Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 3

Births
 * 1805 – James Stuart-Wortley (Christ Church), Solicitor General for England and Wales 1856–57
 * 1832 – Lewis Cave (Lincoln), High Court judge
 * 1861 – Michael Sadler (Trinity, Christ Church and University), historian and Master of University College 1923–34
 * 1941 – Geoffrey Thomas (Linacre and Kellogg), first President of Kellogg College and Director of the Department for Continuing Education
 * 1942 – Neil Gerrard (Wadham), Labour politician
 * 1958 – Siân Lloyd (Jesus), television weather presenter

Deaths
 * 1795 – Lord Henry Spencer (Christ Church), politician and diplomat
 * 1974 – Nicholas Bodington (Lincoln), Special Operations Executive officer
 * 1974 – John Crowe Ransom (Christ Church), American poet and writer
 * 2003 – Anthony McCowan (Brasenose), High Court judge
 * 2006 – Joseph Goguen (St Anne's), computer science academic
 * 2007 – Anne Dreydel (St Anne's), founder of St Clare's International School in Oxford