Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 21

Births

• 1870 – William Brain, cricketer
• 1888 – Hector Hetherington (Merton), Scottish philosopher and Principal of the University of Glasgow 1936–61
• 1944 – Alexander Pollock (Brasenose), Scottish Conservative politician
• 1945 – Wendy Cope (St Hilda's), poet
• 1955 – Andrew Gray, anthropologist
• 1962 – Hugh Possingham (St John's), Australian mathematical ecologist

Deaths

• 1688 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Chancellor of the University 1669–88
• 1747 – Robert Clavering (Lincoln, University and Christ Church), Bishop of Peterborough 1728–47
• 1906 – John Gott (Brasenose), Bishop of Truro 1891–1906
• 1969 – David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins (Balliol), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
• 1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs (University), British Ambassador to Ireland, killed by the IRA