Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 27

Births
 * 1817 – Alfred Lowth, cricketer
 * 1822 – William John Evelyn (Balliol), politician
 * 1870 – Hilaire Belloc (Balliol), Anglo-French writer and historian
 * 1909 – Charles Brasch (St John's), New Zealand poet and literary editor
 * 1914 – William Douglas Allen (New College), physicist and electrical engineer
 * 1917 – Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet (Worcester), poet
 * 1921 – Philip Sheppard (Worcester), geneticist and lepidopterist
 * 1930 – Shirley Williams (Somerville), politician and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party
 * 1923 – Peter Baelz, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology
 * 1942 – Tony Greaves, Baron Greaves (Hertford), Liberal Democrat politician
 * 1981 – Pete Reed, winner of gold medals in rowing at the Olympics and World Championships

Deaths
 * 1777 – William Hayes (Magdalen), composer and organist
 * 1892 – Robert Lowe (University and Magdalen), Chancellor of the Exchequer 1868–73
 * 1986 – Osbert Lancaster (Lincoln), cartoonist
 * 1999 – Malachi Martin, Catholic theologian
 * 2000 – Bruce Douglas-Mann (Jesus), Labour then Social Democratic Party politician
 * 2001 – Harold Beeley (Queen's), diplomat and historian
 * 2005 – Leonard Ingrams (Corpus Christi), founder of Garsington Opera