Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/February 3
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Births
- 1690 – Richard Rawlinson (St John's), antiquarian and founder of the position of Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon
- 1830 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Christ Church), three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1844 – Frederick Spurling (Wadham and Keble), priest and theologian
- 1853 – George W. E. Russell (University), politician
- 1859 – John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner (Balliol and Magdalen), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
- 1872 – Francis Cole (Jesus), zoologist
- 1875 – Sir James Peck (Christ Church), civil servant
- 1903 – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton (Balliol), nobleman and aviator
- 1906 – John Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud (New College and University), civil servant and diplomat
- 1911 – Sir Ralph Freeman (Worcester), civil engineer
- 1912 – John Bryan Ward-Perkins (New College and Magdalen), archeologist and architectural historian
- 1932 – Jonathan Fellows-Smith, South African cricketer
- 1932 – Stuart Hall (Merton), cultural theorist
- 1933 – Paul Sarbanes (Balliol), US Senator
- 1933 – Rex Nettleford (Oriel), Jamaican academic and choreographer
- 1935 – Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim (Christ Church)
- 1940 – T. P. Wiseman (Balliol), classical scholar
- 1957 – Eric Lander, American biologist
- 1966 – John Hillen (St Antony's) US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs 2005–07
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