Portal:University of Oxford/On this day/December 23

Births
 * 1621 – Edmund Berry Godfrey (Christ Church), magistrate
 * 1621 – Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham (Christ Church), Lord Chancellor of England 1675–1682
 * 1642 – John Holt (Oriel), Lord Chief Justice of England 1689–1710
 * 1801 – William Watkin Edward Wynne (Jesus), politician and antiquarian
 * 1889 – Frank Kingsley Griffith (Balliol), politician and judge
 * 1916 – Robert Blake, Baron Blake (Magdalen, Christ Church and Queen's), historian
 * 1918 – Robert Lewin (Pembroke), Polish art dealer
 * 1919 – Duncan Gordon Blair (Exeter), Canadian politician and judge
 * 1944 – Wesley Clark (Magdalen), American general
 * 1945 – Geoffrey Wheatcroft (New College), journalist and writer
 * 1967 – Ian Buckett (University), Welsh rugby union international
 * 1968 – Siôn Simon (Magdalen), politician

Deaths
 * 1902 – Frederick Temple (Balliol), Archbishop of Canterbury 1896–1902
 * 1928 – William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (Christ Church), botanist
 * 1929 – Robert Hugh Wallace (Brasenose), lawyer and politician in Northern Ireland
 * 1953 – Edward Ernest Hughes (Jesus), historian
 * 1873 – John Erskine Read (University), Canadian politician and judge
 * 1990 – Gwilym Owen Williams (Jesus), Archbishop of Wales 1972–1981
 * 1999 – Eirene White, Baroness White (Somerville), politician
 * 2004 – Peter Beazley (St John's), businessman and politician
 * 2004 – Roger Moorey (Corpus Christi and Wolfson), historian and archeologist