Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 29

Births

• 1600 – John Stawell (Queen's), politician and Royalist
• 1669 – John Anstis (Exeter), Garter King of Arms
• 1802 – George Alexander Hamilton (Trinity), politician and civil servant
• 1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice (Exeter), theologian
• 1884 – William Force Stead (Queen's and Worcester), American diplomat and chaplain of Worcester
• 1902 – Verrier Elwin (Merton), anthropologist
• 1918 – Jakie Astor (New College), Conservative politician
• 1918 – Anthony Crosland (Trinity), Labour politician
• 1922 – Richard Hare (Trinity), Bishop of Pontefract 1971–92
• 1923 – Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley (Trinity), Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors 1986–96
• 1937 – Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree (Trinity), Conservative politician
• 1940 – Adam Roberts (Balliol), academic in the field of international relations
• 1941 – Frank McLynn (Wadham and St Antony's), historian and writer
• 1959 – Stephen Wolfram (St John's), physicist and software developer

Deaths

• 1691 – Sir Ralph Delaval, 1st Baronet (Queen's), landowner and politician
• 1728 – Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton (Magdalen), Irish lawyer and politician
• 1780 – Thomas Southwell, 1st Viscount Southwell (Christ Church), politician
• 1893 – Thomas Morton Harper (Queen's), Jesuit priest and theologian
• 1916 – Frank Osmond Carr (New College), composer of musical comedies
• 1930 – William Archibald Spooner (New College), Warden of New College and creator of the Spoonerism
• 1937 – Bedwyr Lewis Jones (Christ Church), Olympic silver medal winner in rowing
• 1974 – Harold Arthur Harris (Jesus), classical scholar
• 1992 – Bedwyr Lewis Jones (Jesus), Welsh language and literature scholar
• 1994 – Arthur Mourant (Exeter), geneticist
• 1999 – John Holloway (New College), poet
• 2008 – Geoffrey Perkins (Lincoln), comedy writer, performer and producer

Other events

• 1968 – Prince Harald of Norway (now King Harald V) (Balliol) marries Sonja Haraldsen (now Queen Sonja).