Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/August 23

Births

• 1637 – Francis Turner (New College), Bishop of Ely 1684–91
• 1815 – Henry Acland (Christ Church and All Souls), Regius Professor of Medicine 1858–94
• 1823 – Henry Bowlby (Wadham), Bishop of Coventry 1891–94
• 1828 – Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet (Exeter), barrister and politician
• 1846 – Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet (Exeter), barrister and politician
• 1852 – Arnold Toynbee (Pembroke and Balliol), economic historian
• 1856 – Harold Finch-Hatton (Balliol), politician
• 1869 – Robert Gunther (Magdalen), founder of the Museum of the History of Science
• 1876 – Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow (University), government minister
• 1885 – Henry Tizard (Magdalen), chemist and President of Magdalen 1942–46
• 1900 – Arthur fforde (Trinity), Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors 1957–64
• 1922 – James Tinn (Jesus), Labour politician
• 1929 – George Bull (Brasenose), journalist
• 1941 – Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, philosopher

Deaths

• 1348 – John de Stratford (Merton), Archbishop of Canterbury 1333–48
• 1524 – Edmund Audley (University), Bishop of Salisbury 1502–24
• 1916 – Sir Richard Martin, 1st Baronet, of Overbury Court (Exeter), banker and politician
• 1921 – Francis Jayne (Wadham and Jesus), Bishop of Chester 1889–1919
• 1934 – Edward Burroughs (Balliol and Hertford), Bishop of Ripon 1926–34
• 1936 – Phillip Osborne (Pembroke), explorer
• 1952 – Frederic G. Kenyon (Magdalen), paleographer and biblical scholar
• 1963 – Robert Brand, 1st Baron Brand (New College and All Souls), civil servant and businessman
• 1997 – John Kendrew (St John's), Nobel Prize winner and President of St John's 1981–87
• 2008 – John Russell (Magdalen), art critic

Other events

• 2005 – Hilary Lister (Jesus) becomes the first quadriplegic to sail solo across the English channel.