Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 10

Births
 * 1746 – John Gutch (All Souls and Corpus Christi), University Registrar 1797–1824
 * 1834 – John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (All Souls), writer who originated the phrase "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
 * 1845 – Robert Torrens O'Neill (Brasenose), politician
 * 1894 – Geoffrey Jackson (Balliol), cricketer
 * 1900 – Philip Bell (Queen's), lawyer and politician
 * 1911 – Norman Heatley (Lincoln), scientist who helped develop penicillin
 * 1916 – William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir (New College), writer
 * 1925 – Geoffrey Keighley (Trinity), cricketer, lawyer and politician
 * 1927 – Harry Edwards, Australian politician
 * 1928 – Peter Mathias (All Souls), Chichele Professor of Economic History
 * 1936 – Walter Bodmer, Principal of Hertford 1996–2005
 * 1938 – Donald Knuth (Magdalen), computer scientist
 * 1947 – Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (University and Nuffield), politician
 * 1976 – Khairy Jamaluddin (St Hugh's), Malaysian politician

Deaths
 * 1645 – William Laud (St John's), Chancellor of the University 1630–41 and Archbishop of Canterbury 1633–45
 * 1787 – Harry Peckham (New College), lawyer who helped to draft the laws of cricket
 * 1931 – Lord Francis Hervey (Balliol and Hertford), barrister and politician
 * 1936 – Raleigh Grey (Brasenose), soldier and businessman
 * 1984 – Alasdair Clayre (Christ Church and All Souls), singer-songwriter and author
 * 1986 – Martin Stevens (Trinity), politician
 * 1987 – Ian Harvey (Christ Church), businessman and politician
 * 1997 – Alexander R. Todd (Oriel), Scottish biochemist
 * 2006 – Alethea Hayter (Lady Margaret Hall), author and British Council representative
 * 2010 – Crispin Sorhaindo (Trinity), fourth President of Dominica
 * 2011 – John Gross (Wadham), author and critic