Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

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Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.oxford.gov.uk/

Population:
142,364 (2003 estimate)

The town in which Oxford University is located. "Oxford had already seen five centuries of borough life before a student appeared within its streets... The university found Oxford a busy, prosperous borough, and reduced it to a cluster of lodging-houses. It found it among the first of English municipalities, and it so utterly crushed its freedom that the recover of some of the commonest rights of self-government has only been brought about by recent legislation." (John Richard Greene, 19th c. historian).

SCHOOLS

School Founded

Dragon School 1877
Oxford University

BIRTHS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Martin Amis Author 25-Aug-1949 The Rachel Papers

Piers Anthony Novelist 6-Aug-1934 Xanth, Incarnations of Immortality

Sir William Davenant Poet 1606 7-Apr-1668 Gondibert

Orlando Gibbons Composer 1583 5-Jun-1625 Late Tudor composer and organist

Colin Greenwood Bassist 26-Jun-1969 Bassist for Radiohead

Jonny Greenwood Guitarist 5-Nov-1971 Guitarist for Radiohead

J. B. S. Haldane Biologist 5-Nov-1892 1-Dec-1964 The Causes of Evolution

Stephen Hawking Physicist 8-Jan-1942 Wheelchair-bound physicist

Tom Hollander Actor 1967 Gosford Park

P. D. James Author 3-Aug-1920 Adam Dalgliesh series, etc.

King John Lackland Royalty 24-Dec-1166 18-Oct-1216 Signed the Magna Carta, then reneged

Toby Jones Actor 7-Sep-1967 Voice of Dobby the Elf

John C. Kendrew Chemist 24-Mar-1917 23-Aug-1997 Determined structure of myoglobin

Hugh Laurie Actor 11-Jun-1959 Jeeves and Wooster

James Lavelle Musician 1974 MoWax founder, member of UNKLE

Mark Lester Actor 11-Jul-1958 Oliver!

Miriam Margolyes Actor 18-May-1941 The Age of Innocence

Ed O'Brien Guitarist 15-Apr-1968 Guitar, shaky things for Radiohead

King Richard the Lionheart Head of State 8-Sep-1157 6-Apr-1199 King of England, 1189-99

Dorothy L. Sayers Novelist 13-Jun-1893 17-Dec-1957 Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels

"Legs" Larry Smith Musician 18-Jan-1944 Hello Sausage

E. P. Thompson Historian 3-Feb-1924 28-Aug-1993 The Making of the English Working Class

Anthony à Wood Historian 17-Dec-1632 29-Nov-1695 Oxford historian

DEATHS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Edward P. Abraham Chemist 10-Jun-1913 8-May-1999 Cephalosporins

Roger Bacon Philosopher c. 1220 1292 Doctor Mirabilis

John Bainbridge Astronomer 1582 3-Nov-1643 Description of the late Comet

George Berkeley Philosopher 12-Mar-1685 14-Jan-1753 Anti-intellectual empiricist philosopher

Isaiah Berlin Philosopher 6-Jun-1909 5-Nov-1997 The Hedgehog and the Fox

Brebis Bleaney Physicist 6-Jun-1915 4-Nov-2006 Electron paramagnetic resonance

F. H. Bradley Philosopher 30-Jan-1846 18-Sep-1924 Appearance and Reality

Kingman Brewster, Jr. Educator 17-Jun-1919 8-Nov-1988 President of Yale, 1963-77

Robert Bridges Poet 23-Oct-1844 21-Apr-1930 Prometheus the Firegiver

Robert Burton Author 8-Feb-1577 25-Jan-1640 The Anatomy of Melancholy

Joyce Cary Novelist 6-Dec-1888 29-Mar-1957 The Horse's Mouth

Thomas Cranmer Religion 2-Jul-1489 21-Mar-1556 First Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury

Anthony Crosland Politician 29-Aug-1918 19-Feb-1977 UK Foreign Secretary, 1976-77

Roald Dahl Author 13-Sep-1916 23-Nov-1990 James and the Giant Peach

Richard Dalitz Physicist 28-Feb-1925 13-Jan-2006 Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots

John Earle Religion 1601 17-Nov-1665 Microcosmographie

Richard Ellmann Critic 15-Mar-1918 13-May-1987 James Joyce

Charles Elton Scientist 29-Mar-1900 1-May-1991 Animal Ecology

Edward Evans-Pritchard Anthropologist 21-Sep-1902 11-Sep-1973 Theories of Primitive Religion

Howard Florey Scientist 24-Sep-1898 21-Feb-1968 Discovered penicillin

Thomas Gaisford Scholar 22-Dec-1779 2-Jun-1855 English classical scholar

John Scott Haldane Doctor 3-May-1860 14-Mar-1936 Breathing regulated by CO2

Harold Harefoot Royalty c. 1016 17-Mar-1040 King of England 1037-40

Thomas Hearne Historian Jul-1678 10-Jun-1735 Edited many English chronicles

Norman G. Heatley Scientist 1911 5-Jan-2004 Mass production of penicillin

Michael Hordern Actor 3-Oct-1911 2-May-1995 The Slipper and the Rose

Hans Krebs Scientist 25-Apr-1900 22-Nov-1981 Tricarboxylic acid cycle

Nicholas Kurti Physicist 14-May-1908 24-Nov-1998 Molecular gastronomy

Hugh Latimer Religion c. 1490 16-Oct-1555 English Reformation

C. S. Lewis Novelist 29-Nov-1898 22-Nov-1963 Chronicles of Narnia

Patrick Lichfield Photographer 25-Apr-1939 11-Nov-2005 Prominent British photographer

Frederick Lindemann Government 5-Apr-1886 3-Jul-1957 Churchill's scientific and war advisor

Iris Murdoch Novelist 15-Jul-1919 8-Feb-1999 The Sea, the Sea

Otto Neurath Sociologist 10-Dec-1882 22-Dec-1945 Vienna Circle positivist

William Osler Doctor 12-Jul-1849 29-Dec-1919 Father of psychosomatic medicine

Walter Pater Critic 4-Aug-1839 30-Jul-1894 Marius the Epicurean

Rudolf Peierls Physicist 5-Jun-1907 19-Sep-1995 Frisch-Peierls Memorandum

Barbara Pym Novelist 2-Jun-1913 11-Jan-1980 Some Tame Gazelle

Nicholas Ridley Religion c. 1500 16-Oct-1555 Anglican Bishop and martyr

Abdus Salam Physicist 29-Jan-1926 21-Nov-1996 Electroweak Theory

Moira Shearer Dancer 17-Jan-1926 31-Jan-2006 The Red Shoes

Nikolaas Tinbergen Zoologist 15-Apr-1907 21-Dec-1988 Grand Master of Ethology

John Wallis Mathematician 23-Nov-1616 28-Oct-1703 Arithmetica Infinitorum

Thomas Warton Poet 9-Jan-1728 21-May-1790 English Poet Laureate, 1785-90

Anthony à Wood Historian 17-Dec-1632 29-Nov-1695 Oxford historian

John Zachary Young Zoologist 18-Mar-1907 4-Jul-1997 British zoological neurologist

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