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

Births

• 1702 – Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet (Magdalen), politician
• 1815 – Sir Charles Forster, 1st Baronet (Worcester), politician
• 1829 – Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel (Balliol), Speaker of the House of Commons 1884–95
• 1830 – Edwin Berkeley Portman (Balliol), politician and barrister
• 1844 – Herbert Armitage James (Jesus, Lincoln and St John's), headmaster of Rugby School 1895–1909 and President of St John's 1909–31
• 1866 – Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet (New College), politician
• 1876 – Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane (Merton), diplomat and 17th British Resident of Perak
• 1888 – John Aidan Liddell (Balliol), winner of the Victoria Cross
• 1905 – Roger Wilson (Keble), Bishop of Chichester 1958–74
• 1908 – Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn (Trinity), Minister of Pensions and National Insurance 1962–63
• 1913 – John Wilfrid Linnett (St John's and Queen's), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1973–75
• 1926 – Anthony Sampson (Christ Church), writer and journalist
• 1964 – Abhisit Vejjajiva (St John's), Prime Minister of Thailand since 2008

Deaths

• 1597 – Richard Meredith (Jesus), Church of Ireland Bishop of Leighlin 1589–97
• 1768 – Thomas Secker (Exeter), Archbishop of Canterbury 1758–68
• 1948 – Albert Pollard (Jesus), historian of the Tudor period
• 1949 – Thomas Higson (New College), cricketer
• 2009 – Christopher Elrington (University), historian with the Victoria County History series
• 2015 – Robert Conquest (Magdalen), historian of the Soviet Union