Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 21

Births
 * 1754 – Banastre Tarleton (University), soldier and politician
 * 1813 – John Burgon (Worcester and Oriel), Dean of Chichester
 * 1879 – Neville Talbot (Christ Church), Bishop of Pretoria 1920–33
 * 1889 – Henry Lewis (Jesus), Welsh language and literature academic
 * 1901 – Edward Thomas Copson (St John's), mathematician
 * 1913 – Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman (University), Master of University 1976–86
 * 1919 – Marcel Lambert (Hertford), Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons 1962–63
 * 1938 – Peter Dale (St Peter's), poet
 * 1939 – Festus Mogae (University), President of Botswana 1998–2008
 * 1942 – Daryl Williams (Wadham), Attorney-General of Australia 1996–2003
 * 1945 – Andrew Goudie (Hertford and St Cross), geographer and Master of St Cross since 2003
 * 1954 – Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover (St Anne's), Liberal Democrat politician
 * 1968 – Timothy Griffin (Pembroke), United States Attorney

Deaths
 * 1868 – Francis Jeune (Pembroke), Master of Pembroke 1844–64 and Bishop of Peterborough 1864–68
 * 1935 – William Hayter (Brasenose), Dean of Gibraltar 1913–20
 * 2002 – Kenneth H. Hunt (Balliol), engineering academic
 * 2003 – Kathy Wilkes (St Hugh's and St Hilda's), philosopher and activist behind the Iron Curtain