Mar 3 9th Grand National: Denny Wynne aboard Mathew IRE wins
Birthdays in Sport
Feb 10 A N Hornby, cricketer (pioneering England Test batsman)
Aug 20 Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889)
Dec 2 Deacon White, American baseball player and a star during the first two decades of the sport's professional era, born in Caton, New York (d. 1939)