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2007 Craig L. Thomas, dies in Maryland, of leukemia, at 74

2006 Thomas J. Manton, Representative-D-New York 1985 - 1999, died from cancer

2003 Thomas Leonard, American Businessman

2002 Dave Thomas, commercial icon/businessman, founded Wendy's, dies at 69

2001 Leopold Page, leathergoods retailer/historian, convinced Thomas Keneally to write Schindler's List, dies at 87

2000 Thomas Yohe, TV producer/innovator, Schoolhouse Rock, dies at 63

1999 Michelle Thomas, 12/22/98, Family Matters, dies at 30

1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas

1997 White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time

1996 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85

1996 Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83

1996 Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby international/journalist, dies at 67

1996 Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer, dies at 90

1996 Thomas Kuhn, American Writer

1996 Thomas Edward Montgomery, drummer, dies at 73

1996 Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93

1996 Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81

1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself

1996 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician, dies at 88

1996 Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert, dies at 77

1995 Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69

1995 Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million

1995 Thomas Lyttle, paramilitary, dies at 56

1995 Thomas Augustine Martin, academic, dies at 59

1995 Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster, dies at 82

1995 Jesse Thomas, blues singer, dies at 84

1995 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64)

1995 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87

1995 Thomas Eden Binkley, musician, dies at 63

1995 Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73

1995 Barb Thomas Whitehead wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open

1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas

1994 Thomas J Watson, Jr., CEO (IBM), dies of a stroke at 79

1994 Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63

1994 Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet

1994 Caitlin Thomas, dies

1994 Thomas Davis, U.S. movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26

1994 Thomas henry Wait Armstrong, organist, dies at 96

1994 Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67

1994 Thomas Stuart Willan, historian, dies at 84

1994 Drew Barrymore (19) files for divorce from Jeremy Thomas (31)

1994 Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician

1993 Thomas J Watson, Jr., president of IBM (1956-71)/diplomat, dies at 79

1993 Lewis Thomas, biologist, dies of cancer at 80

1993 Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor (Mapantsula), dies at 40

1993 Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72

1993 Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession

1993 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 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 Thomas A Dorsey, jazz pianist (Take My Hand, Precious Lord), dies

1992 Theo Edison, son of Thomas Edison, dies at 94

1992 Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham

1992 Thomas J McIntyre, Sen-New Hampshire, 1963 - 1979, dies at 77

1992 Thomas J McIntyre, U.S., senator/writer (Fear Brokers), dies

1992 Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria

1992 Thomas Whitfield, gospel vocalist, dies of heart attack at 38

1992 Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria

1992 Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr. Faustus), dies

1992 Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ

1991 Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60

1991 Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland

1991 Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies

1991 Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1991 Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice

1991 Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her

1991 Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas

1991 Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her

1991 Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination

1991 Thomas Tryon, actor (Cardinal)/writer (Other), dies at 65

1991 Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title

1991 Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33

1991 Thomas A Carlin, dies at 62

1991 Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park

1991 Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)

1991 John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies

1991 Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05)

1991 Danny Thomas, comedian (Jazz Singer), dies of a heart attack at 79

1990 U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize

1990 "Dave Thomas Comedy Show," last airs on CBS-TV

1990 Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV

1990 Terry Thomas, English comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78

1989 Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies

1989 Frank M Thomas, actor (Behind the Headlines, M'Liss), dies

1989 Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English comic (Bitter Springs), dies at 80

1989 Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women

1989 Thomas Bernhard, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist, dies at 58 of tuberculosis in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria

1988 Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal

1988 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas

1987 Thomas Dekker, born in Las Vegas, Nevada, musician, singer, actor, played Zach on 'Heroes', John Connor in 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'

1987 Thomas G Lanphier, Jr., U.S. WW II pilot, dies at 71

1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title

1987 Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies

1987 Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), dies of AIDS at 50

1987 Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for heavyweight boxing title

1987 Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson

1986 Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas

1986 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA)

1986 Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1986 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas

1985 Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title

1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon

1985 Thomas Creighton, U.S. heart patient (3 implants in 46 hours), dies at 33

1984 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavywgt boxing title

1984 Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal

1984 Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran

1983 "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5

1982 U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea

1981 Jonathan Taylor Thomas, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, actor, Randy-Home Improvement

1981 Lowell Thomas, newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling New York at 89

1981 Thomas Beversdorf, composer, dies at 56

1981 Fannie Thomas, U.S., dies at 113

1980 Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies

1980 William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49

1980 Thomas Ian Nicholas, actor, Radio Flyer, Rookie of the Year

1980 Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue marry

1980 Matthew Thomas Carey, actor, Once You Meet a Stranger

1979 Tamika Thomas, Miss Michigan Teen USA 1996

1978 Thomas Odoyo, cricketer, Kenyan all-rounder 1996 World Cup

1977 Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight

1977 Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8)

