Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 26

Births

• 1848 – Charles Stanton Devas (Balliol), political economist
• 1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (Brasenose), Governor General of Canada 1935–40
• 1917 – Harry Tuzo (Oriel), British general
• 1922 – Harold Max Rosenberg (Linacre and St Catherine's), experimental physicist
• 1934 – Gordon Clough (Magdalen), journalist and broadcaster
• 1935 – Gerald Bowden (Magdalen), Conservative politician
• 1937 – Alan Chesters (St Catherine's and St Stephen's House), Bishop of Blackburn 1989–2003
• 1940 – Michael Cockerell (Corpus Christi), journalist and broadcaster
• 1952 – Peter Atkinson (St John's), Dean of Worcester since 2007
• 1957 – Daniel Johnson (Magdalen), journalist
• 1965 – Marcus du Sautoy (Wadham, All Souls and New College), Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science since 2008
• 1966 – Peter Clift (Worcester), geologist and geophysicist

Deaths

• 1349 – Thomas Bradwardine (Merton and Balliol, Oxford), mathematician and Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1819 – George Cornewall (Christ Church), politician
• 1838 – Sir John Nicholl (St John's), Welsh politician and judge
• 1903 – William Henry Corfield (Magdalen and Pembroke), public health expert
• 1943 – Francis Edward Fremantle (Balliol), Conservative politician
• 1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz (Balliol), German diplomat involved in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler
• 1970 – Oliver Green-Wilkinson (Magdalen), Archbishop of Central Africa 1962–70
• 1982 – Susobhan Sarkar (Jesus), Indian historian

Other events

• 1839 – Francis Baring (Christ Church) becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer.
• 1931 – Herbert Samuel (Balliol) becomes Home Secretary.