Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 14

Births

• 1794 – Richard Lynch Cotton (Worcester), Provost of Worcester 1839–80
• 1842 – Henry Duff Traill (St John's), author and journalist
• 1859 – Alfred W. Pollard (St John's), Shakespeare scholar
• 1867 – John Galsworthy (New College), novelist and playwright
• 1873 – Alexander Souter (Mansfield), Biblical scholar
• 1874 – John Knight Fotheringham (Merton and Magdalen), historian of astronomy and chronology
• 1888 – Edgar Hall (Jesus), Archdeacon of Totnes 1948–62
• 1907 – H. Montgomery Hyde (Magdalen), lawyer and politician
• 1933 – Thomas Pakenham (Magdalen), historian
• 1947 – John Methuen (Brasenose), Dean of Ripon 1995–2005
• 1956 – Jonathan Powell (University), Downing Street Chief of Staff under Tony Blair
• 1958 – Philip Dunne (Keble), Conservative politician
• 1981 – Michael Blomquist (St Peter's), American rower

Deaths

• 1598 – Sir Henry Bagenal (Jesus), Marshal of the army in Ireland under Elizabeth I
• 1743 – Edward Northey (Queen's), Attorney General for England and Wales 1701–07 and 1710–18
• 1844 – Henry Francis Cary (Christ Church), author and translator
• 1849 – Edward Copleston (St Mary Hall and Oriel), Oxford Professor of Poetry, Provost of Oriel and Bishop of Llandaff
• 1856 – William Buckland (Corpus Christi), theologian, geologist and palaeontologist
• 1910 – Frank Podmore (Pembroke), author and writer on psychic matters
• 1922 – Hubert Beaumont (Balliol), politician
• 1929 – Geoffrey Scott (New College), architectural historian and poet
• 1982 – Dorothy Whitelock (St Hilda's), Anglo-Saxon historian
• 1994 – Joan Harrison (St Hugh's), screenwriter
• 2006 – John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken (Balliol), writer