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

Births

• 1552 – Alberico Gentili, Regius Professor of Civil Law 1587–1608
• 1615 – John Biddle (Magdalen Hall), Unitarian
• 1737 – Sir Robert Chambers (Lincoln, University and New Inn Hall), Vinerian Professor of English Law 1766–77
• 1782 – Stephen Lushington (Christ Church and All Souls), politician and Dean of Arches 1858–67
• 1830 – Edward Parry (Balliol), Bishop of Dover 1870–90
• 1860 – George Hampson (Exeter), entomologist
• 1900 – James Page (Jesus), rower
• 1926 – Warren Mitchell (University), actor
• 1934 – Lourens Ackermann (Worcester), South African judge
• 1949 – Franklin Raines (Magdalen), former chairman of the American Federal National Mortgage Association
• 1965 – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (St Peter's), celebrity chef

Deaths

• 1640 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry (Balliol), Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 1625–40
• 1742 – Edmond Halley (Queen's), astronomer
• 1898 – Lewis Carroll (Christ Church), mathematician and author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• 1901 – Mandell Creighton (Merton), Bishop of London 1897–1901
• 1907 – Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet (University), Governor-General of New Zealand 1873–74
• 1915 – Richard Meux Benson (Christ Church), founder of the Society of St. John the Evangelist
• 1932 – Sir Sidney Low (Pembroke and Balliol), historian and journalist
• 1947 – Cecil Madigan (Magdalen), Australian explorer and geologist
• 1959 – G. D. H. Cole (Balliol), political theorist
• 1968 – Henry Lewis (Jesus), academic of Welsh literature and language
• 1977 – Anthony Eden (Christ Church), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1955–57