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