Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 16

Births
 * 1867 – Ronald Montagu Burrows (Christ Church), Principal of King's College London 1913–20
 * 1888 – T. E. Lawrence (Jesus and Magdalen), "Lawrence of Arabia"
 * 1904 – Ralph Downes (Keble), organist and organ builder
 * 1911 – E. F. Schumacher (New College), economic adviser
 * 1924 – Philip Dowson (University), architect and President of the Royal Academy 1993–99
 * 1934 – Diana Wynne Jones (St Anne's), novelist
 * 1941 – Iain Douglas-Hamilton (Oriel), zoologist
 * 1953 – David Spiegelhalter (Keble), statistician

Deaths
 * 1733 – Matthew Tindal (Lincoln and All Souls), Deist thinker
 * 1941 – Francis Turville-Petre (Exeter), archaeologist
 * 1944 – Walter Robberds (Keble), Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church 1908–34
 * 1949 – Tom Wintringham (Balliol), co-founder of the Common Wealth Party and journalist
 * 1951 – Gus Kelly, Irish cricketer
 * 1957 – William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt (New College), Lord Chancellor 1945–51
 * 2007 – Roland Mathias (Jesus), Welsh poet and short story writer