Ronald Knox

Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English Catholic priest, theologian, author, and radio broadcaster. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a high reputation as a classicist, Knox was ordained as a priest of the Church of England in 1912. He was a fellow and chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford until he resigned from those positions following his conversion to Catholicism in 1917. Knox became a Catholic priest in 1918, continuing in that capacity his scholarly and literary work.

17 February 1888

Born on the same birth date (17 February 1888): Otto Stern

Born on the same birth day (17 February): Aaron Montgomery Ward • Craig L. Thomas • Duane Gish • Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger • Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer • Ivo Caprino • Josh Willingham • Madison Keys • Marc Lawrence • Marta Romero • Nicolas Baudin • Phil Pressey • Richard Karn • Valeria Mazza • Vasiliy Lomachenko • Vladimír Padrůněk

Born in the same month (February 1888): Chandrashekhar Agashe • Clemence Dane • Edith Evans • Georges Bernanos • Georgios Papandreou • Giuseppe Ungaretti • John Foster Dulles • John Warren Davis (college president) • José Eustasio Rivera • Lotte Lehmann • Otto Stern • Owen Brewster • Roberto Assagioli • Stephen McKenna (novelist)