Births
- 1823 – Edward Augustus Freeman (Trinity), historian
- 1862 – Arthur Headlam (New College, All Souls and Christ Church), Regius Professor of Divinity 1918–23 and Bishop of Gloucester 1923–45
- 1867 – Ernest Dowson (Queen's), poet and novelist
- 1878 – Richard Olaf Winstedt (New College), orientalist
- 1884 – Reginald Coupland, Beit Professor of Colonial History 1920–48
- 1885 – Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare (New College), army officer and sportsman
- 1888 – D. A. Clarke-Smith, actor
- 1906 – Albert Goodwin (Jesus), historian
- 1907 – Alec Clifton-Taylor (Queen's), architectural historian
- 1915 – Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram, army officer
- 1921 – Jack Ainslie (Trinity College), farmer and Liberal politician
- 1922 – Len Murray (New College), trade union leader
- 1929 – David Waddington, Baron Waddington (Hertford), Conservative politician
- 1935 – Derek Enright (Wadham), Labour politician
- 1940 – Adrian Hollis (Christ Church and Keble), chess champion
- 1943 – Oliver Taplin (Magdalen), classicist
- 1945 – John Bowis (Brasenose), Conservative politician
- 1946 – Nigel Hitchin (Jesus, Wolfson and New College), Savilian Professor of Geometry since 1997
- 1948 – Peter Torry (New College), diplomat
- 1951 – Roger Parker (St Hugh's), musicologist
- 1955 – Roger Cohen (Balliol), journalist
- 1971 – Ruth Lawrence (St Hugh's), mathematician
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Deaths
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