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

Births
 * 1840 – George Thomas Kenyon (Christ Church), politician
 * 1904 – Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet (New College), High Sheriff of Berkshire
 * 1926 – Donald Carr, cricketer
 * 1937 – Sir John Carter (Jesus), businessman
 * 1940 – Peter M. Neumann (Queen's), mathematician
 * 1945 – Max Hastings (University), journalist and writer
 * 1951 – Ian Buruma (St Antony's), Dutch writer
 * 1960 – Nicola Horlick (Balliol), investment fund manager

Other events
 * 2000 – John Kufuor (Exeter) is elected President of Ghana.

Deaths
 * 1644 – John Bankes (Queen's), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1641–1644
 * 1674 – John Oxenbridge (Magdalen Hall), non-conformist clergyman
 * 1723 – Sir Charles Lloyd, 1st Baronet, of Milfield (Jesus), politician
 * 1835 – William Turton (Oriel), natural historian
 * 1854 – Rowland Williams (Jesus), Welsh clergyman and writer
 * 1889 – Francis Albert Marshall (Exeter), playwright
 * 1949 – Jack Lovelock (Exeter), New Zealand athlete
 * 1965 – Jeremy Wolfenden (Magdalen and All Souls), journalist and spy
 * 2003 – John Terraine (Keble), military historian
 * 2006 – Mandy Mitchell-Innes (Brasenose), English test match cricketer
 * 2008 – Michael Levey (Exeter), art historian
 * 2008 – Susan Sontag (St Anne's), American author and literary theorist