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

Births

• 1851 – Hardwicke Rawnsley (Balliol), priest and co-founder of the National Trust
• 1869 – Bamba Sutherland (Somerville), princess of the Sikh Empire
• 1911 – Reginald Victor Jones (Wadham and Balliol), physicist and scientific military intelligence expert
• 1916 – J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (Merton and All Souls), Chichele Professor of Modern History 1974–83
• 1920 – Emlyn Rhoderick (Jesus), Welsh physicist
• 1925 – John Balcombe (New College), Lord Justice of Appeal
• 1928 – Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury (Balliol), Liberal Democrat politician
• 1939 – Rhodri Morgan (St John's), First Minister for Wales 2000–2009
• 1947 – Richard J. Evans (Jesus and St Antony's), Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge

Other events

• 1982 – Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (Magdalen) steps down as Master of the Rolls after more than 20 years in the position.

Deaths

• 1770 – George Whitefield (Pembroke), leading Methodist minister and preacher
• 1911 – Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote (Merton), Governor-General of Australia 1904–08
• 1927 – Thomas Charles Williams (Jesus), Calvinistic Methodist clergyman
• 1935 – Winifred Holtby (Somerville), novelist
• 1941 – Charles Spencer (Magdalen), cricketer
• 1944 – Alexander Shaw, 2nd Baron Craigmyle (Trinity), Liberal politician
• 1954 – William John Gruffydd (Jesus), Welsh academic and poet
• 1955 – Robert Cyril Layton Perkins (Jesus), entomologist
• 1961 – Henry Williams (Queen's and St Edmund Hall), Principal of St Edmund Hall 1913–20 and Bishop of Carlisle 1920–46
• 1968 – Richard H. G. Bonnycastle, Canadian businessman and lawyer
• 1985 – Charles K. Fletcher (Pembroke), American Republican politician
• 1986 – Maurice Harland (Exeter), Bishop of Durham 1956–66
• 1994 – Warren Hunt (Keble), Bishop of Repton 1965–77
• 1995 – Alfred Felix Landon Beeston (Christ Church and St John's), Laudian Professor of Arabic
• 2004 – Patrick Wormald (Balliol, All Souls, Oxford and Christ Church), historian