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On this day
Births
1577 –
Robert Burton
(
Brasenose
and
Christ Church
), priest and scholar
1819 –
John Ruskin
(
Christ Church
), art critic
1940 –
Dame Averil Cameron
(
Somerville
and
Keble
), historian and Warden of Keble 1994–2010
1955 –
Nancy Oliver
(
Trinity
), American playwright and screenwriter
1967 –
Rachel Cusk
(
New College
), novelist and writer
Deaths
1784 –
Christopher Bassett
(
Jesus
), Welsh Methodist minister
1960 –
J. L. Austin
(
Balliol
and
Magdalen
),
White's Professor of Moral Philosophy
1952–60
1975 –
Sir Robert Robinson
(
Magdalen
),
Waynflete Professor of Chemistry
1930–54 who won the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
in 1947
1999 –
Dame Iris Murdoch
(
Somerville
and
St Anne's
), novelist and philosopher