Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 14

Births
 * 1552 – Alberico Gentili, Regius Professor of Civil Law 1587–1608
 * 1615 – John Biddle (Magdalen Hall), Unitarian
 * 1737 – Sir Robert Chambers (Lincoln, University and New Inn Hall), Vinerian Professor of English Law 1766–77
 * 1782 – Stephen Lushington (Christ Church and All Souls), politician and Dean of Arches 1858–67
 * 1830 – Edward Parry (Balliol), Bishop of Dover 1870–90
 * 1860 – George Hampson (Exeter), entomologist
 * 1900 – James Page (Jesus), rower
 * 1926 – Warren Mitchell (University), actor
 * 1934 – Lourens Ackermann (Worcester), South African judge
 * 1949 – Franklin Raines (Magdalen), former chairman of the American Federal National Mortgage Association
 * 1965 – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (St Peter's), celebrity chef

Deaths
 * 1640 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry (Balliol), Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 1625–40
 * 1742 – Edmond Halley (Queen's), astronomer
 * 1898 – Lewis Carroll (Christ Church), mathematician and author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * 1901 – Mandell Creighton (Merton), Bishop of London 1897–1901
 * 1907 – Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet (University), Governor-General of New Zealand 1873–74
 * 1915 – Richard Meux Benson (Christ Church), founder of the Society of St. John the Evangelist
 * 1932 – Sir Sidney Low (Pembroke and Balliol), historian and journalist
 * 1947 – Cecil Madigan (Magdalen), Australian explorer and geologist
 * 1959 – G. D. H. Cole (Balliol), political theorist
 * 1968 – Henry Lewis (Jesus), academic of Welsh literature and language
 * 1977 – Anthony Eden (Christ Church), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1955–57