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On this day
Births
1817 –
Alfred Lowth
, cricketer
1822 –
William John Evelyn
(
Balliol
), politician
1870 –
Hilaire Belloc
(
Balliol
), Anglo-French writer and historian
1909 –
Charles Brasch
(
St John's
), New Zealand poet and literary editor
1914 –
William Douglas Allen
(
New College
), physicist and electrical engineer
1917 –
Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet
(
Worcester
), poet
1921 –
Philip Sheppard
(
Worcester
), geneticist and
lepidopterist
1930 –
Shirley Williams
(
Somerville
), politician and co-founder of the
Social Democratic Party
1923 –
Peter Baelz
,
Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology
1942 –
Tony Greaves, Baron Greaves
(
Hertford
), Liberal Democrat politician
1981 –
Pete Reed
, winner of gold medals in rowing at the Olympics and World Championships
Deaths
1777 –
William Hayes
(
Magdalen
), composer and organist
1892 –
Robert Lowe
(
University
and
Magdalen
),
Chancellor of the Exchequer
1868–73
1986 –
Osbert Lancaster
(
Lincoln
), cartoonist
1999 –
Malachi Martin
, Catholic theologian
2000 –
Bruce Douglas-Mann
(
Jesus
), Labour then Social Democratic Party politician
2001 –
Harold Beeley
(
Queen's
), diplomat and historian
2005 –
Leonard Ingrams
(
Corpus Christi
), founder of
Garsington Opera