Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 8

Births
 * 1752 – Vicesimus Knox (St John's), English essayist and minister
 * 1849 – Sir James Stronge, 5th Baronet (Brasenose), Ulster Unionist politician
 * 1898 – Charles Fawcus, English cricketer
 * 1907 – Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock (University), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
 * 1930 – Julian Critchley (Pembroke), Conservative MP
 * 1938 – John Kufuor (Exeter), President of Ghana 2001–2009
 * 1944 – Bernard Rix (New College), Lord Justice of Appeal
 * 1947 – Roy Galley (Worcester), Conservative MP
 * 1954 – Harold Hongju Koh (Magdalen), American lawyer

Deaths
 * 1643 – John Pym (Broadgates Hall), leader of the Long Parliament during the English Civil War
 * 1779 – Nathan Alcock (Jesus), English physician
 * 1967 – Charles Fawcus (Christ Church) (on his 69th birthday), cricketer
 * 2004 – Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman (Brasenose), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary