Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/February 13

Births

• 1849 – Lord Randolph Churchill (Merton), politician and father of Winston Churchill
• 1900 – Roy Harrod (New College, Christ Church and Nuffield), economist
• 1945 – Simon Schama (Brasenose), historian
• 1951 – Hagan Bayley (Balliol and Hertford), Professor of Chemical Biology at Oxford
• 1979 – Rachel Reeves (New College), politician

Deaths

• 1602 – Alexander Nowell (Brasenose), theologian and Principal of Brasenose 1595–96
• 1624 – Stephen Gosson (Corpus Christi), satirist
• 2003 – Walt Whitman Rostow (Balliol), American economist and Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History 1946–47
• 2006 – P. F. Strawson (St John's, University and Magdalen), Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy 1968–87