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Births
- 1804 – Thomas Thomas (Jesus), Welsh clergyman
- 1805 – Samuel Wilberforce (Oriel), Bishop of Winchester
- 1814 – William Butterfield, architect of Keble College
- 1830 – Charles Henry Pearson (Oriel), historian
- 1893 – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha (St John's), Minister of Transport and Secretary of State for War
- 1905 – Kathleen Coburn (St Hugh's), Canadian academic of English literature
- 1912 – Gwynno James (Keble), Dean of Brecon 1964–67
- 1914 – Billy Hughes (Balliol), Labour politician
- 1914 – Mandy Mitchell-Innes (Brasenose), England test cricketer
- 1917 – Leonard Cheshire (Merton), RAF pilot and charity worker
- 1917 – John Cornforth (St Catherine's), Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- 1943 – Chris Green (Oriel), railway manager
- 1947 – Peter Wheatley (Queen's), Bishop of Edmonton since 1999
- 1949 – Martin Kettle (Balliol), journalist
- 1956 – Robert Reed, Lord Reed (Balliol), Scottish judge
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Deaths
- 1665 – Adam Blakeman (Christ Church), first minister of the church in Stratford, Connecticut
- 1696 – John Powell (Jesus), Welsh judge
- 1700 – William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (Magdalen), civil war soldier
- 1719 – John Harris (Trinity), encyclopaedia writer
- 1850 – David Williams (Jesus), geologist
- 1897 – Lewis Cave (Lincoln), High Court judge
- 1929 – Frederic Weatherly (Brasenose), author and lyricist ("Danny Boy")
- 1933 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Balliol), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1905–1916
- 1952 – Claude Blagden (Corpus Christi), Bishop of Peterborough 1927–49
- 1956 – C. B. Fry (Wadham), cricketer and polymath
- 1969 – Gavin Maxwell (Hertford), naturalist and author
- 1980 – Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne (Magdalen), Lord Chancellor 1962–64
- 1985 – Ellis Waterhouse (New College), art historian
- 1990 – A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel and Magdalen), historian
- 2006 – Cornelius O'Leary (Nuffield), historian and political scientist
Other events
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