Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 12

Births

• 1860 – Sir Charles Oman (New College and All Souls), Chichele Professor of Modern History
• 1891 – Sir John Cecil Masterman (Worcester and Christ Church), writer and academic who ran the Double-Cross System of agents during the Second World War
• 1891 – Henry Wells (Magdalen), rower and judge
• 1906 – Eric Birley (Brasenose), historian and archeologist
• 1915 – Norman Cohn (Christ Church), historian
• 1927 – Leslie Orgel (Magdalen), chemist
• 1935 – John Gross (Wadham), writer and editor
• 1936 – Glen Bowersock (Balliol), American historian of Ancient Greece and Rome
• 1942 – Sir John Stanley (Lincoln), Conservative politician
• 1947 – Richard Carwardine (Corpus Christi and St Catherine's), President of Corpus Christi and former Rhodes Professor of American History
• 1953 – Mary Harron (St Anne's), Canadian filmmaker

Deaths

• 1960 – Nevil Shute (Balliol), novelist
• 2009 – Mick Imlah (Magdalen), Scottish poet
• 2012 – Reginald Hill (St Catherine's), crime writer
• 2015 – John Bayley (New College and St Catherine's), literary critic and husband of Iris Murdoch