Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 27

Births

• 1817 – Alfred Lowth, cricketer
• 1822 – William John Evelyn (Balliol), politician
• 1870 – Hilaire Belloc (Balliol), Anglo-French writer and historian
• 1909 – Charles Brasch (St John's), New Zealand poet and literary editor
• 1914 – William Douglas Allen (New College), physicist and electrical engineer
• 1917 – Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet (Worcester), poet
• 1921 – Philip Sheppard (Worcester), geneticist and lepidopterist
• 1930 – Shirley Williams (Somerville), politician and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party
• 1923 – Peter Baelz, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology
• 1942 – Tony Greaves, Baron Greaves (Hertford), Liberal Democrat politician
• 1981 – Pete Reed, winner of gold medals in rowing at the Olympics and World Championships

Deaths

• 1777 – William Hayes (Magdalen), composer and organist
• 1892 – Robert Lowe (University and Magdalen), Chancellor of the Exchequer 1868–73
• 1986 – Osbert Lancaster (Lincoln), cartoonist
• 1999 – Malachi Martin, Catholic theologian
• 2000 – Bruce Douglas-Mann (Jesus), Labour then Social Democratic Party politician
• 2001 – Harold Beeley (Queen's), diplomat and historian
• 2005 – Leonard Ingrams (Corpus Christi), founder of Garsington Opera