Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 26

Births

• 1842 – Alfred Marshall (Balliol), economist
• 1893 – E. R. Dodds (University and Christ Church), classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek
• 1894 – Aldous Huxley (Balliol), writer
• 1902 – William Gilpin (Keble), Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames 1952–70
• 1905 – John Aldridge (Corpus Christi), artist
• 1924 – Raaphi Persitz (Balliol), chess master and writer
• 1929 – Marc Lalonde, Canadian politician
• 1950 – Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer
• 1950 – Paul Seymour (Exeter), American mathematician
• 1973 – Kate Beckinsale (New College), actress
• 1975 – Liz Truss (Merton), Conservative politician

Deaths

• 1728 – John Freind (Christ Church), politician and physician
• 1840 – Arthur Paget (Christ Church), politician and diplomat
• 1872 – Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (Trinity), militia colonel and magistrate
• 1891 – Sir Charles Forster, 1st Baronet (Worcester), politician
• 1977 – Ben Bowen Thomas (Jesus), civil servant and President of the University College of Wales Aberystwyth 1964–76