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On this day
Births
1640 –
Robert Plot
(
Magdalen Hall
and
University
), naturalist and first Keeper of the
Ashmolean Museum
1815 –
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
(
Balliol
and
University
),
Dean of Westminster
and church historian
1844 –
Arthur Lloyd
(
St Edmund Hall
),
Bishop of Newcastle
1903–1907
1874 –
Robert Scott Troup
(
St John's
), Professor of Forestry
1896 –
Russell Berridge White
(
St Edmund Hall
),
Bishop of Tonbridge
1959–1968
1914 –
Alan Bullock
(
Wadham
and
New College
), historian and founding Master of
St Catherine's College
1940 –
Sanjaya Lall
(
St John's
and
Green
), development economist
1942 –
Alan Monk
(
Jesus
), businessman
1947 –
Ian James Brackley
(
Keble
),
Bishop of Dorking
since 1996
Deaths
1878 –
David Charles
(
Jesus
), Welsh Calvinistic Methodist cleric
1983 –
Mary Renault
(
St Hugh's
), British
historical novelist
Other events
1961 –
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
(
Balliol
), makes his
Test match cricket
debut for
India
.