Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 29

Births

• 1815 – Henry George Allen (Christ Church), lawyer and politician
• 1849 – Bernard FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown (Brasenose), soldier and politician
• 1882 – Frederick Matheson (Keble), Dean of Carlisle 1938–42
• 1896 – George Catlin (New College), political scientist and philosopher
• 1909 – John Le Patourel (Jesus), historian from Guernsey
• 1911 – Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman (Brasenose), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1977–86
• 1913 – Jo Grimond (Balliol), Leader of the Liberal Party 1956–67
• 1936 – Elizabeth Dole, American politician
• 1951 – Susan Blackmore (St Hilda's), psychologist and writer
• 1968 – Gideon Henderson (Hertford and University), geologist
• 1969 – Giles Coren (Keble), food critic and writer

Deaths

• 1877 – George Ward Hunt (Christ Church), Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1868
• 1904 – Joseph Foster, genealogist awarded an honorary MA by the university for his transcription of university matriculation and graduation records (Alumni Oxonienses)
• 1927 – Frederick Jellicoe, cricketer
• 1956 – Tom Bourdillon (Balliol), mountaineer and member of the 1953 expedition that was the first to conquer Mount Everest
• 1959 – John Roberts (Jesus), Welsh Presbyterian minister
• 1983 – Raymond Massey (Balliol), American actor
• 1994 – Dorothy Hodgkin (Somerville), research chemist