Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/February 9

Births

• 1863 – Anthony Hope (Balliol), novelist (The Prisoner of Zenda)
• 1881 – Sir Geoffry Northcote (Balliol), colonial administrator
• 1909 – Dean Rusk (St John's), U.S. Secretary of State 1961–69
• 1963 – Brian Greene, American theoretical physicist

Deaths

• 1981 – M. C. Chagla (Lincoln), Indian politician, diplomat and judge
• 1995 – J. William Fulbright (Pembroke), American senator
• 2012 – John Hick (Oriel), philosopher of religion and theologian