Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 26

Births

• 1816 – William Henry Anderdon (Balliol and University), Catholic priest and writer
• 1837 – William Boyd Dawkins (Jesus), geologist and archeologist
• 1858 – Owen Morgan Edwards (Balliol and Lincoln), Welsh historian and writer
• 1868 – Francis Edward Newman Rogers (Balliol), Liberal politician
• 1892 – Archibald Rowlands (Jesus), civil servant
• 1901 – Victor Hely-Hutchinson (Balliol), composer
• 1930 – Elliott H. Levitas, member of the US House of Representatives
• 1930 – Wilferd Madelung, German scholar of Islam
• 1949 – José Ramos-Horta (St Antony's), President of East Timor
• 1956 – Noel Malcolm (All Souls), historian
• 1960 – Andrew Graham-Dixon (Christ Church), art historian
• 1976 – Jake Wetzel (Linacre), Canadian/American rower

Deaths

• 1933 – Henry Watson Fowler (Balliol), schoolmaster and lexicographer
• 1960 – Richard Livingstone (New College and Corpus Christi), classicist and President of Corpus Christi
• 1970 – Henry Campbell (Brasenose), Bishop of London 1956–61
• 1976 – Nathaniel Micklem (New College and Mansfield), theologian and Principal of Mansfield
• 1981 – Robert Price (Wadham), Dean of Hereford 1961–68
• 1989 – Lennox Berkeley (Merton), composer
• 1992 – Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies (Exeter), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
• 2003 – Chauncy Harris, American geographer
• 2004 – Angus Ogilvy (Trinity), businessman and member of the royal family
• 2006 – John Heath-Stubbs (Queen's), poet
• 2008 – David Nicolson, 4th Baron Carnock (Balliol), chief of Clan Nicolson