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.