Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 9

Births
 * 1561 – Edwin Sandys (Corpus Christi), founder member of the Virginia Company of London
 * 1839 – Frederick Halsey (Christ Church), Conservative MP
 * 1846 – William Humble (Exeter), clergyman and cricketer
 * 1863 – John Burnet (Balliol and Merton), classical scholar
 * 1891 – Malcolm Mercer Hollett, member of the Canadian Senate
 * 1905 – R. V. Vernède (Hertford and St Peter's), writer and colonial administrator in India
 * 1909 – Andrew Way (Christ Church), police officer
 * 1913 – Peter Smithers (Magdalen), Conservative MP
 * 1926 – Peter Rees, Baron Rees (Christ Church), Chief Secretary to the Treasury
 * 1929 – Bob Hawke (University), Prime Minister of Australia 1983–1991
 * 1943 – Joanna Trollope (St Hugh's), novelist
 * 1944 – Roger Short (University), diplomat
 * 1948 – Jonathan Sumption (Magdalen), barrister and medieval historian
 * 1963 – Crown Princess Masako (Balliol), Japanese princess
 * 1969 – Raphaël Rouquier (Magdalen), Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford

Deaths
 * 1781 – Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (Christ Church), landowner in Virginia
 * 1874 – Benjamin Bond Cabbell (Oriel), politician and philanthropist
 * 1901 – Clement Walker Heneage (Christ Church), winner of the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny
 * 1925 – Cosby Godolphin Trench (Corpus Christi), army officer and magistrate in Ireland
 * 1948 – Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet (New Inn Hall), England international cricketer
 * 1995 – Gillian Rose (St Hilda's), philosopher and sociologist
 * 2004 – Peter Emery (Oriel), Conservative MP
 * 2006 – Peter Derow (Wadham), classical scholar

Other events
 * 1886 – Edmund Campion (St John's, and in whose honour Campion Hall is named) is beatified by Pope Leo XIII
 * 1937 – Kenneth E. Kirk (Magdalen and Keble) is installed as Bishop of Oxford