Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 9

Births
 * 1775 – Matthew Lewis (Christ Church), novelist and dramatist
 * 1790 – Sir John Taylor Coleridge (Corpus Christi and Exeter), judge
 * 1799 – Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman (Christ Church), politician and Lord Lieutenant of Somerset
 * 1853 – Tetley Gant (St John's), Australian barrister and politician
 * 1866 – Sir Arthur Colefax (Merton and Christ Church), lawyer and politician
 * 1877 – William Keble Martin (Christ Church), priest and botanist
 * 1869 – Sir Milne Cheetham (Christ Church), diplomat
 * 1895 – Leslie Boyce (Balliol), Australian politician
 * 1902 – Peter Acland (Christ Church), soldier
 * 1927 – Richard N. Gardner, American diplomat and law professor
 * 1937 – Sir Brian Harrison (Corpus Christi), historian
 * 1912 – D. G. Champernowne, economist and mathematician
 * 1916 – Sir Edward Heath (Balliol, Oxford), British Prime Minister 1970–74
 * 1918 – John Heath-Stubbs (Queen's), poet
 * 1933 – Oliver Sacks (Queen's), neurologist and writer
 * 1940 – David B. Frohnmayer, Oregon Attorney General 1981–91
 * 1947 – Patrick Wormald (Balliol, All Souls and Christ Church), historian
 * 1949 – Roz Kaveney (Pembroke), writer and editor
 * 1963 – John Mark Ainsley (Magdalen), tenor
 * 1963 – Adrian Flook (Mansfield), Conservative politician
 * 1974 – Siân Berry (Trinity), Green Party politician

Deaths
 * 1563 – Richard Smyth (Merton, St Alban Hall and Magdalen), Registrar of the University of Oxford and first Regius Professor of Divinity
 * 1912 – Edmund Hegan Kennard, politician
 * 1943 – Sir George Sitwell (Christ Church), writer and politician
 * 1961 – Sir John Crowder (Christ Church), soldier and politician
 * 1968 – Sir Alexander Cadogan (Balliol), civil servant
 * 1974 – Sir Harry Brittain (Worcester), journalist and politician
 * 2010 – Sir Marrack Goulding (Magdalen), Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations 1986–97