Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 15

Births
 * 1656 – Gerard Langbaine (University), biographer and critic
 * 1812 – James Hope-Scott (Christ Church), barrister and Tractarian
 * 1854 – John Bain, footballer who played for Oxford in the 1877 FA Cup Final and for the England team
 * 1886 – J. Griffyth Fairfax (New College), poet and politician
 * 1888 – Robert Bourne (New College), Olympic rower and politician
 * 1897 – R. J. Yeatman (Oriel), co-author of 1066 and All That
 * 1901 – R. C. Robertson-Glasgow, cricketer and cricket writer
 * 1902 – Donald Creighton (Balliol), Canadian historian
 * 1906 – Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies (Exeter), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1974–81
 * 1914 – Gavin Maxwell (Hertford), naturalist and author of Ring of Bright Water
 * 1917 – Robert Conquest (Magdalen), historian of the Soviet Union
 * 1919 – Iris Murdoch (Somerville and St Anne's), author
 * 1922 – George Chesterton, cricketer
 * 1929 – John Jolliffe (Nuffield), Bodley's Librarian 1982–85
 * 1939 – Peter Hacker (Queen's, St Antony's, Balliol and St John's), philosopher
 * 1955 – Fiona Hall (St Hugh's), Liberal Democrat politician
 * 1963 – Paul Brough (Magdalen), conductor
 * 1965 – David Miliband (Corpus Christi), Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 2007–10

Deaths
 * 1743 – John Wynne (Jesus), Principal of Jesus 1712–20, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1727–43
 * 1776 – Sir Richard Bampfylde, 4th Baronet New College), politician
 * 1929 – Hugh Edward Hoare (Balliol), brewer and Liberal politician
 * 1939 – Percy Worthington (Corpus Christi), architect
 * 1969 – Leonard Hodgson (Hertford and Christ Church), Regius Professor of Divinity 1944–58
 * 1966 – Francis Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden (Christ Church), Liberal politician
 * 2005 – David Daiches (Balliol), Scottish literary historian and critic
 * 2007 – Alberto Romão Dias, Portuguese chemist
 * 2009 – Brian Goodwin, Canadian mathematician