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

Births

1675 – William Somervile (New College), poet
1702 – Jesus
), Welsh clergyman

1705 – Merton
), country gentleman and philosopher

1794 – Merton
), archaeologist

1856 – Magdalen), Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology

1859 – Bishop of Mashonaland
1908–10

1877 – Merton
), radiochemist and Nobel Prize winner
1892 – Edmund Herring (New College), Australian soldier, judge and Lieutenant Governor of Victoria

1906 – Lincoln
), naval historian

1926 – Wynne Godley (New College), economist

1928 – Balliol
), Liberal Democrat politician

1931 – Balliol and Wycliffe Hall), Bishop of Ripon
1977–2000

1938 – St John's
), journalist and presenter

1936 – Wolfson
), diplomat and Warden of Wolfson 1997–2006
1948 – Trinity), Dean of Birmingham
2006–09

1955 – 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 – Merton), Bishop of Raphoe
July to September 1701

1764 – Pembroke), Savilian Professor of Geometry and Astronomer Royal

1783 – Jesus
), Welsh clergyman and classicist
1823 – Hertford and St Alban Hall), Camden Professor of Ancient History and Laudian Professor of Arabic

1842 – 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 – Balliol
), civil servant and Arabic scholar

1930 – Magdalen
), Australian scholar and poet

1935 – Oxford Professor of Poetry

1936 – Jesus
), Welsh priest and writer

1953 – Trinity
), schoolmaster

1955 – George Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope (Christ Church), Conservative politician

1965 – Magdalen), Speaker of the House of Commons
1959–65

1968 – St John's
), civil servant and accountant

1969 – Chief Minister of Jamaica
1955–62

1973 – Pembroke
), author and scholar

1979 – Exeter
), actor on stage and screen