Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 31

Births

• 1931 – Christopher Chataway (Magdalen), Olympic athlete, television presenter and politician
• 1978 – Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro (Christ Church), heir to the title of Duke of Wellington

Deaths

• 1933 – John Galsworthy (New College), novelist and playwright
• 1963 – Frank Hollins, cricketer
• 1999 – John Mayhew, cricketer
• 2008 – Abdus Suttar Khan, aerospace researcher
• 2014 – Sebastian Barker (Corpus Christi), poet
• 2015 – Richard von Weizsäcker (Balliol), President of Germany 1984–94