1977 Tim Thomas, NBA forward for the Philadelphia 76ers

1976 Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies

1976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter

1976 Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47

1976 Nadine Thomas, Miss Jamaica Universe 1997

1976 Lynn Thomas, Newport News, Virginia, playmate, May 1997

1975 Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal

1975 John Thomas, NBA forward for the Boston Celtics

1975 Petria Thomas, Lismore NSW Australia, swimmer, 1996 Olympics silver

1975 Thomas Hamilton, NBA center for the Boston Celtics

1975 Thomas Heart Benson, U.S. artist, dies at 85

1974 Edward Thomas, CFL linebacker, Montreal Alouettes

1974 Edna Lewis Thomas, U.S. actress (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 88

1974 Thomas Enqvist, born in Stockholm Sweden, tennis star, 1991 Wimbledon jr boys

1974 Hollis Thomas, defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles

1973 Eric Thomas, Chartage Texas, 400m hurdler

1973 Fred Thomas, NFL cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks

1973 Thomas Haskins, CFL running back, Montreal Alouettes

1973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles, California

1973 Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer, dies at 68

1973 Rodney Thomas, running back for the Tennessee Oilers

1972 Thomas Wilson Brown, actor, Jason-Knots Landing

1972 Cornell Thomas, WLAF DE for the Scotland Claymores

1972 Orlando Thomas, NFL safety for the Minnesota Vikings

1972 Kurt Thomas, NBA forward, Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat

1972 Nathan Thomas, Australian water polo player 1996 Olympics

1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate

1972 [Thomas] Carlton Bruner, U.S., 1500m freestyle swimmer 1996 Olympics

1972 Thomas Lewis, NFL wide receiver for the New York Giants

1971 Thomas Strzalkowski, Krakow Poland, U.S. fencer-sabre 1996 Olympics

1971 Thomas Bailey, NFL wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals

1971 Henry Thomas, born in San Antonio, Texas, actor, ET

1971 Chris Thomas, NFL wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers

1971 Thomas C Heart, U.S. admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies

1971 Thomas C Hart, U.S. admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94

1971 Thomas Bailey, WLAF wide receiver for the Rhein Fire

1971 Thomas E Dewey, U.S. president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68

1970 Sean Patrick Thomas, American Actor

1970 Damon Thomas, NFL wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills

1970 Thomas S Power, USAF-General (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65

1970 Thomas Smith, NFL cornerback for the Buffalo Bills

1970 Thomas Randolph, NFL cornerback for the New York Giants

1970 Thomas Lennon, American Actor

1970 Markus Thomas, WLAF running back for the Scottish Claymores

1970 Paul Thomas Anderson, American Director

1970 Thomas Alden Page, Glenridge, New Jersey, rocker, New Kids-Hangin' Tough

1970 Vania Thomas, Miss U.S. Virgin Islands Universe 1997

1970 Thomas McLemore, NFL tight end for the Indianapolis Colts

1970 Lamar Thomas, NFL wide receiver, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Miami Dolphins

1970 Brennan Little, St. Thomas Ont, golfer, 1994 Western States mini-tour

1970 Thomas "Tom" Murray, Buffalo, New York, rower 1996 Olympics

1969 Thomas Ingalsbe, 238+ lbs, 108+ kg, U.S. weightlifter 1996 Olympics

1969 Larry Thomas, born in Miami, Florida, pitcher, Chicago White Sox

1969 Carl Thomas, NBA guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers

1969 Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies

1969 Mark Thomas, NFL defensive end, Carolina Panthers, Packers, Bears

1969 Thomas Brandl, Bad Tolz GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1969 Thomas Jane, American Actor

1969 "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5

1968 Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84

1968 Thomas Merton, French/U.S. priest and writer '7 Story Mountain', dies at 53

1968 Rodney Thomas, NFL running back for the Houston Oilers

1968 Stan Thomas, NFL tackle for the Houston Oilers

1968 Thomas P Auth, Orange, New Jersey, rower 1996 Olympics

1968 Dave Thomas, NFL cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars

1968 William Thomas, NFL linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles

1968 "Danny Thomas Hour," last airs on NBC-TV

1968 Frank Thomas, "Big Hurt", 1st baseman, Chicago White Sox, 1993 MVP

1968 Thomas Nock, born in Zurich, Switzerland, actor, Tartort, Gemini-Twin Stars

1968 Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos

1967 Thomas Muster, born in Leibnitz, Austria, tennis star, 1995 French Open

1967 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge and Sanctuary opens in Bronx

