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

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