Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 28

Births

• 1840 – George Thomas Kenyon (Christ Church), politician
• 1904 – Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet (New College), High Sheriff of Berkshire
• 1926 – Donald Carr, cricketer
• 1937 – Sir John Carter (Jesus), businessman
• 1940 – Peter M. Neumann (Queen's), mathematician
• 1945 – Max Hastings (University), journalist and writer
• 1951 – Ian Buruma (St Antony's), Dutch writer
• 1960 – Nicola Horlick (Balliol), investment fund manager

Other events

• 2000 – John Kufuor (Exeter) is elected President of Ghana.

Deaths

• 1644 – John Bankes (Queen's), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1641–1644
• 1674 – John Oxenbridge (Magdalen Hall), non-conformist clergyman
• 1723 – Sir Charles Lloyd, 1st Baronet, of Milfield (Jesus), politician
• 1835 – William Turton (Oriel), natural historian
• 1854 – Rowland Williams (Jesus), Welsh clergyman and writer
• 1889 – Francis Albert Marshall (Exeter), playwright
• 1949 – Jack Lovelock (Exeter), New Zealand athlete
• 1965 – Jeremy Wolfenden (Magdalen and All Souls), journalist and spy
• 2003 – John Terraine (Keble), military historian
• 2006 – Mandy Mitchell-Innes (Brasenose), English test match cricketer
• 2008 – Michael Levey (Exeter), art historian
• 2008 – Susan Sontag (St Anne's), American author and literary theorist