Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 16

Births
 * 1855 – A. J. Webbe (Trinity), cricketer
 * 1918 – Sir William Wade (St John's), academic lawyer
 * 1923 – Christine Brooke-Rose (Somerville), author and critic
 * 1925 – Sir Peter Hirsch (St Edmund Hall), metallurgist
 * 1933 – Susan Sontag (St Anne's), American author and literary theorist

Deaths
 * 1794 – Edward Gibbon (Magdalen), historian
 * 1900 – Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers (Christ Church), politician and army officer
 * 1937 – Edmund Knox (Corpus Christi and Merton), Bishop of Manchester 1901–37
 * 1967 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist
 * 1982 – Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, Irish cricketer and art collector
 * 1990 – Louis Serrurier, South African international cricketer
 * 1991 – Nicholas Mansergh (Pembroke), historian
 * 2001 – Auberon Waugh (Christ Church), author and journalist
 * 2001 – Thomas Hart, Scottish international rugby player and international cricketer
 * 2006 – James Chadwin (Jesus), barrister
 * 2009 – Norman Gash (St John's), historian
 * 2009 – Sir John Mortimer (Brasenose), barrister and author