Curated playlist
Alumni of University College, Oxford
- C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis died the same afternoon President Kennedy was shot. His death was almost swallowed by the news from Dallas.
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyPoet Percy Bysshe Shelley's body was identified partly by a copy of Keats's Lamia in his jacket.
- Bill ClintonBill Clinton was born three months after his father died in a car crash.
- Clement AttleeClement Attlee told the King, "I've won the election," and the King replied that he already knew.
- Stephen HawkingDoctors gave Stephen Hawking two years to live at age 21, but he died at 76.
- Edmund CartwrightA mill meant for 500 power looms burned down with only 30 installed. Weavers working by hand were the likely arsonists.
- William BeveridgeWilliam Beveridge lost his seat in 1945, yet the new government built his welfare plan.
- Arnold HillsA young Mahatma Gandhi served on a committee with Arnold Hills, first president of the London Vegetarian Society.
- Robert ReichRobert Reich stands 4 feet 11 inches tall, and he has spent his working life arguing with people who hold far more power than he does. Born on the 24th of June 1946, he became an American lawyer, professor, author and political…
- Peter SingerPeter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher who holds the title of Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Fellow philosopher Helga Kuhse judged him almost certainly the best-known and most widely read of…