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On this day
Births
1901 –
Dilys Powell
(
Somerville
), journalist and film critic
1910 –
Veronica Wedgwood
(
Lady Margaret Hall
), historian
1935 –
Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo
(
Worcester
), property developer and art collector
1953 –
Thomas Friedman
(
St Antony's
), American journalist
Deaths
1712 –
Jonathan Edwards
(
Christ Church
and
Jesus
), Principal of Jesus 1686–1712
1873 –
Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury
(
Wadham
),
Lord Chancellor
1861–1865
1912 –
Andrew Lang
(
Balliol
and
Merton
), writer and anthropologist
1960 –
James Brontë Gatenby
(
Jesus
and
Magdalen
), zoologist
1977 –
Grenfell Price
(
Magdalen
), Australian geographer and historian
1982 –
Okot p'Bitek
, Ugandan poet
2006 –
Frank Nabarro
(
New College
), South African physicist