Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/February 11

Births

• 1829 – Samuel Lodge (Lincoln), author and headteacher
• 1895 – C. Suntharalingam (Balliol), Sri Lankan politician
• 1923 – Antony Flew (St John's and Christ Church), philosopher
• 1937 – Marilyn Butler (St Hilda's and Exeter), King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge, 1986–93 and Rector of Exeter 1993–2004
• 1950 – J. Peter Neary (Merton and Nuffield), Professor of Economics at Oxford

Deaths

• 1763 – William Shenstone (Pembroke), poet and landscape gardener

Other events

• 2008 – José Ramos-Horta (St Antony's), President of East Timor, is injured in an assassination attempt