Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 4

Births
 * 1665 – Arthur Charlett (Trinity and University), Master of University 1692–1722
 * 1851 – Herbert Hope Risley (New College), ethnographer and colonial administrator
 * 1852 – Sir Henry King, 1st Baronet (Balliol), banker and Conservative politician
 * 1889 – Charles Littlejohn (New College), Olympic medal-winning rower
 * 1891 – John Walker (New College), Olympic medal-winning rower
 * 1906 – George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk (Balliol), Conservative politician
 * 1913 – Peggy Jay (Somerville), Labour politician
 * 1942 – Bolaji Akinyemi (Trinity), Nigerian academic and professor
 * 1945 – John Doyle (Magdalen), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia since 1995
 * 1947 – Phyllis Starkey (Lady Margaret Hall), Labour politician
 * 1947 – Rick Stein (New College), chef
 * 1958 – Roger Mosey (Wadham), broadcasting executive

Other events
 * 1714 – Thomas Lindsay (Wadham) is appointed Archbishop of Armagh.
 * 1868 – George Bowen (Trinity and Brasenose) steps down as the first Governor of Queensland to become Governor of New Zealand.

Deaths
 * 1878 – James Bowling Mozley (Oriel and Magdalen), theologian
 * 1921 – William Peterson (Corpus Christi), Principal of McGill University 1895–1919
 * 1931 – Mohammad Ali Jouhar (Lincoln), Indian Muslim leader
 * 1953 – Prince Chichibu (Magdalen), Japanese prince
 * 1954 – Richard Acland (Keble), Bishop of Bombay 1929–47
 * 1961 – Erwin Schrödinger (Magdalen), physicist
 * 1964 – Arthur Wade-Evans (Jesus), clergyman and historian
 * 1965 – T. S. Eliot (Merton), poet and playwright
 * 1970 – David John Williams (Jesus), co-founder of Plaid Cymru
 * 1988 – William Gilpin (Keble), Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames 1952–70
 * 1994 – Richard Wimbush (Oriel), Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church 1974–77
 * 2005 – Humphrey Carpenter (Keble), biographer and broadcaster
 * 2005 – Guy Davenport (Merton), American writer
 * 2008 – Bernard Audley (Corpus Christi), businessman and philanthropist
 * 2009 – John Grindrod (Queen's), Archbishop of Brisbane 1980–89