Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 24

Births

• 1822 – Matthew Arnold (Balliol), poet
• 1873 – Harry Brittain (Worcester), journalist and politician
• 1880 – Philip Glazebrook (New College), politician
• 1932 – Colin Cowdrey (Brasenose), England cricket captain
• 1936 – Ivan Lawrence (Christ Church), barrister and politician
• 1969 – Ed Miliband (Corpus Christi), Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change since 2008
• 1970 – Jonathan Zittrain (Keble), Professor of Internet Law at Harvard Law School

Deaths

• 1668 – Wadham Wyndham (Wadham), judge
• 1684 – Hugh Wyndham (Wadham), judge
• 1916 – William Henry Fremantle (Balliol and All Souls), Dean of Ripon
• 1938 – John Hills (Balliol), politician
• 1986 – Guy Barnett (St Edmund Hall), politician
• 1993 – Ralph Downes (Keble), organist
• 2007 – Nicholas Pumfrey (St Edmund Hall), Lord Justice of Appeal

Other events

• 1927 – In cricket, Ian Peebles, Rony Stanyforth and Jacobus Duminy make their test match debuts, Peebles and Stanyforth for England and Duminy for South Africa.
• 1938 – Alan Melville and Pieter van der Bijl make their test match debuts for South Africa