Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 10

Births

• 1658 – Lancelot Blackburne (Christ Church), Archbishop of York 1724–1743
• 1751 – George Shaw (Magdalen Hall), zoologist and botanist
• 1753 – Richard Thomas (Jesus), Welsh priest and antiquarian
• 1889 – Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading (Balliol), barrister and Conservative politician
• 1889 – Robert Yerburgh, 1st Baron Alvingham (University), Conservative MP
• 1900 – Eric Berthoud (Magdalen), British ambassador
• 1923 – James Leasor (Oriel), author
• 1928 – Jeremy Morse (New College), banker and crossword solver
• 1939 – Barry Cunliffe (Keble), archeologist
• 1944 – John Birt, Baron Birt (St Catherine's), Director-General of the BBC 1992–2000
• 1949 – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Linacre), journalist and author
• 1969 – Bruce Ellison, cricketer

Deaths

• 1626 – Edmund Gunter (Christ Church), mathematician and Gresham Professor of Astronomy
• 1776 – Robert Hay Drummond (Christ Church), Archbishop of York 1761–1776
• 1893 – Edward Trollope (Christ Church), Bishop of Nottingham
• 1940 – Harry Trelawney Eve (Exeter), High Court judge
• 1942 – Henry Miers (Trinity), mineralogist
• 1968 – Geoffrey Harold Woolley (Queen's), winner of the Victoria Cross
• 1987 – Ian Harvey (Christ Church), Conservative politician
• 1988 – Elizabeth Rawson (Corpus Christi), classical scholar
• 1994 – Keith Joseph (Magdalen and All Souls), Conservative politician and leading Thatcherite
• 2007 – Gordon Samuels (Balliol), Governor of New South Wales 1996–2001