Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 20

Births
 * 1638 – Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet (Jesus), politician
 * 1856 – David Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie (Balliol), Scottish peer and soldier
 * 1889 – Herbert Danby (Keble), Regius Professor of Hebrew 1936–53
 * 1908 – Ian Peebles, English international cricketer and journalist
 * 1930 – Christopher Elrington (University), historian
 * 1943 – Dame Jessica Rawson (Merton), Sinologist and Warden of Merton 1994–2010
 * 1948 – Nigel Williams (Oriel), novelist and screenwriter

Other events
 * 1936 – Edward VIII (Magdalen) becomes king on the death of his father, George V.

Deaths
 * 1707 – Humphrey Hody (Wadham), Regius Professor of Greek 1698–1705
 * 1768 – Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet (Magdalen), politician
 * 1820 – Eliezer Williams (Jesus), Welsh clergyman and genealogist
 * 1851 – Thomas Babington Jones (Jesus), cricketer
 * 1888 – William Pole-Carew (Oriel), politician
 * 1900 – R. D. Blackmore (Exeter), novelist (Lorna Doone)
 * 1900 – John Ruskin (Christ Church), art critic and writer
 * 1974 – Edmund Blunden (Queen's and Merton), poet
 * 2001 – Austin Amissah (Jesus), Ghanaian lawyer and judge