Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 11

Births

• 1803 – Lord Dudley Stuart (Christ Church), politician
• 1818 – Daniel Silvan Evans (Jesus), lexicographer
• 1825 – William Spottiswoode (Balliol, Oxford), mathematician and physicist
• 1905 – Clyde Kluckhohn (Corpus Christi), American anthropologist
• 1916 – William Hugh Clifford Frend (Keble), ecclesiastical historian
• 1917 – Richard Sayce (Jesus and Worcester), scholar of French literature
• 1934 – Tony Hoare (Merton), computer scientist
• 1938 – Sir Alastair Morton (Worcester), railway executive
• 1949 – Adam Zamoyski (Queen's), historian of Poland
• 1954 – John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (Wadham), politician who served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Chancellor
• 1962 – Chris Bryant (Mansfield), politician
• 1971 – Tom Ward (Lincoln), actor
• 1986 – Rachel Riley (Oriel), co-presenter of Countdown

Deaths

• 1968 – Moshe Zvi Segal, rabbi and Talmudic scholar
• 1980 – Barbara Pym (St Hilda's), novelist
• 1997 – Ian White-Thomson (Brasenose), Dean of Canterbury 1963–76
• 1998 – John Wells (St Edmund Hall), writer and satirist
• 1999 – Naomi Mitchison (Society of Oxford Home-Students), novelist and poet
• 2000 – Barney Childs, American composer
• 2001 – Oliver Gurney (New College and Magdalen), Assyriologist