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Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 1

Births

1614 – John Wilkins (Magdalen Hall and Wadham), Bishop of Chester 1668–72
1740 – Lewis Bagot (Christ Church), Bishop of Norwich 1783–90
1819 – Arthur Hugh Clough (Balliol and Oriel), poet
1834 – William Wolfe Capes (Queen's and Hertford), historian
1835 – Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen (Balliol), judge
1838 – Hereford Brooke George (New College), historian and Alpinist
1844 – Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden (Christ Church), politician
1847 – Herbert Shepherd-Cross (Exeter), politician
1864 – Beresford Kidd (Keble), Warden of Keble 1920–39
1867 – Charles Montague (Balliol), journalist and writer
1880 – Harold Edwin Hurst (Hertford), hydrologist
1881 – Vajiravudh (Rama VI) (Christ Church), King of Siam 1910–25
1888 – Leonard Fielding Nalder (Corpus Christi), colonial administrator
1894 – John Vincent (St John's), Bishop of Damaraland 1952–60
1922 – John Drinkall, Brasenose), diplomat
1930 – John Wood (Jesus), actor
1935 – Gerald Fowler (Lincoln), politician
1937 – John Fuller (New College and Magdalen), poet
1939 – Myles Burnyeat (All Souls), classicist and philosopher
1942 – Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland (Queen's), barrister and politician
1943 – Jed S. Rakoff (Balliol), American judge
1945 – Trevor Grove (St Edmund Hall), journalist
1966 – Amelia Fletcher, singer and economist
1978 – Tarik O'Regan (Pembroke), composer

Deaths

1849 – George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (Christ Church), Governor-General of India 1836–42
1902 – Edward Ellis Morris (Lincoln), Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Melbourne
1932 – C. P. Scott (Corpus Christi), newspaper publisher and politician
1950 – Arnold Ward (Balliol), journalist and politician
1954 – Duff Cooper (New College), Secretary of State for War 1935–37
1958 – Ernest Kennaway (New College and Brasenose), pathologist
1979 – Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill (Balliol), Home Secretary 1964–65
1986 – Lord David Cecil (Christ Church, Wadham and New College), Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature, Oxford, 1948–69
1994 – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt (Magdalen), Governor-General of New Zealand 1967–72
1994 – John Winnifrith (Christ Church), civil servant
2001 – Michael Hanley (Queen's), Director General of MI5 1972–78
2005 – Hugh Davies (Worcester), musicologist and composer
2005 – Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham (Balliol), newspaper executive

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 2

Births

1856 – John Viriamu Jones (Balliol and Jesus), scientist and academic
1866 – Gilbert Murray (St John's and Christ Church), Regius Professor of Greek 1908–36
1869 – Emerson Herdman (Christ Church), Northern Ireland politician
1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Christ Church), Antarctic explorer
1899 – Michael Hornby (New College), businessman
1911 – John Rose (Jesus), industrial chemist
1914 – Burke Trend, Baron Trend (Merton and Lincoln), Cabinet Secretary 1963–73
1923 – Francis Bennion (Balliol), barrister
1923 – Rachel Waterhouse (St Hugh's), consumer activist
1924 – Charles Dowsett (St Catherine's and Pembroke), Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies, Oxford, 1965–91
1924 – Kenneth Woollcombe (St John's), Bishop of Oxford 1971–78
1925 – Philip de Zulueta (New College), civil servant and businessman
1931 – James D. Murray (Corpus Christi), mathematician
1933 – Sir Keith Thomas (Balliol, All Souls, St John's and Corpus Christi), historian
1940 – David Fleming, environmentalist
1949 – John Irvine (Wycliffe Hall), Dean of Coventry 2001–12
1950 – Sir Rod Eddington (Lincoln), Australian businessman
1953 – Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Somerville), Conservative politician
1954 – John L. Thornton, President of Goldman Sachs 1999–2003
1956 – John Bowers (Lincoln), lawyer and Principal of Brasenose from October 2015
1958 – Helen Goodman (Somerville), politician
1958 – Maya Even (St Antony's), Canadian-born journalist and television presenter
1968 – Alex Chisholm (Merton), Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority

Deaths

1514 – William Smyth (Oriel and/or Lincoln), Bishop of Lincoln 1496–1514
1755 – Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet (The Queen's), landowner and industrialist
1893 – John O. Westwood (Magdalen), entomologist and archaeologist
1918 – Rupert Morris (Jesus), Welsh clergyman and antiquarian
1926 – G. H. Mair (Christ Church), journalist and civil servant
1934 – Arthur Weigall (New College), Egyptologist
1937 – Arthur Hirtzel (Trinity and Brasenose), civil servant
1944 – Sir William Searle Holdsworth (New College), Vinerian Professor of English Law 1922–44
1946 – Eleanor Rathbone (Somerville), politician and campaigner for women's rights
1951 – William Campion (New College), Governor of Western Australia 1924–31
1963 – Walter Gilliat, scored a hat-trick on his only appearance for the England national football team
1966 – Albert Gerald Stern (Christ Church), banker
1972 – Theodore Wade-Gery (New College and Merton), Wykeham Professor of Ancient History 1939–53
1980 – Rhys Carpenter (Balliol), classical art scholar
1982 – Sir Tam Galbraith {Christ Church), politician
1988 – E. B. Ford (Wadham, University and All Souls), ecological geneticist
1999 – Sir William Stuttaford (Trinity), stockbroker
2001 – George Carman (Balliol), barrister
2002 – Ian Grist (Jesus), politician
2003 – Bill Shelton (Worcester), politician
2005 – John Ziman (Balliol), physicist

