2014 Event A Dallas hospital worker who treated deceased Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan has herself contracted the virus despite wearing protective gear; the Centers for Disease Control states that her infection results from a breach in protocol 2014 Event Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to develop Ebola in the U.S., dies after 11 days in a Dallas hospital; he was sent home after an initial hospital visit despite stating he had been in West Africa, but he was admitted upon his return two days later 2014 Event Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient hospitalized for Ebola in the U.S., slips from serious to critical condition in a Dallas hospital; 10 people who had been in close contact with the patient have been placed in isolation 2014 Event Thomas Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cautions that the Ebola epidemic will soon be uncontrollable unless more workers are found to aid in treatment of victims and burial of contagious bodies 2014 Event New Baseball Hall of Fame inductees determined by Baseball Writers' Association of America voters include: Frank Thomas, Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, and managers Tony La Russa, Joe Torre and Bobby Cox 2013 Event Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine include German scientist Thomas C. Sudhof and American scientists Randy Schekman and James Rothman 2013 Event The International Olympic Committee elects Thomas Bach of Germany as their new President 2013 Event In Cebu, Philippines, 200 are missing and at least 26 are dead after a cargo ship and the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas collide 2013 Death Helen Thomas, an American Journalist who reported on the White House for nearly fifty years, dies at the age of 92 2013 Event The Soyuz capsule safely lands in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 35 astronauts Thomas Marshburn of the U.S., Chris Hadfield of Canada and Roman Romanenko of Russia back from the International Space Station 2012 Event Russian spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-07M, is launched in Kazakhstan, with cosmonauts Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield and Thomas Marshburn for the ISS Expedition 34 and 35 crews 2011 Event Sonya Thomas is declared the winner of the U.S. Chicken Wing Eating Championship after consuming 183 Buffalo wings in 12 minutes 2007 Death Craig L. Thomas, dies in Maryland, of leukemia, at 74 2006 Death Thomas J. Manton, Representative-D-New York 1985 - 1999, died from cancer 2003 Death Thomas Leonard, American Businessman 2002 Death Dave Thomas, commercial icon/businessman, founded Wendy's, dies at 69 2001 Death Leopold Page, leathergoods retailer/historian, convinced Thomas Keneally to write Schindler's List, dies at 87 2000 Death Thomas Yohe, TV producer/innovator, Schoolhouse Rock, dies at 63 1999 Death Michelle Thomas, 12/22/98, Family Matters, dies at 30 1998 Event Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas 1997 Event White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time 1996 Death William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85 1996 Death Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83 1996 Death Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby international/journalist, dies at 67 1996 Death Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer, dies at 90 1996 Death Thomas Kuhn, American Writer 1996 Death Thomas Edward Montgomery, drummer, dies at 73 1996 Death Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93 1996 Death Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81 1996 Event Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself 1996 Death Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician, dies at 88 1996 Death Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert, dies at 77 1995 Death Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69 1995 Event Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million 1995 Death Thomas Lyttle, paramilitary, dies at 56 1995 Death Thomas Augustine Martin, academic, dies at 59 1995 Death Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster, dies at 82 1995 Death Jesse Thomas, blues singer, dies at 84 1995 Event 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64) 1995 Death Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87 1995 Death Thomas Eden Binkley, musician, dies at 63 1995 Death Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73 1995 Event Barb Thomas Whitehead wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open 1995 Event Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas 1994 Death Thomas J Watson, Jr., CEO (IBM), dies of a stroke at 79 1994 Death Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63 1994 Event Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet 1994 Death Caitlin Thomas, dies 1994 Death Thomas Davis, U.S. movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26 1994 Death Thomas henry Wait Armstrong, organist, dies at 96 1994 Death Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67 1994 Death Thomas Stuart Willan, historian, dies at 84 1994 Event Drew Barrymore (19) files for divorce from Jeremy Thomas (31) 1994 Death Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician 1993 Death Thomas J Watson, Jr., president of IBM (1956-71)/diplomat, dies at 79 1993 Death Lewis Thomas, biologist, dies of cancer at 80 1993 Death Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor (Mapantsula), dies at 40 1993 Death Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72 1993 Event Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession 1993 Event 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman and takes New York City subway train and 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride 1993 Death Daniel Jones, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 1993 Death Thomas A Dorsey, jazz pianist (Take My Hand, Precious Lord), dies 1992 Death Theo Edison, son of Thomas Edison, dies at 94 1992 Event Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham 1992 Death Thomas J McIntyre, Sen-New Hampshire, 1963 - 1979, dies at 77 1992 Death Thomas J McIntyre, U.S., senator/writer (Fear Brokers), dies 1992 Event Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria 1992 Death Thomas Whitfield, gospel vocalist, dies of heart attack at 38 1992 Event Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria 1992 Death Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr. Faustus), dies 1992 Event Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ 1991 Death Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60 1991 Event Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland 1991 Death Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies 1991 Event Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice 1991 Event Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice 1991 Event Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her 1991 Event Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas 1991 Event Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her 1991 Event Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination 1991 Death Thomas Tryon, actor (Cardinal)/writer (Other), dies at 65 1991 Event Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title 1991 Death Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33 1991 Death Thomas A Carlin, dies at 62 1991 Event Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park 1991 Event Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16) 1991 Death John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies 1991 Event Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05) 1991 Death Danny Thomas, comedian (Jazz Singer), dies of a heart attack at 79 1990 Event U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize 1990 Event "Dave Thomas Comedy Show," last airs on CBS-TV 1990 Event Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV 1990 Death Terry Thomas, English comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78 1989 Death Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies 1989 Death Frank M Thomas, actor (Behind the Headlines, M'Liss), dies 1989 Death Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English comic (Bitter Springs), dies at 80 1989 Event Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women 1989 Death Thomas Bernhard, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist, dies at 58 of tuberculosis in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria 1988 Event Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal 1988 Event U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas 1987 Birthday Thomas Dekker, born in Las Vegas, Nevada, musician, singer, actor, played Zach on 'Heroes', John Connor in 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' 1987 Death Thomas G Lanphier, Jr., U.S. WW II pilot, dies at 71 1987 Event Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title 1987 Death Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies 1987 Death Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), dies of AIDS at 50 1987 Event Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for heavyweight boxing title 1987 Event Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson 1986 Event Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas 1986 Event Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA) 1986 Event Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1986 Event U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas 1985 Event Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title 1985 