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<html> <head> <title>Belfast, Northern Ireland</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" 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href="http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/">http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/</a> Population: 275,000 SCHOOLS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>School</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/edu/580/000111247/">Queen's University Belfast</a></td><td><center>1845</center></td></tr></table> BIRTHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_births"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000164370/">John Stewart Bell</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Oct-1990</tt></td> <td>Bell's theorem of quantum physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/038/000025960/">George Best</a></td> <td><center>Soccer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Nov-2005</tt></td> <td>Manchester United</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/674/000401468/">Patrick Bond</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Elite Transition</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/813/000025738/">Kenneth Branagh</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1960</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>British thespian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000237975/">Jocelyn Bell Burnell</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of pulsars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/057/000084802/">Vivian Campbell</a></td> <td><center>Guitarist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1962</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former Dio, current Def Leppard guitarist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/854/000033755/">Frank Carson</a></td> <td><center>Comic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-2012</tt></td> <td>Irish comedian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/391/000396200/">James Casey</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Kingdom of Valencia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/387/000353325/">Warren Christie</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1975</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Cameron Hicks on Alphas</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/305/000091032/">Mairead Corrigan</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Nobel Prize recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/833/000400630/">Jamie Dornan</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-May-1982</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Fifty Shades of Grey</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/829/000206211/">James Galway</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Flute virtuoso</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/453/000163961/">Terry George</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Hotel Rwanda</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/615/000056447/">Chaim Herzog</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1997</tt></td> <td>President of Israel, 1983-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/588/000116240/">John Hewitt</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1987</tt></td> <td>No Rebel Word</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/028/000161542/">Ciarán Hinds</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Munich</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000050457/">Lord Kelvin</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1907</tt></td> <td>Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/238/000044106/">C. S. Lewis</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1963</tt></td> <td>Chronicles of Narnia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/555/000114213/">Louis MacNeice</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1963</tt></td> <td>Autumn Journal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/624/000116276/">Derek Mahon</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Night-Crossing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/256/000346215/">Paula Malcomson</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1970</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Trixie on Deadwood</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/219/000111883/">Mary McAleese</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jun-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Ireland</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/173/000167669/">Seamus P. McCaffery</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jun-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/845/000351789/">James McCaffrey</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Jimmy Keefe on Rescue Me</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/144/000113802/">Brian Moore</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1999</tt></td> <td>The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000086581/">Gary Moore</a></td> <td><center>Guitarist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-2011</tt></td> <td>Out in the Fields</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/683/000024611/">Van Morrison</a></td> <td><center>Singer/Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Central figure of the Belfast blues scene</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/409/000108085/">Patricia Quinn</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Rocky Horror Picture Show</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/976/000088712/">Stephen Rea</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Crying Game</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/331/000109004/">Bobby Sands</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1981</tt></td> <td>Irish hunger striker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/258/000280415/">Albert Sharpe</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-1970</tt></td> <td>Darby O'Gill and the Little People</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/195/000089925/">David Trimble</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Irish politician, Nobel Prize recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000091143/">Betty Williams</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient</td> </tr> </table> DEATHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_deaths"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000167626/">David Bates</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jan-1994</tt></td> <td>Atmospheric and interstellar physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000164370/">John Stewart Bell</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Oct-1990</tt></td> <td>Bell's theorem of quantum physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/032/000173510/">Fred Daly</a></td> <td><center>Golf</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1990</tt></td> <td>Winner, 1947 British Open</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/588/000116240/">John Hewitt</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1987</tt></td> <td>No Rebel Word</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/766/000085511/">Ian Paisley</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-2014</tt></td> <td>Democratic Unionist Party</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/258/000280415/">Albert Sharpe</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-1970</tt></td> <td>Darby O'Gill and the Little People</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/769/000099472/">Ernest T. 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