Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 29

Births

• 1888 –
  Queen's), Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy
  1946–53

Deaths

• 1841 – John Cooke, cricketer
• 1877 – Peter Erle (New College), barrister
• 1928 –
  Field Marshal
  during the First World War
• 2010 –
  Queen's
  ), film editor