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On this day
Births
1773 –
Richard Heber
(
Brasenose
), book collector and politician
1828 –
Charles Ranken
(
Wadham
), clergyman and chess player
1866 –
Henry Newton
(
Merton
),
Bishop of New Guinea
1922–36
1906 –
Kathleen Kenyon
(
Somerville
and
St Hugh's
), archaeologist and Principal of St Hugh's
1910 –
Jack Lovelock
(
Exeter
), New Zealand athlete and Olympic gold medal winner
1927 –
Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown
(
Trinity
), banker
1932 –
Gordon Roe
(
Jesus
),
Bishop of Huntingdon
1980–97
1933 –
Derek Johnson
(
Lincoln
), athlete and Olympic silver medallist
1935 –
John Hemming
(
Magdalen
), explorer
1938 –
Henry G. Chiles, Jr.
(
Keble
), American admiral
1938 –
John S. Grinalds
(
Brasenose
), American general
1941 –
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
(
Balliol
), Indian cricketer and last
Nawab
of
Pataudi
1946 –
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa
(
Magdalen
), Japanese prince
1959 –
David Eastwood
(
St Peter's
and
Pembroke
), Vice-Chancellor of the
University of East Anglia
and the
University of Birmingham
Deaths
1799 –
Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall
(
Trinity
), Irish nobleman and politician
1871 –
Walter Long
(
Oriel
), landowner
1950 –
Basil Williams
(
New College
), historian
1952 –
Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
, the only man to play
test cricket
for England and for India
1956 –
F. Sherwood Taylor
(
Lincoln
), historian of science and museum curator
1982 –
Edmund Herring
(
New College
), Australian soldier and judge
1991 –
Hubert Butler
(
St John's
), Anglo-Irish essayist
1994 –
Brian Johnston
(
New College
), cricket commentator and broadcaster
1999 –
Alexander Macdougall Cooke
(
Jesus
and
Merton
), doctor and lecturer
2001 –
G. E. M. Anscombe
(
St Hugh's
and
Somerville
), philosopher
2004 –
Norman Heatley
(
Lincoln
), scientist who helped in the development of penicillin
2004 –
Vivian Jenkins
(
Jesus
), Welsh rugby union international
2007 –
Jack Ainslie
(
Trinity
), farmer and Liberal Democrat politician
2008 –
Tony Ambrose
(
Jesus
), rally driver
Other events
1855 –
Frederick Bulley
is elected President of
Magdalen
.