Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 11

Births
 * 1803 – Lord Dudley Stuart (Christ Church), politician
 * 1818 – Daniel Silvan Evans (Jesus), lexicographer
 * 1825 – William Spottiswoode (Balliol, Oxford), mathematician and physicist
 * 1905 – Clyde Kluckhohn (Corpus Christi), American anthropologist
 * 1916 – William Hugh Clifford Frend (Keble), ecclesiastical historian
 * 1917 – Richard Sayce (Jesus and Worcester), scholar of French literature
 * 1934 – Tony Hoare (Merton), computer scientist
 * 1938 – Sir Alastair Morton (Worcester), railway executive
 * 1949 – Adam Zamoyski (Queen's), historian of Poland
 * 1954 – John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (Wadham), politician who served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Chancellor
 * 1962 – Chris Bryant (Mansfield), politician
 * 1971 – Tom Ward (Lincoln), actor
 * 1986 – Rachel Riley (Oriel), co-presenter of Countdown

Deaths
 * 1968 – Moshe Zvi Segal, rabbi and Talmudic scholar
 * 1980 – Barbara Pym (St Hilda's), novelist
 * 1997 – Ian White-Thomson (Brasenose), Dean of Canterbury 1963–76
 * 1998 – John Wells (St Edmund Hall), writer and satirist
 * 1999 – Naomi Mitchison (Society of Oxford Home-Students), novelist and poet
 * 2000 – Barney Childs, American composer
 * 2001 – Oliver Gurney (New College and Magdalen), Assyriologist