Births
- 1781 – John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (Oriel and Corpus Christi), politician
- 1835 – Arthur Hayter, 1st Baron Haversham (Brasenose), politician
- 1843 – Tankerville Chamberlayne (Magdalen), politician
- 1885 – Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens (New College), barrister and judge
- 1862 – Hubert Burge (University), Bishop of Oxford 1919–25
- 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz (Balliol), German diplomat involved in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler
- 1922 – Philip Larkin (St John's), poet
- 1924 – Alex Quaison-Sackey (Exeter), Ghanaian diplomat
- 1932 – Reginald Bosanquet (New College), broadcast journalist
- 1954 – Boris Rankov (Corpus Christi), historian
Other events
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Deaths
- 1611 – John Blagrave (St John's), mathematician
- 1634 – William Noy (Exeter), lawyer
- 1641 – Augustine Baker (Broadgates Hall), Benedictine mystic
- 1744 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (New College), nobleman and politician
- 1761 – John Gilbert (Trinity and Merton), Archbishop of York 1757–61
- 1859 – John Penrose (Corpus Christi), clergyman and theologian
- 1887 – Edward Barnwell (Jesus), headmaster of Ruthin School
- 1932 – Graham Wallas (Corpus Christi), socialist
- 1936 – Charles Aitken (New College), director of the Tate Gallery
- 1958 – Louis Golding (Queen's), novelist
- 1962 – Reginald Halse (Brasenose), Archbishop of Brisbane 1943–62
- 1975 – Maurice Gorham (Balliol), journalist and broadcasting executive
- 1999 – James McFarlane (St Catherine's), scholar of European literature
- 2001 – Humphry Bowen (Magdalen), botanist and chemist
- 2005 – Renfrey Potts (Queen's), Australian mathematician
- 2007 – Timothy Garden, Baron Garden (St Catherine's), Air Marshal and Liberal Democrat politician
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