Event American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon 1985 Death Thomas Creighton, U.S. heart patient (3 implants in 46 hours), dies at 33 1984 Event Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavywgt boxing title 1984 Event Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal 1984 Event Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran 1983 Event "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5 1982 Event U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea 1981 Birthday Jonathan Taylor Thomas, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, actor, Randy-Home Improvement 1981 Death Lowell Thomas, newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling New York at 89 1981 Death Thomas Beversdorf, composer, dies at 56 1981 Death Fannie Thomas, U.S., dies at 113 1980 Death Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies 1980 Death William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49 1980 Birthday Thomas Ian Nicholas, actor, Radio Flyer, Rookie of the Year 1980 Event Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue marry 1980 Birthday Matthew Thomas Carey, actor, Once You Meet a Stranger 1979 Birthday Tamika Thomas, Miss Michigan Teen USA 1996 1978 Birthday Thomas Odoyo, cricketer, Kenyan all-rounder 1996 World Cup 1977 Event Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight 1977 Event Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8) 1977 Birthday Tim Thomas, NBA forward for the Philadelphia 76ers 1976 Death Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies 1976 Event Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter 1976 Death Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47 1976 Birthday Nadine Thomas, Miss Jamaica Universe 1997 1976 Birthday Lynn Thomas, Newport News, Virginia, playmate, May 1997 1975 Event Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal 1975 Birthday John Thomas, NBA forward for the Boston Celtics 1975 Birthday Petria Thomas, Lismore NSW Australia, swimmer, 1996 Olympics silver 1975 Birthday Thomas Hamilton, NBA center for the Boston Celtics 1975 Death Thomas Heart Benson, U.S. artist, dies at 85 1974 Birthday Edward Thomas, CFL linebacker, Montreal Alouettes 1974 Death Edna Lewis Thomas, U.S. actress (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 88 1974 Birthday Thomas Enqvist, born in Stockholm Sweden, tennis star, 1991 Wimbledon jr boys 1974 Birthday Hollis Thomas, defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles 1973 Birthday Eric Thomas, Chartage Texas, 400m hurdler 1973 Birthday Fred Thomas, NFL cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks 1973 Birthday Thomas Haskins, CFL running back, Montreal Alouettes 1973 Event Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles, California 1973 Death Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer, dies at 68 1973 Birthday Rodney Thomas, running back for the Tennessee Oilers 1972 Birthday Thomas Wilson Brown, actor, Jason-Knots Landing 1972 Birthday Cornell Thomas, WLAF DE for the Scotland Claymores 1972 Birthday Orlando Thomas, NFL safety for the Minnesota Vikings 1972 Birthday Kurt Thomas, NBA forward, Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat 1972 Birthday Nathan Thomas, Australian water polo player 1996 Olympics 1972 Event Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1972 Birthday [Thomas] Carlton Bruner, U.S., 1500m freestyle swimmer 1996 Olympics 1972 Birthday Thomas Lewis, NFL wide receiver for the New York Giants 1971 Birthday Thomas Strzalkowski, Krakow Poland, U.S. fencer-sabre 1996 Olympics 1971 Birthday Thomas Bailey, NFL wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals 1971 Birthday Henry Thomas, born in San Antonio, Texas, actor, ET 1971 Birthday Chris Thomas, NFL wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers 1971 Death Thomas C Heart, U.S. admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies 1971 Death Thomas C Hart, U.S. admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94 1971 Birthday Thomas Bailey, WLAF wide receiver for the Rhein Fire 1971 Death Thomas E Dewey, U.S. president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68 1970 Birthday Sean Patrick Thomas, American Actor 1970 Birthday Damon Thomas, NFL wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills 1970 Death Thomas S Power, USAF-General (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65 1970 Birthday Thomas Smith, NFL cornerback for the Buffalo Bills 1970 Birthday Thomas Randolph, NFL cornerback for the New York Giants 1970 Birthday Thomas Lennon, American Actor 1970 Birthday Markus Thomas, WLAF running back for the Scottish Claymores 1970 Birthday Paul Thomas Anderson, American Director 1970 Birthday Thomas Alden Page, Glenridge, New Jersey, rocker, New Kids-Hangin' Tough 1970 Birthday Vania Thomas, Miss U.S. Virgin Islands Universe 1997 1970 Birthday Thomas McLemore, NFL tight end for the Indianapolis Colts 1970 Birthday Lamar Thomas, NFL wide receiver, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Miami Dolphins 1970 Birthday Brennan Little, St. Thomas Ont, golfer, 1994 Western States mini-tour 1970 Birthday Thomas "Tom" Murray, Buffalo, New York, rower 1996 Olympics 1969 Birthday Thomas Ingalsbe, 238+ lbs, 108+ kg, U.S. weightlifter 1996 Olympics 1969 Birthday Larry Thomas, born in Miami, Florida, pitcher, Chicago White Sox 1969 Birthday Carl Thomas, NBA guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers 1969 Death Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies 1969 Birthday Mark Thomas, NFL defensive end, Carolina Panthers, Packers, Bears 1969 Birthday Thomas Brandl, Bad Tolz GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 1969 Birthday Thomas Jane, American Actor 1969 Event "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5 1968 Death Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 1968 Death Thomas Merton, French/U.S. priest and writer '7 Story Mountain', dies at 53 1968 Birthday Rodney Thomas, NFL running back for the Houston Oilers 1968 Birthday Stan Thomas, NFL tackle for the Houston Oilers 1968 Birthday Thomas P Auth, Orange, New Jersey, rower 1996 Olympics 1968 Birthday Dave Thomas, NFL cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars 1968 Birthday William Thomas, NFL linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles 1968 Event "Danny Thomas Hour," last airs on NBC-TV 1968 Birthday Frank Thomas, "Big Hurt", 1st baseman, Chicago White Sox, 1993 MVP 1968 Birthday Thomas Nock, born in Zurich, Switzerland, actor, Tartort, Gemini-Twin Stars 1968 Birthday Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos 1967 Birthday Thomas Muster, born in Leibnitz, Austria, tennis star, 1995 French Open 1967 Event Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge and Sanctuary opens in Bronx 1967 Death Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65 1967 Event U.S. Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds 1967 Birthday Debi Thomas, U.S., figure skater, 1988 Olympics bronze 1967 Birthday Broderick Thomas, NFL linebacker, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Minnesota, Cowboys 1967 Birthday Derrick Thomas, NFL linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs 1966 Death Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1966 Birthday C Thomas Howell, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man 1966 Birthday Thomas Louis Tolles, Jr., Ft. Myers, Florida, PGA golfer, 1995 Bob Hope-3rd 1966 Event "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV 1966 Death Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81 1966 Birthday Thurman Thomas, NFL running back for the Buffalo Bills 1966 Death Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer, dies at 69 1966 Birthday Thomas Fitzgerald, born in Brooklyn, New York, team handball left wing 1996 Olympics 1966 Birthday Robb Thomas, NFL receiver, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1965 Birthday Rodney Thomas, WLAF cornerback, Barcelona Dragons 1965 Birthday Sue Thomas, Texarkana, Texas, LPGA golfer, 1991 Orix Hawaiian Ladies-14th 1965 Event Phillies Dick Allen and Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice 1965 Birthday Henry Thomas, defensive tackle, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots 1964 Birthday Thomas Howard, born in Middletown, Ohio, outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds 1964 Birthday Thomas Everett, NFL safety for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1964 Birthday John Joseph Thomas, Arcadia California, actor, Young Dan'l Boone 1964 Birthday Thomas "Tom" Hunter, U.S. 50M FREESTYLE swimmer, world record 1964 Death Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79 1964 Birthday Eric Thomas, NFL cornerback for the Denver Broncos 1964 Birthday Johnny Thomas, NFL cornerback, Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers 1964 Birthday David Shaw, St. Thomas, NHL defenseman, Tampa Bay Lightning 1964 Birthday Gregory Thomas Kraft, born in Detroit, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1993 Walt Disney-2nd 1964 Birthday William Thomas Andrade, Fall River, Massachusetts, PGA golfer, 1991 Kemper Open 1963 Birthday Thomas Ansberry, Okinawa Japan, U.S. 10K runner 1963 Birthday Thomas Bohrer, U.S. West Islip, New York, rower 1992 Olympics 1963 Birthday Steve Thomas, born in Stockport, England, NHL left wing for the New Jersey Devils 1963 Birthday Thomas Perry, born in Germany, born Thomas Wellnowski, singer, songwriter, lead vocalist for Surprises band, performed own compositions on 'The Ballad Album' 1963 Birthday Thomas Searle, hockey defenseman, Team Austria 1998 1963 Event