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Births
- 1751 – David Richards (Jesus), Welsh poet ("Dafydd Ionawr")
- 1779 – Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill (Christ Church), Irish peer and politician
- 1840 – Ernest Wilberforce (Exeter), Bishop of Chichester 1896–1907
- 1843 – Mike Mitchell, cricketer
- 1853 – Charles Gore (Balliol and Trinity), Bishop of Oxford 1911–19
- 1857 – Sidney Low (Pembroke), journalist and historian
- 1894 – Charles Langbridge Morgan (Brasenose), playwright and novelist
- 1919 – John Russell (Magdalen), art critic
- 1937 – John Crow, Governor of the Bank of Canada 1987–94
- 1940 – Gillian Shephard (St Hilda's), politician
Other events
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Deaths
- 1763 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (Christ Church), Lord President of the Council 1751–63
- 1903 – Augustus Hare (University), writer
- 1920 – Edmond Warre (Balliol and All Souls), Headmaster (1884–1905) and Provost of Eton (1909–18)
- 1960 – Peter Floud (Wadham), civil servant
- 1963 – Matthew Le Marinel (Jesus), Dean of Jersey 1937–59
- 1967 – Sir Idris Bell (Oriel), papyrologist
- 1992 – Sir Charles Hyde Villiers (New College), soldier and businessman
- 1994 – Columba Cary-Elwes (St Benet's Hall and Blackfriars), Benedictine monk
- 1995 – Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet (Worcester), poet
- 2001 – Anne Burns (St Hugh's), aeronautical engineer and glider pilot
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