Births 19 March – James Jackman, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at Tobruk, Libya, the day before his death (killed in action 1941). 19 March – Peter Kavanagh, writer, scholar and publisher (died 2006). 13 April – Ralph Cusack, English High Court judge (died 1978 in England). 20 April – Gerard Dillon, painter (died 1971). 20 May – Francis Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (died 1991). 21 May – Sam Thompson, playwright (died 1965). 30 May – Jackie Power, Limerick hurler and Gaelic footballer (died 1994). 6 July – Hugh Gibbons, Roscommon Gaelic footballer and Fianna Fáil TD (died 2007). 23 July – Tom O'Higgins, barrister and judge, Irish Chief Justice, Fine Gael TD and twice defeated Irish presidential candidate (died 2003). 31 July – Brian Inglis, journalist, historian and television presenter (died 1993). 14 August – Máirín Lynch, wife of Taoiseach Jack Lynch (died 2004). 4 September – Alexis FitzGerald Snr, solicitor, Fine Gael Seanad member (died 1985). 8 September – John M. Feehan, author and publisher (died 1991). 24 September – Robin Kinahan, Unionist politician and businessman (died 1997). 3 October – Frank Pantridge, physician, cardiologist and inventor of the portable defibrillator (died 2004). 17 October – Jack Bowden, cricketer and hockey player (died 1988). 27 October – Nigel Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown, peer and diplomat (died 2010). 3 November – Rúaidhrí de Valera, archaeologist (died 1978). 10 November – Louis le Brocquy, artist (died 2012). 25 November – Cosmo Haskard, British Army officer, Governor of the Falkland Islands (died 2017). 8 December – T. K. Whitaker, civil servant, economist (died 2017). 14 December – Tomás de Bhaldraithe, Irish language scholar and lexicographer (died 1996). 16 December – Michael Carty, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1975). 21 December – Seán Brosnan, barrister, Fianna Fáil TD and Senator (died 1979). 25 December – Noel Larmour, cricketer and diplomat (died 1999). Paddy Fahey, fiddler (died 2019) Deaths 9 January – Ada Rehan, actress in the United States (born c.1857). 16 February – Adelaide Maria Guinness, wife of Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, first owner of Farmleigh. 18 March – Stopford Augustus Brooke, Anglican clergyman and writer (born 1832). 26 April Francis Browning, cricketer (born 1868). Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, suffragist, pacifist and writer, murdered by British Army (born 1878). 29 April – The O'Rahilly, killed during the Easter Rising (born 1875). 3 May Tom Clarke, nationalist, rebel and organiser