Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 2

Births
 * 1856 – John Viriamu Jones (Balliol and Jesus), scientist and academic
 * 1866 – Gilbert Murray (St John's and Christ Church), Regius Professor of Greek 1908–36
 * 1869 – Emerson Herdman (Christ Church), Northern Ireland politician
 * 1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Christ Church), Antarctic explorer
 * 1899 – Michael Hornby (New College), businessman
 * 1911 – John Rose (Jesus), industrial chemist
 * 1914 – Burke Trend, Baron Trend (Merton and Lincoln), Cabinet Secretary 1963–73
 * 1923 – Francis Bennion (Balliol), barrister
 * 1923 – Rachel Waterhouse (St Hugh's), consumer activist
 * 1924 – Charles Dowsett (St Catherine's and Pembroke), Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies, Oxford, 1965–91
 * 1924 – Kenneth Woollcombe (St John's), Bishop of Oxford 1971–78
 * 1925 – Philip de Zulueta (New College), civil servant and businessman
 * 1931 – James D. Murray (Corpus Christi), mathematician
 * 1933 – Sir Keith Thomas (Balliol, All Souls, St John's and Corpus Christi), historian
 * 1940 – David Fleming, environmentalist
 * 1949 – John Irvine (Wycliffe Hall), Dean of Coventry 2001–12
 * 1950 – Sir Rod Eddington (Lincoln), Australian businessman
 * 1953 – Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Somerville), Conservative politician
 * 1954 – John L. Thornton, President of Goldman Sachs 1999–2003
 * 1956 – John Bowers (Lincoln), lawyer and Principal of Brasenose from October 2015
 * 1958 – Helen Goodman (Somerville), politician
 * 1958 – Maya Even (St Antony's), Canadian-born journalist and television presenter
 * 1968 – Alex Chisholm (Merton), Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority

Deaths
 * 1514 – William Smyth (Oriel and/or Lincoln), Bishop of Lincoln 1496–1514
 * 1755 – Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet (The Queen's), landowner and industrialist
 * 1893 – John O. Westwood (Magdalen), entomologist and archaeologist
 * 1918 – Rupert Morris (Jesus), Welsh clergyman and antiquarian
 * 1926 – G. H. Mair (Christ Church), journalist and civil servant
 * 1934 – Arthur Weigall (New College), Egyptologist
 * 1937 – Arthur Hirtzel (Trinity and Brasenose), civil servant
 * 1944 – Sir William Searle Holdsworth (New College), Vinerian Professor of English Law 1922–44
 * 1946 – Eleanor Rathbone (Somerville), politician and campaigner for women's rights
 * 1951 – William Campion (New College), Governor of Western Australia 1924–31
 * 1963 – Walter Gilliat, scored a hat-trick on his only appearance for the England national football team
 * 1966 – Albert Gerald Stern (Christ Church), banker
 * 1972 – Theodore Wade-Gery (New College and Merton), Wykeham Professor of Ancient History 1939–53
 * 1980 – Rhys Carpenter (Balliol), classical art scholar
 * 1982 – Sir Tam Galbraith {Christ Church), politician
 * 1988 – E. B. Ford (Wadham, University and All Souls), ecological geneticist
 * 1999 – Sir William Stuttaford (Trinity), stockbroker
 * 2001 – George Carman (Balliol), barrister
 * 2002 – Ian Grist (Jesus), politician
 * 2003 – Bill Shelton (Worcester), politician
 * 2005 – John Ziman (Balliol), physicist