U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz 1962 Birthday Thomas Newberry, NFL guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers 1962 Death Thomas Mitchell, U.S., actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70 1962 Birthday Thomas Mork, Denmark, actor, Krystalbarnet, Bryggeren 1962 Event New York Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th home run in 3 games 1962 Birthday Thomas Gibson, actor, Dr. Daniel Nyland-Chicago Hope 1962 Birthday Patrick Thomas Burke, born in Hollywood, Florida, PGA golfer, 1992 BellSouth-6th 1961 Birthday Brian Thomas Kamm, born in Rochester, New York, PGA golfer, 1994 Bell Canadian-6th 1961 Death Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies 1961 Event Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive home runs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas) 1961 Birthday Thomas Dooley, German Athlete 1961 Birthday Isiah Thomas, NBA forward, Detroit Piston; 1990 NBA playoff MVP 1961 Death Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81 1961 Birthday Barb Thomas Whitehead, Sibley, Iowa, LPGA golfer, 1995 Hawaiian Open 1960 Birthday Kristin Scott Thomas, English Actress 1959 Death Thomas Ross, actor (Without Limit), dies at 84 1959 Death Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85 1959 Birthday Thomas Edward Lehman, born in Austin, Minnesota, PGA golfer, 1994 Memorial Tournament 1959 Birthday Thomas Calabro, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Michael Mancini-Melrose Place 1958 Birthday Thomas Dolby, born in Cairo, Egypt, rock vocalist, She Blinded Me With Science 1958 Birthday Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-22 1958 Birthday Thomas Kinkade, American Artist 1957 Birthday Heather Thomas, born in Greenwich, Connecticut, actress, Jody-Fall Guy, Coed Fever 1957 Birthday Janice Thomas, WBL guard, New York Stars 1956 Birthday Anita Hill, professor of law, Clarence Thomas' nemesis 1956 Death Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist 1956 Birthday Melody Thomas Scott, actress, Nikki-Young and Restless 1956 Birthday Kurt Thomas, U.S., gymnast, Olympics, actor, Gymkata 1956 Birthday Thomas Wassberg, born in Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier 1980 Olympics gold 1956 Death Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70 1956 Event Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB 1955 Birthday Thomas Keller, American Celebrity 1955 Death Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr. Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80 1955 Birthday Thomas Leonard, American Businessman 1955 Birthday Donald A Thomas, born in Cleveland, Ohio, PhD/Astronaut, STS-65, 70, 83, 94 1955 Event 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas and Loretta Young 1955 Birthday Thomas David Jones, born in Baltimore, Maryland, PhD/Astronaut, STS-59, 68, 80, sk: 98 1954 Event Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles 1954 Birthday Banner Thomas, rocker, Molly Hatchet 1954 Birthday Nancy Stafford, born in Wilton Manors, Florida, Miss Florida, 1977 (1976), actress, Michelle Thomas, Matlock; Joan-St. Elsewhere 1954 Birthday Rene Russo, born in Burbank, California, Renee Marie Russo, television, film actress, model, breakthrough role as Lorna Cole in 'Lethal Weapon 3' and 'Lethal Weapon 4', appeared in 'The Thomas Crown Affair' with Pierce Brosnan 1953 Birthday Thomas Hulce, Plymouth, Michigan, actor, Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park 1953 Death Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in New York at 39 1953 Birthday Billy Thomas, Ft. Meyers, Florida, singer, McBride and Ride-I Count on You 1953 Event "Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV 1953 Birthday Thomas Friedman, American Journalist 1953 Birthday David Thomas, U.S. singer and songwriter, Pere Ubu 1953 Birthday Steve Thomas, rocker, Shooting Star 1953 Death Thomas Tertius Noble, composer, dies at 85 1953 Birthday Thomas Andrews, Representative-D-Maine 1991 - 1995 1953 Event 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell and Helen Hayes wins 1952 Birthday Thomas J Hennen, Albany Georgia, astronaut, STS-44 1952 Birthday Thomas Edward Henderson, South Carolina, basketballer 1972 Olympics silver 1951 Birthday Andrew S Thomas, Adelaide Australia, PhD/astronaut, STS-77, STS-89/91 1951 Birthday Thomas Warren Purtzer, Des Moines, Iowa, PGA golfer, 1977 Glen Campbell 1951 Birthday Richard Thomas, born in New York City, John Boy-Waltons, Last Summer, Johnny Belinda 1951 Death Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies 1951 Birthday Thomas D Akers, St. Louis, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-41, 49, 61, 79 1951 Birthday Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, saxophonist, Kool and Gang 1950 Birthday Thomas Vilsack, American Politician 1950 Death Thomas Wood, composer, dies at 57 1950 Birthday Thomas McClary, U.S. soul guitarist, Commodores-Still 1950 Birthday Thomas Aldrich, country drummer, Black Oak Arkansas 1950 Birthday Kid Creole, born in the Bronx, New York, born Thomas August Darnell Browder, singer, lyricist, composer, arranger, producer, founder of Kid Creole and the Coconuts 1950 Birthday Thomas Gottschalk, Bamberg Germany, Telespiele 1950 Birthday Ernest Thomas, born in Gary, Indiana, actor, Roger-What's Happening!! 1950 Event Dylan Thomas arrives in New York City for his 1st U.S. poetry reading tour 1949 Birthday Thomas O Kite, Jr., born in Austin, Texas, PGA golfer, 1978 BC Open, Crosby 1983 1949 Birthday Mickey Thomas, rock vocalist, Jefferson Airplane, Starship 1949 Birthday Thomas Lionel Hill, New Orleans, 110m hurdler 1972 Olympics bronze 1949 Birthday Thomas Sturges Watson, born in Kansas City, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1975 Byron Nelson 1949 Birthday Jeremy Thomas, actor, Family Life 1949 Birthday Jay Thomas, born in Kermit, Texas, DJ/actor, Mork and Mindy, Cheers, Murphy Brown 1949 Birthday Philip Michael Thomas, Columbus Ohio, actor, Miami Vice 1949 Birthday Tommy Ramone, Thomas Erdelyi, Budapest, rock drummer, Ramones 1949 Birthday Thomas Downey, born in Queens, New York, Representative-D-New York 1975 - 1993 1948 Event President Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey 1948 Birthday Jay Thomas, dj/actor, Eddie LeBec-Cheers, Jerry Gold-Murphy Brown 1948 Event Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York Governor Thomas Dewey 1948 Birthday Clarence Thomas, born in Savannah, Georgia, 108th U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1991- 1948 Birthday Dave Thomas, St. Catherines Ontario, comedian, SCTV, Grace Under Fire 1948 Birthday Thomas Spencer, MEP, Conservative 1947 Birthday Thomas R. Cech, American Scientist 1947 Birthday Betty Thomas, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues 1947 Birthday Tommy James, born in Dayton, Ohio, born Thomas Gregory Jackson, musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, led rock band Tommy James and the Shondells 1947 Birthday Thomas R. Carper, born in Beckley, West Virginia, Representative-D-Delaware 1983 - 2001, Senator-D-Delaware 2001 - 1947 Birthday Thomas Carper, American Economist 1946 Death Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer, dies at 69 1945 Birthday Thomas Pasatieri, composer 1945 Birthday Thomas C. Sawyer, born in Akron, Ohio, Representative-D-Ohio 1987 - 2003 1945 Birthday Harry Thomas, Dutch founder, Schlager Festival Gay Party 1945 Death Thomas Rennie, General-Major (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies 1945 Birthday Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards 1944 Birthday Michael Tilson Thomas, born in Los Angeles, California, conductor, New York Phil Young People 1944 Birthday Timmy Thomas, U.S. singer and songwriter, Why Can't We Live Together 1944 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R) 1944 Birthday Thomas Allen, British opera singer 1944 Birthday Thomas E. Mann, American Sociologist 1944 Death Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74 1944 Event Thomas Mann becomes a U.S. citizen 1944 Birthday Alan Howarth, born in Britain, born Alan Thomas Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, politician, Member of Parliament 1983 - 2005, member of the Privy Council 1943 Death Thomas W. "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist, dies at 39 in Kansas City Missouri 1943 Birthday Robert Lindsay Thomas, born in Patterson, Georgia, Representative-D-Georgia 1983 - 1993 1943 Birthday Thomas J. Sargent, American Economist 1943 Birthday Earl Thomas Coleman, born in Gladstone, Missouri, Representative-R-Missouri, 1976 - 1993 1943 Event Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr. Faustus 1943 Birthday Tom McNally, born in England, Thomas McNally, Baron McNally, politician, Liberal Party, Liberal Democrat leader in the House of Lords, life peer, Baron of Blackpool in the County of Lancashire 1943 Death Thomas "Fats" Waller, U.S. jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 38 1943 Event Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph and His Brothers" 1942 Birthday Thomas Menino, American Politician 1942 Birthday Carla Thomas, U.S. singer, Let Me Be Good to You 1942 Birthday Thomas Daniel Weiskopf, Massillon, Ohio, PGA golfer, British Open 1973 1942 Birthday B J Thomas, born in Houston, Texas, singer, Raindrops, Growing Pains Theme 1941 Birthday Ray Thomas, England, rock vocalist, Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin 1941 Birthday Earl Thomas Conley, Portsmouth, Ohio, country singer, Too Many Times 1941 Birthday Thomas F. Hartnett, born in Charleston, South Carolina, Representative-R-South