Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/September 2

Births
 * 1675 – William Somervile (New College), poet
 * 1702 – John Evans (Jesus), Welsh clergyman
 * 1705 – Abraham Tucker (Merton), country gentleman and philosopher
 * 1794 – John Boileau (Merton), archaeologist
 * 1856 – Robert Lawrence Ottley (Pembroke, Christ Church and Magdalen), Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology
 * 1859 – Edmund Powell (Trinity), Bishop of Mashonaland 1908–10
 * 1877 – Frederick Soddy (Merton), radiochemist and Nobel Prize winner
 * 1892 – Edmund Herring (New College), Australian soldier, judge and Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
 * 1906 – Christopher Lloyd (Lincoln), naval historian
 * 1926 – Wynne Godley (New College), economist
 * 1928 – Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury (Balliol), Liberal Democrat politician
 * 1931 – David Young (Balliol and Wycliffe Hall), Bishop of Ripon 1977–2000
 * 1938 – Glyn Worsnip (St John's), journalist and presenter
 * 1936 – Marrack Goulding (Magdalen and Wolfson), diplomat and Warden of Wolfson 1997–2006
 * 1948 – Robert Wilkes (Trinity), Dean of Birmingham 2006–09
 * 1955 – George Efstathiou (Keble and New College), astrophysicist and former Savilian Professor of Astronomy
 * 1962 – Keir Starmer (St Edmund Hall), Director of Public Prosecutions 2008–13 and Labour politician

Deaths
 * 1701 – Robert Huntington (Merton), Bishop of Raphoe July to September 1701
 * 1764 – Nathaniel Bliss (Pembroke), Savilian Professor of Geometry and Astronomer Royal
 * 1783 – Edward Edwards (Jesus), Welsh clergyman and classicist
 * 1823 – Thomas Winstanley (Brasenose, Hertford and St Alban Hall), Camden Professor of Ancient History and Laudian Professor of Arabic
 * 1842 – John Ireland (Oriel), Dean of Westminster and founder of the Dean Ireland's Professorship of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture
 * 1850 – Charles Williams-Wynn (Christ Church), politician
 * 1920 – Charles James Lyall (Balliol), civil servant and Arabic scholar
 * 1930 – Archibald Strong (Magdalen), Australian scholar and poet
 * 1935 – A. C. Bradley (Balliol), literary scholar and Oxford Professor of Poetry
 * 1936 – William Rees (Jesus), Welsh priest and writer
 * 1953 – Christopher H. Gilkes (Trinity), schoolmaster
 * 1955 – George Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope (Christ Church), Conservative politician
 * 1965 – Harry Hylton-Foster (Magdalen), Speaker of the House of Commons 1959–65
 * 1968 – Henry Bunbury (St John's), civil servant and accountant
 * 1969 – Norman Manley (Jesus), Chief Minister of Jamaica 1955–62
 * 1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien (Exeter, Merton and Pembroke), author and scholar
 * 1979 – Felix Aylmer (Exeter), actor on stage and screen