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

Births

• 1614 – Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet (Brasenose), historian and antiquarian
• 1649 – John Floyer, physician and author
• 1783 – Sir George Bowyer, 6th Baronet (Christ Church), politician
• 1878 – Edward Thomas (Lincoln), poet
• 1883 – Cyril Burt (Jesus), educational psychologist
• 1883 – Adrian Stoop, England rugby union international
• 1886 – R. O. Morris (New College), composer and music teacher
• 1915 – William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead (Exeter), civil servant
• 1920 – Denis Mack Smith (All Souls and Wolfson), historian of Italy
• 1923 – Meghrajji III of Dhrangadhra-Halvad (Christ Church), Maharaja of Dhrangadhra Halvad
• 1934 – Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville (Balliol), Conservative politician
• 1940 – Rupert Hoare (Trinity), Bishop of Dudley 1993–1999, Dean of Liverpool 1999–2007
• 1935 – George Gardiner (Balliol), Conservative politician
• 1945 – Nicolas Bratza (Brasenose), judge
• 1949 – John Misha Petkevich, American figure-skater
• 1979 – Andrew Triggs-Hodge (St Catherine's), gold medal winner in rowing at the Olympics and World Championships

Deaths

• 1703 – Robert Hooke (Christ Church and Wadham), scientist
• 1907 – Oronhyatekha (St Edmund Hall), Mohawk physician, the first Aboriginal known to have studied at Oxford
• 1932 – Ernest Howard Griffiths (Jesus), physicist
• 1993 – Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale (Balliol), Conservative politician
• 2010 – Michael Foot (Wadham), Leader of the Labour Party 1980–1983