Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 19

Births

• 1676 – John Weldon (New College), composer
• 1924 – Richard Altham, cricketer
• 1925 – Nina Bawden (Somerville), writer
• 1941 – Colin Gunton (Hertford and Mansfield), theologian
• 1946 – Julian Barnes (Magdalen), writer
• 1948 – Amanda Holden (Lady Margaret Hall), librettist and translator
• 1950 – David Tredinnick (St John's), politician
• 1954 – James Robbins (Christ Church), BBC journalist
• 1955 – Simon Rattle (St Anne's), conductor
• 1970 – Tim Foster, Olympic rower
• 1982 – Peter Buttigieg, American politician

Deaths

• 1785 – Jonathan Toup (Exeter), classical scholar
• 2014 – Christopher Chataway (Magdalen), athlete and politician