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

Births

• 1797 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore (Brasenose), soldier and politician
• 1833 – George Fuller (Christ Church), Liberal politician
• 1843 – Charles Bill (University, Conservative politician
• 1862 – Charles Eliot (Balliol), diplomat and marine biologist
• 1872 – George Bertram Cockburn (New College), research chemist and aviation pioneer
• 1882 – Basil Blackett (University), civil servant
• 1920 – Bruce Mitchell (Merton and St Edmund Hall), scholar of Old English
• 1938 – Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (Merton), scientist and President of the Royal Society 2000–05
• 1942 – Stephen Hawking (University), theoretical physicist
• 1955 – Sherard Cowper-Coles (Hertford), diplomat

Deaths

• 1846 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville (Christ Church), politician and diplomat
• 1895 – Hugo Harper (Jesus), Principal of Jesus 1877–95
• 1943 – Richard Hillary (Trinity), Battle of Britain pilot
• 1944 – Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (Merton), oriental scholar
• 1997 – Harman Grisewood (Worcester), radio and television executive
• 1998 – Charles Dowsett, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian 1965–91