Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 20

Births
 * 1901 – Dilys Powell (Somerville), journalist and film critic
 * 1910 – Veronica Wedgwood (Lady Margaret Hall), historian
 * 1935 – Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo (Worcester), property developer and art collector
 * 1953 – Thomas Friedman (St Antony's), American journalist

Deaths
 * 1712 – Jonathan Edwards (Christ Church and Jesus), Principal of Jesus 1686–1712
 * 1873 – Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury (Wadham), Lord Chancellor 1861–1865
 * 1912 – Andrew Lang (Balliol and Merton), writer and anthropologist
 * 1960 – James Brontë Gatenby (Jesus and Magdalen), zoologist
 * 1977 – Grenfell Price (Magdalen), Australian geographer and historian
 * 1982 – Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet
 * 2006 – Frank Nabarro (New College), South African physicist