Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 27

Births
 * 1805 – Charles David Badham (Pembroke), writer and physician
 * 1849 – Hugh Gough, 3rd Viscount Gough (Brasenose), nobleman
 * 1849 – Edmund Neville Nevill (New College), astronomer
 * 1912 – Peter Gretton (University), Royal Navy officer and college bursar
 * 1913 – Stewart Crawford (Oriel), diplomat
 * 1913 – Donald M. MacKinnon (New College), Scottish philosopher and theologian
 * 1919 – Jack Dormand (St Peter's), Labour politician
 * 1920 – Peter Vansittart (Worcester), novelist and historian
 * 1932 – Antonia Fraser (Lady Margaret Hall), novelist
 * 1934 – Graeme Moodie (Queen's), politics academic
 * 1959 – Guy Hands (Mansfield), financier
 * 1959 – Jeanette Winterson (St Catherine's), novelist

Deaths
 * 1701 – Gilbert Ironside (Wadham), Warden of Wadham and Bishop of Hereford
 * 1748 – Sir Robert Abdy, 3rd Baronet (Trinity), politician
 * 1862 – Thomas Jefferson Hogg (University), biographer of Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * 1862 – John Williams (Jesus), Welsh priest and writer ("Ab Ithel")
 * 1894 – Henry Bowlby (Wadham, Oxford), Bishop of Coventry 1891–94
 * 1924 – William Bayliss (Wadham), physiologist
 * 1933 – Malcolm Robinson (New College), Chief Inspector of Factories
 * 1948 – George Halford (Keble), Bishop of Rockhampton 1909–20
 * 1969 – Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges (Magdalen), civil servant
 * 1997 – James Lindsay (Magdalen), Conservative politician
 * 1998 – Keith Cox (Queen's and Jesus), geologist
 * 2008 – Alec Hill (Balliol), Australian military historian

Other events
 * 1605 – Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales takes up residence at Magdalen.
 * 1743 – Henry Pelham (Hart Hall) becomes Prime Minister.