1967 Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65

1967 U.S. Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds

1967 Debi Thomas, U.S., figure skater, 1988 Olympics bronze

1967 Broderick Thomas, NFL linebacker, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Minnesota, Cowboys

1967 Derrick Thomas, NFL linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs

1966 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82

1966 C Thomas Howell, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man

1966 Thomas Louis Tolles, Jr., Ft. Myers, Florida, PGA golfer, 1995 Bob Hope-3rd

1966 "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV

1966 Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81

1966 Thurman Thomas, NFL running back for the Buffalo Bills

1966 Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer, dies at 69

1966 Thomas Fitzgerald, born in Brooklyn, New York, team handball left wing 1996 Olympics

1966 Robb Thomas, NFL receiver, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

1965 Rodney Thomas, WLAF cornerback, Barcelona Dragons

1965 Sue Thomas, Texarkana, Texas, LPGA golfer, 1991 Orix Hawaiian Ladies-14th

1965 Phillies Dick Allen and Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice

1965 Henry Thomas, defensive tackle, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots

1964 Thomas Howard, born in Middletown, Ohio, outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds

1964 Thomas Everett, NFL safety for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

1964 John Joseph Thomas, Arcadia California, actor, Young Dan'l Boone

1964 Thomas "Tom" Hunter, U.S. 50M FREESTYLE swimmer, world record

1964 Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79

1964 Eric Thomas, NFL cornerback for the Denver Broncos

1964 Johnny Thomas, NFL cornerback, Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers

1964 David Shaw, St. Thomas, NHL defenseman, Tampa Bay Lightning

1964 Gregory Thomas Kraft, born in Detroit, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1993 Walt Disney-2nd

1964 William Thomas Andrade, Fall River, Massachusetts, PGA golfer, 1991 Kemper Open

1963 Thomas Ansberry, Okinawa Japan, U.S. 10K runner

1963 Thomas Bohrer, U.S. West Islip, New York, rower 1992 Olympics

1963 Steve Thomas, born in Stockport, England, NHL left wing for the New Jersey Devils

1963 Thomas Perry, German Musician

1963 Thomas Searle, hockey defenseman, Team Austria 1998

1963 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz

1962 Thomas Newberry, NFL guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers

1962 Thomas Mitchell, U.S., actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70

1962 Thomas Mork, Denmark, actor, Krystalbarnet, Bryggeren

1962 New York Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th home run in 3 games

1962 Thomas Gibson, actor, Dr. Daniel Nyland-Chicago Hope

1962 Patrick Thomas Burke, born in Hollywood, Florida, PGA golfer, 1992 BellSouth-6th

1961 Brian Thomas Kamm, born in Rochester, New York, PGA golfer, 1994 Bell Canadian-6th

1961 Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies

1961 Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive home runs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas)

1961 Thomas Dooley, German Athlete

1961 Isiah Thomas, NBA forward, Detroit Piston; 1990 NBA playoff MVP

1961 Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81

1961 Barb Thomas Whitehead, Sibley, Iowa, LPGA golfer, 1995 Hawaiian Open

1960 Kristin Scott Thomas, English Actress

1959 Thomas Ross, actor (Without Limit), dies at 84

1959 Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85

1959 Thomas Edward Lehman, born in Austin, Minnesota, PGA golfer, 1994 Memorial Tournament

1959 Thomas Calabro, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Michael Mancini-Melrose Place

1958 Thomas Dolby, born in Cairo, Egypt, rock vocalist, She Blinded Me With Science

1958 Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-22

1958 Thomas Kinkade, American Artist

1957 Heather Thomas, born in Greenwich, Connecticut, actress, Jody-Fall Guy, Coed Fever

1957 Janice Thomas, WBL guard, New York Stars

1956 Anita Hill, professor of law, Clarence Thomas' nemesis

1956 Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist

1956 Melody Thomas Scott, actress, Nikki-Young and Restless

1956 Kurt Thomas, U.S., gymnast, Olympics, actor, Gymkata

1956 Thomas Wassberg, born in Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier 1980 Olympics gold

1956 Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70

1956 Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB

1955 Thomas Keller, American Celebrity

1955 Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr. Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80

