Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/September 5

Births

• 1802 – Frederick Oakeley (Christ Church), priest and translator into English of "O come all ye faithful"
• 1829 – William Odling (Worcester), chemist who helped to develop the periodic table
• 1834 – Robinson Ellis (Balliol and Trinity), classical scholar
• 1845 – George Kennion (Oriel), Bishop of Adelaide 1882–94 and of Bath and Wells 1894–1921
• 1861 – Sir Walter Raleigh (Merton), Merton Professor of English Literature 1904–22
• 1861 – Henry Tristram, rugby union international and cricketer
• 1862 – Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston (Trinity), President of Trinity 1907–38
• 1881 – John Parker (Brasenose), politician and barrister
• 1885 – Jenkin Alban Davies (Jesus), Welsh rugby union international
• 1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (All Souls), Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics 1936–52 and President of India 1962–67
• 1887 – Charles Fairburn (Brasenose), railway engineer
• 1912 – Fredrick de Saram (Keble), Sri Lankan cricketer, lawyer and military coup plotter
• 1922 – Sir Denys Wilkinson, nuclear physicist
• 1934 – Russell Harty (Exeter), television presenter
• 1936 – Jonathan Kozol (Magdalen), American writer on education issues
• 1943 – David Atkinson (Corpus Christi), Bishop of Thetford 2001–09
• 1944 – Gareth Evans (Magdalen), Australian Labor politician
• 1954 – Christopher Prentice, diplomat
• 1962 – Peter Wingfield (Brasenose), Welsh actor

Deaths

• 1569 – Edmund Bonner (Broadgates Hall), twice Bishop of London in the 16th century
• 1929 – James Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands (Balliol), Scottish civil servant and politician
• 1951 – Alexander McCulloch (University), Olympic rower
• 1952 – Roy Robinson, 1st Baron Robinson (Magdalen), forester and public servant
• 1999 – Alan Clark (Christ Church), Conservative politician and diarist