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Monarch - Elizabeth II
16 March - Passenger liner SS Canberra is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast (for P&O).
6 April - Short SC.1 VTOL research aircraft makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight and back, flying from Belfast Harbour Airport.
13 April - MV Arlanza becomes the last passenger liner launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast (for Royal Mail Line).
Arts and literature
26 January - First staging of Sam Thompson's play Over the Bridge, at the Empire Theatre, Belfast.
13–18 February - Orson Welles opens for the last time in a stage production, his adaptation Chimes at Midnight with the Gate Theatre Company, at the Grand Opera House, Belfast (transferring in March to Dublin).
Irish League
Irish Cup
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 (died 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 (died 2008).
10 December - Kenneth Branagh, actor and director.
Peter Heather, historian.
Deirdre Madden, author.
Ian McDonald, science fiction novelist.
Jeff McWhinney, deaf community activist.
9 March - Jack Beattie, Labour politician (born 1886).
13 June - Ken McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (born 1881).
20 July - Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore, soldier and Deputy Lieutenant for County Fermanagh (born 1913).
1 September - Robert Moore, minister of religion and politician (born 1886).
25 October - Harry Ferguson, early aviator and developer of the modern agricultural tractor (born 1884).
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