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Births
- 1860 – Sir Charles Oman (New College and All Souls), Chichele Professor of Modern History
- 1891 – Sir John Cecil Masterman (Worcester and Christ Church), writer and academic who ran the Double-Cross System of agents during the Second World War
- 1891 – Henry Wells (Magdalen), rower and judge
- 1906 – Eric Birley (Brasenose), historian and archeologist
- 1915 – Norman Cohn (Christ Church), historian
- 1927 – Leslie Orgel (Magdalen), chemist
- 1935 – John Gross (Wadham), writer and editor
- 1936 – Glen Bowersock (Balliol), American historian of Ancient Greece and Rome
- 1942 – Sir John Stanley (Lincoln), Conservative politician
- 1947 – Richard Carwardine (Corpus Christi and St Catherine's), President of Corpus Christi and former Rhodes Professor of American History
- 1953 – Mary Harron (St Anne's), Canadian filmmaker
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Deaths
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