Births
- 1542 – Thomas Allen (Trinity), mathematician and astrologer
- 1795 – Jack Russell (Exeter), dog breeder
- 1811 – Archibald Campbell Tait (Balliol), Archbishop of Canterbury 1868–1882
- 1835 – Thomas Graham Jackson (Wadham), architect of many Oxford buildings
- 1888 – Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford (Balliol), pacifist during the 1930s
- 1905 – Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia (Trinity), diplomat and Provost of Eton
- 1905 – Anthony Powell (Balliol), novelist
- 1913 – Jock Lewes (Christ Church), army officer and creator of the Lewes bomb
- 1915 – Frank Willan (Magdalen), RAF pilot and Conservative local government politician
- 1917 – Diana Athill (Lady Margaret Hall), literary editor
- 1945 – Alan Williams (Jesus), Labour politician
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Deaths
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