Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 23

Births

• 1738 – John Rushout, 1st Baron Northwick (Christ Church), politician
• 1788 – Prideaux John Selby (University), ornithologist and botanist
• 1812 – David Charles (Jesus), Welsh minister and educationalist
• 1877 – Geoffrey Coleridge, 3rd Baron Coleridge (Trinity College), descendant of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and controller of his archive
• 1902 – Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill (Balliol), Labour politician
• 1913 – Michael Foot (Wadham), Leader of the Labour Party 1980–83
• 1914 – Leonard James Hooper (Worcester), Director of GCHQ 1965–73
• 1921 – Malachi Martin, Catholic theologian
• 1923 – Donald Nicholl (Balliol), historian and theologian
• 1924 – Gavin Lambert (Magdalen), novelist and screenwriter
• 1942 – Christopher Makins, 2nd Baron Sherfield (New College and All Souls), diplomat
• 1948 – Michael Wood (Oriel), historian and broadcaster

Deaths

• 1841 – Edward Nares (Christ Church and Merton), Regius Professor of Modern History 1813–41
• 1901 – Walter Fellows, cricketer
• 1910 – Arthur Payne, cricketer
• 1927 – William Ashley (Balliol and Lincoln), economic historian
• 1998 – R. Tudur Jones (Mansfield), Welsh Christian theologian