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On this day
Births
1891 –
Wilder Penfield
(
Merton
), Canadian neurosurgeon
1910 –
Douglas Raikes
, cricketer
1925 –
David Jenkins
(
Queen's
),
Bishop of Durham
1984–94
1932 –
Christopher Price
(
Queen's
), politician
1934 –
Richard Bowman
, cricketer
1946 –
Christopher Hampton
(
New College
), playwright and film director
1951 –
Dame Anne Mills
(
St Hilda's
), health economist
Deaths
1631 –
Henry Briggs
(
Merton
), first
Savilian Professor of Geometry
1619–30
2003 –
Hugh Trevor-Roper
(
Christ Church
,
Merton
and
Oriel
),
Regius Professor of History
1957–80
2003 –
George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie
(
New College
), politician
Other events
2015 –
Libby Lane
(
St Peter's
) is ordained as the first woman bishop in the Church of England.