1955 Thomas Leonard, American Businessman

1955 Donald A Thomas, born in Cleveland, Ohio, PhD/Astronaut, STS-65, 70, 83, 94

1955 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas and Loretta Young

1955 Thomas David Jones, born in Baltimore, Maryland, PhD/Astronaut, STS-59, 68, 80, sk: 98

1954 Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles

1954 Banner Thomas, rocker, Molly Hatchet

1954 Nancy Stafford, born in Wilton Manors, Florida, Miss Florida, 1977 (1976), actress, Michelle Thomas, Matlock; Joan-St. Elsewhere

1954 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 Thomas Hulce, Plymouth, Michigan, actor, Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park

1953 Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in New York at 39

1953 Billy Thomas, Ft. Meyers, Florida, singer, McBride and Ride-I Count on You

1953 "Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV

1953 Thomas Friedman, American Journalist

1953 David Thomas, U.S. singer and songwriter, Pere Ubu

1953 Steve Thomas, rocker, Shooting Star

1953 Thomas Tertius Noble, composer, dies at 85

1953 Thomas Andrews, Representative-D-Maine 1991 - 1995

1953 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell and Helen Hayes wins

1952 Thomas J Hennen, Albany Georgia, astronaut, STS-44

1952 Thomas Edward Henderson, South Carolina, basketballer 1972 Olympics silver

1951 Andrew S Thomas, Adelaide Australia, PhD/astronaut, STS-77, STS-89/91

1951 Thomas Warren Purtzer, Des Moines, Iowa, PGA golfer, 1977 Glen Campbell

1951 Richard Thomas, born in New York City, John Boy-Waltons, Last Summer, Johnny Belinda

1951 Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies

1951 Thomas D Akers, St. Louis, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-41, 49, 61, 79

1951 Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, saxophonist, Kool and Gang

1950 Thomas Vilsack, American Politician

1950 Thomas Wood, composer, dies at 57

1950 Thomas McClary, U.S. soul guitarist, Commodores-Still

1950 Thomas Aldrich, country drummer, Black Oak Arkansas

1950 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 Thomas Gottschalk, Bamberg Germany, Telespiele

1950 Ernest Thomas, born in Gary, Indiana, actor, Roger-What's Happening!!

1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in New York City for his 1st U.S. poetry reading tour

1949 Thomas O Kite, Jr., born in Austin, Texas, PGA golfer, 1978 BC Open, Crosby 1983

1949 Mickey Thomas, rock vocalist, Jefferson Airplane, Starship

1949 Thomas Lionel Hill, New Orleans, 110m hurdler 1972 Olympics bronze

1949 Thomas Sturges Watson, born in Kansas City, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1975 Byron Nelson

1949 Jeremy Thomas, actor, Family Life

1949 Jay Thomas, born in Kermit, Texas, DJ/actor, Mork and Mindy, Cheers, Murphy Brown

1949 Philip Michael Thomas, Columbus Ohio, actor, Miami Vice

1949 Tommy Ramone, Thomas Erdelyi, Budapest, rock drummer, Ramones

1949 Thomas Downey, born in Queens, New York, Representative-D-New York 1975 - 1993

1948 President Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey

1948 Jay Thomas, dj/actor, Eddie LeBec-Cheers, Jerry Gold-Murphy Brown

1948 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York Governor Thomas Dewey

1948 Clarence Thomas, born in Savannah, Georgia, 108th U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1991-

1948 Dave Thomas, St. Catherines Ontario, comedian, SCTV, Grace Under Fire

1948 Thomas Spencer, MEP, Conservative

1947 Thomas R. Cech, American Scientist

1947 Betty Thomas, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues

1947 Tommy James, born in Dayton, Ohio, born Thomas Gregory Jackson, musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, led rock band Tommy James and the Shondells

