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

Births
 * 1823 – Edward Augustus Freeman (Trinity), historian
 * 1862 – Arthur Headlam (New College, All Souls and Christ Church), Regius Professor of Divinity 1918–23 and Bishop of Gloucester 1923–45
 * 1867 – Ernest Dowson (Queen's), poet and novelist
 * 1878 – Richard Olaf Winstedt (New College), orientalist
 * 1884 – Reginald Coupland, Beit Professor of Colonial History 1920–48
 * 1885 – Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare (New College), army officer and sportsman
 * 1888 – D. A. Clarke-Smith, actor
 * 1906 – Albert Goodwin (Jesus), historian
 * 1907 – Alec Clifton-Taylor (Queen's), architectural historian
 * 1915 – Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram, army officer
 * 1921 – Jack Ainslie (Trinity College), farmer and Liberal politician
 * 1922 – Len Murray (New College), trade union leader
 * 1929 – David Waddington, Baron Waddington (Hertford), Conservative politician
 * 1935 – Derek Enright (Wadham), Labour politician
 * 1940 – Adrian Hollis (Christ Church and Keble), chess champion
 * 1943 – Oliver Taplin (Magdalen), classicist
 * 1945 – John Bowis (Brasenose), Conservative politician
 * 1946 – Nigel Hitchin (Jesus, Wolfson and New College), Savilian Professor of Geometry since 1997
 * 1948 – Peter Torry (New College), diplomat
 * 1951 – Roger Parker (St Hugh's), musicologist
 * 1955 – Roger Cohen (Balliol), journalist
 * 1971 – Ruth Lawrence (St Hugh's), mathematician

Deaths
 * 1603 – John Townshend (Magdalen Hall), soldier and politician
 * 1794 – Richard Burke Jr. (Christ Church), barrister and politician
 * 1868 – Lambert Blackwell Larking (Brasenose), clergyman and antiquary
 * 1911 – Francis Paget (Christ Church), Bishop of Oxford 1901–11
 * 1938 – Lewis Clive (Christ Church), Olympic gold medal winner in rowing
 * 1944 – Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (Balliol), RAF pilot and boxer
 * 1999 – Willie Morris, American writer
 * 2009 – Mark Green (Lincoln), Bishop of Aston 1972–82