by Col. Victor Haddick. American dancer Adele Astaire marries English aristocrat Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish (9 May) and they settle at Lismore Castle, one of the Devonshire family seats. Sport Football League of Ireland Winners: Shamrock Rovers FAI Cup Winners: Shamrock Rovers 1 – 0 Dolphins Golf Irish Open is won by Alf Padgham (England). Births 29 January – Bernard Cowen, Fianna Fáil TD and Minister of State (died 1984). 31 January – Pete St. John, born Peter Mooney, folk singer-songwriter (died 2022). 8 February – Raymond James Boland, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph (died 2014). 28 February – Noel Cantwell, international soccer player (died 2005). 7 March – Johnny McGovern, Kilkenny hurler (died 2022). 10 March – Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins, Fine Gael TD (died 2022). 29 March – Richard Burke, Fine Gael politician and European Commissioner (died 2016). 1 June – Michael Lipper, Labour Party politician and TD (died 1987). 5 June Christy Brown, author, painter and poet (died 1981). Ronnie Dawson, rugby union. 12 June – Alfred Cooper, cricketer. 7 July – Eileen Lemass, Fianna Fáil TD and MEP. 20 July – Ronan Keane, Chief Justice of Ireland. 2 August – Peter O'Toole, actor (died 2013). 14 August – Denis Faul, monsignor, Northern Ireland civil rights activist, chaplain to prisoners in Maze Prison during 1981 Irish Hunger Strike (died 2006). 21 August – Gene Fitzgerald, Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (died 2007). 26 August – Dermot Curtis, soccer player. 3 November – Albert Reynolds, Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil (died 2014). 15 December – Edna O'Brien, novelist. 29 December – Eileen Desmond, Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, MEP and Seanad Éireann member (died 2005). Full date unknown Barney Eastwood, boxing promoter (died 2020). Anne Madden, painter (born in London). Breandán Ó Madagáin, scholar and writer on traditional Irish song (died 2020). Deaths 1 January – J. J. Clancy, Sinn Féin TD, member of 1st Dáil (b. c1891). 1 January – Margaret Pearse, Fianna Fáil politician, mother of Patrick Pearse and Willie Pearse (born 1857). 17 January – Louis Brennan, inventor (born 1852). 8 February – Mad Dog Coll, mob hitman in New York (born 1908). 26 February – Robert Donovan, cricketer (born 1899). 4 March – James Henry Reynolds, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Rorke's Drift, South Africa (born 1844). 11 March – Thomas Hunter, member of