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Births
1675 – William Somervile New College ), poet
1702 – John Evans Jesus ), Welsh clergyman
1705 – Abraham Tucker Merton ), country gentleman and philosopher
1794 – John Boileau Merton ), archaeologist
1856 – Robert Lawrence Ottley Pembroke , Christ Church and Magdalen ), Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology
1859 – Edmund Powell Trinity ), Bishop of Mashonaland 1908–10
1877 – Frederick Soddy Merton ), radiochemist and Nobel Prize winner
1892 – Edmund Herring New College ), Australian soldier, judge and Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
1906 – Christopher Lloyd Lincoln ), naval historian
1926 – Wynne Godley New College ), economist
1928 – Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury Balliol ), Liberal Democrat politician
1931 – David Young Balliol and Wycliffe Hall ), Bishop of Ripon 1977–2000
1938 – Glyn Worsnip St John's ), journalist and presenter
1936 – Marrack Goulding Magdalen and Wolfson ), diplomat and Warden of Wolfson 1997–2006
1948 – Robert Wilkes Trinity ), Dean of Birmingham 2006–09
1955 – George Efstathiou Keble and New College ), astrophysicist and former Savilian Professor of Astronomy
1962 – Keir Starmer St Edmund Hall ), Director of Public Prosecutions 2008–13 and Labour politician
Deaths
1701 – Robert Huntington Merton ), Bishop of Raphoe July to September 1701
1764 – Nathaniel Bliss Pembroke ), Savilian Professor of Geometry and Astronomer Royal
1783 – Edward Edwards Jesus ), Welsh clergyman and classicist
1823 – Thomas Winstanley Brasenose , Hertford and St Alban Hall ), Camden Professor of Ancient History and Laudian Professor of Arabic
1842 – John Ireland Oriel ), Dean of Westminster and founder of the Dean Ireland's Professorship of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture
1850 – Charles Williams-Wynn Christ Church ), politician
1920 – Charles James Lyall Balliol ), civil servant and Arabic scholar
1930 – Archibald Strong Magdalen ), Australian scholar and poet
1935 – A. C. Bradley Balliol ), literary scholar and Oxford Professor of Poetry
1936 – William Rees Jesus ), Welsh priest and writer
1953 – Christopher H. Gilkes Trinity ), schoolmaster
1955 – George Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope Christ Church ), Conservative politician
1965 – Harry Hylton-Foster Magdalen ), Speaker of the House of Commons 1959–65
1968 – Henry Bunbury St John's ), civil servant and accountant
1969 – Norman Manley Jesus ), Chief Minister of Jamaica 1955–62
1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien Exeter , Merton and Pembroke ), author and scholar
1979 – Felix Aylmer Exeter ), actor on stage and screen
