Births
- 1771 – John Rickman (Magdalen Hall and Lincoln), statistician and government official
- 1800 – Edward Bouverie Pusey (Christ Church and Oriel), Regius Professor of Hebrew and leading member of the Oxford movement
- 1813 – John Armstrong (Lincoln), bishop
- 1820 – William Lockhart (Exeter), Roman Catholic priest
- 1835 – William Edward Hall (University), lawyer and mountaineer
- 1869 – Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster (New College), Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office 1915–44
- 1877 – Anthony Collett (Oriel), naturalist
- 1900 – Howard Marshall (Oriel), radio broadcaster
- 1912 – Sir John Aubrey-Fletcher, 7th Baronet (New College), soldier
- 1933 – Theodore Zeldin (Christ Church and St Antony's), historian of France
- 1938 – Keith Ward (Linacre and Christ Church), Regius Professor of Divinity 1991–2004
- 1944 – Roger Cashmore (Balliol, University and Brasenose), physicist and Principal of Brasenose since 2003
- 1959 – Mark Williams (Brasenose), actor and comedian
- 1964 – Julian King (St Peter's), diplomat
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Deaths
- 1532 – William Warham (New College), Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of the University
- 1643 – Sir William Pennyman, 1st Baronet (Christ Church), soldier and landowner
- 1667 – Alexander Hyde (New College), Bishop of Salisbury 1665–67
- 1709 – John Jones (Jesus), clergyman and physician
- 1881 – James Stuart-Wortley (Christ Church and Merton), politician
- 1903 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Christ Church), Prime Minister (three times) and Chancellor of the University 1869–1903
- 1905 – David Binning Monro (Brasenose, Balliol and Oriel), Provost of Oriel 1882–1905
- 1905 – Alfred Waterhouse, architect of parts of Balliol College and the Oxford Union
- 1918 – Oswald Cawley (New College), soldier and politician
- 1931 – Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield (Balliol), Governor of Victoria 1914–20
- 1963 – William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, benefactor to the university and founder of Nuffield College
Other events
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