Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 7

Births

• 1885 – Dornford Yates (University), novelist
• 1924 – Kenneth Kendall (Corpus Christi), news broadcaster and television presenter
• 1926 – John Woodcock (Trinity), cricket journalist
• 1928 – Dikran Tahta (Christ Church), mathematician
• 1929 – Andrew Graham (St John's), Bishop of Newcastle 1981–97

Deaths

• 1778 – Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet (Balliol), lawyer and politician
• 1829 – John Reeves (Merton and Queen's), judge and political activist
• 1912 – Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet (Balliol and St John's), music theorist
• 1929 – John Bain, footballer for the university and England
• 1938 – Robert Bourne (New College), rower and politician
• 1980 – Harold Loukes (Jesus), educationalist
• 1998 – Harry Tuzo (Oriel), army officer