Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/May 3

Births

• 1823 – James McGarel-Hogg, 1st Baron Magheramorne (Christ Church), soldier and politician
• 1959 – Richard Cordray, Director of the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• 1960 – Geraint Davies (Jesus), Welsh Labour politician
• 1961 – David Vitter, American Republican Senator
• 1974 – Princess Haya bint Al Hussein (St Hilda's), Jordanian princess

Deaths

• 1819 – Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (Wadham), politician and topographer
• 1826 – Robert Hoadley Ashe (Pembroke), priest and writer
• 1825 – Sir John Hippisley, 1st Baronet (Hertford), diplomat and politician
• 1916 – William Hardie (Balliol), Scottish classical scholar
• 1953 – John Erskine, Lord Erskine (Christ Church), politician and colonial governor
• 1966 – Alan Don (Magdalen), Dean of Westminster 1946–1959