Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/May 8

Births
 * 1858 – J. Meade Falkner (Hertford), novelist and poet
 * 1873 – H. D. G. Leveson Gower, Magdalen), England cricket captain
 * 1873 – Nevil Sidgwick (Christ Church and Lincoln), chemist
 * 1879 – Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham (Christ Church), politician and soldier
 * 1894 – Edwin Morris (St John's), Archbishop of Wales 1957–1967
 * 1897 – Guy Blaikie, cricketer
 * 1920 – Maurice Cranston (St Catherine's), philosopher and author
 * 1904 – John Snagge (Pembroke), radio newsreader and commentator
 * 1921 – Graham Leonard (Balliol), Bishop of London 1981–1991
 * 1925 – Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle (Christ Church), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1988–1996
 * 1934 – Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann (Queen's), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1995–2009
 * 1939 – William Cookson (New College), poet and literary editor
 * 1946 – Jonathan Dancy (Corpus Christi and All Souls), philosopher
 * 1946 – Ruth Padel (Lady Margaret Hall and Wadham), poet
 * 1946 – Andrew Sherratt, archeologist based at the Ashmolean Museum
 * 1969 – Jonny Searle (Christ Church), gold-medal winning Olympic rower

Deaths
 * 1662 – Peter Heylin (Hart Hall and Magdalen), priest and writer
 * 1781 – Richard Jago (University), poet
 * 1860 – Horace Hayman Wilson, first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford
 * 1883 – Sir Thomas Bernard, 6th Baronet (Christ Church), politician
 * 1904 – Frederick York Powell (Christ Church and Oriel), historian
 * 1926 – W. A. B. Coolidge (Exeter and Magdalen), American historian, theologian and mountaineer
 * 1960 – J. H. C. Whitehead (Balliol), mathematician
 * 1975 – Bram Fischer (New College), South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist