Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 30

Births
 * 1726 – William Jones (University), priest and author
 * 1811 – William Pole-Carew (Oriel), politician
 * 1825 – George Ward Hunt (Christ Church), Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1868
 * 1906 – Charles Perry Stacey (Corpus Christi), Canadian historian
 * 1922 – Meredith Davies (Keble), conductor
 * 1926 – Gareth Alban Davies (Queen's), Welsh poet and Hispanist scholar
 * 1938 – Mathew Thorpe (Balliol), Lord Justice of Appeal
 * 1962 – Andy Green (Worcester), RAF pilot and world land speed record holder

Deaths
 * 1682 – Henry Maurice (Jesus), Welsh Dissenting minister
 * 1718 – William Penn (Christ Church), founder of Pennsylvania
 * 1884 – Mark Pattison (Oriel and Lincoln), Rector of Lincoln 1861–84
 * 1894 – Walter Pater (Queen's), writer and critic
 * 1923 – Charles Hawtrey (Pembroke), stage actor
 * 1937 – Harold Davidson (Exeter), priest known as the "Prostitutes' Padre"
 * 1956 – Heaton Rhodes (Brasenose), New Zealand politician and lawyer
 * 1956 – Maude Royden (Lady Margaret Hall), preacher and suffragist
 * 1961 – Simon Hewitt, cricketer
 * 1978 – John Mackintosh (Balliol), Labour politician
 * 1988 – William de Silva (University), Ceylonese politician