Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 1

Births
 * 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (Exeter), politician
 * 1869 – Harcourt Butler (Balliol), colonial governor
 * 1881 – Rose Macaulay (Somerville), novelist
 * 1883 – Percival Halse Rogers (Worcester), Australian judge
 * 1884 – Sir Gervais Rentoul (Christ Church), barrister and Conservative politician
 * 1905 – Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne (Magdalen), Lord Chancellor 1962–64
 * 1906 – William Hayter (New College and Queen's), diplomat and Warden of New College 1958–76
 * 1913 – Mervyn Austin (Christ Church), Australian classicist and headmaster
 * 1914 – W. J. Burley (Balliol), crime writer who created the detective Charles Wycliffe
 * 1943 – Jed S. Rakoff (Balliol), American judge
 * 1953 – Martin Goodman (Wolfson), historian of Roman and Jewish history
 * 1954 – Ed Vulliamy (Hertford), journalist

Deaths
 * 1605 – Edmund Anderson (Lincoln), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1582–1605
 * 1869 – Walter Hamilton (Christ Church and Merton), Bishop of Salisbury 1854–69
 * 1896 – William Robert Grove (Brasenose), judge and scientist
 * 1910 – Francis Birley (University), footballer who won the FA Cup with Oxford and later played for England
 * 1952 – Arthur Shearly Cripps (Trinity), missionary priest and writer
 * 1992 – Leslie Fox (Christ Church and Balliol), mathematician
 * 2005 – William Hugh Clifford Frend (Keble), priest and ecclesiastical historian