Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 5

Births

• 1843 – Mandell Creighton (Merton), Bishop of London 1897–1901
• 1853 – Cecil Rhodes (Oriel), politician, businessman and founder of the Rhodes Scholarships
• 1876 – Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet (Balliol and All Souls), Conservative politician
• 1883 – Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian
• 1884 – Mary Ada Pickford Lady Margaret Hall, politician and industrialist
• 1893 – Harry Hemley Plaskett, Savilian Professor of Astronomy 1932–60
• 1904 – Harold Acton (Christ Church), writer and dilettante
• 1904 – Hugh Ashdown (Keble), Bishop of Newcastle 1957–73
• 1909 – Douglas Dodds-Parker (Magdalen), Special Operations Executive operative and Conservative politician
• 1935 – Fergus Millar (Trinity and All Souls), Camden Professor of Ancient History 1984–2002
• 1936 – Valerie Flint (Lady Margaret Hall), medieval historian
• 1956 – Vir Sanghvi (Brasenose), Indian journalist
• 1966 – Jim Himes, American politician

Deaths

• 1643 – Bevil Grenville (Exeter), Royalist soldier in the English Civil War and politician
• 1663 – Samuel Newman (Trinity), clergyman and author of a popular concordance of the Bible
• 1990 – Edith Bülbring, Professor of Pharmacology 1967–71
• 2004 – Robert Burchfield (Magdalen), New Zealand lexicographer
• 2009 – Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker (New College), Conservative politician