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Births

1662 – Samuel Wesley (Exeter), poet
1685 – Thomas Tickell (Queen's), poet
1826 – Francis Trevelyan Buckland (Christ Church), surgeon and natural historian
1893 – George Algernon West (Lincoln), Lord Bishop of Rangoon 1935–1954
1900 – Mary Cartwright (St Hugh's), mathematician
1906 – Bede Griffiths (Magdalen), Benedictine monk and missionary
1915 – Sir Philip Adams (Christ Church), diplomat
1916 – Penelope Fitzgerald (Somerville), novelist
1927 – Robert Robinson (Exeter), radio and television presenter
1931 – James Anderson, cricketer
1942 – Gareth Stedman Jones (Lincoln and Nuffield), historian
1956 – Nancy-Ann DeParle (Balliol), director of the White House Office of Health Reform
1956 – Dominic Lawson (Christ Church), journalist
1979 – Thum Ping Tjin (Hertford), Singaporean swimmer

Deaths

1758 – Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, Chancellor of the University 1715–1758
1773 – Andrew Stone (Christ Church), politician
1808 – Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (University), President of the Board of Trade 1786–1804
1854 – Henry Parry (Jesus), clergyman and antiquarian
1915 – John Rhys (Jesus and Merton), Celtic scholar and Principal of Jesus College
1928 – Eglantyne Jebb (Lady Margaret Hall), social reformer
1947 – Bernard Spilsbury (Magdalen), forensic pathologist
1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers (Somerville), novelist
1977 – Lawrence Turner (Exeter), MP for Oxford 1950–1959
1997 – Reginald Victor Jones (Wadham and Balliol), scientific military intelligence expert

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