Carolina 1981 - 1986 1941 Birthday Thomas Wayne, rocker, Tragedy 1941 Birthday Irma Thomas, U.S. vocalist, It's Raining 1941 Birthday C L "Gibby" Gilbert, Jr., Chattanooga, Tennessee, PGA golfer, 1976 Danny Thomas 1941 Birthday Grady Thomas, U.S. rock vocalist, Parliaments, Funkadelic, Maggot Brain 1940 Birthday Thomas Williams, U.S., ice hockey play 1960 Olympics gold 1940 Birthday Thomas Kohler, born in East Germany, luger, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics 1940 Birthday Thomas M[ichael] Disch, U.S., sci-fi author, Genocides, 102 H-Bombs 1939 Birthday Thomas McGuane, U.S., writer, Colf Feet, Tom Horn, Missouri Breaks 1939 Birthday Thomas Harkin, born in Cumming, Iowa, Senator-D-Iowa 1985 - 1939 Death Jameson Thomas, actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies at 50 1938 Birthday William Thomas McKinley, composer 1938 Birthday Thomas Black, English industrial/auto collector 1938 Death Thomas Wolfe, U.S. writer (Enigma), dies at 62 1938 Birthday Francis Thomas, Fay, Vincent, baseball commissioner 1938 Event Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1938 Birthday Grahame Thomas, cricketer, Australian batsman of the mid-60's 1937 Birthday John [Thomas] Sladek, U.S., sci-fi author, Tik-Tok, Bugs 1937 Birthday Marlo Thomas, born in Detroit, Michigan, 'That Girl!', 'Jenny' 1937 Birthday Thomas Nagel, Yugoslavian Philosopher 1937 Birthday Thomas Pynchon, novelist, V 1937 Birthday Charley Thomas, rocker, Drifters 1937 Birthday Thomas Monaghan, British Soldier 1936 Birthday Thomas K. Mattingly II, Chic, Captain USN/astronaut, Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C 1935 Birthday Thomas Augustine Martin, academic 1935 Birthday Thomas M Keneally, Australian writer, Schindler's List 1935 Birthday Thomas Keneally, Australian Novelist 1935 Birthday Thomas W. Ewing, born in Atlanta, Illinois, Representative-R-Illinois 1991 - 2001 1935 Death Thomas E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, dies in a motorcycle crash 1935 Birthday Thomas H. Kean, American Politician 1934 Death David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61 1934 Birthday Thomas Ambler, CEO, Texaco 1934 Birthday Thomas Paul, born in Chicago, Illinois, bass, New York City Opera 1963-70 1933 Event Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox 1933 Birthday Craig L. Thomas, born in Wyoming, United States Senator from Wyoming, protected America's national parks 1932 Birthday Thomas J. Manton, born in New York City, New York, Representative-D-New York 1985 - 1999 1932 Birthday Leon Hughes, born in Los Angeles, California, born Thomas Leon Hughes, member of The Coasters with Bobby Nunn, Carl Gardner, Billy Guy 1932 Birthday Dave Thomas, founder, Wendy's Restaurants 1932 Death Albert Thomas, French socialist politician 1932 Death Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies 1932 Birthday Richard Thomas, born in Britain, admiral, served as Black Rod, House of Lords 1992 - 1995, UK Military Representative to NATO 1989 - 1992 1932 Birthday Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., born in Virginia, Representative-R-Virginia 1981 - 2001 1931 Birthday Thomas Eden Binkley, musician 1931 Birthday Thomas K "Tom" van Brook, actor/interpreter, Soldier of Orange 1931 Death Thomas Edison, 1931 Death Thomas A. Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, New Jersey, at 84 1931 Death Thomas Johnstone Lipton, sportsman/merchant, dies 1931 Death Thomas Lipton, Scottish Businessman 1931 Birthday Leslie Thomas, born in Newport, Wales, author, published 'In My Wildest Dreams', recounting childhood in South Wales, in early life, wrote columns for London Evening News newspaper 1931 Birthday William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor, Little Rascals 1931 Birthday Thomas Bernhard, born in Heerlen, Netherlands, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist 1931 Birthday Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator 1931 Birthday Thomas Hoving, New York City, news correspondent, 20/20 1931 Event 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League 1930 Event Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons 1930 Birthday Thomas P. Stafford, born in Weatherford, Oklahoma, USAF/astronaut, Gem 6 9, Ap 10 18 1930 Birthday Thomas Sowell, author/activist 1930 Birthday Fred[erick Thomas] Saberhagen, U.S., sci-fi author, Book of Swords 1930 Birthday Thomas Schippers, born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, conductor, Amahl and Night Visitors 1929 Death Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74 1929 Birthday Thomas Eagleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Senator-D-Missouri 1968 - 1986 and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1972 1929 Birthday Pat Harrington, Jr., New York City, actor, Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time 1929 Birthday Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby international/journalist 1928 Birthday Thomas Rajna, composer 1928 Birthday Thomas Burnett Swann, U.S., sci-fi author, Day of Minotaur 1928 Birthday Thomas Stewart, San Saba Texas, baritone, La Roche Capriccio 1928 Birthday Thomas Jefferson Anderson, composer 1928 Death Thomas H Rollinson, composer, dies at 84 1928 Death Timothy Thomas Fortune, American Writer 1928 Death Thomas Hardy, novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies near Dorchester at 87 1927 Birthday Thomas Brendon Wilson, composer 1927 Birthday Thomas J J Altizer, Massachusetts, U.S. Radical theologian, God is Dead 1927 Birthday Thomas S. Monson, American Clergyman 1927 Birthday Gwyn Ward Thomas, Beritsh TV director 1927 Birthday Thomas W. "Tom" Graveney, English cricket batsman, 50's and 60's 1927 Event Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president 1927 Death Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer, dies at 74 1926 Birthday Thomas Millar, historian 1926 Event Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies 1925 Birthday Thomas Christian David, composer 1925 Birthday Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician 1925 Birthday Thomas Winning, Roman Catholic archbishop, Glasgow 1925 Death Thomas R. Marshall, American Politician 1925 Death Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, dies at 88 1924 Birthday Thomas Beversdorf, composer 1924 Birthday Thomas Berger, U.S., novelist, Vital Parts, Little Big Man 1924 Birthday Thomas Baird, Vice-Admiral 1924 Death Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1913-21), dies 1924 Event IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson 1923 Birthday Gwyn Ward Thomas, British TV director 1923 Death Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75 1923 Birthday Morschi Mirando, Thomas Weiss, German/Dutch gypsy artist 1922 Death Thomas Nelson Page, American Writer 1922 Birthday Thomas T Nkobi, South Africa ANC-leader, Alexandra-bus boycott 1957 1922 Birthday Marjorie Lord, born in San Francisco, California, actress, Kathy-Danny Thomas Show 1922 Birthday Thomas Kuhn, American Writer 1922 Birthday Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer 1922 Event 1st living person identified on a U.S. coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar 1921 Birthday Gerard Thomas Victory, composer 1921 Birthday Frankie Thomas, born in New York City, actor, Tom Corbett Space Cadet 1920 Event Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn 1920 Birthday [Thomas] Godfrey Evans, English cricket keeper, 1950's 1920 Birthday Helen Thomas, UPI journalist, starts press conferences 1920 Event A's Vice President Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier 1920 Birthday Sid Melton, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas 1920 Birthday Thomas Gold, astronomer, proposed steady-state theory of universe 1920 Birthday Thomas Szasz, American Psychologist 1920 Event Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia 1919 Birthday Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant 1918 Birthday Maldwyn Thomas, president, Welsh Liberal Party 1918 Birthday Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert 1917 Death Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I 1917 Birthday Rufus Thomas, born in Mississippi, singer, Walking the Dog 1917 Death Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70 1917 Birthday Thomas K Scherman, New York City, conductor, Little Orchestra Society 1947 - 1975 1915 Event Thomas Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia 1915 Event Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia 1915 Birthday Dick Thomas, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, TV host, Village Barn 1915 Death Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician 1915 Event Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations 1915 Birthday Richard Thomas Condon, author 1915 Birthday Garry Moore, Thomas Garrison Morfit, Balt, host, I've Got a Secret 1915 Birthday Thomas Merton, born in France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist, 7 Storey Mt 1915 Event Alexander Graham Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in SF 1914 Birthday Dylan Thomas, born in Swansea, Wales, poet, Child's Christmas in Wales 1914 Death Brandon Thomas, British Actor 1914 Birthday Danny Thomas, born in Deerfield, Michigan, comedian, Danny Thomas Show 1913 Birthday Thomas Torrance, theologist 1913 Birthday Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician 1913 Birthday Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster 1913 Death John Thomas, composer, dies at 87 1913 Birthday Thomas Gray, professor and anaesthetist 1913 Death Thomas P Krag, Norw