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Births
1867 –
Ronald Montagu Burrows
(
Christ Church
), Principal of
King's College London
1913–20
1888 –
T. E. Lawrence
(
Jesus
and
Magdalen
), "Lawrence of Arabia"
1904 –
Ralph Downes
(
Keble
), organist and organ builder
1911 –
E. F. Schumacher
(
New College
), economic adviser
1924 –
Philip Dowson
(
University
), architect and President of the
Royal Academy
1993–99
1934 –
Diana Wynne Jones
(
St Anne's
), novelist
1941 –
Iain Douglas-Hamilton
(
Oriel
), zoologist
1953 –
David Spiegelhalter
(
Keble
), statistician
Deaths
1733 –
Matthew Tindal
(
Lincoln
and
All Souls
),
Deist
thinker
1941 –
Francis Turville-Petre
(
Exeter
), archaeologist
1944 –
Walter Robberds
(
Keble
),
Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church
1908–34
1949 –
Tom Wintringham
(
Balliol
), co-founder of the
Common Wealth Party
and journalist
1951 –
Gus Kelly
, Irish cricketer
1957 –
William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt
(
New College
),
Lord Chancellor
1945–51
2007 –
Roland Mathias
(
Jesus
), Welsh poet and short story writer
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