Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 30

Births
 * 1710 – Septimus Robinson (Christ Church), soldier and Black Rod
 * 1775 – Walter Savage Landor (Trinity), writer and poet
 * 1915 – John Profumo (Brasenose), politician known for the Profumo affair
 * 1962 – Abdullah II of Jordan (Pembroke), King of Jordan since 1999

Deaths
 * 1925 – Ryland Adkins (Balliol), politician and judge

Other events
 * 1661 – The body of Oliver Cromwell (Chancellor 1650–57) is exhumed from Westminster Abbey and posthumously executed.