Births
- 1756 – Thomas Le Mesurier (New College), clergyman
- 1833 – Edward Burne-Jones (Exeter), artist and designer
- 1850 – W. A. B. Coolidge (Exeter and Magdalen), American historian and theologian
- 1868 – Thomas Charles Williams (Jesus), Calvinistic Methodist minister
- 1880 – George Chrystal (Balliol), civil servant
- 1900 – Wilfrid Roberts (Balliol), Liberal and Labour politician
- 1906 – John Betjeman (Magdalen), poet
- 1907 – Rupert Hart-Davis (Balliol), editor and publisher
- 1913 – Robertson Davies (Balliol), Canadian novelist
- 1913 – Terence Reese (New College), contract bridge player
- 1914 – Levi Fox (Oriel), Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- 1919 – Cecil Clothier (Lincoln), lawyer
- 1930 – John Bone (St Peter's), Bishop of Reading 1989–96
- 1934 – Sujata Manohar (Lady Margaret Hall), Indian judge
- 1947 – Robert Cooper (Worcester), diplomat
- 1950 – Ronny Tong (St Edmund Hall), member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- 1953 – Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies (Wadham), Scottish judge
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Deaths
- 1710 – Joseph Keble (Jesus), law reporter
- 1738 – John Harris (Jesus and Oriel), Bishop of Llandaff 1728–38
- 1902 – George Douglas Brown (Balliol), novelist
- 1916 – William Esson (St John's and Merton), Savilian Professor of Geometry (1897–1916)
- 1971 – Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey (New College), British judge at the Nuremberg Trials
- 1978 – Kofi Abrefa Busia (University), Prime Minister of Ghana
- 1988 – Paul Grice (Corpus Christi), philosopher of language
- 1989 – Robert Reynolds Macintosh, first Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics
- 1994 – David Wright (Oriel), poet
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