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Births
1718 –
Sir John Boyd, 1st Baronet
(
Christ Church
), merchant
1809 –
William Ewart Gladstone
(
Christ Church
), four times
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1829 –
Edward King
(
Oriel
and
Christ Church
),
Bishop of Lincoln
1895–1910
1870 –
Robert Dewi Williams
(
Jesus
), Welsh schoolteacher and minister
1893 –
Vera Brittain
(
Somerville
), English writer and pacifist
1902 –
Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford
(
Christ Church
), Irish writer and politician
1953 –
Alan Rusbridger
(
Nuffield
), journalist
Deaths
1689 –
Thomas Sydenham
(
Magdalen Hall
and
All Souls
), physician
1898 –
Bartholomew Price
(
Pembroke
), mathematician
1919 –
William Osler
(
Christ Church
), Canadian physician
1968 –
Austin Farrer
(
Balliol
,
St Edmund Hall
,
Trinity
and
Keble
), theologian
1971 –
John Marshall Harlan II
(
Balliol
), American
Supreme Court
judge 1955–1971
1986 –
Harold Macmillan
(
Balliol
),
British Prime Minister
1957–1963 and
Chancellor of the University
1960–1986
1997 –
Robert Walter Steel
(
Jesus
and
St Peter's Hall
), geographer
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