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

Births
 * 1644 – Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford (Christ Church), politician
 * 1823 – Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury (Merton), three-times Lord Chancellor
 * 1823 – Nevil Story Maskelyne (Wadham), geologist
 * 1830 – Lewis Campbell (Balliol and Queen's), classical scholar
 * 1835 – George Stanton (Hertford), Bishop of Newcastle (New South Wales) 1891–1905
 * 1847 – James Hannington (St Mary Hall), bishop and one of the Martyrs of Uganda
 * 1868 – Ian Malcolm (New College), Conservative politician
 * 1909 – Howard Nixon (Keble), librarian and bibliographer
 * 1912 – James Fisher (Magdalen), naturalist and broadcaster
 * 1920 – Ronald Robinson (Balliol), Beit Professor of Commonwealth History
 * 1938 – Caryl Churchill (Lady Margaret Hall), playwright
 * 1958 – Lance Price (Hertford), journalist and political adviser

Deaths
 * 1721 – Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, politician
 * 1799 – William Thomas (Jesus, Oriel and Pembroke), Welsh clergyman and scholar
 * 1885 – Frederick Bulley (Magdalen), President of Magdalen 1855–85
 * 1901 – Evelyn Abbott (Balliol), classical scholar
 * 1924 – Cyril Jackson (New College), educationalist
 * 1937 – George John Sandys (Pembroke), Conservative politician
 * 1963 – Louis MacNeice (Merton), Irish poet and playwright
 * 1971 – Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne (University), Conservative politician
 * 1979 – Gordon Rawcliffe (Keble), electrical engineer
 * 1996 – Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh (Balliol), Conservative politician
 * 2002 – Dirk ter Haar (Magdalen), physicist
 * 2007 – Lord Michael Pratt (Balliol), historian
 * 2007 – Alan Webster (Queen's), Dean of St Paul's 1978–1987