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Births

1805 – Charles David Badham (Pembroke), writer and physician
1849 – Hugh Gough, 3rd Viscount Gough (Brasenose), nobleman
1849 – Edmund Neville Nevill (New College), astronomer
1912 – Peter Gretton (University), Royal Navy officer and college bursar
1913 – Stewart Crawford (Oriel), diplomat
1913 – Donald M. MacKinnon (New College), Scottish philosopher and theologian
1919 – Jack Dormand (St Peter's), Labour politician
1920 – Peter Vansittart (Worcester), novelist and historian
1932 – Antonia Fraser (Lady Margaret Hall), novelist
1934 – Graeme Moodie (Queen's), politics academic
1959 – Guy Hands (Mansfield), financier
1959 – Jeanette Winterson (St Catherine's), novelist

Deaths

1701 – Gilbert Ironside (Wadham), Warden of Wadham and Bishop of Hereford
1748 – Sir Robert Abdy, 3rd Baronet (Trinity), politician
1862 – Thomas Jefferson Hogg (University), biographer of Percy Bysshe Shelley
1862 – John Williams (Jesus), Welsh priest and writer ("Ab Ithel")
1894 – Henry Bowlby (Wadham, Oxford), Bishop of Coventry 1891–94
1924 – William Bayliss (Wadham), physiologist
1933 – Malcolm Robinson (New College), Chief Inspector of Factories
1948 – George Halford (Keble), Bishop of Rockhampton 1909–20
1969 – Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges (Magdalen), civil servant
1997 – James Lindsay (Magdalen), Conservative politician
1998 – Keith Cox (Queen's and Jesus), geologist
2008 – Alec Hill (Balliol), Australian military historian

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