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 3

Births

1810 – Francis Bernard, 3rd Earl of Bandon (Oriel), Irish politician
1839 – Sir Drury Drury-Lowe (Corpus Christi), army officer
1841 – Arthur Daniel, cricketer
1869 – William Macbride Childs (Keble), first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading 1926–29
1879 – Richard More, cricketer
1883 – Clement Attlee (University), Prime Minister 1945–51
1885 – Alan Don (Magdalen), Dean of Westminster 1946–59
1888 – Arthur Berry (Wadham), Olympic footballer
1892 – J. R. R. Tolkien (Exeter, Pembroke and Merton), writer
1893 – John Whiston (Jesus), chemist
1912 – Betty Radice (St Hilda's), editor and translator of classical literature
1923 – Graham Chadwick (Keble), Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman 1976–83
1931 – Plantagenet Somerset Fry (St Catherine's), historian
1933 – Sir Geoffrey Bindman (Oriel), solicitor
1934 – Sir John Riddell, 13th Baronet (Christ Church), Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland 2000–09
1938 – Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell (University), Cabinet Secretary 1988–98
1938 – Mark Dalby (Exeter), Archdeacon of Rochdale 1991–2000
1942 – Sir Michael Scholar (St John's), civil servant and President of St John's 2001–12
1944 – Brian Butterworth (Merton), Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology, University College London, 1992–2009
1944 – Doreen Massey (St Hugh's, Professor of Geography, Open University, 1982–2010
1946 – Andrew Tylecote (Wadham), economist
1955 – Sir Rory Collins (St Peter's), British Heart Foundation Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology 1996 onwards
1956 – Sir Norman Bettison (Queen's), Chief Constable of Merseyside and of West Yorkshire Police
1963 – Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor (Lady Margaret Hall), politician
1973 – Rory Stewart (Balliol), politician and writer

Deaths

1874 – Morris Williams (Jesus), Welsh poet under the bardic name "Nicander"
1881 – William Lloyd (Jesus), Archdeacon of Durban
1894 – Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (Christ Church), landowner
1913 – James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn (Christ Church), politician
1920 – Frederick Dutton, 5th Baron Sherborne (Christ Church), clergyman
1920 – Thomas Hart-Davies (Pembroke), colonial administrator and politician
1925 – Edmund Lamb (Merton), politician
1945 – Edward Peake (Oriel and Christ Church), Welsh rugby union international
1948 – Harold Littler (Jesus), priest and headmaster
1965 – Guy Garrod (University), Air Chief Marshal
1972 – Sir Douglas Thomson, 2nd Baronet (University), politician and businessman
1979 – Kenneth Carey (Exeter), Bishop of Edinburgh 1961–75
1979 – William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp (Magdalen), politician
1979 – Richard Twining (Magdalen, cricketer and stockbrocker
1990 – William Wells (Balliol), politician
1991 – Hubert Cunliffe-Jones (Mansfield), theologian
1994 – George Drewry Squibb (Queen's), barrister and Norfolk Herald Extraordinary
2009 – Sir Alan Walters (Nuffield), economist and advisor to Margaret Thatcher
2010 – Sir Ian Brownlie (Hertford, Wadham and All Souls), academic and practitioner in international law
2015 – Terence Ranger (St Antony's), historian of Zimbabwe

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 4

Births

1665 – Arthur Charlett (Trinity and University), Master of University 1692–1722
1851 – Herbert Hope Risley (New College), ethnographer and colonial administrator
1852 – Sir Henry King, 1st Baronet (Balliol), banker and Conservative politician
1889 – Charles Littlejohn (New College), Olympic medal-winning rower
1891 – John Walker (New College), Olympic medal-winning rower
1906 – George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk (Balliol), Conservative politician
1913 – Peggy Jay (Somerville), Labour politician
1942 – Bolaji Akinyemi (Trinity), Nigerian academic and professor
1945 – John Doyle (Magdalen), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia since 1995
1947 – Phyllis Starkey (Lady Margaret Hall), Labour politician
1947 – Rick Stein (New College), chef
1958 – Roger Mosey (Wadham), broadcasting executive

Other events

1714 – Thomas Lindsay (Wadham) is appointed Archbishop of Armagh.
1868 – George Bowen (Trinity and Brasenose) steps down as the first Governor of Queensland to become Governor of New Zealand.