1947 Thomas R. Carper, born in Beckley, West Virginia, Representative-D-Delaware 1983 - 2001, Senator-D-Delaware 2001 -

1947 Thomas Carper, American Economist

1946 Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer, dies at 69

1945 Thomas Pasatieri, composer

1945 Thomas C. Sawyer, born in Akron, Ohio, Representative-D-Ohio 1987 - 2003

1945 Harry Thomas, Dutch founder, Schlager Festival Gay Party

1945 Thomas Rennie, General-Major (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies

1945 Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards

1944 Michael Tilson Thomas, born in Los Angeles, California, conductor, New York Phil Young People

1944 Timmy Thomas, U.S. singer and songwriter, Why Can't We Live Together

1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)

1944 Thomas Allen, British opera singer

1944 Thomas E. Mann, American Sociologist

1944 Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74

1944 Thomas Mann becomes a U.S. citizen

1944 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 Thomas W. "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist, dies at 39 in Kansas City Missouri

1943 Robert Lindsay Thomas, born in Patterson, Georgia, Representative-D-Georgia 1983 - 1993

1943 Thomas J. Sargent, American Economist

1943 Earl Thomas Coleman, born in Gladstone, Missouri, Representative-R-Missouri, 1976 - 1993

1943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr. Faustus

1943 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 Thomas "Fats" Waller, U.S. jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 38

1943 Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph and His Brothers"

1942 Thomas Menino, American Politician

1942 Carla Thomas, U.S. singer, Let Me Be Good to You

1942 Thomas Daniel Weiskopf, Massillon, Ohio, PGA golfer, British Open 1973

1942 B J Thomas, born in Houston, Texas, singer, Raindrops, Growing Pains Theme

1941 Ray Thomas, England, rock vocalist, Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin

1941 Earl Thomas Conley, Portsmouth, Ohio, country singer, Too Many Times

1941 Thomas F. Hartnett, born in Charleston, South Carolina, Representative-R-South Carolina 1981 - 1986

1941 Thomas Wayne, rocker, Tragedy

1941 Irma Thomas, U.S. vocalist, It's Raining

1941 C L "Gibby" Gilbert, Jr., Chattanooga, Tennessee, PGA golfer, 1976 Danny Thomas

1941 Grady Thomas, U.S. rock vocalist, Parliaments, Funkadelic, Maggot Brain

1940 Thomas Williams, U.S., ice hockey play 1960 Olympics gold

1940 Thomas Kohler, born in East Germany, luger, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics

1940 Thomas M[ichael] Disch, U.S., sci-fi author, Genocides, 102 H-Bombs

1939 Thomas McGuane, U.S., writer, Colf Feet, Tom Horn, Missouri Breaks

1939 Thomas Harkin, born in Cumming, Iowa, Senator-D-Iowa 1985 -

1939 Jameson Thomas, actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies at 50

1938 William Thomas McKinley, composer

1938 Thomas Black, English industrial/auto collector

1938 Thomas Wolfe, U.S. writer (Enigma), dies at 62

1938 Francis Thomas, Fay, Vincent, baseball commissioner

1938 Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1938 Grahame Thomas, cricketer, Australian batsman of the mid-60's

1937 John [Thomas] Sladek, U.S., sci-fi author, Tik-Tok, Bugs

1937 Marlo Thomas, born in Detroit, Michigan, 'That Girl!', 'Jenny'

1937 Thomas Nagel, Yugoslavian Philosopher

1937 Thomas Pynchon, novelist, V

1937 Charley Thomas, rocker, Drifters

1937 Thomas Monaghan, British Soldier

1936 Thomas K. Mattingly II, Chic, Captain USN/astronaut, Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C

1935 Thomas Augustine Martin, academic

1935 Thomas M Keneally, Australian writer, Schindler's List

1935 Thomas Keneally, Australian Novelist

1935 Thomas W. Ewing, born in Atlanta, Illinois, Representative-R-Illinois 1991 - 2001

1935 Thomas E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, dies in a motorcycle crash

1935 Thomas H. Kean, American Politician

1934 David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61

1934 Thomas Ambler, CEO, Texaco

1934 Thomas Paul, born in Chicago, Illinois, bass, New York City Opera 1963-70

1933 Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox

1933 Craig L. Thomas, born in Wyoming, United States Senator from Wyoming, protected America's national parks

1932 Thomas J. Manton, born in New York City, New York, Representative-D-New York 1985 - 1999

1932 Leon Hughes, born in Los Angeles, California, born Thomas Leon Hughes, member of The Coasters with Bobby Nunn, Carl Gardner, Billy Guy

