Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 15

Births

• 1656 – Gerard Langbaine (University), biographer and critic
• 1812 – James Hope-Scott (Christ Church), barrister and Tractarian
• 1854 – John Bain, footballer who played for Oxford in the 1877 FA Cup Final and for the England team
• 1886 – J. Griffyth Fairfax (New College), poet and politician
• 1888 – Robert Bourne (New College), Olympic rower and politician
• 1897 – R. J. Yeatman (Oriel), co-author of 1066 and All That
• 1901 – R. C. Robertson-Glasgow, cricketer and cricket writer
• 1902 – Donald Creighton (Balliol), Canadian historian
• 1906 – Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies (Exeter), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1974–81
• 1914 – Gavin Maxwell (Hertford), naturalist and author of Ring of Bright Water
• 1917 – Robert Conquest (Magdalen), historian of the Soviet Union
• 1919 – Iris Murdoch (Somerville and St Anne's), author
• 1922 – George Chesterton, cricketer
• 1929 – John Jolliffe (Nuffield), Bodley's Librarian 1982–85
• 1939 – Peter Hacker (Queen's, St Antony's, Balliol and St John's), philosopher
• 1955 – Fiona Hall (St Hugh's), Liberal Democrat politician
• 1963 – Paul Brough (Magdalen), conductor
• 1965 – David Miliband (Corpus Christi), Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 2007–10

Deaths

• 1743 – John Wynne (Jesus), Principal of Jesus 1712–20, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1727–43
• 1776 – Sir Richard Bampfylde, 4th Baronet New College), politician
• 1929 – Hugh Edward Hoare (Balliol), brewer and Liberal politician
• 1939 – Percy Worthington (Corpus Christi), architect
• 1969 – Leonard Hodgson (Hertford and Christ Church), Regius Professor of Divinity 1944–58
• 1966 – Francis Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden (Christ Church), Liberal politician
• 2005 – David Daiches (Balliol), Scottish literary historian and critic
• 2007 – Alberto Romão Dias, Portuguese chemist
• 2009 – Brian Goodwin, Canadian mathematician