Deaths

1878 – James Bowling Mozley (Oriel and Magdalen), theologian
1921 – William Peterson (Corpus Christi), Principal of McGill University 1895–1919
1931 – Mohammad Ali Jouhar (Lincoln), Indian Muslim leader
1953 – Prince Chichibu (Magdalen), Japanese prince
1954 – Richard Acland (Keble), Bishop of Bombay 1929–47
1961 – Erwin Schrödinger (Magdalen), physicist
1964 – Arthur Wade-Evans (Jesus), clergyman and historian
1965 – T. S. Eliot (Merton), poet and playwright
1970 – David John Williams (Jesus), co-founder of Plaid Cymru
1988 – William Gilpin (Keble), Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames 1952–70
1994 – Richard Wimbush (Oriel), Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church 1974–77
2005 – Humphrey Carpenter (Keble), biographer and broadcaster
2005 – Guy Davenport (Merton), American writer
2008 – Bernard Audley (Corpus Christi), businessman and philanthropist
2009 – John Grindrod (Queen's), Archbishop of Brisbane 1980–89

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 5

Births

1773 – Richard Heber (Brasenose), book collector and politician
1828 – Charles Ranken (Wadham), clergyman and chess player
1866 – Henry Newton (Merton), Bishop of New Guinea 1922–36
1906 – Kathleen Kenyon (Somerville and St Hugh's), archaeologist and Principal of St Hugh's
1910 – Jack Lovelock (Exeter), New Zealand athlete and Olympic gold medal winner
1927 – Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (Trinity), banker
1932 – Gordon Roe (Jesus), Bishop of Huntingdon 1980–97
1933 – Derek Johnson (Lincoln), athlete and Olympic silver medallist
1935 – John Hemming (Magdalen), explorer
1938 – Henry G. Chiles, Jr. (Keble), American admiral
1938 – John S. Grinalds (Brasenose), American general
1941 – Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (Balliol), Indian cricketer and last Nawab of Pataudi
1946 – Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (Magdalen), Japanese prince
1959 – David Eastwood (St Peter's and Pembroke), Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia and the University of Birmingham

Deaths

1799 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall (Trinity), Irish nobleman and politician
1871 – Walter Long (Oriel), landowner
1950 – Basil Williams (New College), historian
1952 – Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, the only man to play test cricket for England and for India
1956 – F. Sherwood Taylor (Lincoln), historian of science and museum curator
1982 – Edmund Herring (New College), Australian soldier and judge
1991 – Hubert Butler (St John's), Anglo-Irish essayist
1994 – Brian Johnston (New College), cricket commentator and broadcaster
1999 – Alexander Macdougall Cooke (Jesus and Merton), doctor and lecturer
2001 – G. E. M. Anscombe (St Hugh's and Somerville), philosopher
2004 – Norman Heatley (Lincoln), scientist who helped in the development of penicillin
2004 – Vivian Jenkins (Jesus), Welsh rugby union international
2007 – Jack Ainslie (Trinity), farmer and Liberal Democrat politician
2008 – Tony Ambrose (Jesus), rally driver

Other events

1855 – Frederick Bulley is elected President of Magdalen.

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 6

Births

1673 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (New College), nobleman and patron of Handel
1845 – Eugene Lee-Hamilton (Oriel), poet
1859 – Samuel Alexander (Balliol and Lincoln), philosopher
1896 – Sir Charles Cayzer, 3rd Baronet (Oriel), Conservative politician
1916 – Ashley Bramall (Magdalen), Labour politician
1944 – Adam Buick, General Secretary of the Socialist Party of Great Britain 1993–95
1951 – Timothy Brook, Shaw Professor of Chinese Studies 2007–09
1955 – Rowan Atkinson (Queen's), comedian and writer
1955 – Richard Corbett (Trinity), Labour politician
1956 – Angus Deayton (New College), comedian and broadcaster
1960 – Nigella Lawson (Lady Margaret Hall), food journalist and broadcaster

Deaths

1710 – Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (Magdalen), politician
1800 – William Jones (University), clergyman and author
1930 – Montague Shearman (St John's), judge and co-founder of the Amateur Athletics Association
1946 – Edwin Stephen Goodrich (Merton), Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy 1921–45
1987 – Robert Cooke (Christ Church), Conservative politician
2010 – David Giles (Oriel), television director
2010 – Graham Leonard (Balliol), Bishop of London 1981–91

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 7

Births

1821 – Sir Charles Clifford, 4th Baronet (Christ Church and All Souls), Liberal politician
1826 – John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (Christ Church), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1894–1895
1870 – Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart (University), Lord Chief Justice 1922–1940
1899 – James Harford (Balliol), Governor of Saint Helena 1954–1958
1901 – Greville Stevens, England cricket captain
1906 – Kurt Mendelssohn (Wolfson), medical physicist
1941 – John E. Walker (St Catherine's), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1984 – Luke McShane (University), chess grandmaster

Deaths

1918 – Albert Brassey (University), rower and Conservative politician
1919 – George Howson (Merton), headmaster and writer
1981 – Alvar Lidell (Exeter), radio announcer and newsreader
1997 – Christopher Mayhew (Christ Church), Labour, then Liberal, politician
2007 – Magnus Magnusson (Jesus), presenter of Mastermind
2009 – Valerie Flint (Lady Margaret Hall), historian

