Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 21

Births
 * 1542 – Thomas Allen (Trinity), mathematician and astrologer
 * 1795 – Jack Russell (Exeter), dog breeder
 * 1811 – Archibald Campbell Tait (Balliol), Archbishop of Canterbury 1868–1882
 * 1835 – Thomas Graham Jackson (Wadham), architect of many Oxford buildings
 * 1888 – Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford (Balliol), pacifist during the 1930s
 * 1905 – Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia (Trinity), diplomat and Provost of Eton
 * 1905 – Anthony Powell (Balliol), novelist
 * 1913 – Jock Lewes (Christ Church), army officer and creator of the Lewes bomb
 * 1915 – Frank Willan (Magdalen), RAF pilot and Conservative local government politician
 * 1917 – Diana Athill (Lady Margaret Hall), literary editor
 * 1945 – Alan Williams (Jesus), Labour politician

Deaths
 * 1653 – Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester, Royalist politician and courtier
 * 1835 – Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet (Trinity), Scottish politician and writer
 * 1951 – Edmund Fellowes (Oriel), clergyman and musical scholar
 * 1972 – Hugh Edwards (Christ Church), Olympic rower
 * 1988 – Nikolaas Tinbergen (Merton and Wolfson), Dutch ethologist and Nobel Prize winner
 * 2008 – Christopher Hibbert (Oriel), historian and biographer