Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 9

Births
 * 1781 – John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (Oriel and Corpus Christi), politician
 * 1835 – Arthur Hayter, 1st Baron Haversham (Brasenose), politician
 * 1843 – Tankerville Chamberlayne (Magdalen), politician
 * 1885 – Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens (New College), barrister and judge
 * 1862 – Hubert Burge (University), Bishop of Oxford 1919–25
 * 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz (Balliol), German diplomat involved in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler
 * 1922 – Philip Larkin (St John's), poet
 * 1924 – Alex Quaison-Sackey (Exeter), Ghanaian diplomat
 * 1932 – Reginald Bosanquet (New College), broadcast journalist
 * 1954 – Boris Rankov (Corpus Christi), historian

Other events
 * 1492 – The foundation stone of Magdalen Tower is laid.
 * 1916 – Noel Godfrey Chavasse (Trinity) wins the first of his two Victoria Crosses.

Deaths
 * 1611 – John Blagrave (St John's), mathematician
 * 1634 – William Noy (Exeter), lawyer
 * 1641 – Augustine Baker (Broadgates Hall), Benedictine mystic
 * 1744 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (New College), nobleman and politician
 * 1761 – John Gilbert (Trinity and Merton), Archbishop of York 1757–61
 * 1859 – John Penrose (Corpus Christi), clergyman and theologian
 * 1887 – Edward Barnwell (Jesus), headmaster of Ruthin School
 * 1932 – Graham Wallas (Corpus Christi), socialist
 * 1936 – Charles Aitken (New College), director of the Tate Gallery
 * 1958 – Louis Golding (Queen's), novelist
 * 1962 – Reginald Halse (Brasenose), Archbishop of Brisbane 1943–62
 * 1975 – Maurice Gorham (Balliol), journalist and broadcasting executive
 * 1999 – James McFarlane (St Catherine's), scholar of European literature
 * 2001 – Humphry Bowen (Magdalen), botanist and chemist
 * 2005 – Renfrey Potts (Queen's), Australian mathematician
 * 2007 – Timothy Garden, Baron Garden (St Catherine's), Air Marshal and Liberal Democrat politician