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On this day
Births
1923 –
Stansfield Turner
, American admiral and
Director of Central Intelligence
1977–81
1937 –
Gordon Crosse
(
St Edmund Hall
), composer
1948 –
Tom Wright
(
Exeter
,
Wycliffe Hall
,
Merton
and
Worcester
), New Testament scholar and
Bishop of Durham
2003–10
1971 –
Emily Mortimer
(
Lincoln
), actress
1982 –
Riz Ahmed
(
Christ Church
), actor and rapper
Deaths
1947 –
G. H. Hardy
(
New College
),
Savilian Professor of Geometry
1919–31
1964 –
J. B. S. Haldane
(
New College
), scientist
Other events
1581 –
Alexander Briant
(
Hart Hall
),
Edmund Campion
(
St John's
, and after whom
Campion Hall
is named), and
Ralph Sherwin
(
Exeter
), Roman Catholic priests, are executed at
Tyburn
for their faith, and later regarded as martyrs.