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On this day
Births
1822 –
Matthew Arnold
(
Balliol
), poet
1873 –
Harry Brittain
(
Worcester
), journalist and politician
1880 –
Philip Glazebrook
(
New College
), politician
1932 –
Colin Cowdrey
(
Brasenose
),
England cricket captain
1936 –
Ivan Lawrence
(
Christ Church
), barrister and politician
1969 –
Ed Miliband
(
Corpus Christi
),
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
since 2008
1970 –
Jonathan Zittrain
(
Keble
), Professor of Internet Law at
Harvard Law School
Deaths
1668 –
Wadham Wyndham
(
Wadham
), judge
1684 –
Hugh Wyndham
(
Wadham
), judge
1916 –
William Henry Fremantle
(
Balliol
and
All Souls
), Dean of
Ripon
1938 –
John Hills
(
Balliol
), politician
1986 –
Guy Barnett
(
St Edmund Hall
), politician
1993 –
Ralph Downes
(
Keble
), organist
2007 –
Nicholas Pumfrey
(
St Edmund Hall
),
Lord Justice of Appeal
Other events
1927 – In cricket,
Ian Peebles
,
Rony Stanyforth
and
Jacobus Duminy
make their test match debuts, Peebles and Stanyforth for
England
and Duminy for
South Africa
.
1938 –
Alan Melville
and
Pieter van der Bijl
make their test match debuts for
South Africa