Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 15

Births

• 1785 – Thomas De Quincey (Worcester), essayist
• 1857 – Montague Druitt (New College), barrister and Jack the Ripper suspect
• 1871 – Arthur Tansley, Sherardian Professor of Botany
• 1872 – Henry Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe (Christ Church), politician and businessman
• 1886 – Robert Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson (Magdalen), Conservative politician
• 1906 – Charles Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon (Balliol), Scottish judge
• 1908 – Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (Exeter), Welsh journalist and broadcaster
• 1918 – Derrick Bailey (Christ Church), pilot, cricketer and businessman
• 1921 – Edmund Dell (Queen's), politician and businessman
• 1921 – Sir Patrick Nairne, civil servant, and Master of St Catherine's 1981–88
• 1926 – D. E. R. Watt (Oriel), Scottish historian
• 1927 – Sir Oliver Popplewell (Harris Manchester), barrister and judge
• 1932 – Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn (University), lawyer and judge
• 1938 – Stephen Breyer (Magdalen), Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• 1946 – William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill (Corpus Christi and All Souls), Conservative politician
• 1951 – Nelson McCausland (Worcester), politician from Northern Ireland
• 1958 – Simon Baron-Cohen (New College), psychologist and researcher into autism
• 1964 – Jane Ellison, Conservative politician

Deaths

• 1411 – Thomas Chillenden (Canterbury College), prior of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury (later Canterbury Cathedral) 1390–1410
• 1786 – Thomas Tyrwhitt (Queen's and Merton), classical scholar
• 1875 – Robert Stephen Hawker (Pembroke), priest and antiquarian
• 1879 – Sir Richard Vyvyan, 8th Baronet (Christ Church), landowner and politician
• 1901 – Joseph Lloyd Brereton (University), priest and educational reformer
• 1958 – John Ganzoni, 1st Baron Belstead (Christ Church), soldier, barrister and politician
• 1981 – Sir Humphrey Waldock (Brasenose and All Souls), Chichele Professor of Public International Law 1947–72, President of the International Court of Justice 1979–81
• 2000 – Lancelot Ware (Lincoln), barrister and co-founder of Mensa