Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 19

Births
 * 1805 – John David Edwards (Jesus), Welsh cleric and hymn tune composer
 * 1872 – Henry Herbert Williams (Queen's and Hertford) Principal of St Edmund Hall and Bishop of Carlisle
 * 1899 – Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (Jesus), Welsh classical scholar
 * 1907 – John Tilney (Magdalen), Conservative politician
 * 1928 – Michael John Hurd (Pembroke), British composer
 * 1942 – John Godfrey (Balliol and St Antony's), Canadian academic and politician

Deaths
 * 1813 – David Hartley (Corpus Christi and Merton), politician and scientist
 * 1880 – Francis Trevelyan Buckland (Christ Church), surgeon and natural historian
 * 1963 – Alan Gardiner (Queen's), Egyptologist
 * 1979 – Donald Creighton (Balliol), Canadian historian
 * 1984 – Nigel Cornwall (Oriel), Bishop of Borneo 1949–1962
 * 2005 – Charles Brett (New College), solicitor and author