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

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