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Arts and literature
Sport
Football
- Winners: Glenavon
Births
- 23 April - Barry Douglas, classical pianist.
- 30 April - Colonel Tim Collins British Commander in Iraq.
- 6 May - Roma Downey, actress and producer.
- 13 May - Michael Savage, Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament.
- 7 July - Billy Wright, former leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (d.1997).
- 27 August - Mark Caughey, footballer.
- 29 August - Dominic Bradley, SDLP MLA.
- 29 August - Thomas Burns, SDLP MLA.
- 10 October - Arlene McCarthy, Labour Party Member of the European Parliament.
- 25 November - Robert Dunlop, Motorcycle Racer.R,I,P
- 10 December - Kenneth Branagh, actor and director.
Full date unknown
- Peter Heather, historian.
- Deirdre Madden, author.
- Ian McDonald, science fiction novelist.
- Jeff McWhinney, deaf community activist.
Deaths
- 13 June - Kenneth McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (b.1881).
- 20 July - Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore, soldier and Deputy Lieutenant for County Fermanagh (b.1913).
- 25 October - Harry Ferguson, early aviator and developer of the modern agricultural tractor (b.1884).