1932 Dave Thomas, founder, Wendy's Restaurants

1932 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician

1932 Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies

1932 Richard Thomas, born in Britain, admiral, served as Black Rod, House of Lords 1992 - 1995, UK Military Representative to NATO 1989 - 1992

1932 Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., born in Virginia, Representative-R-Virginia 1981 - 2001

1931 Thomas Eden Binkley, musician

1931 Thomas K "Tom" van Brook, actor/interpreter, Soldier of Orange

1931 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84

1931 Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor

1931 Thomas Johnstone Lipton, sportsman/merchant, dies

1931 Thomas Lipton, Scottish Businessman

1931 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 William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor, Little Rascals

1931 Thomas Bernhard, born in Heerlen, Netherlands, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist

1931 Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator

1931 Thomas Hoving, New York City, news correspondent, 20/20

1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League

1930 Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons

1930 Thomas P. Stafford, born in Weatherford, Oklahoma, USAF/astronaut, Gem 6 9, Ap 10 18

1930 Thomas Sowell, author/activist

1930 Fred[erick Thomas] Saberhagen, U.S., sci-fi author, Book of Swords

1930 Thomas Schippers, born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, conductor, Amahl and Night Visitors

1929 Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74

1929 Thomas Eagleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Senator-D-Missouri 1968 - 1986 and Democratic Vice Presidential candidate 1972

1929 Pat Harrington, Jr., New York City, actor, Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time

1929 Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby international/journalist

1928 Thomas Rajna, composer

1928 Thomas Burnett Swann, U.S., sci-fi author, Day of Minotaur

1928 Thomas Stewart, San Saba Texas, baritone, La Roche Capriccio

1928 Thomas Jefferson Anderson, composer

1928 Thomas H Rollinson, composer, dies at 84

1928 Timothy Thomas Fortune, American Writer

1928 Thomas Hardy, novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies near Dorchester at 87

1927 Thomas Brendon Wilson, composer

1927 Thomas J J Altizer, Massachusetts, U.S. Radical theologian, God is Dead

1927 Thomas S. Monson, American Clergyman

1927 Gwyn Ward Thomas, Beritsh TV director

1927 Thomas W. "Tom" Graveney, English cricket batsman, 50's and 60's

1927 Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president

1927 Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer, dies at 74

1926 Thomas Millar, historian

1926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

1925 Thomas Christian David, composer

1925 Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician

1925 Thomas Winning, Roman Catholic archbishop, Glasgow

1925 Thomas R. Marshall, American Politician

1925 Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, dies at 88

1924 Thomas Beversdorf, composer

1924 Thomas Berger, U.S., novelist, Vital Parts, Little Big Man

1924 Thomas Baird, Vice-Admiral

1924 Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1913-21), dies

1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson

1923 Gwyn Ward Thomas, British TV director

1923 Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75

1923 Morschi Mirando, Thomas Weiss, German/Dutch gypsy artist

1922 Thomas Nelson Page, American Writer

1922 Thomas T Nkobi, South Africa ANC-leader, Alexandra-bus boycott 1957

1922 Marjorie Lord, born in San Francisco, California, actress, Kathy-Danny Thomas Show

1922 Thomas Kuhn, American Writer

1922 Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer

1922 1st living person identified on a U.S. coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar

1921 Gerard Thomas Victory, composer

1921 Frankie Thomas, born in New York City, actor, Tom Corbett Space Cadet

1920 Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn

1920 [Thomas] Godfrey Evans, English cricket keeper, 1950's

1920 Helen Thomas, UPI journalist, starts press conferences

1920 A's Vice President Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier

1920 Sid Melton, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas

1920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, proposed steady-state theory of universe

1920 Thomas Szasz, American Psychologist

1920 Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia

1919 Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant

1918 Maldwyn Thomas, president, Welsh Liberal Party

1918 Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert

1917 Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I

1917 Rufus Thomas, born in Mississippi, singer, Walking the Dog

1917 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70

1917 Thomas K Scherman, New York City, conductor, Little Orchestra Society 1947 - 1975

1915 Thomas Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia

1915 Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia

1915 Dick Thomas, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, TV host, Village Barn

1915 Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician

1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

1915 Richard Thomas Condon, author

1915 Garry Moore, Thomas Garrison Morfit, Balt, host, I've Got a Secret

1915 Thomas Merton, born in France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist, 7 Storey Mt

1915 Alexander Graham Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in SF

1914 Dylan Thomas, Swansea Wales, poet, Child's Christmas in Wales

1914 Brandon Thomas, British Actor

1914 Danny Thomas, born in Deerfield, Michigan, comedian, Danny Thomas Show

1913 Thomas Torrance, theologist

1913 Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician

1913 Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster

1913 John Thomas, composer, dies at 87

1913 Thomas Gray, professor and anaesthetist

1913 Thomas P Krag, Norw author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44

1912 Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician

1912 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 Jimmy Jewel, born in Sheffield, England, James Arthur Thomas J. Marsh, comedian, television, film actor, appeared in film 'The Krays', musical drama 'Casualty'

