- 1822 in Ireland
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21 September HMS "Confiance" was wrecked betweenMizen Head and Three Castles Head. All 100 aboard were lostBirths
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16 February - James Thomson,engineer andphysicist (d.1892).
*21 February -Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo , statesman, three timesChief Secretary for Ireland ,Viceroy of India , assassinated (d.1872).
*31 August -Timothy Anglin , politician inCanada andSpeaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.1896).
*September -Denis Dynon , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atChota Behar ,India (d.1863).
*2 October - James Pearson, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at atJhansi ,India (d.1900).
*11 October -Alexander John Arbuthnot , British official inIndia and writer (d.1907).
*November -John Divane , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atDelhi ,India (d.1888).
*4 December -Frances Power Cobbe , social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (d.1904).
*11 December - John Nicholson, military hero in India (d.1857).Full date unknown
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Maxwell Henry Close , geologist (d.1903).
*Joseph Philip Ronayne , civil engineer (d.1876).Deaths
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15 February -Pierce Butler , soldier, planter, statesman, one ofUnited States ' Founding Fathers, representedSouth Carolina in theContinental Congress and the U.S. Senate (b.1744).
*25 March - Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist ofDublin (b.1772).
*12 August -Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh , politician, represented the United Kingdom at theCongress of Vienna (b.1769).
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