Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 29

Births

• 1718 – Sir John Boyd, 1st Baronet (Christ Church), merchant
• 1809 – William Ewart Gladstone (Christ Church), four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1829 – Edward King (Oriel and Christ Church), Bishop of Lincoln 1895–1910
• 1870 – Robert Dewi Williams (Jesus), Welsh schoolteacher and minister
• 1893 – Vera Brittain (Somerville), English writer and pacifist
• 1902 – Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford (Christ Church), Irish writer and politician
• 1953 – Alan Rusbridger (Nuffield), journalist

Deaths

• 1689 – Thomas Sydenham (Magdalen Hall and All Souls), physician
• 1898 – Bartholomew Price (Pembroke), mathematician
• 1919 – William Osler (Christ Church), Canadian physician
• 1968 – Austin Farrer (Balliol, St Edmund Hall, Trinity and Keble), theologian
• 1971 – John Marshall Harlan II (Balliol), American Supreme Court judge 1955–1971
• 1986 – Harold Macmillan (Balliol), British Prime Minister 1957–1963 and Chancellor of the University 1960–1986
• 1997 – Robert Walter Steel (Jesus and St Peter's Hall), geographer