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Births
1675 –
William Somervile
(
New College
), poet
1702 –
John Evans
(
Jesus
), Welsh clergyman
1705 –
Abraham Tucker
(
Merton
), country gentleman and philosopher
1794 –
John Boileau
(
Merton
), archaeologist
1856 –
Robert Lawrence Ottley
(
Pembroke
,
Christ Church
and
Magdalen
),
Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology
1859 –
Edmund Powell
(
Trinity
),
Bishop of Mashonaland
1908–10
1877 –
Frederick Soddy
(
Merton
), radiochemist and Nobel Prize winner
1892 –
Edmund Herring
(
New College
), Australian soldier, judge and Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
1906 –
Christopher Lloyd
(
Lincoln
), naval historian
1926 –
Wynne Godley
(
New College
), economist
1928 –
Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
(
Balliol
), Liberal Democrat politician
1931 –
David Young
(
Balliol
and
Wycliffe Hall
),
Bishop of Ripon
1977–2000
1938 –
Glyn Worsnip
(
St John's
), journalist and presenter
1936 –
Marrack Goulding
(
Magdalen
and
Wolfson
), diplomat and Warden of Wolfson 1997–2006
1948 –
Robert Wilkes
(
Trinity
),
Dean of Birmingham
2006–09
1955 –
George Efstathiou
(
Keble
and
New College
), astrophysicist and former
Savilian Professor of Astronomy
1962 –
Keir Starmer
(
St Edmund Hall
),
Director of Public Prosecutions
2008–13 and Labour politician
Deaths
1701 –
Robert Huntington
(
Merton
),
Bishop of Raphoe
July to September 1701
1764 –
Nathaniel Bliss
(
Pembroke
),
Savilian Professor of Geometry
and
Astronomer Royal
1783 –
Edward Edwards
(
Jesus
), Welsh clergyman and classicist
1823 –
Thomas Winstanley
(
Brasenose
,
Hertford
and
St Alban Hall
),
Camden Professor of Ancient History
and
Laudian Professor of Arabic
1842 –
John Ireland
(
Oriel
),
Dean of Westminster
and founder of the
Dean Ireland's Professorship of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture
1850 –
Charles Williams-Wynn
(
Christ Church
), politician
1920 –
Charles James Lyall
(
Balliol
), civil servant and Arabic scholar
1930 –
Archibald Strong
(
Magdalen
), Australian scholar and poet
1935 –
A. C. Bradley
(
Balliol
), literary scholar and
Oxford Professor of Poetry
1936 –
William Rees
(
Jesus
), Welsh priest and writer
1953 –
Christopher H. Gilkes
(
Trinity
), schoolmaster
1955 –
George Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope
(
Christ Church
), Conservative politician
1965 –
Harry Hylton-Foster
(
Magdalen
),
Speaker of the House of Commons
1959–65
1968 –
Henry Bunbury
(
St John's
), civil servant and accountant
1969 –
Norman Manley
(
Jesus
),
Chief Minister of Jamaica
1955–62
1973 –
J. R. R. Tolkien
(
Exeter
,
Merton
and
Pembroke
), author and scholar
1979 –
Felix Aylmer
(
Exeter
), actor on stage and screen