Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 18

Births

• 1635 – Robert Hooke (Wadham), scientist
• 1811 – James Bateman (Lincoln and Magdalen), horticulturist
• 1872 – John Lawrence Hammond (St John's), journalist
• 1938 – Lorna Casselton, former Professor of Fungal Genetics
• 1965 – Steve Webb (Hertford), Liberal Democrat politician

Deaths

• 1691 – Sir John Bowyer, 2nd Baronet (Christ Church), politician
• 1862 – Lord John Beresford (Christ Church), Archbishop of Armagh 1822–62
• 1867 – Edwyn Burnaby (Christ Church), landowner
• 1881 – Arthur Stanley (Balliol and Christ Church), Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History 1856–63 and Dean of Westminster 1864–81
• 1952 – Hugh Cairns (Balliol), neurosurgeon
• 1973 – Albert Napier (New College), Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department 1944–54
• 1976 – Jenkin Alban Davies (Jesus), Welsh international rugby union player
• 2004 – Paul Foot (University), investigative journalist
• 2007 – Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle (Christ Church), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1998–2006