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Births
1823 –
Edward Augustus Freeman
(
Trinity
), historian
1862 –
Arthur Headlam
(
New College
,
All Souls
and
Christ Church
),
Regius Professor of Divinity
1918–23 and
Bishop of Gloucester
1923–45
1867 –
Ernest Dowson
(
Queen's
), poet and novelist
1878 –
Richard Olaf Winstedt
(
New College
), orientalist
1884 –
Reginald Coupland
,
Beit Professor of Colonial History
1920–48
1885 –
Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare
(
New College
), army officer and sportsman
1888 –
D. A. Clarke-Smith
, actor
1906 –
Albert Goodwin
(
Jesus
), historian
1907 –
Alec Clifton-Taylor
(
Queen's
), architectural historian
1915 –
Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram
, army officer
1921 –
Jack Ainslie
(
Trinity College
), farmer and Liberal politician
1922 –
Len Murray
(
New College
), trade union leader
1929 –
David Waddington, Baron Waddington
(
Hertford
), Conservative politician
1935 –
Derek Enright
(
Wadham
), Labour politician
1940 –
Adrian Hollis
(
Christ Church
and
Keble
), chess champion
1943 –
Oliver Taplin
(
Magdalen
), classicist
1945 –
John Bowis
(
Brasenose
), Conservative politician
1946 –
Nigel Hitchin
(
Jesus
,
Wolfson
and
New College
),
Savilian Professor of Geometry
since 1997
1948 –
Peter Torry
(
New College
), diplomat
1951 –
Roger Parker
(
St Hugh's
), musicologist
1955 –
Roger Cohen
(
Balliol
), journalist
1971 –
Ruth Lawrence
(
St Hugh's
), mathematician
Deaths
1603 –
John Townshend
(
Magdalen Hall
), soldier and politician
1794 –
Richard Burke Jr.
(
Christ Church
), barrister and politician
1868 –
Lambert Blackwell Larking
(
Brasenose
), clergyman and antiquary
1911 –
Francis Paget
(
Christ Church
),
Bishop of Oxford
1901–11
1938 –
Lewis Clive
(
Christ Church
), Olympic gold medal winner in rowing
1944 –
Lord David Douglas-Hamilton
(
Balliol
), RAF pilot and boxer
1999 –
Willie Morris
, American writer
2009 –
Mark Green
(
Lincoln
),
Bishop of Aston
1972–82