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Births
- 1614 – John Wilkins (Magdalen Hall and Wadham), Bishop of Chester 1668–72
- 1740 – Lewis Bagot (Christ Church), Bishop of Norwich 1783–90
- 1819 – Arthur Hugh Clough (Balliol and Oriel), poet
- 1834 – William Wolfe Capes (Queen's and Hertford), historian
- 1835 – Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen (Balliol), judge
- 1838 – Hereford Brooke George (New College), historian and Alpinist
- 1844 – Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden (Christ Church), politician
- 1847 – Herbert Shepherd-Cross (Exeter), politician
- 1864 – Beresford Kidd (Keble), Warden of Keble 1920–39
- 1867 – Charles Montague (Balliol), journalist and writer
- 1880 – Harold Edwin Hurst (Hertford), hydrologist
- 1881 – Vajiravudh (Rama VI) (Christ Church), King of Siam 1910–25
- 1888 – Leonard Fielding Nalder (Corpus Christi), colonial administrator
- 1894 – John Vincent (St John's), Bishop of Damaraland 1952–60
- 1922 – John Drinkall, Brasenose), diplomat
- 1930 – John Wood (Jesus), actor
- 1935 – Gerald Fowler (Lincoln), politician
- 1937 – John Fuller (New College and Magdalen), poet
- 1939 – Myles Burnyeat (All Souls), classicist and philosopher
- 1942 – Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland (Queen's), barrister and politician
- 1943 – Jed S. Rakoff (Balliol), American judge
- 1945 – Trevor Grove (St Edmund Hall), journalist
- 1966 – Amelia Fletcher, singer and economist
- 1978 – Tarik O'Regan (Pembroke), composer
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Deaths
- 1849 – George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (Christ Church), Governor-General of India 1836–42
- 1902 – Edward Ellis Morris (Lincoln), Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Melbourne
- 1932 – C. P. Scott (Corpus Christi), newspaper publisher and politician
- 1950 – Arnold Ward (Balliol), journalist and politician
- 1954 – Duff Cooper (New College), Secretary of State for War 1935–37
- 1958 – Ernest Kennaway (New College and Brasenose), pathologist
- 1979 – Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill (Balliol), Home Secretary 1964–65
- 1986 – Lord David Cecil (Christ Church, Wadham and New College), Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature, Oxford, 1948–69
- 1994 – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt (Magdalen), Governor-General of New Zealand 1967–72
- 1994 – John Winnifrith (Christ Church), civil servant
- 2001 – Michael Hanley (Queen's), Director General of MI5 1972–78
- 2005 – Hugh Davies (Worcester), musicologist and composer
- 2005 – Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham (Balliol), newspaper executive
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