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Birth of Dame Ninette de Valois, Wicklow, born founder of the Royal Ballet

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Birth of Edward Newell, United Irishman and informer, in Downpatrick, Co. Down

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Birth of Forrest Reid in Belfast. He was a novelist, critic, and autobiographer. He became a distinguished book and print collector, eventually writing a definitive work on the book of illustrators of the 1860s

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Birth of Hugh Thomson, illustrator, in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry