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

Births
 * 1614 – Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet (Brasenose), historian and antiquarian
 * 1649 – John Floyer, physician and author
 * 1783 – Sir George Bowyer, 6th Baronet (Christ Church), politician
 * 1878 – Edward Thomas (Lincoln), poet
 * 1883 – Cyril Burt (Jesus), educational psychologist
 * 1883 – Adrian Stoop, England rugby union international
 * 1886 – R. O. Morris (New College), composer and music teacher
 * 1915 – William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead (Exeter), civil servant
 * 1920 – Denis Mack Smith (All Souls and Wolfson), historian of Italy
 * 1923 – Meghrajji III of Dhrangadhra-Halvad (Christ Church), Maharaja of Dhrangadhra Halvad
 * 1934 – Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville (Balliol), Conservative politician
 * 1940 – Rupert Hoare (Trinity), Bishop of Dudley 1993–1999, Dean of Liverpool 1999–2007
 * 1935 – George Gardiner (Balliol), Conservative politician
 * 1945 – Nicolas Bratza (Brasenose), judge
 * 1949 – John Misha Petkevich, American figure-skater
 * 1979 – Andrew Triggs-Hodge (St Catherine's), gold medal winner in rowing at the Olympics and World Championships

Deaths
 * 1703 – Robert Hooke (Christ Church and Wadham), scientist
 * 1907 – Oronhyatekha (St Edmund Hall), Mohawk physician, the first Aboriginal known to have studied at Oxford
 * 1932 – Ernest Howard Griffiths (Jesus), physicist
 * 1993 – Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale (Balliol), Conservative politician
 * 2010 – Michael Foot (Wadham), Leader of the Labour Party 1980–1983