1670 John Toland, deist and writer on political philosophy and philosophy of religion whose best-known work, Christianity not mysterious (1696), was considered atheistic and subversive by the Irish parliament and ordered to be burnt by the hangman, born in Inishowen, Co. Donegal. 1967 Patrick Kavanagh (63), poet, died. 1667 Jonathan Swift, poet and satirist, born at 7 ... Read more
