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Births
- 1746 – Lord Henry Seymour-Conway (Hertford and Merton), politician
- 1778 – John Penrose (Corpus Christi), clergyman and theological writer
- 1823 – Edward Clarke Lowe (Magdalen Hall and Lincoln), educator
- 1870 – George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley (New College), barrister and politician
- 1889 – Vivian Hunter Galbraith (Balliol), historian
- 1892 – J. Paul Getty (Magdalen), oilman and philanthropist
- 1907 – Richard Crossman (New College), Labour Party cabinet minister
- 1913 – Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist
- 1914 – Anatole Abragam (Merton and Jesus), French physicist
- 1928 – William Dickey (Jesus), American poet
- 1930 – Ian Grant (Wadham), physicist
- 1945 – Ivor Crewe (Exeter), Master of University College
- 1946 – Henrietta Knight, racehorse trainer
- 1954 – Alex Cox, film director
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Deaths
- 1631 – Theodore Price (All Souls, Jesus and Hart Hall), Welsh clergyman and academic
- 1715 – George Hickes (St John's, Magdalen, Magdalen Hall and Lincoln), priest and scholar
- 1749 – William Fortescue (Trinity), Master of the Rolls 1741–1749
- 1761 – John Willes (Trinity), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1737–1761
- 1893 – Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective (Christ Church), Anglo-Irish politician
- 1910 – John Hugh Jones (Jesus), Welsh Catholic priest and writer
- 1978 – Arthur Irvine (Oriel), Solicitor General for England and Wales 1967–1970
- 1981 – Claud Cockburn (Keble), journalist
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