1912 William Thomas Stead, English Journalist

1912 Thomas "Schoolboy" Rowe, Waco Texas, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers

1911 Thomas Ball, U.S. sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92

1911 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian

1911 Jesse Thomas, blues singer

1910 30th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)

1910 Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies

1910 Thomas Stuart Willan, historian

1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League

1909 Mansel Treharne Thomas, composer

1909 Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant

1909 Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English radio comic/actor, Phoenix

1908 Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight

1908 Thomas E Selfridge, earlier U.S. aviator, 1st to die in an air crash

1908 Thomas Narcejac, Rochefort-sur-Mer France, writer, Vertigo

1908 Thomas Cavendish, English Explorer

1908 Thomas Cavendish, English Explorer

1908 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden

1907 Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour," premieres in New York City

1907 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician

1907 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S. writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70

1907 Sheldon Leonard, New York City, actor and director, Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie

1906 Klaus Mann, German/US author, Mephisto, son of Thomas Mann

1906 Thomas G. Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer

1906 Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer

1905 Erika Mann, German/US author, Other Germany, daughter of Thomas Mann

1905 Thomas Gomez, born in New York City, actor, Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout

1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)

1904 Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer

1904 Fats Waller, Thomas Wright, jazz singer/composer, Ain't Misbehavin'

1904 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 James Thomas Farrell, U.S., author, Studs Lonigan trilogy

1903 Thomas Baron Pitfield, composer

1903 Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner for the Boston Red Sox

1902 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies

1902 Thomas Reed, American Politician

1902 Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter

1900 Thomas Wolfe, American novelist, Look Homeward Angel

1900 Graham Spry, St. Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer

1900 Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., great polo player, Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39

1898 Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong, organist

1898 William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist, textiles

1898 Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet

1897 Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet

1897 William Thomas Best, composer, dies at 70

1896 Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer

1896 Thomas W. McKnew, president, National Geographic Society

1896 John Rogers Thomas, composer, dies at 66

1896 Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton

1896 Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at 84

1895 Thomas Henry Huxley, English Scientist

1895 Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

1894 Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at 38

1894 Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device

1893 Thomas F. Bayard becomes 1st U.S. ambassador in Great Britain

1893 Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)

1892 Thomas Wood, composer

1892 Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83

1892 Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook and Son), dies at 83

1892 U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp

1892 Thomas Mitchell, born in New Jersey, academy award winning actor, Outlaw, Adventures

1892 Lowell Thomas, born in Woodington, Ohio, newscaster, High Adventure

1892 Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41

1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera

1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture

1889 15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34

1889 Thomas Hart Benton, born in Missouri, painter/muralist, Lonesome Road

1889 Thomas T H Jorissen, historian, dies at 56

1888 Jameson Thomas, born in London, England, actor, Farmer's Wife

1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)

1886 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class

1885 Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71

1885 Thomas A Hendricks, 21st Vice President, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office

1885 Thomas Davidson, Scottish Scientist

1885 Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer

1885 Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist

1884 T Thomas Fortune starts New York Freeman (New York Age) newspaper

1884 Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist, President Candidate 1928-48

1884 Thomas Chalmers, New York City, actor, Blind Alleys, Outrage

1884 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools

1884 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 years 9 mos)

1884 Thomas Gold Appleton, American critic, writer, and artist, dies

1883 Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great, Yale

1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison

1882 Jacques Maritain, France, Catholic philosopher, exponent of St. Thomas

1882 Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin

1882 Thomas Campbell, South African cricket wicketkeeper, 5 Tests 1909-12

1881 Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh Dutch/MP

1881 Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh, dies

1881 Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85

1880 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp

1879 Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb

1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light

1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track and field record pole-vaulting 11' 2" at age 17 years and 198 days

