Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 18

Births

• 1707 – Charles Wesley (Christ Church), Methodist leader and hymn writer
• 1826 – James John Hornby (Balliol and Brasenose), rower and Headmaster of Eton 1868–1884
• 1980 – Neville Laski (Corpus Christi), barrister
• 1916 – Harold Soref (Queen's), Conservative politician
• 1973 – William Kendall, cricketer
• 1974 – Tom Parker Bowles (Worcester), writer and son of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Deaths

• 1858 – John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury (Trinity), civil servant and army officer
• 1914 – Ingram Bywater (Queen's, Exeter and Christ Church), classical scholar
• 1916 – Robert Yerburgh (University), Conservative politician
• 1935 – John Nicolson, South African cricketer
• 1941 – Hastings Lees-Smith (Queen's), Labour politician
• 1966 – George Raikes, cricketer and England footballer
• 1998 – Basil Travers, cricketer and England rugby union international