Events

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• The Northern Ireland international soccer team change the colour of their shirt from blue to green.

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 3 - 0 Ballymena United

Births

• 15 February - John Erritt, Deputy Director of the British Government Statistical Service (d.2002).
• 9 April - Patrick Walsh, Bishop of Down & Connor (1991 - )
• 15 April - Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, former head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service and a member of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission and the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains.
• 15 June - Martin Smyth, Unionist politician and minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
• 29 June - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, former Law Lord.
• 4 July - Stephen Boyd, actor (d.1977).
• 5 August - Billy Bingham, footballer and football manager.
• 25 October - Jimmy McIlroy, former international soccer player.
• 31 December - Bob Shaw, science fiction novelist (d.1996).

Deaths