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On this day
Births
1820 –
Edward Austen
(
St John's
), cricketer
1884 –
John Woodhouse
(
University
),
Bishop of Thetford
1945–53
1930 –
A. David Buckingham
(
Christ Church
), theoretical chemist
1944 –
Tim Heald
(
Balliol
), author and biographer
Deaths
1613 –
Thomas Bodley
(
Magdalen
and
Merton
), founder of the
Bodleian Library
1681 –
Richard Allestree
(
Christ Church
),
Regius Professor of Divinity
1663–80
1738 –
John Wallis
(
Wadham
and
Magdalen
),
Laudian Professor of Arabic
1703–38
1840 –
Jacob Marsham
(
Christ Church
), priest
1963 –
Wilfrid Belcher
(
Keble
),
Bishop of North Queensland
1947–52
1977 –
A. D. Gardner
(
University
),
Regius Professor of Medicine
1948–54
2010 –
Sarah Mulvey
(
Somerville
), television producer