Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 5

Births
 * 1773 – Richard Heber (Brasenose), book collector and politician
 * 1828 – Charles Ranken (Wadham), clergyman and chess player
 * 1866 – Henry Newton (Merton), Bishop of New Guinea 1922–36
 * 1906 – Kathleen Kenyon (Somerville and St Hugh's), archaeologist and Principal of St Hugh's
 * 1910 – Jack Lovelock (Exeter), New Zealand athlete and Olympic gold medal winner
 * 1927 – Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (Trinity), banker
 * 1932 – Gordon Roe (Jesus), Bishop of Huntingdon 1980–97
 * 1933 – Derek Johnson (Lincoln), athlete and Olympic silver medallist
 * 1935 – John Hemming (Magdalen), explorer
 * 1938 – Henry G. Chiles, Jr. (Keble), American admiral
 * 1938 – John S. Grinalds (Brasenose), American general
 * 1941 – Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (Balliol), Indian cricketer and last Nawab of Pataudi
 * 1946 – Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (Magdalen), Japanese prince
 * 1959 – David Eastwood (St Peter's and Pembroke), Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia and the University of Birmingham

Deaths
 * 1799 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall (Trinity), Irish nobleman and politician
 * 1871 – Walter Long (Oriel), landowner
 * 1950 – Basil Williams (New College), historian
 * 1952 – Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, the only man to play test cricket for England and for India
 * 1956 – F. Sherwood Taylor (Lincoln), historian of science and museum curator
 * 1982 – Edmund Herring (New College), Australian soldier and judge
 * 1991 – Hubert Butler (St John's), Anglo-Irish essayist
 * 1994 – Brian Johnston (New College), cricket commentator and broadcaster
 * 1999 – Alexander Macdougall Cooke (Jesus and Merton), doctor and lecturer
 * 2001 – G. E. M. Anscombe (St Hugh's and Somerville), philosopher
 * 2004 – Norman Heatley (Lincoln), scientist who helped in the development of penicillin
 * 2004 – Vivian Jenkins (Jesus), Welsh rugby union international
 * 2007 – Jack Ainslie (Trinity), farmer and Liberal Democrat politician
 * 2008 – Tony Ambrose (Jesus), rally driver

Other events
 * 1855 – Frederick Bulley is elected President of Magdalen.