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On this day
Births
1707 –
Charles Wesley
(
Christ Church
), Methodist leader and hymn writer
1826 –
James John Hornby
(
Balliol
and
Brasenose
), rower and
Headmaster of Eton
1868–1884
1980 –
Neville Laski
(
Corpus Christi
), barrister
1916 –
Harold Soref
(
Queen's
),
Conservative
politician
1973 –
William Kendall
, cricketer
1974 –
Tom Parker Bowles
(
Worcester
), writer and son of
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Deaths
1858 –
John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury
(
Trinity
), civil servant and army officer
1914 –
Ingram Bywater
(
Queen's
,
Exeter
and
Christ Church
), classical scholar
1916 –
Robert Yerburgh
(
University
),
Conservative
politician
1935 –
John Nicolson
,
South African cricketer
1941 –
Hastings Lees-Smith
(
Queen's
),
Labour
politician
1966 –
George Raikes
, cricketer and
England footballer
1998 –
Basil Travers
, cricketer and
England rugby union international