Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/July 9

Births

• 1775 – Matthew Lewis (Christ Church), novelist and dramatist
• 1790 – Sir John Taylor Coleridge (Corpus Christi and Exeter), judge
• 1799 – Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman (Christ Church), politician and Lord Lieutenant of Somerset
• 1853 – Tetley Gant (St John's), Australian barrister and politician
• 1866 – Sir Arthur Colefax (Merton and Christ Church), lawyer and politician
• 1877 – William Keble Martin (Christ Church), priest and botanist
• 1869 – Sir Milne Cheetham (Christ Church), diplomat
• 1895 – Leslie Boyce (Balliol), Australian politician
• 1902 – Peter Acland (Christ Church), soldier
• 1927 – Richard N. Gardner, American diplomat and law professor
• 1937 – Sir Brian Harrison (Corpus Christi), historian
• 1912 – D. G. Champernowne, economist and mathematician
• 1916 – Sir Edward Heath (Balliol, Oxford), British Prime Minister 1970–74
• 1918 – John Heath-Stubbs (Queen's), poet
• 1933 – Oliver Sacks (Queen's), neurologist and writer
• 1940 – David B. Frohnmayer, Oregon Attorney General 1981–91
• 1947 – Patrick Wormald (Balliol, All Souls and Christ Church), historian
• 1949 – Roz Kaveney (Pembroke), writer and editor
• 1963 – John Mark Ainsley (Magdalen), tenor
• 1963 – Adrian Flook (Mansfield), Conservative politician
• 1974 – Siân Berry (Trinity), Green Party politician

Deaths

• 1563 – Richard Smyth (Merton, St Alban Hall and Magdalen), Registrar of the University of Oxford and first Regius Professor of Divinity
• 1912 – Edmund Hegan Kennard, politician
• 1943 – Sir George Sitwell (Christ Church), writer and politician
• 1961 – Sir John Crowder (Christ Church), soldier and politician
• 1968 – Sir Alexander Cadogan (Balliol), civil servant
• 1974 – Sir Harry Brittain (Worcester), journalist and politician
• 2010 – Sir Marrack Goulding (Magdalen), Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations 1986–97