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On this day
Births
1842 –
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Baronet
(
Christ Church
), barrister and politician
1860 –
Otto Jespersen
, Danish linguist
1931 –
Fergus Gordon Kerr
(
Blackfriars
), Catholic theologian and Regent of Blackfriars 1998–2004
1979 –
Douglas Murray
(
Magdalen
), journalist and political writer
Deaths
1736 –
Thomas Yalden
(
Magdalen Hall
and
Magdalen College
), poet and translator
1763 –
William Morgan
(
Christ Church
), Welsh politician
1796 –
William Gerard Hamilton
(
Oriel
), politician
1834 –
Michael Angelo Taylor
(
Corpus Christi
), barrister and politician
1953 –
Hilaire Belloc
(
Balliol
), Anglo-French writer and historian
1968 –
Norman Robertson
, Canadian diplomat
1995 –
Stephen Spender
(
University
), poet
1999 –
Barri Jones
(
Jesus
), classicist and archaeologist