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Births

1804 – Thomas Thomas (Jesus), Welsh clergyman
1805 – Samuel Wilberforce (Oriel), Bishop of Winchester
1814 – William Butterfield, architect of Keble College
1830 – Charles Henry Pearson (Oriel), historian
1893 – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha (St John's), Minister of Transport and Secretary of State for War
1905 – Kathleen Coburn (St Hugh's), Canadian academic of English literature
1912 – Gwynno James (Keble), Dean of Brecon 1964–67
1914 – Billy Hughes (Balliol), Labour politician
1914 – Mandy Mitchell-Innes (Brasenose), England test cricketer
1917 – Leonard Cheshire (Merton), RAF pilot and charity worker
1917 – John Cornforth (St Catherine's), Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
1943 – Chris Green (Oriel), railway manager
1947 – Peter Wheatley (Queen's), Bishop of Edmonton since 1999
1949 – Martin Kettle (Balliol), journalist
1956 – Robert Reed, Lord Reed (Balliol), Scottish judge

Deaths

1665 – Adam Blakeman (Christ Church), first minister of the church in Stratford, Connecticut
1696 – John Powell (Jesus), Welsh judge
1700 – William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (Magdalen), civil war soldier
1719 – John Harris (Trinity), encyclopaedia writer
1850 – David Williams (Jesus), geologist
1897 – Lewis Cave (Lincoln), High Court judge
1929 – Frederic Weatherly (Brasenose), author and lyricist ("Danny Boy")
1933 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Balliol), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1905–1916
1952 – Claude Blagden (Corpus Christi), Bishop of Peterborough 1927–49
1956 – C. B. Fry (Wadham), cricketer and polymath
1969 – Gavin Maxwell (Hertford), naturalist and author
1980 – Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne (Magdalen), Lord Chancellor 1962–64
1985 – Ellis Waterhouse (New College), art historian
1990 – A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel and Magdalen), historian
2006 – Cornelius O'Leary (Nuffield), historian and political scientist

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