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

Births
 * 1863 – Anthony Hope (Balliol), novelist (The Prisoner of Zenda)
 * 1881 – Sir Geoffry Northcote (Balliol), colonial administrator
 * 1909 – Dean Rusk (St John's), U.S. Secretary of State 1961–69
 * 1963 – Brian Greene, American theoretical physicist

Deaths
 * 1981 – M. C. Chagla (Lincoln), Indian politician, diplomat and judge
 * 1995 – J. William Fulbright (Pembroke), American senator
 * 2012 – John Hick (Oriel), philosopher of religion and theologian