Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 24

Births
 * 1843 – Nathaniel Dawes (St Alban Hall), Bishop of Rockhampton 1892–1909
 * 1871 – Adair Roche, Baron Roche (Wadham), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1935–38
 * 1873 – Robert Barclay Fox (Magdalen), Conservative politician
 * 1904 – Hubert Duggan (Christ Church), Conservative politician
 * 1909 – Geoffrey Bing (Lincoln), Labour politician
 * 1910 – Edward Ford (New College), royal courtier
 * 1915 – Frank Byers (Christ Church), Liberal politician
 * 1945 – Frank Close (Magdalen and Exeter), physicist
 * 1950 – Alex Callinicos (Balliol), Trotskyist political theorist
 * 1953 – Julian Brazier (Brasenose), Conservative politician

Deaths
 * 1588 – Nicholas Garlick (Gloucester Hall), Catholic martyr
 * 1594 – John Boste (Queen's), Catholic saint and one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
 * 1612 – John Salusbury (Jesus), poet and politician
 * 2005 – Richard Doll (Christ Church and Green), Regius Professor of Medicine and Warden of Green College
 * 2007 – Geoffrey Nuttall (Balliol and Mansfield), church historian