Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 11

Births

• 1603 – Sir Kenelm Digby (Gloucester Hall), courtier and diplomat
• 1775 – Joseph Blanco White, Spanish theologian and poet
• 1811 – Sir William Robert Grove (Brasenose), judge and scientist
• 1851 – Trehawke Kekewich (Christ Church), barrister and judge
• 1900 – Charles Henderson (New College and Corpus Christi), historian of Cornwall
• 1901 – Sir John Rothenstein (Worcester), arts administrator and art historian
• 1903 – David Talbot Rice (Christ Church), art historian
• 1913 – Kofi Abrefa Busia (University), Prime Minister of Ghana 1969–72
• 1934 – Toby Jessel (Balliol), Conservative politician
• 1943 – Peter Jensen, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney since 2001
• 1947 – Sir Drummond Bone (Balliol), English literature academic and Master of Balliol since 2011
• 1950 – J. R. Morgan (Lincoln), classical scholar
• 1956 – Amitav Ghosh (St Edmund Hall), Bengali Indian writer
• 1958 – Barry Nalebuff, American business studies academic

Deaths

• 1852 – David Barttelot (Corpus Christi), cricketer
• 1916 – Thomas Herbert Robertson (Magdalen), barrister and politician
• 1941 – Arthur Evans (Brasenose), archeologist
• 2000 – Robert Runcie (Brasenose), Archbishop of Canterbury 1980–91