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

Births

• 1820 – Edward Austen (St John's), cricketer
• 1884 – John Woodhouse (University), Bishop of Thetford 1945–53
• 1930 – A. David Buckingham (Christ Church), theoretical chemist
• 1944 – Tim Heald (Balliol), author and biographer

Deaths

• 1613 – Thomas Bodley (Magdalen and Merton), founder of the Bodleian Library
• 1681 – Richard Allestree (Christ Church), Regius Professor of Divinity 1663–80
• 1738 – John Wallis (Wadham and Magdalen), Laudian Professor of Arabic 1703–38
• 1840 – Jacob Marsham (Christ Church), priest
• 1963 – Wilfrid Belcher (Keble), Bishop of North Queensland 1947–52
• 1977 – A. D. Gardner (University), Regius Professor of Medicine 1948–54
• 2010 – Sarah Mulvey (Somerville), television producer