Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 2

Births
 * 1695 – Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet (New College), politician
 * 1865 – Herbert Wild (Exeter), Bishop of Newcastle 1915–27
 * 1893 – Francis Simon (Christ Church), physicist who worked on Uranium-235
 * 1903 – Olav V of Norway (Balliol), King of Norway 1957–91
 * 1913 – Max Beloff, Baron Beloff (Corpus Christi, Nuffield and All Souls), historian
 * 1916 – Alec Hill (Balliol), Australian military historian
 * 1939 – Ferdinand Mount (Christ Church), writer
 * 1942 – John Eekelaar (Pembroke), legal scholar

Deaths
 * 1621 – Thomas Harriot (St Mary Hall), astronomer and mathematician
 * 1850 – Robert Peel (Christ Church), twice British Prime Minister
 * 1972 – Joseph Fison (Queen's and Wycliffe Hall), Bishop of Salisbury 1963–73
 * 2008 – Glencairn Balfour Paul (Magdalen), diplomat