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

Births
 * 1674 – Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (Christ Church), in whose honour the orrery was named
 * 1775 – Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian (Exeter), cavalry officer
 * 1794 – Charles Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury 1862–68
 * 1843 – William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (Christ Church), Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
 * 1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins (Balliol), poet
 * 1899 – Colin Pearson, Baron Pearson (Balliol), judge and chairman of Royal Commissions
 * 1901 – Maurice Lyell (Keble), judge
 * 1902 – Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh (Christ Church), Conservative politician
 * 1903 – Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven (Oriel and Lincoln), Rector of Lincoln 1944–53
 * 1907 – Bobby Milburn (Worcester), Dean of Worcester Cathedral 1957–68
 * 1911 – Samuel Beer (Balliol), American political academic
 * 1913 – Rosemary Murray (Lady Margaret Hall), President of New Hall, Cambridge 1954–81 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1975–77
 * 1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg (Balliol), co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Medicine
 * 1931 – Alan Brownjohn (Merton), poet
 * 1932 – Jacob Neusner, American scholar of Judaism
 * 1943 – Bill Bradley (Worcester), American basketball player and politician
 * 1943 – Keith Hill (Corpus Christi), Labour politician

Deaths
 * 1635 – Richard Corbet (Christ Church), Bishop of Oxford 1628–32 and Bishop of Norwich 1632–35
 * 1675 – Bulstrode Whitelocke (St John's), lawyer and politician
 * 1676 – Edward Reynolds (Merton and Christ Church), Warden of Merton 1660–61 and Bishop of Norwich 1660–76
 * 1850 – David Lewis (Jesus), Welsh clergyman
 * 1890 – William Henry Anderdon (Balliol and University), Jesuit priest and writer
 * 1921 – William Burdett-Coutts (Keble), Conservative politician
 * 1960 – Clyde Kluckhohn (Corpus Christi), American anthropologist
 * 1975 – William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan (University), Scottish politician and judge
 * 1987 – James Burnham (Balliol), political theorist
 * 1994 – Colin Turnbull (Magdalen), anthropologist