Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/September 4

Births

• 1580 – George Percy (Gloucester Hall), explorer and colonial governor of Virginia
• 1634 – Robert South (Christ Church), priest and Public Orator of the University
• 1672 – Hugh Boulter (Christ Church and Magdalen), Archbishop of Armagh 1724–42
• 1818 – Richard Congreve (Wadham), philosopher
• 1881 – Sir Albert Napier (New College), Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office 1944–54
• 1891 – Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (St John's), German general
• 1900 – Cyril Hare (New College), judge and crime writer
• 1905 – Mary Renault (St Hugh's), writer of historial fiction
• 1915 – Roland Mathias (Jesus), poet and writer
• 1930 – Ann Dummett (Somerville), race relations campaigner
• 1944 – Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson (Nuffield), economist and Warden of Nuffield 1994–2005

Deaths

• 1417 – Robert Hallam, Chancellor of the University 1403–05 and Bishop of Salisbury 1407–17
• 1588 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Chancellor of the University 1564–88
• 1753 – Sir Andrew Fountaine (Christ Church), antiquarian and art collector
• 1613 – John Williams (Corpus Christi, All Souls and Jesus), Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Principal of Jesus
• 1850 – James Ingram (Trinity), Rawlinson Professor of Anglo-Saxon 1803–08, Keeper of the Archives 1815–18 and President of Trinity 1824–50
• 1906 – William Bowen Rowlands (Jesus), politician and lawyer
• 1915 – Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet (Christ Church), politician and Governor of Victoria 1911–13
• 1927 – Bernard Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge (Trinity), politician and judge
• 1962 – Elwyn Brook-Jones (Jesus), actor
• 1989 – Sir Ronald Syme (Oriel, Trinity, Brasenose and Wolfson), Camden Professor of Ancient History 1949–70
• 1977 – E. F. Schumacher (New College), economist
• 1988 – Sir Leonard Huxley (New College), Australian physicist
• 1994 – Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter (Balliol), publisher and politician