Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 7

Births
 * 1885 – Dornford Yates (University), novelist
 * 1924 – Kenneth Kendall (Corpus Christi), news broadcaster and television presenter
 * 1926 – John Woodcock (Trinity), cricket journalist
 * 1928 – Dikran Tahta (Christ Church), mathematician
 * 1929 – Andrew Graham (St John's), Bishop of Newcastle 1981–97

Deaths
 * 1778 – Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet (Balliol), lawyer and politician
 * 1829 – John Reeves (Merton and Queen's), judge and political activist
 * 1912 – Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet (Balliol and St John's), music theorist
 * 1929 – John Bain, footballer for the university and England
 * 1938 – Robert Bourne (New College), rower and politician
 * 1980 – Harold Loukes (Jesus), educationalist
 * 1998 – Harry Tuzo (Oriel), army officer