author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44 1912 Birthday Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician 1912 Birthday Daniel Jones, born in Pembroke, Wales, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 1912 Birthday Jimmy Jewel, born in Sheffield, England, James Arthur Thomas J. Marsh, comedian, television, film actor, appeared in film 'The Krays', musical drama 'Casualty' 1912 Death William Thomas Stead, English Journalist 1912 Birthday Thomas "Schoolboy" Rowe, Waco Texas, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers 1911 Death Thomas Ball, U.S. sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92 1911 Birthday William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian 1911 Birthday Jesse Thomas, blues singer 1910 Event 30th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61) 1910 Death Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies 1910 Birthday Thomas Stuart Willan, historian 1909 Event Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League 1909 Birthday Mansel Treharne Thomas, composer 1909 Birthday Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant 1909 Birthday Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English radio comic/actor, Phoenix 1908 Event Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight 1908 Death Thomas E Selfridge, earlier U.S. aviator, 1st to die in an air crash 1908 Birthday Thomas Narcejac, Rochefort-sur-Mer France, writer, Vertigo 1908 Death Thomas Cavendish, English Explorer 1908 Birthday Thomas Cavendish, English Explorer 1908 Birthday Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden 1907 Event Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour," premieres in New York City 1907 Birthday Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician 1907 Death Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S. writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70 1907 Birthday Sheldon Leonard, New York City, actor and director, Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie 1906 Birthday Klaus Mann, German/US author, Mephisto, son of Thomas Mann 1906 Birthday Thomas G. Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer 1906 Birthday Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer 1905 Birthday Erika Mann, German/US author, Other Germany, daughter of Thomas Mann 1905 Birthday Thomas Gomez, born in New York City, actor, Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout 1904 Event Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km) 1904 Birthday Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer 1904 Birthday Fats Waller, Thomas Wright, jazz singer/composer, Ain't Misbehavin' 1904 Birthday Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenber----dorff, Sr, near Hamburg, Germany 1904 Birthday James Thomas Farrell, U.S., author, Studs Lonigan trilogy 1903 Birthday Thomas Baron Pitfield, composer 1903 Birthday Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner for the Boston Red Sox 1902 Death Thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies 1902 Death Thomas Reed, American Politician 1902 Birthday Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter 1900 Birthday Thomas Wolfe, American novelist, Look Homeward Angel 1900 Birthday Graham Spry, St. Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer 1900 Birthday Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., great polo player, Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39 1898 Birthday Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong, organist 1898 Birthday William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist, textiles 1898 Death Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet 1897 Death Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet 1897 Death William Thomas Best, composer, dies at 70 1896 Birthday Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer 1896 Birthday Thomas W. McKnew, president, National Geographic Society 1896 Death John Rogers Thomas, composer, dies at 66 1896 Death Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton 1896 Death Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at 84 1895 Death Thomas Henry Huxley, English Scientist 1895 Death Thomas Huxley, English Scientist 1894 Death Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at 38 1894 Event Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device 1893 Event Thomas F. Bayard becomes 1st U.S. ambassador in Great Britain 1893 Event Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey 1892 Birthday Thomas Wood, composer 1892 Death Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83 1892 Death Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook and Son), dies at 83 1892 Event U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp 1892 Birthday Thomas Mitchell, born in New Jersey, academy award winning actor, Outlaw, Adventures 1892 Birthday Lowell Thomas, born in Woodington, Ohio, newscaster, High Adventure 1892 Death Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41 1891 Event Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera 1889 Event Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture 1889 Event 15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34 1889 Birthday Thomas Hart Benton, born in Missouri, painter/muralist, Lonesome Road 1889 Death Thomas T H Jorissen, historian, dies at 56 1888 Birthday Jameson Thomas, born in London, England, actor, Farmer's Wife 1887 Event Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF) 1886 Event Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class 1885 Death Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71 1885 Death Thomas A Hendricks, 21st Vice President, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office 1885 Death Thomas Davidson, Scottish Scientist 1885 Birthday Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer 1885 Birthday Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist 1884 Event T Thomas Fortune starts New York Freeman (New York Age) newspaper 1884 Birthday Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist, President Candidate 1928-48 1884 Birthday Thomas Chalmers, New York City, actor, Blind Alleys, Outrage 1884 Birthday Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools 1884 Event Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 years 9 mos) 1884 Death Thomas Gold Appleton, American critic, writer, and artist, dies 1883 Birthday Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great, Yale 1882 Event 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison 1882 Birthday Jacques Maritain, France, Catholic philosopher, exponent of St. Thomas 1882 Death Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin 1882 Birthday Thomas Campbell, South African cricket wicketkeeper, 5 Tests 1909-12 1881 Birthday Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh Dutch/MP 1881 Death Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh, dies 1881 Death Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85 1880 Event Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1879 Event Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb 1879 Event Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light 1879 Event Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track and field record pole-vaulting 11' 2" at age 17 years and 198 days 1879 Death Henry Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 65 1879 Birthday Thomas Beecham, born in England, composer, found London Philharmonic 1879 Death Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63 1878 Birthday Albert Thomas, French socialist politician 1878 Birthday Edward Thomas, English Poet 1878 Event Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph) 1877 Event Thomas Edison patents phonograph 1877 Event Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone 1877 Event 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison) 1877 Event Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph 1877 Event Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device 1877 Birthday Thomas C Hart, U.S. Admiral, Asiatic fleet 1877 Birthday Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer 1876 Event Thomas Edison patents mimeograph 1876 Death Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66 1876 Death Thomas W. Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn 1876 Birthday James Edward Murray, born in St. Thomas, Canada, Senator-D-Montana 1934 - 1961 1876 Event 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) 1875 Death Thomas Hewitt Key, English Writer 1875 Birthday Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist, Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929 1875 Birthday Thomas W. Ross, actor, Without Limit, Kings Row, 17, Mortal Storm 1875 Birthday Thomas Hicks, English/U.S. marathon runner:, Olympics gold 1904 1874 Death Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50 1874 Birthday Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist, IBM 1873 Birthday Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer 1873 Birthday David Vaughan Thomas, composer 1872 Birthday Frederick A Stock, Julich, Germany, conductor, Theodore Thomas Orchestra 1872 Death Thomas Hastings, composer, dies at 87 1872 Event Thomas J. Martin patents fire extinguisher 1871 Birthday Heinrich Mann, born in Germany, novelist/essayist, Blue Angel, ; bros of Thomas 1870 Birthday Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years 1870 Event 1st black to vote in U.S. (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy New Jersey) 1870 Death Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian 1869 Event Voting machine patented by Thomas A. Edison 1868 Event Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine 1868 Death Thomas Carmichael Hindman, attorney and Confederate general-major, shot at 40 1868 Birthday Thomas P Krag, Norwegian writer, Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran 1868 Death William Thomas Morton, dentist (1st to use ether), dies 1868 Death James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70 1867 Event Mail packets "Rhone" and "Wye" capsizes off St. Thomas Virgin Islands 1867 Death Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer, dies at 67 1867 Birthday Thomas Tertius Noble, composer 1867 Birthday Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American, 113 y 273 d at death 1867 Death George Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 90 1866 Birthday Thomas Hunt Morgan, U.S., biologist, Nobel-1933 1866 Death Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer, dies at 83 1865 Event Thomas Robertsons "Society," premieres in London 1865 Death Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author 1865 Death Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32 1865 Death Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies 1864 Event Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia 1864 Death Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, U.S. Union-Brigadier-General, dies at about 34 1864 Death Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 27 1864 Death Thomas Donnely Doubleday, U.S. Union Col, dies in an accident 1864 Death Thomas Green, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 50 1864 Death Thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity and Humanity), dies 1864 Birthday Thomas Dixon, U.S. attorney/playwright, Flaming Sword 1863 Death Thomas Welsh, U.S. Union Brigadier-General (Antietam), dies at 39 1863 Death Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies 1863 Death Thomas J. Jackson, American Soldier 1863 Event Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet 1862 Death Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 1862 Birthday Charles Thomas Biass Turner, cricketer, the "Terror" 1862 Death Thomas Williams, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 1861 Event Flush toilet patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!) 1860 Death Thomas Cochrane, English Politician 1860 Death Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67 1860 Event Thomas J. Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry 1860 Birthday Thomas Hastings, born in New York City, architect, New York Public Library 1860 Event Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st U.S. superintendent of agriculture 1859 Death Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies 1859 Death Thomas De Quincey, English Author 1857 Birthday Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president, Bryn Mawr College 1856 Birthday Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician, Stieltjes integral 1856 Birthday Timothy Thomas Fortune, American Writer 1856 Birthday David Alfred Thomas, born in Glamorganshire, England, 1st Viscount Rhondda 1856 Death Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41 1855 Birthday Thomas F Tout, London, historian, Manchester school of historiography 1854 Birthday Thomas Riley Marshall, D, 28th Vice President, 1913-21 1854 Birthday Thomas R. Marshall, American Politician 1854 Birthday Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant, Telephone 1853 Birthday Thomas Nelson Page, American Writer 1852 Birthday Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer 1852 Death Thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies 1850 Birthday Brandon Thomas, British Actor 1850 Birthday Arthor Goring Thomas, composer 1850 Birthday Thomas Johnstone Lipton, Glasgow, yachtsman/tea magnate, Lipton Tea 1850 Birthday Thomas Lipton, Scottish Businessman 1849 Death Dolley Madison, wife of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison, First Lady of the United States, 1809 - 1817, acted as First Lady for Thomas Jefferson, portrait appears on United States Mint 1/2 ounce $10 gold coins, died at age 81 in Washington, D.C. 1849 Birthday William Thomas Stead, English Journalist 1849 Death Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 1848 Event Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher 1848 Birthday Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer 1847 Birthday Thomas A. Edison, born in Milan, Ohio, American Inventor 1846 Event Dr. William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether 1846 Birthday Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle 1845 Birthday Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker 1845 Death Thomas Hood, English Poet 1845 Death Thomas Duncan, painter, dies 1844 Birthday Thomas Eakins, American Artist 1844 Death Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66 1844 Birthday Thomas H Rollinson, composer 1843 Birthday Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet 1842 Death Thomas Freanby, Norwegian landscape painter, dies 1841 Death Thomas Bruce, Count of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat, dies 1841 Event Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency 1841 Death Thomas Ainsworth, English/Dutch industrialist, dies at 45 1840 Birthday Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America 1840 Birthday Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 Birthday Thomas Hardy, England, poet and novelist, Far from the Madding Crowd 1839 Birthday Thomas Reed, American Politician 1839 Event Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri) 1838 Death Thomas Busby, composer, dies 1838 Death Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72 1838 Birthday Thomas Benton Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 Birthday Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison" 1837 Event Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times 1837 Death Thomas Babington, British Poet 1837 Event 1st U.S. electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport 1836 Birthday John Thomas Croxton, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S., author/editor, Story of a Bad Boy 1836 Birthday Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Major General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, Diseases of the Heart 1836 Birthday Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician 1834 Birthday Thomas R Malthus, English vicar/economist, moral restraint 1834 Birthday Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Edwin Thomas Booth, U.S., U.S. Hall of Fame/actor, Hamlet 1833 Birthday Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Major General Union Army 1833 Birthday Thomas Howard Ruger, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian 1832 Birthday Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Thomas Ogden Osbord, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Moncure Daniel Conway, U.S., abolitionist, Life of Thomas Paine 1831 Death Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72 1831 Birthday William Thomas Clark, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Allen Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet 1830 Birthday John Rogers Thomas, composer 1830 Death Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer, dies at 56 1829 Birthday Thomas Ewing, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers 1829 Death Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies 1829 Birthday Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright, Caste 1828 Birthday Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Major General Confederate Army 1827 Death Thomas Rowlandson, caricaturist, dies 1826 Birthday Thomas John Lucas, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday William Thomas Best, composer 1826 Death Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83 1826 Birthday Thomas Hewson Neill, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday John Thomas, composer 1826 Death Thomas Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia, politician, lawyer, U.S. Representative from Virginia, served as member of Virginia Senate and Virginia House of Delegates, elected to the Twelfth Congress, as a Federalist, dies 1825 Birthday Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Thomas Hart Taylor, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist 1825 Birthday Thomas Huxley, English Scientist 1825 Birthday Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Death Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies 1825 Event Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans 1824 Birthday Thomas Starr King, New York, Unitarian clergyman, Christianity and Humanity 1824 Birthday Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Thomas James Churchill, Major General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lieutenant General 2nd Corps, ANV, Confederate 1824 Birthday Thomas J. Jackson, American Soldier 1823 Birthday Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary War, Union 1823 Birthday Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer 1823 Birthday Thomas Hughes, England, author, Tom Brown's School Days 1823 Birthday Thomas John Wood, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Thomas Francis Meagher, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday Thomas Casimer Devin, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Thomas Leiper Kane, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Thomas Kilby Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Thomas Andrews Hendricks, D, 21st U.S. Vice President 1819 Event Thomas Blanchard patents lathe 1819 Birthday