Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 19

Births
 * 1676 – John Weldon (New College), composer
 * 1924 – Richard Altham, cricketer
 * 1925 – Nina Bawden (Somerville), writer
 * 1941 – Colin Gunton (Hertford and Mansfield), theologian
 * 1946 – Julian Barnes (Magdalen), writer
 * 1948 – Amanda Holden (Lady Margaret Hall), librettist and translator
 * 1950 – David Tredinnick (St John's), politician
 * 1954 – James Robbins (Christ Church), BBC journalist
 * 1955 – Simon Rattle (St Anne's), conductor
 * 1970 – Tim Foster, Olympic rower
 * 1982 – Peter Buttigieg, American politician

Deaths
 * 1785 – Jonathan Toup (Exeter), classical scholar
 * 2014 – Christopher Chataway (Magdalen), athlete and politician