Births
- 12 January - John Moore, Bishop of the Diocese of Bauchi, Nigeria.
- 12 January - Hilary Weston, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (from 1997 to 2002).
- 18 January - Eric Barber, soccer player.
- 12 February - Robert Ellison, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Banjul, Gambia.
- 22 April - Aengus Fanning, journalist and editor.
- 15 May - Pádraic McCormack, Fine Gael TD for Galway West.
- 18 August - Tommy Carroll, soccer player.
- 30 August - Jonathan Aitken, former Conservative Member of Parliament, convicted of perjury in 1999.
- August - Ned O'Keeffe, Independent TD for Cork East, formerly Fianna Fáil.
- 17 September - Des Lynam, sportscaster and British television personality.
- 4 October - Frank Stagg, Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker for 62 days in Wakefield Prison (died 1976).
- 24 December - Anthony Clare, psychiatrist and broadcaster (died 2007).
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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