William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether, HOF 1920 1819 Birthday Thomas Ball, U.S., sculptor/painter/singer 1819 Birthday Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Event Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore 1819 Birthday Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen, Confederacy 1817 Death Thomas McKean, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 83 1817 Birthday Thomas Davidson, Scottish Scientist 1816 Birthday George Henry Thomas, Major General Union Army 1815 Birthday Thomas Couture, French painter/author 1815 Birthday Thomas Jackson Rodman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Thomas Stanhope Bocock, Confederacy 1815 Birthday Thomas Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Death Thomas Spence, English Writer 1814 Birthday Thomas Crawford, U.S. sculptor, Babes in the Wood 1814 Birthday Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer 1814 Birthday Thomas Green, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1813 Birthday Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist, ozone 1813 Birthday Henry Thomas Smart, composer 1813 Birthday Thomas West Sherman, Major General Union Army 1813 Birthday Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1812 Birthday Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1812 Birthday Thomas Gold Appleton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, American critic, writer, and artist 1811 Death Thomas Percy, English bishop of Dromore, dies at 82 1811 Birthday Thomas Gautier, writer 1811 Birthday C L Ambroise Thomas, French composer, Caid, Francoise de Rimini 1811 Event U.S. Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the U.S.) 1810 Birthday Thomas Bragg, Attorney General, Confederacy 1810 Birthday Thomas Jefferson McKean, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Thomas Wright, historian 1809 Birthday Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday Thomas Alfred Davies, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer 1809 Death Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72 1809 Death Thomas Holcroft, English Dramatist 1808 Birthday Thomas Turner, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday Thomas Cook, England, tour director, Thomas Cook and Son 1808 Birthday Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday Thomas Cook, founder, Cook travel bureau 1808 Birthday Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 Birthday Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 Birthday William Thomas Ward, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University 1807 Birthday Thomas Duncan, painter 1806 Death Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer, dies at 58 1805 Birthday Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry 1804 Event Thomas Jefferson re-elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president 1804 Birthday Lorenzo Thomas, Major General Union Army 1804 Birthday Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy 1803 Birthday Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet 1802 Birthday Thomas Fearnley, Norway, landscape painter 1802 Birthday Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor 1801 Event Thomas Jefferson is the 1st president inaugurated in Washington D.C. 1801 Birthday Thomas Cole, U.S., romantic landscape painter, Hudson River School 1800 Birthday Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet and historian, Ivry, Naaseby 1800 Birthday Thomas Babington, British Poet 1800 Birthday Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Commander Union Navy 1799 Birthday Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer 1799 Birthday Thomas Hood, English poet/composer, Song of the Shirt 1799 Birthday Thomas Hewitt Key, English Writer 1798 Birthday Thomas Holliday Hicks, Union Gov 1798 Birthday Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller, Fairy legends 1796 Birthday Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author 1796 Birthday Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist, Bulfinch's Mythology 1795 Birthday Thomas Ainsworth, English/Netherlands industrialist, Twentse textile 1795 Birthday Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian, French Revolution 1795 Death Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 62 1795 Birthday Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian, History of Rome 1795 Event Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England 1794 Event African Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated 1794 Death Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65 1793 Death Thomas Mckean, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 72 1790 Death Thomas Norris, composer, dies at 49 1790 Death Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies 1790 Event Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st U.S. Secretary of State 1790 Event Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State 1789 Death Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire 1788 Birthday Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian 1788 Birthday Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter 1788 Death Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies 1788 Death Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61 1787 Birthday Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Philadelphia, pioneer of educating the deaf 1787 Death Thomas Stone, U.S. attorney/signer (Dec of Ind), dies at about 44 1786 Birthday Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry 1785 Birthday Thomas Love Peacock, English author, Headlong Hall 1785 Birthday Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks 1785 Birthday Thomas De Quincey, Eng, writer, Confessions of English Opium Eater 1784 Birthday Thomas Hastings, composer 1783 Birthday Thomas Sully, U.S. portrait painter, Queen Victoria 1783 Birthday Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer 1782 Birthday Thomas Hart Benton, rep, "Old Bullion" 1781 Death Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49 1781 Event Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US 1780 Death Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician 1780 Birthday Thomas Chalmers, 1st moderator, Free Church of Scotland 1843-47 1779 Death Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, dies at 61 1779 Birthday Thomas Moore, Irish Poet 1778 Death Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22 1778 Death Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67 1777 Birthday Thomas Campbell, poet, Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic 1776 Event Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls" 1776 Event Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" 1776 Death Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged 1776 Death Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed 1776 Birthday George Thomas Smart, composer 1776 Event "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published 1775 Birthday Thomas Cochrane, English Politician 1775 Birthday Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist 1773 Birthday Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer 1773 Birthday Thomas Young, British philologist/physician, light interference 1771 Death Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54 1771 Death Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54 1771 Death Thomas Gray, English Poet 1770 Death Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies 1768 Death Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle, dies at 75 1768 Event Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel 1768 Birthday Dolley Madison, born in New Garden, North Carolina, wife of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison, First Lady of the United States, 1809 - 1817, acted as First Lady for Thomas Jefferson, portrait appears on United States Mint 1/2 ounce $10 gold coins 1766 Birthday Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat 1766 Birthday Robert Bailey Thomas, founder, Farmer's Almanac 1766 Birthday Thomas Malthus, Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer 1766 Birthday Thomas Malthus, England, population expert, Law of Malthus 1765 Birthday Thomas Attwood, composer 1765 Birthday Thomas Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia, politician, lawyer, U.S. Representative from Virginia, served as member of Virginia Senate and Virginia House of Delegates, elected to the Twelfth Congress, as a Federalist 1763 Birthday Thomas Campbell, founder, Church of Disciples in America 1762 Event Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes," premieres in London 1761 Death Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50 1759 Birthday Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Rainham Norfolk UK, topographer 1758 Birthday Thomas Greatorex, composer 1756 Birthday Thomas Anton Kunz, composer 1756 Birthday Thomas Rowlandson, English painter/cartoonist/etcher 1756 Birthday Thomas Linley, composer 1754 Birthday Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare 1753 Birthday Thomas Bewick, England, artist, British Birds, Aesop's Fables 1752 Birthday Thomas Chatterton, English poet, Christabel 1751 Event Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch 1750 Birthday Thomas Spence, English Writer 1749 Birthday Thomas Lynch, signer, Declaration of Independence 1749 Birthday Isaiah Thomas, U.S., printer/editor/publisher/historian 1748 Birthday Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer 1746 Birthday Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Declaration of Independence 1745 Birthday Thomas Holcroft, English