Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 29

Births
 * 1888 – Sydney Chapman (Queen's), Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy 1946–53

Deaths
 * 1841 – John Cooke, cricketer
 * 1877 – Peter Erle (New College), barrister
 * 1928 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (Brasenose), Field Marshal during the First World War
 * 2010 – Adam Alexander Dawson (Queen's), film editor