Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 31

Births
 * 1931 – Christopher Chataway (Magdalen), Olympic athlete, television presenter and politician
 * 1978 – Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro (Christ Church), heir to the title of Duke of Wellington

Deaths
 * 1933 – John Galsworthy (New College), novelist and playwright
 * 1963 – Frank Hollins, cricketer
 * 1999 – John Mayhew, cricketer
 * 2008 – Abdus Suttar Khan, aerospace researcher
 * 2014 – Sebastian Barker (Corpus Christi), poet
 * 2015 – Richard von Weizsäcker (Balliol), President of Germany 1984–94