Dramatist 1743 Birthday Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, D-R, 3rd President, 1801-09 1741 Birthday Thomas Norris, composer 1740 Death Thomas Tickell, poet, dies 1738 Birthday Thomas Nelson, merchant, signer of Declaration of Independence 1737 Birthday Thomas Paine, political essayist, Common Sense, Age of Reason 1736 Death Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies 1735 Birthday Thomas Coutts, Scottish banker 1733 Birthday Thomas Linley, composer 1732 Birthday Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer 1729 Birthday Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer 1729 Birthday Thomas Percy, English literary/bishop of Dromore 1728 Birthday Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England, Pleasures of Melancholy 1727 Birthday Thomas Gainsborough, English painter, Blue Boy, baptized 1719 Event Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children" 1718 Birthday Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker, baptized 1716 Birthday Thomas Gray, English poet, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 1713 Death Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies 1712 Death Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54 1712 Death Thomas Osborne, English Prime Minister 1690 - 1694, dies at 80 1711 Birthday Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician 1710 Birthday Thomas Simpson, English mathematician, rules of Simpson 1710 Birthday Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer, Alfred, Rule Britannia 1709 Death Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74 1708 Death Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 80 1702 Death Thomas Eisenhut, composer, dies at 58 1702 Death Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies 1702 Death Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies 1694 Event English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest 1693 Birthday Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st duke of Newcastle, English minister of finance 1691 Event Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service 1689 Death Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist 1682 Event Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London 1680 Death Thomas Blood, English Soldier 1679 Death Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher 1674 Death Thomas Traherne, British Clergyman 1674 Death Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies 1671 Death Thomas, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 59 1671 Event Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels 1667 Death Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried 1663 Death Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64 1663 Birthday Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor, steam engine 1661 Death Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53 1660 Event Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York 1657 Birthday Thomas Bullis, composer 1656 Death Thomas Tomkins, composer, dies 1652 Birthday Thomas Otway, England, playwright and poet, Venice Preserved 1649 Death Thomas Shepard, American Clergyman 1648 Event Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament 1648 Death Thomas Ford, composer, dies 1648 Death Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer, dies at 79 1647 Death Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies 1646 Death Thomas H earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles), dies 1646 Event Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Oxford 1645 Event Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol 1645 Event Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax beats royalists 1644 Birthday Thomas Eisenhut, composer 1643 Event Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for Parliamentarians 1641 Death Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48 1639 Event Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England 1639 Death Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies 1635 Birthday Thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist, Coriolanus 1632 Birthday Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM, 1690-1694, founder, Tories 1631 Death Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies 1628 Event 1st deportation from what is now U.S., Thomas Morton from Mass 1627 Birthday Thomas Bullis, composer 1627 Death Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies 1625 Birthday Thomas Corneille, French playwright 1624 Death Thomas Erpenius, van Erp, orientalist/arab (Arab grammatica), dies 1624 Birthday Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist 1623 Death Thomas Weelkes, composer, dies at 47 1622 Birthday Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized 1619 Death Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53 1612 Birthday Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader, King's Men 1612 Death Thomas Bodley, diplomat/founder (Bodleian Library), dies 1612 Birthday Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general 1610 Event Thomas West baron De La Mar appointed as 1st Governor of Virginia colony 1610 Event Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia 1608 Birthday Thomas Fuller, England, literary, History of the Holy War 1605 Birthday Thomas Shepard, American Clergyman 1605 Birthday Thomas Browne, British writer, Garden of Cyrus 1604 Death Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies 1603 Death Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68 1599 Birthday Thomas Selle, composer 1595 Death Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite), dies 1593 Birthday Thomas Wentworth, London, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland 1588 Birthday Thomas Hobbes, born in England, philosopher, Leviathan 1586 Event Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia 1586 Event Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe 1585 Death Thomas Tallis, composer, dies 1584 Birthday Thomas Erpenius, van Erpe, Dutch orientalist/arabist, grammar 1583 Death Thomas Erastus, Switzerland, theologist, dies 1582 Birthday Thomas Simpson, composer 1581 Birthday Thomas Overbury, poet, baptized 1580 Birthday Thomas Middleton, English playwright, Game of Chess 1576 Birthday Thomas Weelkes, composer 1575 Event English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis and William Byrd music press monopoly 1572 Death Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36 1568 Birthday Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer 1567 Birthday Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician 1559 Death Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52 1558 Birthday Thomas Kyd, English dramatist, Spanish Tragedy 1556 Death Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66 1556 Event Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic 1555 Death Thomas Villanova, Spanish saint/archbishop of Valencia, dies 1554 Death Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies 1554 Event Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated 1554 Event Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary 1549 Death Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded 1546 Death Thomas Elyot, British diplomat, dies 1546 Death Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46 1545 Birthday Thomas Bodley, England, diplomat and scholar 1540 Death Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed 1540 Event English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic 1540 Event Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister 1538 Birthday Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth, 1572 1536 Birthday Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall 1535 Death Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57 1535 Event Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason 1534 Event Sir Thomas Moore confined in London Tower 1533 Event Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury 1532 Event Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor 1530 Death Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal/adviser to England's King Henry VIII, dies 1529 Event English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested 1529 Event Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor 1529 Event Cardinal Thomas Wolsey lays-off English Lord Chancellor 1525 Death Thomas Munzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed 1524 Death Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80 1518 Event English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan 1517 Event Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay 1515 Event Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor 1514 Event Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York 1491 Death Thomas Basin, French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies 1489 Birthday Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr 1478 Birthday Thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint, Utopia 1471 Death Thomas Kempis, Thomas Hammerken von Kempen, monk, dies at 91 1471 Death Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91 1471 Death Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 1414 Death Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies 1380 Event Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais 1274 Death Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48 1173 Event Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Absp of Canterbury 1170 Death Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II 1117 Birthday Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury
