Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 12

Births
 * 1752 – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (Jesus), aristocrat and politician
 * 1807 – Benjamin Wills Newton (Exeter), prominent member of the Plymouth Brethren
 * 1831 – William Henry Fremantle (Balliol) and All Souls), Dean of Ripon
 * 1837 – John Richard Green (Jesus), historian
 * 1898 – William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan (University), Solicitor General for Scotland
 * 1905 – E. L. Mascall (Christ Church), theologian
 * 1920 – James McFarlane (St Catherine's), British academic of European literature
 * 1942 – Brough Scott (Corpus Christi), horse racing journalist
 * 1960 – Nicola Horlick (Balliol), investment fund manager
 * 1962 – Peter Bergen (New College), American journalist
 * 1964 – Reeta Chakrabarti (Exeter), British political journalist

Deaths
 * 1867 – Charles Daubeny (Magdalen), Professor of Chemistry and of Botany at Oxford
 * 1950 – William Christopher Wordsworth (Jesus), journalist and academic
 * 1975 – David Mathew (Balliol), Catholic bishop
 * 1981 – J. L. Mackie (Oriel and University), Australian philosopher
 * 1999 – Joseph Heller (St Catherine's), American author (Catch-22)
 * 2004 – William B. Rosson, General commanding United States Army Pacific

Other events
 * 2007 – Richard Gozney (St Edmund Hall) takes up office as Governor of Bermuda.