Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 14

Births
 * 1777 – Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon (Christ Church), Governor of the Cape Colony
 * 1807 – Thomas William Webb (Magdalen), priest and astronomer
 * 1812 – Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning (Christ Church), Governor-General of India
 * 1849 – Charles Buller Heberden (Balliol), Principal of Brasenose College
 * 1860 – Robert Braddell (Brasenose), barrister and politician in Northern Ireland
 * 1862 – Henry Yule Oldham (Jesus), geographer
 * 1888 – Robert Braddell, cricketer
 * 1915 – Anthony Kershaw (Balliol), barrister and Conservative MP
 * 1919 – John Grindrod (Queen's), Archbishop of Brisbane 1980–1989
 * 1930 – David R. Harris, archaeologist
 * 1948 – Kim Beazley (Balliol), Leader of the Australian Labor Party
 * 1960 – Stephen Hester (Lady Margaret Hall), Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group
 * 1979 – Gwyneth Glyn (Jesus), Welsh musician and poet

Deaths
 * 1710 – Henry Aldrich (Christ Church), Dean of Christ Church and architect
 * 1716 – William Trumbull (St John's), lawyer and politician
 * 1735 – Thomas Tanner (Queen's), Bishop of St Asaph 1732–1735
 * 1776 – Francis Geary (Balliol), army officer
 * 1887 – Alexander Heriot Mackonochie (Wadham), Anglican priest
 * 1948 – Alfred Cochrane (Hertford), cricketer and writer
 * 1948 – R. O. Morris (New College), composer and music professor
 * 1952 – Francis Heiser (Jesus), Anglican priest and educator
 * 1997 – Owen Barfield (Wadham), author and philosopher
 * 2004 – Carsten Peter Thiede (Queen's), German biblical scholar

Other events
 * 1955 – Hugh Gaitskell (New College) becomes Leader of the Opposition.
 * 2001 – Iris, a film about Oxford academics Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, is released.