1922 John Butler Yeats (83), painter and father of W.B. Yeats and Jack B. Yeats, died. 1919 Éamon de Valera and two other prisoners escaped from Lincoln prison in a break arranged by Michael Collins and Harry Boland. 1963 Brinsley MacNamara (real name John Weldon), writer, notably of The valley of the squinting windows (1918), ... Read more
