Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 9

Births
 * 1567 – Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet, of Stowe, politician and landowner
 * 1585 – Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet (Queen's), politician and diarist
 * 1769 – William Spencer (poet) (Christ Church), poet
 * 1804 – Henry Harper (Queen's), Archbishop of New Zealand 1867–1890
 * 1861 – Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster (Christ Church), Lord Chancellor 1915–1916
 * 1879 – Maurice Arnold de Forest (Christ Church), politician and motor racing driver
 * 1916 – Peter Twinn (Brasenose), mathematician and World War II cryptographer
 * 1923 – Brian Spalding, engineer involved in computational fluid dynamics
 * 1927 – Michael Woolfson (Jesus), physicist
 * 1950 – Alec Jeffreys (Merton), inventor of genetic fingerprinting
 * 1983 – Nick Wood (Brasenose), rugby union footballer

Deaths
 * 1598 – Jasper Heywood (Merton and All Souls), poet and translator
 * 1901 – Richard Copley Christie (Lincoln), lawyer and philanthropist
 * 1916 – Herbert Shepherd-Cross (Exeter), politician
 * 1924 – Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare (University), theologian and orientalist
 * 1924 – Henry Wace (Brasenose), Dean of Canterbury 1903–1924
 * 1945 – William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough (Balliol), sportsman and politician
 * 1980 – Raymond Mortimer (Balliol), writer and critic
 * 1996 – Ronnie Bell (Balliol), chemist
 * 2001 – Ninian Smart (Queen's), Scottish theologian