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

Births

• 1770 – George Canning (Christ Church), Prime Minister 1827
• 1788 – Charles Rumbold (Oriel), politician
• 1789 – John Mills (Christ Church), politician and cricketer
• 1825 – Alexander Mackonochie (Wadham), Anglican priest known as "the martyr of St Alban's"
• 1865 – Sir Charles Welby, 5th Baronet (Christ Church), civil servant and politician
• 1882 – Horace Kallen, American philosopher
• 1883 – Ernst Stadler (Magdalen), German poet
• 1889 – E. H. W. Meyerstein (Magdalen), writer and poet
• 1894 – Angus Buchanan (Jesus), winner of the Victoria Cross
• 1910 – James Munro Bertram (New College), New Zealand writer and journalist
• 1913 – Angus Wilson (Merton), novelist
• 1928 – James Robertson (Balliol), political and economic thinker
• 1930 – Michael Quinlan (Merton), civil servant
• 1944 – Martin Linton (Pembroke), Labour politician

Deaths

• 1486 – William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester 1447–86, Lord Chancellor 1456–60 and founder of Magdalen College
• 1813 – Henry James Pye (Magdalen), Poet Laureate 1790–1813
• 1840 – John Rickman (Lincoln), Parliamentary official and statistician
• 1890 – John Henry Newman (Trinity), Catholic theologian and writer
• 1971 – Geoffrey Foster, cricketer
• 1977 – Frederic Calland Williams (Magdalen), co-pioneer of the Manchester Mark 1 computer
• 1979 – J. G. Farrell (Brasenose), novelist
• 2002 – Richard Wood, Baron Holderness (New College), Conservative politician
• 2007 – Michael Frede, historian of philosophy
• 2010 – Geoffrey Johnson Smith (Lincoln), Conservative politician