2013 Event UK's oldest music retailer HMV calls in administrators after talks to rescue the company fail; the company which has over 4,500 employees, opened its first shop on Oxford Street in 1921 2012 Event Anglo-Irish poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis' archive, which inclues manuscripts and a letter from W. H. Auden are donated to Oxford University's Bodelian Library by Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis 2012 Event The Rolling Stones, English rock band, celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its first performance at the Marquee Club in Oxford Street, London 2000 Death Peter Levi, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood, dies 1981 Death 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 Birthday Angie Trostel, Oxford Ohio, diver 1996 Olympics 1972 Event WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting 1959 Event WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting 1959 Birthday 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 Birthday Mark Lester, born in Oxford, England, actor, Oliver, Prince and Pauper 1952 Birthday Andrew Smith, born in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, Andrew David Smith, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Oxford East 1951 Event Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford 1946 Birthday Lord Walton of Detchant, physician, Warden of Green College Oxford 1945 Death Forrester Harvey, actor (Tarzan and Mate, Chump at Oxford), dies at 61 1945 Birthday K B Wilson, methodist Preacher/Principal, Westminster College Oxford 1945 Birthday Jacqueline du Pree, Oxford England, cellist 1944 Birthday 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 Birthday 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 Birthday James McGee, pathologist/professor, Morbid Anatomy at Oxford 1939 Birthday 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 Birthday Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology, Oxford U 1936 Birthday Maurice Shock, rector, Lincoln College in Oxford 1936 Birthday John Albert, professor, Master of University College Oxford 1936 Death Henry Forster, cricket (Hants and Oxford U, Governor-General of Australia), dies 1933 Birthday Catherine Pestell, principal, Somerville College Oxford 1933 Birthday Dr. Robert Stevens, Master, Pembroke College, Oxford 1933 Birthday Charles Williams, born in Oxford, England, cricketer, batsman, Labor peer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Baron Williams of Elvel 1931 Birthday Richard Southwood, zoologist/chancellor, Oxford University 1931 Birthday Peter Levi, born in Ruislip, England, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood 1930 Birthday Justin Gosling, principal, St. Edmund Hall Oxford 1930 Birthday Uwe Kitzinger, President, Templeton College, Oxford 1930 Birthday Mary Moore, principal, St. Hilda's College, Oxford 1930 Birthday 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 Birthday Bob Hawke, cricketer, no relation to Lord 12th man for Oxford U 1954 1929 Birthday Geoffrey Marshall, Provost, Queen's College, Oxford 1925 Birthday Christopher Ball, born in Oxford, warden, Keble College 1925 Birthday John Wells, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Maidstone, educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1924 Birthday David Cox, warden, Nuffield College, Oxford 1923 Birthday Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president, Wolfson at Oxford 1919 Birthday Raymond Carr, Warden, St. Antony's College Oxford 1917 Birthday Colin Cowe, senior bursar, Magdalen College Oxford 1917 Birthday William Barr, rector, Exeter College, Oxford 1916 Birthday Earl of Oxford and Asquith, governor, Seychelles 1915 Birthday John Habakkuk, principal, Jesus College in Oxford 1913 Birthday Vivian Ridler, printer, Oxford University 1913 Birthday William Deakin, warden, St. Anthony's College Oxford 1913 Birthday Van Carlyle Wilton-Davies, archdeacon Emeritus, Oxford 1912 Event G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles vs. Cambridge 1909 Birthday Heather Angel, Oxford England, actress, Informer, Last of Mohicans 1891 Birthday Earle Foxe, Oxford, Ohio, actor, Dance Fools Dance 1890 Birthday Frank Butler, Oxford England, actor/sreenwriter, Road to Bali, China 1886 Death Robert Collier, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates, dies 1884 Birthday Forrester Harvey, born in Ireland, actor, Tarzan, Chump at Oxford 1884 Event 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published 1880 Event Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England 1878 Event Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match 1877 Event University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat 1871 Birthday Wilfred Lucas, actor, Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford 1869 Event 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard) 1866 Birthday Henry Forster, cricketer, Oxford blue 1887-89, later Austrian Governor-General 1864 Event 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge 1863 Birthday Arthur Quiller-Couch, Q, editor, Oxford Book of English Verse 1854 Event Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn) 1837 Birthday James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary 1824 Birthday Francis Turner Palgrave, Eng, poet, Golden Treasury, Professor, Oxford 1821 Birthday Clara Harlowe Barton, Oxford Massachusetts, nurse/founder, American Red Cross 1817 Birthday Robert Collier, born in England, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates 1792 Birthday John Keble, Anglican priest/founder, Oxford Movement 1790 Death Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies 1725 Death Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63 1678 Event Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford 1673 Event Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate 1661 Birthday Robert Haley, earl of Oxford/English premier, Whig, 1710-14 1646 Event Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Oxford 1646 Event King Charles I flees Oxford 1642 Event King Charles I and family flee London for Oxford 1555 Event Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic 1271 Death Henry III, king of England (1216-71, Provisions of Oxford), dies
