Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 20

Births

• 1901 – Dilys Powell (Somerville), journalist and film critic
• 1910 – Veronica Wedgwood (Lady Margaret Hall), historian
• 1935 – Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo (Worcester), property developer and art collector
• 1953 – Thomas Friedman (St Antony's), American journalist

Deaths

• 1712 – Jonathan Edwards (Christ Church and Jesus), Principal of Jesus 1686–1712
• 1873 – Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury (Wadham), Lord Chancellor 1861–1865
• 1912 – Andrew Lang (Balliol and Merton), writer and anthropologist
• 1960 – James Brontë Gatenby (Jesus and Magdalen), zoologist
• 1977 – Grenfell Price (Magdalen), Australian geographer and historian
• 1982 – Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet
• 2006 – Frank Nabarro (New College), South African physicist