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

Births

• 1858 – J. Meade Falkner (Hertford), novelist and poet
• 1873 – H. D. G. Leveson Gower, Magdalen), England cricket captain
• 1873 – Nevil Sidgwick (Christ Church and Lincoln), chemist
• 1879 – Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham (Christ Church), politician and soldier
• 1894 – Edwin Morris (St John's), Archbishop of Wales 1957–1967
• 1897 – Guy Blaikie, cricketer
• 1920 – Maurice Cranston (St Catherine's), philosopher and author
• 1904 – John Snagge (Pembroke), radio newsreader and commentator
• 1921 – Graham Leonard (Balliol), Bishop of London 1981–1991
• 1925 – Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle (Christ Church), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1988–1996
• 1934 – Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann (Queen's), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1995–2009
• 1939 – William Cookson (New College), poet and literary editor
• 1946 – Jonathan Dancy (Corpus Christi and All Souls), philosopher
• 1946 – Ruth Padel (Lady Margaret Hall and Wadham), poet
• 1946 – Andrew Sherratt, archeologist based at the Ashmolean Museum
• 1969 – Jonny Searle (Christ Church), gold-medal winning Olympic rower

Deaths

• 1662 – Peter Heylin (Hart Hall and Magdalen), priest and writer
• 1781 – Richard Jago (University), poet
• 1860 – Horace Hayman Wilson, first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford
• 1883 – Sir Thomas Bernard, 6th Baronet (Christ Church), politician
• 1904 – Frederick York Powell (Christ Church and Oriel), historian
• 1926 – W. A. B. Coolidge (Exeter and Magdalen), American historian, theologian and mountaineer
• 1960 – J. H. C. Whitehead (Balliol), mathematician
• 1975 – Bram Fischer (New College), South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist