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Events for 13 July relating to the university, its colleges, academics and alumni. College affiliations are marked in brackets.

Births

1747 – Sir Archibald Macdonald, 1st Baronet (Christ Church), lawyer and politician
1854 – Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long (Christ Church), First Lord of the Admiralty 1919–21
1900 – Lionel Hedges, Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1919
1920 – Dick Franks (Queen's), Head ("C") of the Secret Intelligence Service 1979–82
1931 – Philip Jones (Jesus), civil servant and businessman
1935 – R. T. Kendall (Regent's Park), American preacher and writer
1953 – Jonathan Baume (Keble), trade unionist
1958 – James M. Poterba, American economist
1960 – Simon Halliday, cricketer and England rugby international

Deaths

1734 – Ellis Wynne (Jesus), Welsh clergyman and writer
1755 – James Davis (Jesus), Welsh physician and satirist
1762 – James Bradley (Balliol), Astronomer Royal 1742–62
1837 – Charles Stewart (Corpus Christi and All Souls), Bishop of Quebec 1826–37
1966 – Eric Macfadyen (Wadham), colonial administrator
1968 – R. J. Yeatman (Oriel), co-author of 1066 and All That
1980 – Seretse Khama (Balliol), President of Botswana 1966–80
2007 – Paul Bohannan (Queen's), American anthropologist
2008 – Peter Durack (Lincoln), Attorney-General of Australia 1977–83