Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 2

Births

• 1856 – John Viriamu Jones (Balliol and Jesus), scientist and academic
• 1866 – Gilbert Murray (St John's and Christ Church), Regius Professor of Greek 1908–36
• 1869 – Emerson Herdman (Christ Church), Northern Ireland politician
• 1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Christ Church), Antarctic explorer
• 1899 – Michael Hornby (New College), businessman
• 1911 – John Rose (Jesus), industrial chemist
• 1914 – Burke Trend, Baron Trend (Merton and Lincoln), Cabinet Secretary 1963–73
• 1923 – Francis Bennion (Balliol), barrister
• 1923 – Rachel Waterhouse (St Hugh's), consumer activist
• 1924 – Charles Dowsett (St Catherine's and Pembroke), Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies, Oxford, 1965–91
• 1924 – Kenneth Woollcombe (St John's), Bishop of Oxford 1971–78
• 1925 – Philip de Zulueta (New College), civil servant and businessman
• 1931 – James D. Murray (Corpus Christi), mathematician
• 1933 – Sir Keith Thomas (Balliol, All Souls, St John's and Corpus Christi), historian
• 1940 – David Fleming, environmentalist
• 1949 – John Irvine (Wycliffe Hall), Dean of Coventry 2001–12
• 1950 – Sir Rod Eddington (Lincoln), Australian businessman
• 1953 – Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Somerville), Conservative politician
• 1954 – John L. Thornton, President of Goldman Sachs 1999–2003
• 1956 – John Bowers (Lincoln), lawyer and Principal of Brasenose from October 2015
• 1958 – Helen Goodman (Somerville), politician
• 1958 – Maya Even (St Antony's), Canadian-born journalist and television presenter
• 1968 – Alex Chisholm (Merton), Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority

Deaths

• 1514 – William Smyth (Oriel and/or Lincoln), Bishop of Lincoln 1496–1514
• 1755 – Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet (The Queen's), landowner and industrialist
• 1893 – John O. Westwood (Magdalen), entomologist and archaeologist
• 1918 – Rupert Morris (Jesus), Welsh clergyman and antiquarian
• 1926 – G. H. Mair (Christ Church), journalist and civil servant
• 1934 – Arthur Weigall (New College), Egyptologist
• 1937 – Arthur Hirtzel (Trinity and Brasenose), civil servant
• 1944 – Sir William Searle Holdsworth (New College), Vinerian Professor of English Law 1922–44
• 1946 – Eleanor Rathbone (Somerville), politician and campaigner for women's rights
• 1951 – William Campion (New College), Governor of Western Australia 1924–31
• 1963 – Walter Gilliat, scored a hat-trick on his only appearance for the England national football team
• 1966 – Albert Gerald Stern (Christ Church), banker
• 1972 – Theodore Wade-Gery (New College and Merton), Wykeham Professor of Ancient History 1939–53
• 1980 – Rhys Carpenter (Balliol), classical art scholar
• 1982 – Sir Tam Galbraith {Christ Church), politician
• 1988 – E. B. Ford (Wadham, University and All Souls), ecological geneticist
• 1999 – Sir William Stuttaford (Trinity), stockbroker
• 2001 – George Carman (Balliol), barrister
• 2002 – Ian Grist (Jesus), politician
• 2003 – Bill Shelton (Worcester), politician
• 2005 – John Ziman (Balliol), physicist