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 8

Births

1797 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore (Brasenose), soldier and politician
1833 – George Fuller (Christ Church), Liberal politician
1843 – Charles Bill (University, Conservative politician
1862 – Charles Eliot (Balliol), diplomat and marine biologist
1872 – George Bertram Cockburn (New College), research chemist and aviation pioneer
1882 – Basil Blackett (University), civil servant
1920 – Bruce Mitchell (Merton and St Edmund Hall), scholar of Old English
1938 – Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (Merton), scientist and President of the Royal Society 2000–05
1942 – Stephen Hawking (University), theoretical physicist
1955 – Sherard Cowper-Coles (Hertford), diplomat

Deaths

1846 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville (Christ Church), politician and diplomat
1895 – Hugo Harper (Jesus), Principal of Jesus 1877–95
1943 – Richard Hillary (Trinity), Battle of Britain pilot
1944 – Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (Merton), oriental scholar
1997 – Harman Grisewood (Worcester), radio and television executive
1998 – Charles Dowsett, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian 1965–91

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 9

Births

1567 – Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet, of Stowe, politician and landowner
1585 – Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet (Queen's), politician and diarist
1769 – William Spencer (poet) (Christ Church), poet
1804 – Henry Harper (Queen's), Archbishop of New Zealand 1867–1890
1861 – Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster (Christ Church), Lord Chancellor 1915–1916
1879 – Maurice Arnold de Forest (Christ Church), politician and motor racing driver
1916 – Peter Twinn (Brasenose), mathematician and World War II cryptographer
1923 – Brian Spalding, engineer involved in computational fluid dynamics
1927 – Michael Woolfson (Jesus), physicist
1950 – Alec Jeffreys (Merton), inventor of genetic fingerprinting
1983 – Nick Wood (Brasenose), rugby union footballer

Deaths

1598 – Jasper Heywood (Merton and All Souls), poet and translator
1901 – Richard Copley Christie (Lincoln), lawyer and philanthropist
1916 – Herbert Shepherd-Cross (Exeter), politician
1924 – Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare (University), theologian and orientalist
1924 – Henry Wace (Brasenose), Dean of Canterbury 1903–1924
1945 – William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough (Balliol), sportsman and politician
1980 – Raymond Mortimer (Balliol), writer and critic
1996 – Ronnie Bell (Balliol), chemist
2001 – Ninian Smart (Queen's), Scottish theologian

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 10

Births

1746 – John Gutch (All Souls and Corpus Christi), University Registrar 1797–1824
1834 – John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (All Souls), writer who originated the phrase "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
1845 – Robert Torrens O'Neill (Brasenose), politician
1894 – Geoffrey Jackson (Balliol), cricketer
1900 – Philip Bell (Queen's), lawyer and politician
1911 – Norman Heatley (Lincoln), scientist who helped develop penicillin
1916 – William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir (New College), writer
1925 – Geoffrey Keighley (Trinity), cricketer, lawyer and politician
1927 – Harry Edwards, Australian politician
1928 – Peter Mathias (All Souls), Chichele Professor of Economic History
1936 – Walter Bodmer, Principal of Hertford 1996–2005
1938 – Donald Knuth (Magdalen), computer scientist
1947 – Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (University and Nuffield), politician
1976 – Khairy Jamaluddin (St Hugh's), Malaysian politician

Deaths

1645 – William Laud (St John's), Chancellor of the University 1630–41 and Archbishop of Canterbury 1633–45
1787 – Harry Peckham (New College), lawyer who helped to draft the laws of cricket
1931 – Lord Francis Hervey (Balliol and Hertford), barrister and politician
1936 – Raleigh Grey (Brasenose), soldier and businessman
1984 – Alasdair Clayre (Christ Church and All Souls), singer-songwriter and author
1986 – Martin Stevens (Trinity), politician
1987 – Ian Harvey (Christ Church), businessman and politician
1997 – Alexander R. Todd (Oriel), Scottish biochemist
2006 – Alethea Hayter (Lady Margaret Hall), author and British Council representative
2010 – Crispin Sorhaindo (Trinity), fourth President of Dominica
2011 – John Gross (Wadham), author and critic

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 11

Births

1803 – Lord Dudley Stuart (Christ Church), politician
1818 – Daniel Silvan Evans (Jesus), lexicographer
1825 – William Spottiswoode (Balliol, Oxford), mathematician and physicist
1905 – Clyde Kluckhohn (Corpus Christi), American anthropologist
1916 – William Hugh Clifford Frend (Keble), ecclesiastical historian
1917 – Richard Sayce (Jesus and Worcester), scholar of French literature
1934 – Tony Hoare (Merton), computer scientist
1938 – Sir Alastair Morton (Worcester), railway executive
1949 – Adam Zamoyski (Queen's), historian of Poland
1954 – John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (Wadham), politician who served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Chancellor
1962 – Chris Bryant (Mansfield), politician
1971 – Tom Ward (Lincoln), actor
1986 – Rachel Riley (Oriel), co-presenter of Countdown

