Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/September 7

Births
 * 1804 – Thomas Thomas (Jesus), Welsh clergyman
 * 1805 – Samuel Wilberforce (Oriel), Bishop of Winchester
 * 1814 – William Butterfield, architect of Keble College
 * 1830 – Charles Henry Pearson (Oriel), historian
 * 1893 – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha (St John's), Minister of Transport and Secretary of State for War
 * 1905 – Kathleen Coburn (St Hugh's), Canadian academic of English literature
 * 1912 – Gwynno James (Keble), Dean of Brecon 1964–67
 * 1914 – Billy Hughes (Balliol), Labour politician
 * 1914 – Mandy Mitchell-Innes (Brasenose), England test cricketer
 * 1917 – Leonard Cheshire (Merton), RAF pilot and charity worker
 * 1917 – John Cornforth (St Catherine's), Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
 * 1943 – Chris Green (Oriel), railway manager
 * 1947 – Peter Wheatley (Queen's), Bishop of Edmonton since 1999
 * 1949 – Martin Kettle (Balliol), journalist
 * 1956 – Robert Reed, Lord Reed (Balliol), Scottish judge

Deaths
 * 1665 – Adam Blakeman (Christ Church), first minister of the church in Stratford, Connecticut
 * 1696 – John Powell (Jesus), Welsh judge
 * 1700 – William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (Magdalen), civil war soldier
 * 1719 – John Harris (Trinity), encyclopaedia writer
 * 1850 – David Williams (Jesus), geologist
 * 1897 – Lewis Cave (Lincoln), High Court judge
 * 1929 – Frederic Weatherly (Brasenose), author and lyricist ("Danny Boy")
 * 1933 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Balliol), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1905–1916
 * 1952 – Claude Blagden (Corpus Christi), Bishop of Peterborough 1927–49
 * 1956 – C. B. Fry (Wadham), cricketer and polymath
 * 1969 – Gavin Maxwell (Hertford), naturalist and author
 * 1980 – Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne (Magdalen), Lord Chancellor 1962–64
 * 1985 – Ellis Waterhouse (New College), art historian
 * 1990 – A. J. P. Taylor (Oriel and Magdalen), historian
 * 2006 – Cornelius O'Leary (Nuffield), historian and political scientist

Other events
 * 1972 – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt (Magdalen) retires as Governor-General of New Zealand.
 * 2002 – Simon Rattle (St Anne's) gives his first concert as Principal Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.