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Births
- 1773 – Richard Heber (Brasenose), book collector and politician
- 1828 – Charles Ranken (Wadham), clergyman and chess player
- 1866 – Henry Newton (Merton), Bishop of New Guinea 1922–36
- 1906 – Kathleen Kenyon (Somerville and St Hugh's), archaeologist and Principal of St Hugh's
- 1910 – Jack Lovelock (Exeter), New Zealand athlete and Olympic gold medal winner
- 1927 – Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (Trinity), banker
- 1932 – Gordon Roe (Jesus), Bishop of Huntingdon 1980–97
- 1933 – Derek Johnson (Lincoln), athlete and Olympic silver medallist
- 1935 – John Hemming (Magdalen), explorer
- 1938 – Henry G. Chiles, Jr. (Keble), American admiral
- 1938 – John S. Grinalds (Brasenose), American general
- 1941 – Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (Balliol), Indian cricketer and last Nawab of Pataudi
- 1946 – Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (Magdalen), Japanese prince
- 1959 – David Eastwood (St Peter's and Pembroke), Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia and the University of Birmingham
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Deaths
- 1799 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall (Trinity), Irish nobleman and politician
- 1871 – Walter Long (Oriel), landowner
- 1950 – Basil Williams (New College), historian
- 1952 – Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, the only man to play test cricket for England and for India
- 1956 – F. Sherwood Taylor (Lincoln), historian of science and museum curator
- 1982 – Edmund Herring (New College), Australian soldier and judge
- 1991 – Hubert Butler (St John's), Anglo-Irish essayist
- 1994 – Brian Johnston (New College), cricket commentator and broadcaster
- 1999 – Alexander Macdougall Cooke (Jesus and Merton), doctor and lecturer
- 2001 – G. E. M. Anscombe (St Hugh's and Somerville), philosopher
- 2004 – Norman Heatley (Lincoln), scientist who helped in the development of penicillin
- 2004 – Vivian Jenkins (Jesus), Welsh rugby union international
- 2007 – Jack Ainslie (Trinity), farmer and Liberal Democrat politician
- 2008 – Tony Ambrose (Jesus), rally driver
Other events
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