Deaths

1968 – Moshe Zvi Segal, rabbi and Talmudic scholar
1980 – Barbara Pym (St Hilda's), novelist
1997 – Ian White-Thomson (Brasenose), Dean of Canterbury 1963–76
1998 – John Wells (St Edmund Hall), writer and satirist
1999 – Naomi Mitchison (Society of Oxford Home-Students), novelist and poet
2000 – Barney Childs, American composer
2001 – Oliver Gurney (New College and Magdalen), Assyriologist

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 12

Births

1860 – Sir Charles Oman (New College and All Souls), Chichele Professor of Modern History
1891 – Sir John Cecil Masterman (Worcester and Christ Church), writer and academic who ran the Double-Cross System of agents during the Second World War
1891 – Henry Wells (Magdalen), rower and judge
1906 – Eric Birley (Brasenose), historian and archeologist
1915 – Norman Cohn (Christ Church), historian
1927 – Leslie Orgel (Magdalen), chemist
1935 – John Gross (Wadham), writer and editor
1936 – Glen Bowersock (Balliol), American historian of Ancient Greece and Rome
1942 – Sir John Stanley (Lincoln), Conservative politician
1947 – Richard Carwardine (Corpus Christi and St Catherine's), President of Corpus Christi and former Rhodes Professor of American History
1953 – Mary Harron (St Anne's), Canadian filmmaker

Deaths

1960 – Nevil Shute (Balliol), novelist
2009 – Mick Imlah (Magdalen), Scottish poet
2012 – Reginald Hill (St Catherine's), crime writer
2015 – John Bayley (New College and St Catherine's), literary critic and husband of Iris Murdoch

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 13

Births

1802 – William Lloyd (Jesus), clergyman in South Africa
1866 – Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet (Balliol), Scottish newspaper proprietor
1870 – Conway Rees (Jesus), Welsh rugby player
1874 – Henry William Carless Davis (Balliol, All Souls, New College and Oriel), Regius Professor of Modern History
1876 – Charles Burnell (Magdalen), Olympic rower
1890 – Elmer Davis (Queen's), Director of the United States Office of War Information
1903 – Hugh Lucas-Tooth (Balliol), politician
1904 – Richard Addinsell (Hertford), composer
1914 — Sir John Rennie (Balliol), Director of the Secret Intelligence Service 1968–73
1924 – Ivor Stanbrook (Pembroke), lawyer and politician
1927 – Sydney Brenner (Exeter), South African biologist and Nobel Prize winner
1925 – Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees (Merton), author and officer of arms
1936 – Brian Barry (Queen's, University and Nuffield), moral and political philosopher

Deaths

1889 – Edward Hicks (Corpus Christi), politician
1921 – Francis William Bourdillon (Worcester), poet and translator
1932 – Vicary Gibbs (Christ Church), merchant banker and politician
1971 – Robert Still (Trinity), composer and teacher
2010 – Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop (Christ Church), Conservative politician

Other events

1972 – Kofi Abrefa Busia (University), Prime Minister of Ghana, and Edward Akufo-Addo (St Peter's), President of Ghana, are deposed in a military coup.

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 14

Births

1552 – Alberico Gentili, Regius Professor of Civil Law 1587–1608
1615 – John Biddle (Magdalen Hall), Unitarian
1737 – Sir Robert Chambers (Lincoln, University and New Inn Hall), Vinerian Professor of English Law 1766–77
1782 – Stephen Lushington (Christ Church and All Souls), politician and Dean of Arches 1858–67
1830 – Edward Parry (Balliol), Bishop of Dover 1870–90
1860 – George Hampson (Exeter), entomologist
1900 – James Page (Jesus), rower
1926 – Warren Mitchell (University), actor
1934 – Lourens Ackermann (Worcester), South African judge
1949 – Franklin Raines (Magdalen), former chairman of the American Federal National Mortgage Association
1965 – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (St Peter's), celebrity chef

Deaths

1640 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry (Balliol), Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 1625–40
1742 – Edmond Halley (Queen's), astronomer
1898 – Lewis Carroll (Christ Church), mathematician and author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1901 – Mandell Creighton (Merton), Bishop of London 1897–1901
1907 – Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet (University), Governor-General of New Zealand 1873–74
1915 – Richard Meux Benson (Christ Church), founder of the Society of St. John the Evangelist
1932 – Sir Sidney Low (Pembroke and Balliol), historian and journalist
1947 – Cecil Madigan (Magdalen), Australian explorer and geologist
1959 – G. D. H. Cole (Balliol), political theorist
1968 – Henry Lewis (Jesus), academic of Welsh literature and language
1977 – Anthony Eden (Christ Church), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1955–57

