Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 13

Births
 * 1640 – Robert Plot (Magdalen Hall and University), naturalist and first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum
 * 1815 – Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (Balliol and University), Dean of Westminster and church historian
 * 1844 – Arthur Lloyd (St Edmund Hall), Bishop of Newcastle 1903–1907
 * 1874 – Robert Scott Troup (St John's), Professor of Forestry
 * 1896 – Russell Berridge White (St Edmund Hall), Bishop of Tonbridge 1959–1968
 * 1914 – Alan Bullock (Wadham and New College), historian and founding Master of St Catherine's College
 * 1940 – Sanjaya Lall (St John's and Green), development economist
 * 1942 – Alan Monk (Jesus), businessman
 * 1947 – Ian James Brackley (Keble), Bishop of Dorking since 1996

Deaths
 * 1878 – David Charles (Jesus), Welsh Calvinistic Methodist cleric
 * 1983 – Mary Renault (St Hugh's), British historical novelist

Other events
 * 1961 – Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (Balliol), makes his Test match cricket debut for India.