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Births
- 1715 – Richard Graves (Pembroke and All Souls), priest and poet
- 1777 – Richard Bourke (Christ Church), Governor of New South Wales 1831–1837
- 1822 – Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet (Christ Church), politician
- 1826 – David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie (Christ Church), peer
- 1835 – Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton (Christ Church), politician and landowner
- 1914 – Hilgard Muller, South African politician
- 1941 – George Will (Magdalen), American journalist and author
- 1948 – George Tupou V, King of Tonga 2006–2012
- 1967 – Anna Botting (St Edmund Hall), newsreader
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Deaths
- 1626 – Arthur Lake (New College), Bishop of Bath and Wells 1616–1626
- 1678 – Abraham Woodhead (University), writer on Catholicism
- 1863 – Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton (Brasenose), politician
- 1879 – William Froude (Oriel), hydrodynamicist and naval architect
- 1901 – Stanley Leighton (Balliol), lawyer and politician
- 1941 – Ramsay Muir (Balliol), historian and politician
- 1952 – Alan Garrett Anderson (Trinity), civil servant and shipowner
- 2008 – Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham (St John's), politician
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