Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 16

Births

• 1855 – A. J. Webbe (Trinity), cricketer
• 1918 – Sir William Wade (St John's), academic lawyer
• 1923 – Christine Brooke-Rose (Somerville), author and critic
• 1925 – Sir Peter Hirsch (St Edmund Hall), metallurgist
• 1933 – Susan Sontag (St Anne's), American author and literary theorist

Deaths

• 1794 – Edward Gibbon (Magdalen), historian
• 1900 – Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers (Christ Church), politician and army officer
• 1937 – Edmund Knox (Corpus Christi and Merton), Bishop of Manchester 1901–37
• 1967 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist
• 1982 – Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, Irish cricketer and art collector
• 1990 – Louis Serrurier, South African international cricketer
• 1991 – Nicholas Mansergh (Pembroke), historian
• 2001 – Auberon Waugh (Christ Church), author and journalist
• 2001 – Thomas Hart, Scottish international rugby player and international cricketer
• 2006 – James Chadwin (Jesus), barrister
• 2009 – Norman Gash (St John's), historian
• 2009 – Sir John Mortimer (Brasenose), barrister and author