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Birth in Dublin of Sir Francis Bacon, painter

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Birth in Dublin of Sir Philip Francis, civil servant, duellist, and gambler; he may have been the author of the Junius Letters

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Birth in Portrush of Fred Daly, the only Irishman to win a golf major - the British Open in 1947

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Birth in Templemore, Co. Tipperary of Charles Stanley Monck, the first Governor General of Canada