Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 23

Births
 * 1831 – Edward Spencer Beesly (Wadham), historian
 * 1833 – Sir Lewis Morris (Jesus, Oxford, poet
 * 1848 – Edgar Gibson (Trinity), Bishop of Gloucester 1905–22
 * 1859 – Percy Ewing Matheson (Balliol and New College), writer and educationalist
 * 1865 – Edmund Vesey Knox (Keble and All Souls), barrister and politician
 * 1871 – Arthur Jolliffe (Balliol, Corpus Christi and Jesus), mathematician
 * 1881 – Colin McIver, cricketer
 * 1883 – Wilfrid Parker (Christ Church), Bishop of Pretoria 1933–50
 * 1899 – Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (Magdalen), Master of the Rolls 1962–82
 * 1907 – R. C. Hutchinson (Oriel), novelist
 * 1913 – Sir Roderick Sarell (Magdalen), diplomat
 * 1916 – Airey Neave (Merton), politician assassinated by the INLA
 * 1918 – Hugh Fraser (Balliol), politician
 * 1935 – J. G. Farrell (Brasenose), novelist
 * 1940 – Fiona MacCarthy (Lady Margaret Hall), biographer and cultural historian
 * 1943 – Christine Nicholls (Lady Margaret Hall), writer
 * 1943 – Paul Slack (Exeter and Linacre), historian and Principal of Linacre 1996–2010
 * 1948 – David Norgrove (Exeter), businessman and chair of The Pensions Regulator 2005–10
 * 1953 – Alister McGrath (Wadham, Linacre, Merton and Wycliffe Hall), theologian
 * 1959 – Sir Christopher Nugee (Corpus Christi), judge

Deaths
 * 1905 – William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford (Brasenose), clergyman and historian
 * 1912 – Martin Howy Irving (Balliol), rower and educationalist
 * 1916 – Sir John Leslie, 1st Baronet (Christ Church), politician
 * 1927 – Perceval Landon (Hertford), journalist and author
 * 1937 – Sir Hamilton Grant (Balliol), diplomat and politician
 * 1945 – Robert Bernays (Worcester), journalist and politician
 * 1950 – Sir Adair Hore (St John's), civil servant
 * 1975 – Sir Trounsell Gilbert (Brasenose), Chief Justice of Bermuda 1952–58
 * 1981 – Sir Andrew Shonfield (Magdalen), economist
 * 1991 – Northrop Frye (Merton), Canadian literary critic
 * 2005 – Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare (New College), politician
 * 2006 – Michael Wharton (Lincoln), newspaper columnist