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2000 Peter Levi, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood, dies
1981 Bill Hopkins, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1977 Angie Trostel, Oxford Ohio, diver 1996 Olympics 1972 WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting 1959 WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting 1959 Hugh Laurie, born in Oxford, England, James Hugh Calum Laurie, actor, writer, musician, comedian, comedy partner, Stephen Fry, known for the Fry and Laurie double act, appears in successful Fox television drama House, playing role of Dr. Gregory House 1958 Mark Lester, born in Oxford, England, actor, Oliver, Prince and Pauper 1952 Andrew Smith, born in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, Andrew David Smith, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Oxford East 1951 Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford 1946 Lord Walton of Detchant, physician, Warden of Green College Oxford 1945 Forrester Harvey, actor (Tarzan and Mate, Chump at Oxford), dies at 61 1945 K B Wilson, methodist Preacher/Principal, Westminster College Oxford 1945 Jacqueline du Pree, Oxford England, cellist 1944 Quentin Davies, born in Oxford, England, Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford 1987 - 1997, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defense under Prime Minister, Gordon Brown 1943 Bill Hopkins, born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1939 James McGee, pathologist/professor, Morbid Anatomy at Oxford 1939 Seamus Heaney, born in Ireland, poet, writer, poetry professor at the University of Oxford, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, wrote play The Cure at Troy, Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf: A New Translation 1937 Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology, Oxford U 1936 Maurice Shock, rector, Lincoln College in Oxford 1936 John Albert, professor, Master of University College Oxford 1936 Henry Forster, cricket (Hants and Oxford U, Governor-General of Australia), dies 1933 Catherine Pestell, principal, Somerville College Oxford 1933 Dr. Robert Stevens, Master, Pembroke College, Oxford 1933 Charles Williams, born in Oxford, England, cricketer, batsman, Labor peer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Baron Williams of Elvel 1931 Richard Southwood, zoologist/chancellor, Oxford University 1931 Peter Levi, born in Ruislip, England, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood 1930 Justin Gosling, principal, St. Edmund Hall Oxford 1930 Uwe Kitzinger, President, Templeton College, Oxford 1930 Mary Moore, principal, St. Hilda's College, Oxford 1930 Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, born in England, life peer as Baron Browne-Wilkinson, studied at Lancing College and Magdalen College, Oxford, former head of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor of the High Court 1929 Bob Hawke, cricketer, no relation to Lord 12th man for Oxford U 1954 1929 Geoffrey Marshall, Provost, Queen's College, Oxford 1925 Christopher Ball, born in Oxford, warden, Keble College 1925 John Wells, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Maidstone, educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1924 David Cox, warden, Nuffield College, Oxford 1923 Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president, Wolfson at Oxford 1919 Raymond Carr, Warden, St. Antony's College Oxford 1917 Colin Cowe, senior bursar, Magdalen College Oxford 1917 William Barr, rector, Exeter College, Oxford 1916 Earl of Oxford and Asquith, governor, Seychelles 1915 John Habakkuk, principal, Jesus College in Oxford 1913 Vivian Ridler, printer, Oxford University 1913 William Deakin, warden, St. Anthony's College Oxford 1913 Van Carlyle Wilton-Davies, archdeacon Emeritus, Oxford 1912 G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles vs. Cambridge 1909 Heather Angel, Oxford England, actress, Informer, Last of Mohicans 1891 Earle Foxe, Oxford, Ohio, actor, Dance Fools Dance 1890 Frank Butler, Oxford England, actor/sreenwriter, Road to Bali, China 1886 Robert Collier, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates, dies 1884 Forrester Harvey, born in Ireland, actor, Tarzan, Chump at Oxford 1884 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published 1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England 1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match 1877 University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat 1871 Wilfred Lucas, actor, Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford 1869 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard) 1866 Henry Forster, cricketer, Oxford blue 1887-89, later Austrian Governor-General 1864 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge 1863 Arthur Quiller-Couch, Q, editor, Oxford Book of English Verse 1854 Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn) 1837 James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary 1824 Francis Turner Palgrave, Eng, poet, Golden Treasury, Professor, Oxford 1821 Clara Harlowe Barton, Oxford Massachusetts, nurse/founder, American Red Cross 1817 Robert Collier, born in England, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates 1792 John Keble, Anglican priest/founder, Oxford Movement 1790 Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies 1725 Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63 1678 Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford 1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate 1661 Robert Haley, earl of Oxford/English premier, Whig, 1710-14 1646 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Oxford 1646 King Charles I flees Oxford 1642 King Charles I and family flee London for Oxford 1555 Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic 1271 Henry III, king of England (1216-71, Provisions of Oxford), dies |
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