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

Births

• 1756 – Thomas Le Mesurier (New College), clergyman
• 1833 – Edward Burne-Jones (Exeter), artist and designer
• 1850 – W. A. B. Coolidge (Exeter and Magdalen), American historian and theologian
• 1868 – Thomas Charles Williams (Jesus), Calvinistic Methodist minister
• 1880 – George Chrystal (Balliol), civil servant
• 1900 – Wilfrid Roberts (Balliol), Liberal and Labour politician
• 1906 – John Betjeman (Magdalen), poet
• 1907 – Rupert Hart-Davis (Balliol), editor and publisher
• 1913 – Robertson Davies (Balliol), Canadian novelist
• 1913 – Terence Reese (New College), contract bridge player
• 1914 – Levi Fox (Oriel), Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
• 1919 – Cecil Clothier (Lincoln), lawyer
• 1930 – John Bone (St Peter's), Bishop of Reading 1989–96
• 1934 – Sujata Manohar (Lady Margaret Hall), Indian judge
• 1947 – Robert Cooper (Worcester), diplomat
• 1950 – Ronny Tong (St Edmund Hall), member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
• 1953 – Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies (Wadham), Scottish judge

Deaths

• 1710 – Joseph Keble (Jesus), law reporter
• 1738 – John Harris (Jesus and Oriel), Bishop of Llandaff 1728–38
• 1902 – George Douglas Brown (Balliol), novelist
• 1916 – William Esson (St John's and Merton), Savilian Professor of Geometry (1897–1916)
• 1971 – Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey (New College), British judge at the Nuremberg Trials
• 1978 – Kofi Abrefa Busia (University), Prime Minister of Ghana
• 1988 – Paul Grice (Corpus Christi), philosopher of language
• 1989 – Robert Reynolds Macintosh, first Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics
• 1994 – David Wright (Oriel), poet