Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 10

Births

• 1746 – John Gutch (All Souls and Corpus Christi), University Registrar 1797–1824
• 1834 – John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (All Souls), writer who originated the phrase "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
• 1845 – Robert Torrens O'Neill (Brasenose), politician
• 1894 – Geoffrey Jackson (Balliol), cricketer
• 1900 – Philip Bell (Queen's), lawyer and politician
• 1911 – Norman Heatley (Lincoln), scientist who helped develop penicillin
• 1916 – William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir (New College), writer
• 1925 – Geoffrey Keighley (Trinity), cricketer, lawyer and politician
• 1927 – Harry Edwards, Australian politician
• 1928 – Peter Mathias (All Souls), Chichele Professor of Economic History
• 1936 – Walter Bodmer, Principal of Hertford 1996–2005
• 1938 – Donald Knuth (Magdalen), computer scientist
• 1947 – Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (University and Nuffield), politician
• 1976 – Khairy Jamaluddin (St Hugh's), Malaysian politician

Deaths

• 1645 – William Laud (St John's), Chancellor of the University 1630–41 and Archbishop of Canterbury 1633–45
• 1787 – Harry Peckham (New College), lawyer who helped to draft the laws of cricket
• 1931 – Lord Francis Hervey (Balliol and Hertford), barrister and politician
• 1936 – Raleigh Grey (Brasenose), soldier and businessman
• 1984 – Alasdair Clayre (Christ Church and All Souls), singer-songwriter and author
• 1986 – Martin Stevens (Trinity), politician
• 1987 – Ian Harvey (Christ Church), businessman and politician
• 1997 – Alexander R. Todd (Oriel), Scottish biochemist
• 2006 – Alethea Hayter (Lady Margaret Hall), author and British Council representative
• 2010 – Crispin Sorhaindo (Trinity), fourth President of Dominica
• 2011 – John Gross (Wadham), author and critic