Monarch - George V (until 20 January), Edward VIII (20 January to 11 December), George VI
Public Order Act is introduced, giving the Chief Constable power to impose conditions on parades or public processions if it is believed that they would lead to public disorder.
The Brtitish Air Ministry forms a new aircraft factory in Belfast, creating a new company owned 50% each by Harland and Wolff and Short Brothers, Short & Harland Ltd.
Arts and literature
Belfast School of Music opens its new premises.
Louis MacNeice publishes his translation of The Agamemnon of Aeschylus.
Irish League
Irish Cup
20 February - Roy Beggs, former Ulster Unionist Party MP.
7 March - Freddie Gilroy, boxer.
13 March - Stanley Hewitt, cricketer (died 2001).
5 April - John Kelly, Sinn Féin Councillor and MLA (died 2007).
24 April - Robert McCartney, leader of UK Unionist Party, former MLA and a QC.
17 August - Seamus Mallon, former Deputy-Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and first Deputy-First Minister of Northern Ireland.
24 September - John Magee SPS, Bishop of Cloyne (1987 - ), former private secretary to Pope John Paul II.
5 October - Brian Hannon, Bishop of Clogher from 1986 to 2001.
22 December - James Burke, science historian, author and television producer.
Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, British life peer, businessman and multi-millionaire.
30 November - Jimmy Elwood, footballer (born 1901).
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