Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 4

Births

• 1653 – Sir Walter Clarges, 1st Baronet (Merton), politician
• 1756 – John Evans (Jesus), surgeon and cartographer
• 1892 – Aylmer Vallance (Balliol), newspaper editor
• 1893 – Norman Manley (Jesus), Chief Minister of Jamaica 1955–62
• 1905 – John Playfair Price (New College), diplomat
• 1910 – Arthur Larson (Pembroke), Director of the United States Information Agency 1956–57
• 1918 – Woodrow Wyatt (Worcester), politician and writer
• 1920 – Anthony Barber (Oriel), Chancellor of the Exchequer 1970–74
• 1943 – Adam Hart-Davis (Merton), science and history broadcaster
• 1944 – Adam Curle (New College), peace studies academic
• 1945 – Ben Pimlott (Worcester), historian and political biographer
• 1952 – Álvaro Uribe (St Antony's), President of Colombia since 2002

Deaths

• 1744 – Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane (Wadham), politician and landowner
• 1774 – William Price (Jesus), antiquarian
• 1891 – William Henry Gladstone (Christ Church), politician and son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
• 1967 – Henry Wells (Magdalen), Olympic gold medal winner in rowing and County Court judge
• 1971 – Maurice Bowra (New College and Wadham), classical scholar and Warden of Wadham 1938–70
• 1997 – John Zachary Young (Magdalen), zoologist and neurophysiologist