1922 Ulysses by James Joyce was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on the writer’s 40th birthday. 1939 Desmond O’Malley, Fianna Fáil TD and government minister in the 1970s and 1980s and first leader of the Progressive Democrats (1985–93), born in Limerick. 1969 Boris Karloff (81), stage name of William Henry Pratt, an English actor best ... Read more