Births
- 1848 – Charles Stanton Devas (Balliol), political economist
- 1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (Brasenose), Governor General of Canada 1935–40
- 1917 – Harry Tuzo (Oriel), British general
- 1922 – Harold Max Rosenberg (Linacre and St Catherine's), experimental physicist
- 1934 – Gordon Clough (Magdalen), journalist and broadcaster
- 1935 – Gerald Bowden (Magdalen), Conservative politician
- 1937 – Alan Chesters (St Catherine's and St Stephen's House), Bishop of Blackburn 1989–2003
- 1940 – Michael Cockerell (Corpus Christi), journalist and broadcaster
- 1952 – Peter Atkinson (St John's), Dean of Worcester since 2007
- 1957 – Daniel Johnson (Magdalen), journalist
- 1965 – Marcus du Sautoy (Wadham, All Souls and New College), Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science since 2008
- 1966 – Peter Clift (Worcester), geologist and geophysicist
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