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On this day
Births
1478 –
Thomas More
(
St Mary Hall
or
Canterbury College
),
Lord Chancellor
1529–32, later executed for treason
1877 –
G. H. Hardy
(
New College
),
Savilian Professor of Geometry
1919–31
1937 –
Peter Jay
(
Christ Church
), economist, diplomat and broadcaster
1941 –
Kevin Crossley-Holland
(
St Edmund Hall
), author and poet
1943 –
Eric Foner
(
Oriel
), American historian
1958 –
Matt Ridley
(
Magdalen
), journalist and science writer
Deaths
1994 –
Stephen Milligan
(
Magdalen
), politician
2012 –
Ann Dummett
(
Somerville
), racial justice campaigner
Other events
1999 –
Abdullah II of Jordan
(
Pembroke
) becomes king on the death of his father.