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On this day
Births
1849 –
Lord Randolph Churchill
(
Merton
), politician and father of
Winston Churchill
1900 –
Roy Harrod
(
New College
,
Christ Church
and
Nuffield
), economist
1945 –
Simon Schama
(
Brasenose
), historian
1951 –
Hagan Bayley
(
Balliol
and
Hertford
), Professor of Chemical Biology at Oxford
1979 –
Rachel Reeves
(
New College
), politician
Deaths
1602 –
Alexander Nowell
(
Brasenose
), theologian and Principal of Brasenose 1595–96
1624 –
Stephen Gosson
(
Corpus Christi
), satirist
2003 –
Walt Whitman Rostow
(
Balliol
), American economist and
Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History
1946–47
2006 –
P. F. Strawson
(
St John's
,
University
and
Magdalen
),
Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy
1968–87