 25 June – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, writer