Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 27

Births
 * 1832 – Lewis Carroll (Christ Church), mathematician and author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * 1910 – Douglas Raikes, cricketer
 * 1919 – David Eastwood (St Edmund Hall), soldier who won the Military Cross
 * 1935 – Dame Gillian Beer (St Anne's), King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge, 1994–2002
 * 1963 – George Monbiot (Brasenose), writer
 * 1968 – Matthew d'Ancona (Magdalen and All Souls), journalist
 * 1979 – Rosamund Pike (Wadham), actress

Deaths
 * 1895 – Reginald Hobhouse (Balliol), Archdeacon of Bodmin 1878–92
 * 2009 – John Updike (Ruskin School of Art), writer and critic