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Births
1858 –
J. Meade Falkner
(
Hertford
), novelist and poet
1873 –
H. D. G. Leveson Gower
,
Magdalen
), England cricket captain
1873 –
Nevil Sidgwick
(
Christ Church
and
Lincoln
), chemist
1879 –
Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham
(
Christ Church
), politician and soldier
1894 –
Edwin Morris
(
St John's
),
Archbishop of Wales
1957–1967
1897 –
Guy Blaikie
, cricketer
1920 –
Maurice Cranston
(
St Catherine's
), philosopher and author
1904 –
John Snagge
(
Pembroke
), radio newsreader and commentator
1921 –
Graham Leonard
(
Balliol
),
Bishop of London
1981–1991
1925 –
Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle
(
Christ Church
),
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
1988–1996
1934 –
Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann
(
Queen's
),
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
1995–2009
1939 –
William Cookson
(
New College
), poet and literary editor
1946 –
Jonathan Dancy
(
Corpus Christi
and
All Souls
), philosopher
1946 –
Ruth Padel
(
Lady Margaret Hall
and
Wadham
), poet
1946 –
Andrew Sherratt
, archeologist based at the
Ashmolean Museum
1969 –
Jonny Searle
(
Christ Church
),
gold-medal winning Olympic rower
Deaths
1662 –
Peter Heylin
(
Hart Hall
and
Magdalen
), priest and writer
1781 –
Richard Jago
(
University
), poet
1860 –
Horace Hayman Wilson
, first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford
1883 –
Sir Thomas Bernard, 6th Baronet
(
Christ Church
), politician
1904 –
Frederick York Powell
(
Christ Church
and
Oriel
), historian
1926 –
W. A. B. Coolidge
(
Exeter
and
Magdalen
), American historian, theologian and mountaineer
1960 –
J. H. C. Whitehead
(
Balliol
), mathematician
1975 –
Bram Fischer
(
New College
), South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist