Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/February 7

Births

• 1478 – Thomas More (St Mary Hall or Canterbury College), Lord Chancellor 1529–32, later executed for treason
• 1877 – G. H. Hardy (New College), Savilian Professor of Geometry 1919–31
• 1937 – Peter Jay (Christ Church), economist, diplomat and broadcaster
• 1941 – Kevin Crossley-Holland (St Edmund Hall), author and poet
• 1943 – Eric Foner (Oriel), American historian
• 1958 – Matt Ridley (Magdalen), journalist and science writer

Deaths

• 1994 – Stephen Milligan (Magdalen), politician
• 2012 – Ann Dummett (Somerville), racial justice campaigner

Other events

• 1999 – Abdullah II of Jordan (Pembroke) becomes king on the death of his father.