Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 30

Births

• 1710 – Septimus Robinson (Christ Church), soldier and Black Rod
• 1775 – Walter Savage Landor (Trinity), writer and poet
• 1915 – John Profumo (Brasenose), politician known for the Profumo affair
• 1962 – Abdullah II of Jordan (Pembroke), King of Jordan since 1999

Deaths

• 1925 – Ryland Adkins (Balliol), politician and judge

Other events

• 1661 – The body of Oliver Cromwell (Chancellor 1650–57) is exhumed from Westminster Abbey and posthumously executed.