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

Births

1771 – Sir Arthur Paget (Christ Church), diplomat
1852 – Ernest Hardy (Exeter and Jesus), classicist and Principal of Jesus College 1921–25
1875 – Aubrey Lawrence (Christ Church), barrister
1875 – Tom George Longstaff (Christ Church), doctor and mountaineer
1914 – Hugh Trevor-Roper (Christ Church and Merton), historian and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge 1980–87
1918 – David George Kendall (Queen's and Magdalen), statistician
1921 – John Terraine (Keble), military historian
1933 – Frank Bough (Merton), television sports presenter
1941 – Colin Matthew (Christ Church), historian
1943 – Philip Bushill-Matthews (University), politician
1957 – Andrew Tyrie (Trinity and Nuffield), politician

Deaths

1792 – Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet (Christ Church), politician
1869 – Sir Henry Ellis (St John's), librarian
1915 – William Shepherd Allen (Wadham), politician
1926 – Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston (University), Home Secretary 1902–05
1929 – William Boyd Dawkins (Jesus), geologist and archeologist
1936 – Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, Governor-General of Australia 1920–25
1975 – Sydney Goodsir Smith (Oriel), poet
1992 – Sylvester Houédard (Jesus), Benedictine monk and poet
1996 – Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (Corpus Christi), King of Lesotho 1970–96
2009 – H. B. Mayo, Canadian political scientist

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 16

Births

1855 – A. J. Webbe (Trinity), cricketer
1918 – Sir William Wade (St John's), academic lawyer
1923 – Christine Brooke-Rose (Somerville), author and critic
1925 – Sir Peter Hirsch (St Edmund Hall), metallurgist
1933 – Susan Sontag (St Anne's), American author and literary theorist

Deaths

1794 – Edward Gibbon (Magdalen), historian
1900 – Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers (Christ Church), politician and army officer
1937 – Edmund Knox (Corpus Christi and Merton), Bishop of Manchester 1901–37
1967 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist
1982 – Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, Irish cricketer and art collector
1990 – Louis Serrurier, South African international cricketer
1991 – Nicholas Mansergh (Pembroke), historian
2001 – Auberon Waugh (Christ Church), author and journalist
2001 – Thomas Hart, Scottish international rugby player and international cricketer
2006 – James Chadwin (Jesus), barrister
2009 – Norman Gash (St John's), historian
2009 – Sir John Mortimer (Brasenose), barrister and author

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 17

Births

1574 – Robert Fludd (St John's and Christ Church), physician, astrologer and mathematician
1883 – Compton Mackenzie (Magdalen), writer and Scottish nationalist
1899 – Nevil Shute (Balliol), novelist
1918 – Damian Green (Magdalen) and All Souls, Conservative MP
1922 – Nicholas Katzenbach(Balliol), U.S. Attorney General 1965–66
1944 – Ann Oakley (Somerville), sociologist and feminist
1956 – Damian Green (Balliol), Conservative MP
1968 – Rowan Pelling (St Hugh's), writer and broadcaster

Deaths

1932 – Charles Gore (Balliol, Trinity and Pusey House), theologian and Bishop of Oxford 1911–19
1991 – Olav V of Norway (Balliol), King of Norway 1957–91
1993 – Albert Hourani (Magdalen), historian of the Middle East
2004 – Raymond Bonham Carter (Magdalen), banker

Other events

1991 – Harald V of Norway (Balliol) succeeds his father as King of Norway

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

Births

1916 – Denis Laskey (Corpus Christi), diplomat
1935 – Jon Stallworthy (Magdalen and Wolfson), poet, literary critic and professor of English
1945 – Rocco Forte (Pembroke), hotelier
1973 – Ben Jealous (St Antony's), former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Deaths

1716 – Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet (Queen's), politician
1863 – Hugh Gaitskell (New College), Leader of the Labour Party 1955–63
1962 – D. Nichol Smith (Merton), Merton Professor of English Literature 1926–42

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 19

Births

1676 – John Weldon (New College), composer
1924 – Richard Altham, cricketer
1925 – Nina Bawden (Somerville), writer
1941 – Colin Gunton (Hertford and Mansfield), theologian
1946 – Julian Barnes (Magdalen), writer
1948 – Amanda Holden (Lady Margaret Hall), librettist and translator
1950 – David Tredinnick (St John's), politician
1954 – James Robbins (Christ Church), BBC journalist
1955 – Simon Rattle (St Anne's), conductor
1970 – Tim Foster, Olympic rower
1982 – Peter Buttigieg, American politician

Deaths

1785 – Jonathan Toup (Exeter), classical scholar
2014 – Christopher Chataway (Magdalen), athlete and politician

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

Births

1638 – Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet (Jesus), politician
1856 – David Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie (Balliol), Scottish peer and soldier
1889 – Herbert Danby (Keble), Regius Professor of Hebrew 1936–53
1908 – Ian Peebles, English international cricketer and journalist
1930 – Christopher Elrington (University), historian
1943 – Dame Jessica Rawson (Merton), Sinologist and Warden of Merton 1994–2010
1948 – Nigel Williams (Oriel), novelist and screenwriter

Other events

1936 – Edward VIII (Magdalen) becomes king on the death of his father, George V.

