Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/January 29

Births

• 1888 – Sydney Chapman (Queen's), Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy 1946–53

Deaths

• 1841 – John Cooke, cricketer
• 1877 – Peter Erle (New College), barrister
• 1928 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (Brasenose), Field Marshal during the First World War
• 2010 – Adam Alexander Dawson (Queen's), film editor