- 1967 Siegfried Sassoon (80), novelist, biographer and one of the leading poets of the First World War, died.
- 1864 Sir Roger Casement, civil servant and revolutionary nationalist, born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin.
- 1159 Nicholas Breakspear, Pope Adrian IV from 1154, died. The only Englishman to become pontiff, he allegedly prefigured the ‘Irish Question’ by encouraging Henry II to include Hibernia within his realm.
