Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 24

Births
 * 1540 – Edmund Campion (St John's), Jesuit priest and martyr
 * 1674 – Thomas Tanner (Queen's, All Souls and Christ Church), Bishop of St Asaph 1732–35
 * 1928 – Desmond Morris (Magdalen and Wadham), zoologist and ethologist
 * 1909 – Martin Lings (Magdalen, writer on Sufism and Shakespeare

Deaths
 * 1895 – Lord Randolph Churchill (Merton), politician and father of Winston Churchill
 * 1929 – Thomas Dashwood, cricketer