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Births
1605 –
Henry Hammond
(
Magdalen
), clergyman
1809 –
William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven
(
Christ Church
), nobleman and racehorse owner
1818 –
James Fraser
(
Lincoln
and
Oriel
),
Bishop of Manchester
1870–85
1858 –
Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers
(
Oriel
), Master of
Peterhouse, Cambridge
1924–31
1880 –
Harold Rushworth
(
Jesus
), New Zealand politician
1897 –
Enid Starkie
(
Somerville
), Irish academic of French literature
1911 –
Henry Summers
(
Trinity
), civil servant and poet
1920 –
Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle
(
Trinity
),
lepidopterist
1934 –
Michael de Larrabeiti
(
Keble
), novelist and travel writer
1936 –
David Leaning
(
Keble
), Provost then Dean of
Southwell Minster
1991–2006
1940 –
Stanley Johnson
(
Exeter
), Conservative politician and writer
1948 –
John Scarlett
(
Magdalen
),
Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service
2004–2009
1955 –
Richard Cheetham
(
Corpus Christi
),
Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames
since 2002
1973 –
Victoria Coren
(
St John's
), journalist and poker player
Deaths
1385 –
William Reade
(
Exeter
and
Merton
),
Bishop of Chichester
1368–85
1681 –
Thomas Allen
(
St John's
), politician and lawyer
1910 –
Edward Wickham
(
New College
),
Dean of Lincoln
1894–1910
1953 –
Archibald Rowlands
(
Jesus
), civil servant
1973 –
Christopher Nyholm Shawcross
(
University
), lawyer and Labour politician
1976 –
Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford
(
New College
), landowner
1985 –
Michael Long
(
Jesus
), judge
1988 –
Michael Perrin
(
New College
), director of the first British atomic bomb programme
Other events
1892 –
H. H. Asquith
(
Balliol
) is appointed
Home Secretary
by
William Gladstone
.
1977 –
Roy Jenkins
(
Balliol
) becomes
President of the European Commission
.