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Births
1794 –
Richard Lynch Cotton
(
Worcester
), Provost of Worcester 1839–80
1842 –
Henry Duff Traill
(
St John's
), author and journalist
1859 –
Alfred W. Pollard
(
St John's
), Shakespeare scholar
1867 –
John Galsworthy
(
New College
), novelist and playwright
1873 –
Alexander Souter
(
Mansfield
), Biblical scholar
1874 –
John Knight Fotheringham
(
Merton
and
Magdalen
), historian of astronomy and chronology
1888 –
Edgar Hall
(
Jesus
),
Archdeacon of Totnes
1948–62
1907 –
H. Montgomery Hyde
(
Magdalen
), lawyer and politician
1933 –
Thomas Pakenham
(
Magdalen
), historian
1947 –
John Methuen
(
Brasenose
),
Dean of Ripon
1995–2005
1956 –
Jonathan Powell
(
University
),
Downing Street Chief of Staff
under Tony Blair
1958 –
Philip Dunne
(
Keble
), Conservative politician
1981 –
Michael Blomquist
(
St Peter's
), American rower
Deaths
1598 –
Sir Henry Bagenal
(
Jesus
), Marshal of the army in Ireland under Elizabeth I
1743 –
Edward Northey
(
Queen's
),
Attorney General for England and Wales
1701–07 and 1710–18
1844 –
Henry Francis Cary
(
Christ Church
), author and translator
1849 –
Edward Copleston
(
St Mary Hall
and
Oriel
),
Oxford Professor of Poetry
, Provost of Oriel and
Bishop of Llandaff
1856 –
William Buckland
(
Corpus Christi
), theologian, geologist and
palaeontologist
1910 –
Frank Podmore
(
Pembroke
), author and writer on psychic matters
1922 –
Hubert Beaumont
(
Balliol
), politician
1929 –
Geoffrey Scott
(
New College
), architectural historian and poet
1982 –
Dorothy Whitelock
(
St Hilda's
), Anglo-Saxon historian
1994 –
Joan Harrison
(
St Hugh's
), screenwriter
2006 –
John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken
(
Balliol
), writer