Deaths

1707 – Humphrey Hody (Wadham), Regius Professor of Greek 1698–1705
1768 – Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet (Magdalen), politician
1820 – Eliezer Williams (Jesus), Welsh clergyman and genealogist
1851 – Thomas Babington Jones (Jesus), cricketer
1888 – William Pole-Carew (Oriel), politician
1900 – R. D. Blackmore (Exeter), novelist (Lorna Doone)
1900 – John Ruskin (Christ Church), art critic and writer
1974 – Edmund Blunden (Queen's and Merton), poet
2001 – Austin Amissah (Jesus), Ghanaian lawyer and judge

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 21

Births

1572 – John Donne (Hart Hall), poet
1674 – Sir Edward Bagot, 4th Baronet (Christ Church), politician
1862 – Sir William Bromley-Davenport (Balliol), soldier, politician and England international footballer
1874 – S. H. Hooke (Jesus), biblical scholar
1905 – Escott Reid (Christ Church), Canadian diplomat
1910 – Sir George Middleton (Magdalen), British diplomat
1918 – Guy Butler (Brasenose), South African poet
1929 – John Hayes (Keble), art historian and museum director
1933 – Norman Willis (Oriel), General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress 1983–93
1935 – Neil L. Rudenstine (New College), President of Harvard University 1991–2001
1937 – Ursula Owen (St Hugh's), publisher and free-speech activist
1950 – Robert Luskin, American lawyer
1967 – Andy Hornby (St Peter's), businessman
1981 – Jamie Dalrymple (St Peter's), England international cricketer

Deaths

1699 – Obadiah Walker (University), Master of University College 1676–88
1939 – Hubert Carr-Gomm (Oriel), politician and publisher
1981 – James Stronge (Christ Church), soldier and politician

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 22

Births

1751 – David Richards (Jesus), Welsh poet ("Dafydd Ionawr")
1779 – Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill (Christ Church), Irish peer and politician
1840 – Ernest Wilberforce (Exeter), Bishop of Chichester 1896–1907
1843 – Mike Mitchell, cricketer
1853 – Charles Gore (Balliol and Trinity), Bishop of Oxford 1911–19
1857 – Sidney Low (Pembroke), journalist and historian
1894 – Charles Langbridge Morgan (Brasenose), playwright and novelist
1919 – John Russell (Magdalen), art critic
1937 – John Crow, Governor of the Bank of Canada 1987–94
1940 – Gillian Shephard (St Hilda's), politician

Other events

1901 – Edward VII (Christ Church) becomes king on the death of Queen Victoria

Deaths

1763 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (Christ Church), Lord President of the Council 1751–63
1903 – Augustus Hare (University), writer
1920 – Edmond Warre (Balliol and All Souls), Headmaster (1884–1905) and Provost of Eton (1909–18)
1960 – Peter Floud (Wadham), civil servant
1963 – Matthew Le Marinel (Jesus), Dean of Jersey 1937–59
1967 – Sir Idris Bell (Oriel), papyrologist
1992 – Sir Charles Hyde Villiers (New College), soldier and businessman
1994 – Columba Cary-Elwes (St Benet's Hall and Blackfriars), Benedictine monk
1995 – Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet (Worcester), poet
2001 – Anne Burns (St Hugh's), aeronautical engineer and glider pilot

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 23

Births

1831 – Edward Spencer Beesly (Wadham), historian
1833 – Sir Lewis Morris (Jesus, Oxford, poet
1848 – Edgar Gibson (Trinity), Bishop of Gloucester 1905–22
1859 – Percy Ewing Matheson (Balliol and New College), writer and educationalist
1865 – Edmund Vesey Knox (Keble and All Souls), barrister and politician
1871 – Arthur Jolliffe (Balliol, Corpus Christi and Jesus), mathematician
1881 – Colin McIver, cricketer
1883 – Wilfrid Parker (Christ Church), Bishop of Pretoria 1933–50
1899 – Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (Magdalen), Master of the Rolls 1962–82
1907 – R. C. Hutchinson (Oriel), novelist
1913 – Sir Roderick Sarell (Magdalen), diplomat
1916 – Airey Neave (Merton), politician assassinated by the INLA
1918 – Hugh Fraser (Balliol), politician
1935 – J. G. Farrell (Brasenose), novelist
1940 – Fiona MacCarthy (Lady Margaret Hall), biographer and cultural historian
1943 – Christine Nicholls (Lady Margaret Hall), writer
1943 – Paul Slack (Exeter and Linacre), historian and Principal of Linacre 1996–2010
1948 – David Norgrove (Exeter), businessman and chair of The Pensions Regulator 2005–10
1953 – Alister McGrath (Wadham, Linacre, Merton and Wycliffe Hall), theologian
1959 – Sir Christopher Nugee (Corpus Christi), judge

