Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 26

Births
 * 1848 – Charles Stanton Devas (Balliol), political economist
 * 1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (Brasenose), Governor General of Canada 1935–40
 * 1917 – Harry Tuzo (Oriel), British general
 * 1922 – Harold Max Rosenberg (Linacre and St Catherine's), experimental physicist
 * 1934 – Gordon Clough (Magdalen), journalist and broadcaster
 * 1935 – Gerald Bowden (Magdalen), Conservative politician
 * 1937 – Alan Chesters (St Catherine's and St Stephen's House), Bishop of Blackburn 1989–2003
 * 1940 – Michael Cockerell (Corpus Christi), journalist and broadcaster
 * 1952 – Peter Atkinson (St John's), Dean of Worcester since 2007
 * 1957 – Daniel Johnson (Magdalen), journalist
 * 1965 – Marcus du Sautoy (Wadham, All Souls and New College), Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science since 2008
 * 1966 – Peter Clift (Worcester), geologist and geophysicist

Deaths
 * 1349 – Thomas Bradwardine (Merton and Balliol, Oxford), mathematician and Archbishop of Canterbury
 * 1819 – George Cornewall (Christ Church), politician
 * 1838 – Sir John Nicholl (St John's), Welsh politician and judge
 * 1903 – William Henry Corfield (Magdalen and Pembroke), public health expert
 * 1943 – Francis Edward Fremantle (Balliol), Conservative politician
 * 1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz (Balliol), German diplomat involved in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler
 * 1970 – Oliver Green-Wilkinson (Magdalen), Archbishop of Central Africa 1962–70
 * 1982 – Susobhan Sarkar (Jesus), Indian historian

Other events
 * 1839 – Francis Baring (Christ Church) becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer.
 * 1931 – Herbert Samuel (Balliol) becomes Home Secretary.