Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 3

Births
 * 1810 – Francis Bernard, 3rd Earl of Bandon (Oriel), Irish politician
 * 1839 – Sir Drury Drury-Lowe (Corpus Christi), army officer
 * 1841 – Arthur Daniel, cricketer
 * 1869 – William Macbride Childs (Keble), first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading 1926–29
 * 1879 – Richard More, cricketer
 * 1883 – Clement Attlee (University), Prime Minister 1945–51
 * 1885 – Alan Don (Magdalen), Dean of Westminster 1946–59
 * 1888 – Arthur Berry (Wadham), Olympic footballer
 * 1892 – J. R. R. Tolkien (Exeter, Pembroke and Merton), writer
 * 1893 – John Whiston (Jesus), chemist
 * 1912 – Betty Radice (St Hilda's), editor and translator of classical literature
 * 1923 – Graham Chadwick (Keble), Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman 1976–83
 * 1931 – Plantagenet Somerset Fry (St Catherine's), historian
 * 1933 – Sir Geoffrey Bindman (Oriel), solicitor
 * 1934 – Sir John Riddell, 13th Baronet (Christ Church), Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland 2000–09
 * 1938 – Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell (University), Cabinet Secretary 1988–98
 * 1938 – Mark Dalby (Exeter), Archdeacon of Rochdale 1991–2000
 * 1942 – Sir Michael Scholar (St John's), civil servant and President of St John's 2001–12
 * 1944 – Brian Butterworth (Merton), Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology, University College London, 1992–2009
 * 1944 – Doreen Massey (St Hugh's, Professor of Geography, Open University, 1982–2010
 * 1946 – Andrew Tylecote (Wadham), economist
 * 1955 – Sir Rory Collins (St Peter's), British Heart Foundation Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology 1996 onwards
 * 1956 – Sir Norman Bettison (Queen's), Chief Constable of Merseyside and of West Yorkshire Police
 * 1963 – Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor (Lady Margaret Hall), politician
 * 1973 – Rory Stewart (Balliol), politician and writer

Deaths
 * 1874 – Morris Williams (Jesus), Welsh poet under the bardic name "Nicander"
 * 1881 – William Lloyd (Jesus), Archdeacon of Durban
 * 1894 – Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (Christ Church), landowner
 * 1913 – James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn (Christ Church), politician
 * 1920 – Frederick Dutton, 5th Baron Sherborne (Christ Church), clergyman
 * 1920 – Thomas Hart-Davies (Pembroke), colonial administrator and politician
 * 1925 – Edmund Lamb (Merton), politician
 * 1945 – Edward Peake (Oriel and Christ Church), Welsh rugby union international
 * 1948 – Harold Littler (Jesus), priest and headmaster
 * 1965 – Guy Garrod (University), Air Chief Marshal
 * 1972 – Sir Douglas Thomson, 2nd Baronet (University), politician and businessman
 * 1979 – Kenneth Carey (Exeter), Bishop of Edinburgh 1961–75
 * 1979 – William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp (Magdalen), politician
 * 1979 – Richard Twining (Magdalen, cricketer and stockbrocker
 * 1990 – William Wells (Balliol), politician
 * 1991 – Hubert Cunliffe-Jones (Mansfield), theologian
 * 1994 – George Drewry Squibb (Queen's), barrister and Norfolk Herald Extraordinary
 * 2009 – Sir Alan Walters (Nuffield), economist and advisor to Margaret Thatcher
 * 2010 – Sir Ian Brownlie (Hertford, Wadham and All Souls), academic and practitioner in international law
 * 2015 – Terence Ranger (St Antony's), historian of Zimbabwe