Deaths

1905 – William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford (Brasenose), clergyman and historian
1912 – Martin Howy Irving (Balliol), rower and educationalist
1916 – Sir John Leslie, 1st Baronet (Christ Church), politician
1927 – Perceval Landon (Hertford), journalist and author
1937 – Sir Hamilton Grant (Balliol), diplomat and politician
1945 – Robert Bernays (Worcester), journalist and politician
1950 – Sir Adair Hore (St John's), civil servant
1975 – Sir Trounsell Gilbert (Brasenose), Chief Justice of Bermuda 1952–58
1981 – Sir Andrew Shonfield (Magdalen), economist
1991 – Northrop Frye (Merton), Canadian literary critic
2005 – Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare (New College), politician
2006 – Michael Wharton (Lincoln), newspaper columnist

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 24

Births

1540 – Edmund Campion (St John's), Jesuit priest and martyr
1674 – Thomas Tanner (Queen's, All Souls and Christ Church), Bishop of St Asaph 1732–35
1928 – Desmond Morris (Magdalen and Wadham), zoologist and ethologist
1909 – Martin Lings (Magdalen, writer on Sufism and Shakespeare

Deaths

1895 – Lord Randolph Churchill (Merton), politician and father of Winston Churchill
1929 – Thomas Dashwood, cricketer

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 25

Births

1935 – J. G. Farrell (Brasenose), novelist
1949 – Sir Paul Nurse (Linacre), geneticist and Nobel Prize winner

Deaths

1640 – Robert Burton (Brasenose and Christ Church), priest and scholar
2011 – Vincent Cronin (Trinity), historian

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 26

Births

1891 – Wilder Penfield (Merton), Canadian neurosurgeon
1910 – Douglas Raikes, cricketer
1925 – David Jenkins (Queen's), Bishop of Durham 1984–94
1932 – Christopher Price (Queen's), politician
1934 – Richard Bowman, cricketer
1946 – Christopher Hampton (New College), playwright and film director
1951 – Dame Anne Mills (St Hilda's), health economist

Deaths

1631 – Henry Briggs (Merton), first Savilian Professor of Geometry 1619–30
2003 – Hugh Trevor-Roper (Christ Church, Merton and Oriel), Regius Professor of History 1957–80
2003 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie (New College), politician

Other events

2015 – Libby Lane (St Peter's) is ordained as the first woman bishop in the Church of England.

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 27

Births

1832 – Lewis Carroll (Christ Church), mathematician and author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1910 – Douglas Raikes, cricketer
1919 – David Eastwood (St Edmund Hall), soldier who won the Military Cross
1935 – Dame Gillian Beer (St Anne's), King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge, 1994–2002
1963 – George Monbiot (Brasenose), writer
1968 – Matthew d'Ancona (Magdalen and All Souls), journalist
1979 – Rosamund Pike (Wadham), actress

Deaths

1895 – Reginald Hobhouse (Balliol), Archdeacon of Bodmin 1878–92
2009 – John Updike (Ruskin School of Art), writer and critic

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 28

Births

1820 – Edward Austen (St John's), cricketer
1884 – John Woodhouse (University), Bishop of Thetford 1945–53
1930 – A. David Buckingham (Christ Church), theoretical chemist
1944 – Tim Heald (Balliol), author and biographer

Deaths

1613 – Thomas Bodley (Magdalen and Merton), founder of the Bodleian Library
1681 – Richard Allestree (Christ Church), Regius Professor of Divinity 1663–80
1738 – John Wallis (Wadham and Magdalen), Laudian Professor of Arabic 1703–38
1840 – Jacob Marsham (Christ Church), priest
1963 – Wilfrid Belcher (Keble), Bishop of North Queensland 1947–52
1977 – A. D. Gardner (University), Regius Professor of Medicine 1948–54
2010 – Sarah Mulvey (Somerville), television producer

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 29

Births

1888 – Sydney Chapman (Queen's), Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy 1946–53

Deaths

1841 – John Cooke, cricketer
1877 – Peter Erle (New College), barrister
1928 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (Brasenose), Field Marshal during the First World War
2010 – Adam Alexander Dawson (Queen's), film editor

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

Births

1710 – Septimus Robinson (Christ Church), soldier and Black Rod
1775 – Walter Savage Landor (Trinity), writer and poet
1915 – John Profumo (Brasenose), politician known for the Profumo affair
1962 – Abdullah II of Jordan (Pembroke), King of Jordan since 1999

Deaths

1925 – Ryland Adkins (Balliol), politician and judge

Other events

1661 – The body of Oliver Cromwell (Chancellor 1650–57) is exhumed from Westminster Abbey and posthumously executed.

Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 31

Births

1931 – Christopher Chataway (Magdalen), Olympic athlete, television presenter and politician
1978 – Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro (Christ Church), heir to the title of Duke of Wellington

Deaths

1933 – John Galsworthy (New College), novelist and playwright
1963 – Frank Hollins, cricketer
1999 – John Mayhew, cricketer
2008 – Abdus Suttar Khan, aerospace researcher
2014 – Sebastian Barker (Corpus Christi), poet
2015 – Richard von Weizsäcker (Balliol), President of Germany 1984–94