- 1821 in Ireland
Events
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28 December -Sandycove Lifeboat disaster - four lifeboatmen drowned attempting to rescue "Ellen of Liverpool"Births
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20 January -Dennis Mahony , one of the founders of the Dubuque "Herald" (now the "Telegraph Herald "), a newspaper inDubuque, Iowa (d.1879).
*20 February -Miles Gerard Keon , journalist, novelist, colonial secretary and lecturer (d.1875).
*8 March -James Sheridan Muspratt , research chemist and teacher (d.1871).
*28 March -William Howard Russell , journalist (d.1907).
*20 July -Michael Hannan ,Archbishop inRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax ,Nova Scotia (d.1882).
*21 December -Samuel Haughton , scientific writer (d.1897).Full date unknown
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Robert O'Hara Burke , explorer of Australia (d.1861).
*William Connor Magee ,Anglican clergyman,Archbishop of York (d.1891).Deaths
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6 April -Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry , politician (b.1739).
*15 June -James Cuffe, 1st Baron Tyrawley , peer.
*4 October -Edward Hudson , dentist (b.1743).Full date unknown
*John Barrett, clergyman and
Hebrew scholar (b.1753).
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