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Births
- 1858 – J. Meade Falkner (Hertford), novelist and poet
- 1873 – H. D. G. Leveson Gower, Magdalen), England cricket captain
- 1873 – Nevil Sidgwick (Christ Church and Lincoln), chemist
- 1879 – Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham (Christ Church), politician and soldier
- 1894 – Edwin Morris (St John's), Archbishop of Wales 1957–1967
- 1897 – Guy Blaikie, cricketer
- 1920 – Maurice Cranston (St Catherine's), philosopher and author
- 1904 – John Snagge (Pembroke), radio newsreader and commentator
- 1921 – Graham Leonard (Balliol), Bishop of London 1981–1991
- 1925 – Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle (Christ Church), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1988–1996
- 1934 – Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann (Queen's), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1995–2009
- 1939 – William Cookson (New College), poet and literary editor
- 1946 – Jonathan Dancy (Corpus Christi and All Souls), philosopher
- 1946 – Ruth Padel (Lady Margaret Hall and Wadham), poet
- 1946 – Andrew Sherratt, archeologist based at the Ashmolean Museum
- 1969 – Jonny Searle (Christ Church), gold-medal winning Olympic rower
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Deaths
- 1662 – Peter Heylin (Hart Hall and Magdalen), priest and writer
- 1781 – Richard Jago (University), poet
- 1860 – Horace Hayman Wilson, first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford
- 1883 – Sir Thomas Bernard, 6th Baronet (Christ Church), politician
- 1904 – Frederick York Powell (Christ Church and Oriel), historian
- 1926 – W. A. B. Coolidge (Exeter and Magdalen), American historian, theologian and mountaineer
- 1960 – J. H. C. Whitehead (Balliol), mathematician
- 1975 – Bram Fischer (New College), South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist
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