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On this day
Births
1832 –
Lewis Carroll
(
Christ Church
), mathematician and author of
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1910 –
Douglas Raikes
, cricketer
1919 –
David Eastwood
(
St Edmund Hall
), soldier who won the
Military Cross
1935 –
Dame Gillian Beer
(
St Anne's
),
King Edward VII Professor of English Literature
, Cambridge, 1994–2002
1963 –
George Monbiot
(
Brasenose
), writer
1968 –
Matthew d'Ancona
(
Magdalen
and
All Souls
), journalist
1979 –
Rosamund Pike
(
Wadham
), actress
Deaths
1895 –
Reginald Hobhouse
(
Balliol
),
Archdeacon of Bodmin
1878–92
2009 –
John Updike
(
Ruskin School of Art
), writer and critic