Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 27

Births

• 1832 – Lewis Carroll (Christ Church), mathematician and author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• 1910 – Douglas Raikes, cricketer
• 1919 – David Eastwood (St Edmund Hall), soldier who won the Military Cross
• 1935 – Dame Gillian Beer (St Anne's), King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge, 1994–2002
• 1963 – George Monbiot (Brasenose), writer
• 1968 – Matthew d'Ancona (Magdalen and All Souls), journalist
• 1979 – Rosamund Pike (Wadham), actress

Deaths

• 1895 – Reginald Hobhouse (Balliol), Archdeacon of Bodmin 1878–92
• 2009 – John Updike (Ruskin School of Art), writer and critic