Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 18

Births
 * 1707 – Charles Wesley (Christ Church), Methodist leader and hymn writer
 * 1826 – James John Hornby (Balliol and Brasenose), rower and Headmaster of Eton 1868–1884
 * 1980 – Neville Laski (Corpus Christi), barrister
 * 1916 – Harold Soref (Queen's), Conservative politician
 * 1973 – William Kendall, cricketer
 * 1974 – Tom Parker Bowles (Worcester), writer and son of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Deaths
 * 1858 – John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury (Trinity), civil servant and army officer
 * 1914 – Ingram Bywater (Queen's, Exeter and Christ Church), classical scholar
 * 1916 – Robert Yerburgh (University), Conservative politician
 * 1935 – John Nicolson, South African cricketer
 * 1941 – Hastings Lees-Smith (Queen's), Labour politician
 * 1966 – George Raikes, cricketer and England footballer
 * 1998 – Basil Travers, cricketer and England rugby union international