Births
- 1567 – Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet, of Stowe, politician and landowner
- 1585 – Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet (Queen's), politician and diarist
- 1769 – William Spencer (poet) (Christ Church), poet
- 1804 – Henry Harper (Queen's), Archbishop of New Zealand 1867–1890
- 1861 – Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster (Christ Church), Lord Chancellor 1915–1916
- 1879 – Maurice Arnold de Forest (Christ Church), politician and motor racing driver
- 1916 – Peter Twinn (Brasenose), mathematician and World War II cryptographer
- 1923 – Brian Spalding, engineer involved in computational fluid dynamics
- 1927 – Michael Woolfson (Jesus), physicist
- 1950 – Alec Jeffreys (Merton), inventor of genetic fingerprinting
- 1983 – Nick Wood (Brasenose), rugby union footballer
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Deaths
- 1598 – Jasper Heywood (Merton and All Souls), poet and translator
- 1901 – Richard Copley Christie (Lincoln), lawyer and philanthropist
- 1916 – Herbert Shepherd-Cross (Exeter), politician
- 1924 – Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare (University), theologian and orientalist
- 1924 – Henry Wace (Brasenose), Dean of Canterbury 1903–1924
- 1945 – William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough (Balliol), sportsman and politician
- 1980 – Raymond Mortimer (Balliol), writer and critic
- 1996 – Ronnie Bell (Balliol), chemist
- 2001 – Ninian Smart (Queen's), Scottish theologian
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