Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 6

Births

• 1742 – James Grenville, 1st Baron Glastonbury (Christ Church), politician
• 1858 – John A. Hobson (Lincoln), economist
• 1895 – Herbert Hopkins, cricketer
• 1907 – George Stanley (Keble), designer of the Canadian flag
• 1910 – A. G. Dickens (Magdalen), historian
• 1923 – David Hawkes (All Souls), Professor of Chinese 1959–71
• 1938 – John Caldwell (Keble and Jesus), musicologist and composer
• 1946 – Peter Singer (University), Australian philosopher
• 1950 – Jonathon Porritt (Magdalen), environmentalist
• 1962 – Andrew Martin, novelist and journalist

Deaths

• 1535 – Thomas More (Canterbury College), Lord Chancellor 1529–32, later venerated as a saint
• 1815 – Samuel Whitbread (Christ Church), politician
• 1882 – William George Ward (Christ Church and Lincoln), Catholic theologian
• 1885 – George Moberly (Balliol), Bishop of Salisbury 1869–85
• 1937 – Albert Handcock, 5th Baron Castlemaine (Christ Church), Irish peer and landowner
• 1957 – Alfred Averill (St John's), Archbishop of New Zealand 1925–40
• 1992 – Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne (Christ Church), member of the Guinness family and novelist
• 2004 – Peter Birks (All Souls), Regius Professor of Civil Law 1989–2004