* 1915 – Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright ( d. 1997 )

* 1947 – Gerard Schwarz, American conductor

* 1867 – James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat ( d. 1951 )

* 2011 – Gerard Smith, American musician ( Tv on the Radio ) ( b. 1974 )

* 1992 – Gerard K. O ' Neill, American physicist ( b. 1927 )

* 1918 – Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer ( d. 1995 )

* Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis ( Leiden, 1709 ), on which his pupil and assistant, Gerard van Swieten ( 1700 – 1772 ) published a commentary in 5 vols.

Various linguists have seen these North Eurasian languages as part of: < ul >< li > a Ural – Altaic language family ( popular until 1960s )</ li >< li > a Uralic and an Altaic family ( Anna V. Dybo | Dybo, Roy Andrew Miller | Miller, Nicholas Poppe | Poppe )</ li >< li > separate Uralic, Turkic languages | Turkic and Mongolian language | Mongolian families ( Gerard Clauson | Clauson, Gerhard Doerfer | Doerfer, Stefan Georg | Georg )</ li >< li > a Eurasiatic or Nostratic macrofamily ( Joseph Greenberg | Greenberg, Sergei Starostin | Starostin, Allan Bomhard | Bomhard )</ li ></ ul >

* 1923 – Gerard Reve, Dutch writer ( d. 2006 )

* 1927 – Gerard K. O ' Neill, American physicist ( d. 1992 )

* 1988 – Steeve Gerard Fankà, Cameroonian footballer

* 1987 – Gerard Piqué, Spanish football player

Alfred Henry ( Freddy ) Heineken ( November 4, 1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands – January 3, 2002, Noordwijk, Netherlands ) was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.

Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889 ) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

* Ronan, Gerard The Irish Zorro: the Extraordinary Adventures of William Lamport ( 1615 – 1659 )

* 1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet ( b. 1844 )

* 1985 – Gerard Aafjes, Dutch footballer

Jean-Michel Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, New York after the death of his brother Max, was the second of four children of Matilda Andrades ( July 28, 1934 – November 17, 2008 ) and Gerard Basquiat ( born 1930 ).

* 1914 – Bob Gerard, British racing driver ( d. 1990 )

* 1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet ( d. 1889 )

Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 – 1889 ) writes on the kestrel in his poem The Windhover, exalting in their mastery of flight and their majesty in the sky.

* De Staat ( 1972 – 76 ) ( text by Plato ) for 2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 4 oboes ( 3rd, 4th + English horn ), 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, bass trombone, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars, 4 violas, bass guitar, 2 pianos ( also transcribed for two pianos in 1992 by Cees van Zeeland and Gerard Bouwhuis )

* 1977 – Danny Gerard, American actor

* 1700 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch physician ( d. 1772 )

* 1946 – Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer ( d. 1995 )

The series also featured a number of contemporary Irish actors and comedians, including Dervla Kirwan, Graham Norton, Tommy Tiernan, Patrick McDonnell, Don Wycherley, Joe Rooney, Jason Byrne, Jim Norton, Pat Shortt, Jon Kenny, Ed Byrne, Brendan Grace, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Gerard McSorley and Kevin McKidd.

* Irish — Dillon, Gerard: Many works, including Bird and Bird Canvas ( c. 1958 ), And the Time Passes ( 1962 ), The Brothers ( 1967 ), Beginnings ( 1968 ), Encounter ( c. 1968 ), Red Nude with Loving Pierrot ( c. 1970 ); Robinson, Markey: Many works.

The distrust and division that they sowed were the final act in splitting former comrades into warring factions and leading to the formation of the Irish People's Liberation Organisation by Jimmy Brown and Gerard Steenson, both of whom had been convicted under the supergrass scheme.

* Gerard Murray, ' John Hume and the SDLP: impact and survival in Northern Ireland ,' Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1998.

John Gerard Bruton ( born 18 May 1947 ) is an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach ( prime minister ) of Ireland from 1994 to 1997.

* Gerard Anthony Hayes McCoy Irish Battles ( Belfast, 1989 ) ISBN 0-86281-212-7.

Morgan's biggest Irish broadcasting success occurred in the late 1980s in the Saturday morning radio comedy show, Scrap Saturday, in which Morgan, co-scriptwriter Gerard Stembridge, Owen Roe and Pauline McLynn mocked Ireland's political, business and media establishment.

James Gerard " Gerry " Collins ( born 16 October 1938 ) is an Irish retired Fianna Fáil politician, who served in a wide number of Cabinet poistions, most notably as Minister for Justice and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

* Gerard Anthony Hayes McCoy Irish Battles ( Belfast, 1989 ) ISBN 0-86281-212-7.

In the 18th Century, Mrs Elizabeth Pearson, an Irish herbalist, proposed a treatment for scrofula involving herbs and a poultice and extract of vegetable ; and in 1815, Sir Gerard Noel presented a petition to the House of Commons advocating her treatment.

( Hugh ) Gerard Sweetman ( 10 June 1908 – 28 January 1970 ) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and solicitor.

* Gerard Parkes as Doc, the owner of an Irish pub who has Tourette syndrome.

Roberto had run poorly in his previous race, the Irish Derby, but, ridden by the American jockey Braulio Baeza, ran the race of his life with a bold front-running display, which shattered the course record, to defeat Brigadier Gerard by three lengths.

* William Gerard Barry, Irish artist

Lead barrister, Gerard Hogan, argued that neither the 1937 Irish constitution nor more recent tax laws specifically define marriage as between one man and one woman.

At the Irish Film and Television Awards, the film won the awards for ' Best Irish Film ' and ' Best Actor ( Gerard McSorley )', and was nominated for a further five awards, including ' Best Film Director ', ' Best Script ' and ' Best Actress ' for Michele Forbes.

Gerard Brandon was the son of Irish immigrant, Gerard Chittocque Brandon, who established and ran Selma Plantation in Adams County, Mississippi and Dorothy Nugent, the daughter of Irish immigrants Matthew Nugent and Isabel MacBray.