Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 21

Births
 * 1870 – William Brain, cricketer
 * 1888 – Hector Hetherington (Merton), Scottish philosopher and Principal of the University of Glasgow 1936–61
 * 1944 – Alexander Pollock (Brasenose), Scottish Conservative politician
 * 1945 – Wendy Cope (St Hilda's), poet
 * 1955 – Andrew Gray, anthropologist
 * 1962 – Hugh Possingham (St John's), Australian mathematical ecologist

Deaths
 * 1688 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Chancellor of the University 1669–88
 * 1747 – Robert Clavering (Lincoln, University and Christ Church), Bishop of Peterborough 1728–47
 * 1906 – John Gott (Brasenose), Bishop of Truro 1891–1906
 * 1969 – David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins (Balliol), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
 * 1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs (University), British Ambassador to Ireland, killed by the IRA