Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 11

Births
 * 1603 – Sir Kenelm Digby (Gloucester Hall), courtier and diplomat
 * 1775 – Joseph Blanco White, Spanish theologian and poet
 * 1811 – Sir William Robert Grove (Brasenose), judge and scientist
 * 1851 – Trehawke Kekewich (Christ Church), barrister and judge
 * 1900 – Charles Henderson (New College and Corpus Christi), historian of Cornwall
 * 1901 – Sir John Rothenstein (Worcester), arts administrator and art historian
 * 1903 – David Talbot Rice (Christ Church), art historian
 * 1913 – Kofi Abrefa Busia (University), Prime Minister of Ghana 1969–72
 * 1934 – Toby Jessel (Balliol), Conservative politician
 * 1943 – Peter Jensen, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney since 2001
 * 1947 – Sir Drummond Bone (Balliol), English literature academic and Master of Balliol since 2011
 * 1950 – J. R. Morgan (Lincoln), classical scholar
 * 1956 – Amitav Ghosh (St Edmund Hall), Bengali Indian writer
 * 1958 – Barry Nalebuff, American business studies academic

Deaths
 * 1852 – David Barttelot (Corpus Christi), cricketer
 * 1916 – Thomas Herbert Robertson (Magdalen), barrister and politician
 * 1941 – Arthur Evans (Brasenose), archeologist
 * 2000 – Robert Runcie (Brasenose), Archbishop of Canterbury 1980–91