Events

• 31 July - Three members of the Miami Showband are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack as they return from a dance in County Down. (See: Miami Showband killings)

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Coleraine 1 - 1, 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Linfield

Births

• 18 February - Keith Gillespie, international soccer player.
• 9 June - Brian Magee, boxer.
• 24 July - Gordon Cooke, cricketer.
• 27 August - Kyle McCallan, cricketer.
• 4 September - Andrew Patterson, cricketer.
• 13 October - Ois n McConville, Armagh Gaelic footballer.
• 4 November - Warren Christie, actor.

Full date unknown

• Cara Dillon, folk singer.
• Nick Laird, novelist and poet.
• Jason Maher, writer.

Deaths

• 23 February - Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st D il and Cabinet Minister (b.1889).
• 28 April - Billy McMillen, Official Irish Republican Army officer, killed in feud with Irish National Liberation Army (b.1927).
• 25 October - Padraig Marrinan, artist (b.1906).
• 25 November - Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (b.1895).

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