Births
- 1653 – Sir Walter Clarges, 1st Baronet (Merton), politician
- 1756 – John Evans (Jesus), surgeon and cartographer
- 1892 – Aylmer Vallance (Balliol), newspaper editor
- 1893 – Norman Manley (Jesus), Chief Minister of Jamaica 1955–62
- 1905 – John Playfair Price (New College), diplomat
- 1910 – Arthur Larson (Pembroke), Director of the United States Information Agency 1956–57
- 1918 – Woodrow Wyatt (Worcester), politician and writer
- 1920 – Anthony Barber (Oriel), Chancellor of the Exchequer 1970–74
- 1943 – Adam Hart-Davis (Merton), science and history broadcaster
- 1944 – Adam Curle (New College), peace studies academic
- 1945 – Ben Pimlott (Worcester), historian and political biographer
- 1952 – Álvaro Uribe (St Antony's), President of Colombia since 2002
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