Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/September 6

Births
 * 1767 – Thomas Bayly Howell (Christ Church), lawyer and writer
 * 1785 – Francis Robert Bonham (Corpus Christi), politician and Storekeeper of the Ordnance
 * 1860 – George Irby, 6th Baron Boston (Christ Church), scientist and politician
 * 1863 – Walter Robberds (Keble), Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church 1908–34
 * 1908 – Sir Anthony Wagner (Balliol), officer of arms and genealogist
 * 1915 – Sir Derman Christopherson (University), engineering scientist, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
 * 1921 – John Bickersteth (Christ Church), Bishop of Bath and Wells 1975–87
 * 1932 – Sir Colin McColl (Queen's), Head of the Secret Intelligence Service 1989–94
 * 1951 – David Moxon (St Peter's), one of the joint archbishops of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia since 2006
 * 1952 – Simon Burns (Worcester), Conservative politician
 * 1963 – John Laughland, journalist

Deaths
 * 1727 – George Hooper (Christ Church), Bishop of St Asaph 1703–04 and of Bath and Wells 1704–27
 * 1748 – Edmund Gibson (Queen's), Bishop of Lincoln 1716–23 and of London 1723–48
 * 1866 – Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook (Christ Church), politician
 * 1935 – John Bede Dalley (University), Australian journalist
 * 1950 – Olaf Stapledon (Balliol), philosopher and science fiction writer
 * 1972 – Dyneley Hussey (Corpus Christi), war poet and journalist
 * 1973 – Sir William Henry Harris (New College and Christ Church), organist and composer
 * 1974 – Sir Adrian Holman (New College), diplomat
 * 1990 – E. F. Watling (University), classics teacher