Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 7

Births
 * 1821 – Sir Charles Clifford, 4th Baronet (Christ Church and All Souls), Liberal politician
 * 1826 – John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (Christ Church), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1894–1895
 * 1870 – Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart (University), Lord Chief Justice 1922–1940
 * 1899 – James Harford (Balliol), Governor of Saint Helena 1954–1958
 * 1901 – Greville Stevens, England cricket captain
 * 1906 – Kurt Mendelssohn (Wolfson), medical physicist
 * 1941 – John E. Walker (St Catherine's), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * 1984 – Luke McShane (University), chess grandmaster

Deaths
 * 1918 – Albert Brassey (University), rower and Conservative politician
 * 1919 – George Howson (Merton), headmaster and writer
 * 1981 – Alvar Lidell (Exeter), radio announcer and newsreader
 * 1997 – Christopher Mayhew (Christ Church), Labour, then Liberal, politician
 * 2007 – Magnus Magnusson (Jesus), presenter of Mastermind
 * 2009 – Valerie Flint (Lady Margaret Hall), historian