Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 16

Births
 * 1842 – Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Baronet (Christ Church), barrister and politician
 * 1860 – Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist
 * 1931 – Fergus Gordon Kerr (Blackfriars), Catholic theologian and Regent of Blackfriars 1998–2004
 * 1979 – Douglas Murray (Magdalen), journalist and political writer

Deaths
 * 1736 – Thomas Yalden (Magdalen Hall and Magdalen College), poet and translator
 * 1763 – William Morgan (Christ Church), Welsh politician
 * 1796 – William Gerard Hamilton (Oriel), politician
 * 1834 – Michael Angelo Taylor (Corpus Christi), barrister and politician
 * 1953 – Hilaire Belloc (Balliol), Anglo-French writer and historian
 * 1968 – Norman Robertson, Canadian diplomat
 * 1995 – Stephen Spender (University), poet
 * 1999 – Barri Jones (Jesus), classicist and archaeologist