Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 8

Births

• 1752 – Vicesimus Knox (St John's), English essayist and minister
• 1849 – Sir James Stronge, 5th Baronet (Brasenose), Ulster Unionist politician
• 1898 – Charles Fawcus, English cricketer
• 1907 – Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock (University), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
• 1930 – Julian Critchley (Pembroke), Conservative MP
• 1938 – John Kufuor (Exeter), President of Ghana 2001–2009
• 1944 – Bernard Rix (New College), Lord Justice of Appeal
• 1947 – Roy Galley (Worcester), Conservative MP
• 1954 – Harold Hongju Koh (Magdalen), American lawyer

Deaths

• 1643 – John Pym (Broadgates Hall), leader of the Long Parliament during the English Civil War
• 1779 – Nathan Alcock (Jesus), English physician
• 1967 – Charles Fawcus (Christ Church) (on his 69th birthday), cricketer
• 2004 – Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman (Brasenose), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary