Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 12

Births
 * 1683 – John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont (Magdalen), Anglo-Irish politician
 * 1849 – William Osler (Christ Church), Regius Professor of Medicine 1905–19
 * 1875 – Walter Carey (Hertford), rugby international and Bishop of Bloemfontein 1921–35
 * 1885 – George Butterworth (Trinity), composer
 * 1894 – Llewelyn Hughes (Jesus), Dean of Ripon 1951–67
 * 1904 – Edward Max Nicholson (Hertford), ornithologist and co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund
 * 1909 – Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose (Christ Church), politician and newspaper proprietor
 * 1913 – Philip Mayer Kaiser (Balliol), American diplomat
 * 1941 – John Lahr (Worcester), drama critic for The New Yorker
 * 1955 – Timothy Garton Ash (Exeter and St Antony's), historian
 * 1967 – Richard Herring (St Catherine's), comedian
 * 1971 – Nathaniel Rothschild, 5th Baron Rothschild (Wadham), financier

Deaths
 * 1712 – Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector 1658–59 and Chancellor of the University 1657–60
 * 1890 – David Pugh (Balliol), Welsh landowner and Liberal politician
 * 1926 – Gertrude Bell (Lady Margaret Hall), writer and archeologist
 * 1927 – David Williams (Jesus), Calvinistic Methodist minister and theologian
 * 1932 – Gerard Baldwin Brown (Oriel and Brasenose), art historian
 * 1994 – James Joll (New College and St Antony's), historian
 * 2009 – Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland (Queen's), Conservative politician