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

Births

• 1621 – Edmund Berry Godfrey (Christ Church), magistrate
• 1621 – Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham (Christ Church), Lord Chancellor of England 1675–1682
• 1642 – John Holt (Oriel), Lord Chief Justice of England 1689–1710
• 1801 – William Watkin Edward Wynne (Jesus), politician and antiquarian
• 1889 – Frank Kingsley Griffith (Balliol), politician and judge
• 1916 – Robert Blake, Baron Blake (Magdalen, Christ Church and Queen's), historian
• 1918 – Robert Lewin (Pembroke), Polish art dealer
• 1919 – Duncan Gordon Blair (Exeter), Canadian politician and judge
• 1944 – Wesley Clark (Magdalen), American general
• 1945 – Geoffrey Wheatcroft (New College), journalist and writer
• 1967 – Ian Buckett (University), Welsh rugby union international
• 1968 – Siôn Simon (Magdalen), politician

Deaths

• 1902 – Frederick Temple (Balliol), Archbishop of Canterbury 1896–1902
• 1928 – William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (Christ Church), botanist
• 1929 – Robert Hugh Wallace (Brasenose), lawyer and politician in Northern Ireland
• 1953 – Edward Ernest Hughes (Jesus), historian
• 1873 – John Erskine Read (University), Canadian politician and judge
• 1990 – Gwilym Owen Williams (Jesus), Archbishop of Wales 1972–1981
• 1999 – Eirene White, Baroness White (Somerville), politician
• 2004 – Peter Beazley (St John's), businessman and politician
• 2004 – Roger Moorey (Corpus Christi and Wolfson), historian and archeologist