Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 10

Births
 * 1658 – Lancelot Blackburne (Christ Church), Archbishop of York 1724–1743
 * 1751 – George Shaw (Magdalen Hall), zoologist and botanist
 * 1753 – Richard Thomas (Jesus), Welsh priest and antiquarian
 * 1889 – Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading (Balliol), barrister and Conservative politician
 * 1889 – Robert Yerburgh, 1st Baron Alvingham (University), Conservative MP
 * 1900 – Eric Berthoud (Magdalen), British ambassador
 * 1923 – James Leasor (Oriel), author
 * 1928 – Jeremy Morse (New College), banker and crossword solver
 * 1939 – Barry Cunliffe (Keble), archeologist
 * 1944 – John Birt, Baron Birt (St Catherine's), Director-General of the BBC 1992–2000
 * 1949 – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Linacre), journalist and author
 * 1969 – Bruce Ellison, cricketer

Deaths
 * 1626 – Edmund Gunter (Christ Church), mathematician and Gresham Professor of Astronomy
 * 1776 – Robert Hay Drummond (Christ Church), Archbishop of York 1761–1776
 * 1893 – Edward Trollope (Christ Church), Bishop of Nottingham
 * 1940 – Harry Trelawney Eve (Exeter), High Court judge
 * 1942 – Henry Miers (Trinity), mineralogist
 * 1968 – Geoffrey Harold Woolley (Queen's), winner of the Victoria Cross
 * 1987 – Ian Harvey (Christ Church), Conservative politician
 * 1988 – Elizabeth Rawson (Corpus Christi), classical scholar
 * 1994 – Keith Joseph (Magdalen and All Souls), Conservative politician and leading Thatcherite
 * 2007 – Gordon Samuels (Balliol), Governor of New South Wales 1996–2001