LOCATION

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

Population:
143,016 (2001 census)

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

MUSEUM

Museum	Founded
Ashmolean Museum	1643

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Martin Amis	Author	25-Aug-1949		The Rachel Papers
Heather Angel	Actor	9-Feb-1909	13-Dec-1986	Lifeboat
Piers Anthony	Novelist	6-Aug-1934		Xanth, Incarnations of Immortality
Lennox Berkeley	Composer	12-May-1903	26-Dec-1989	Stabat Mater
Sir William Davenant	Poet	1606	7-Apr-1668	Gondibert
Jacqueline du Pré	Cellist	26-Jan-1945	19-Oct-1987	Cellist
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	25-Aug-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	Business	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
Peter Benenson	Activist	31-Jul-1921	25-Feb-2005	Founder of Amnesty International
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
William Beveridge	Economist	5-Mar-1879	16-Mar-1963	Social Insurance and Allied Services
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
Francis Edgeworth	Mathematician	8-Feb-1845	13-Feb-1926	Pure Theory of Taxation
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
Andy Gibb	Musician	5-Mar-1958	10-Mar-1988	I Just Want To Be Your Everything
T. H. Green	Philosopher	7-Apr-1836	26-Mar-1882	Prolegomena to Ethics
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
William Archibald Spooner	Educator	22-Jul-1844	29-Aug-1930	Spoonerisms
Nikolaas Tinbergen	Zoologist	15-Apr-1907	21-Dec-1988	Grand Master of Ethology
John Townsend	Mathematician	7-Jun-1868	16-Feb-1957	Electron's charge
Hugh Trevor-Roper	Historian	15-Jan-1914	26-Jan-2003	Historian fooled by fake Hitler diaries
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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