Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/February 29

Births

• 1808 – Charles Pritchard (New College), Savilian Professor of Astronomy 1870–93
• 1872 – Cuthbert James (Magdalen), soldier and politician
• 1936 – Arthur Marwick (Balliol), social and cultural historian
• 1944 – Sir Callum McCarthy (Merton), former chairman of the Financial Services Authority
• 1948 – Hermione Lee (St Hilda's, St Cross and New College), President of Wolfson College
• 1952 – Kevin W.S. Roberts (Nuffield), Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics since 1999
• 1968 – Andrew Wilson (Corpus Christi, Magdalen, Wolfson and All Souls), Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire since 2004

Deaths

• 1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers (Christ Church and Hart Hall), French scientist and inventor of the planetarium
• 1920 – Arthur Henry Bullen (Worcester), editor and publisher
• 1924 – Roger Leigh (Christ Church), politician
• 1936 – Frank Byron Jevons (Wadham), philosopher and Master of Hatfield College, Durham 1897–1922
• 1940 – Prince Alexander Obolensky (Brasenose), Russian-born English rugby union international player
• 1948 – Robert Barrington-Ward (Balliol), barrister and journalist
• 1948 – Sir Charles Robertson (Hertford and All Souls), historian
• 1964 – Denham Sutcliffe (Hertford), American author and academic
• 1980 – Yigal Allon (St Antony's), Israeli politician