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Births
- 1770 – George Canning (Christ Church), Prime Minister 1827
- 1788 – Charles Rumbold (Oriel), politician
- 1789 – John Mills (Christ Church), politician and cricketer
- 1825 – Alexander Mackonochie (Wadham), Anglican priest known as "the martyr of St Alban's"
- 1865 – Sir Charles Welby, 5th Baronet (Christ Church), civil servant and politician
- 1882 – Horace Kallen, American philosopher
- 1883 – Ernst Stadler (Magdalen), German poet
- 1889 – E. H. W. Meyerstein (Magdalen), writer and poet
- 1894 – Angus Buchanan (Jesus), winner of the Victoria Cross
- 1910 – James Munro Bertram (New College), New Zealand writer and journalist
- 1913 – Angus Wilson (Merton), novelist
- 1928 – James Robertson (Balliol), political and economic thinker
- 1930 – Michael Quinlan (Merton), civil servant
- 1944 – Martin Linton (Pembroke), Labour politician
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Deaths
- 1486 – William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester 1447–86, Lord Chancellor 1456–60 and founder of Magdalen College
- 1813 – Henry James Pye (Magdalen), Poet Laureate 1790–1813
- 1840 – John Rickman (Lincoln), Parliamentary official and statistician
- 1890 – John Henry Newman (Trinity), Catholic theologian and writer
- 1971 – Geoffrey Foster, cricketer
- 1977 – Frederic Calland Williams (Magdalen), co-pioneer of the Manchester Mark 1 computer
- 1979 – J. G. Farrell (Brasenose), novelist
- 2002 – Richard Wood, Baron Holderness (New College), Conservative politician
- 2007 – Michael Frede, historian of philosophy
- 2010 – Geoffrey Johnson Smith (Lincoln), Conservative politician
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