1879 Henry Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 65

1879 Thomas Beecham, born in England, composer, found London Philharmonic

1879 Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63

1878 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician

1878 Edward Thomas, English Poet

1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)

1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph

1877 Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone

1877 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison)

1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph

1877 Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device

1877 Thomas C Hart, U.S. Admiral, Asiatic fleet

1877 Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer

1876 Thomas Edison patents mimeograph

1876 Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66

1876 Thomas W. Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn

1876 James Edward Murray, born in St. Thomas, Canada, Senator-D-Montana 1934 - 1961

1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)

1875 Thomas Hewitt Key, English Writer

1875 Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist, Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929

1875 Thomas W. Ross, actor, Without Limit, Kings Row, 17, Mortal Storm

1875 Thomas Hicks, English/U.S. marathon runner:, Olympics gold 1904

1874 Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50

1874 Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist, IBM

1873 Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer

1873 David Vaughan Thomas, composer

1872 Frederick A Stock, Julich, Germany, conductor, Theodore Thomas Orchestra

1872 Thomas Hastings, composer, dies at 87

1872 Thomas J. Martin patents fire extinguisher

1871 Heinrich Mann, born in Germany, novelist/essayist, Blue Angel, ; bros of Thomas

1870 Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years

1870 1st black to vote in U.S. (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy New Jersey)

1870 Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian

1869 Voting machine patented by Thomas A. Edison

1868 Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine

1868 Thomas Carmichael Hindman, attorney and Confederate general-major, shot at 40

1868 Thomas P Krag, Norwegian writer, Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran

1868 William Thomas Morton, dentist (1st to use ether), dies

1868 James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70

1867 Mail packets "Rhone" and "Wye" capsizes off St. Thomas Virgin Islands

1867 Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer, dies at 67

1867 Thomas Tertius Noble, composer

1867 Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American, 113 y 273 d at death

1867 George Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 90

1866 Thomas Hunt Morgan, U.S., biologist, Nobel-1933

1866 Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer, dies at 83

1865 Thomas Robertsons "Society," premieres in London

1865 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author

1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32

1865 Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies

1864 Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia

1864 Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, U.S. Union-Brigadier-General, dies at about 34

1864 Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 27

1864 Thomas Donnely Doubleday, U.S. Union Col, dies in an accident

1864 Thomas Green, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 50

1864 Thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity and Humanity), dies

1864 Thomas Dixon, U.S. attorney/playwright, Flaming Sword

1863 Thomas Welsh, U.S. Union Brigadier-General (Antietam), dies at 39

1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies

1863 Thomas J. Jackson, American Soldier

1863 Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet

1862 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39

1862 Charles Thomas Biass Turner, cricketer, the "Terror"

1862 Thomas Williams, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47

1861 Flush toilet patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!)

1860 Thomas Cochrane, English Politician

1860 Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67

1860 Thomas J. Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry

1860 Thomas Hastings, born in New York City, architect, New York Public Library

1860 Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st U.S. superintendent of agriculture

1859 Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies

1859 Thomas De Quincey, English Author

1857 Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president, Bryn Mawr College

1856 Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician, Stieltjes integral

1856 Timothy Thomas Fortune, American Writer

1856 David Alfred Thomas, born in Glamorganshire, England, 1st Viscount Rhondda

1856 Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41

1855 Thomas F Tout, London, historian, Manchester school of historiography

1854 Thomas Riley Marshall, D, 28th Vice President, 1913-21

1854 Thomas R. Marshall, American Politician

1854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant, Telephone

1853 Thomas Nelson Page, American Writer

1852 Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer

1852 Thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies

1850 Brandon Thomas, British Actor

1850 Arthor Goring Thomas, composer

1850 Thomas Johnstone Lipton, Glasgow, yachtsman/tea magnate, Lipton Tea

1850 Thomas Lipton, Scottish Businessman

1849 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 William Thomas Stead, English Journalist

1849 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45

1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher

1848 Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer

1847 Thomas A. Edison, born in Milan, Ohio, American Inventor

1846 Dr. William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether

1846 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle

1845 Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker

1845 Thomas Hood, English Poet

1845 Thomas Duncan, painter, dies

1844 Thomas Eakins, American Artist

1844 Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66

1844 Thomas H Rollinson, composer

1843 Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet

1842 Thomas Freanby, Norwegian landscape painter, dies

1841 Thomas Bruce, Count of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat, dies

1841 Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency

1841 Thomas Ainsworth, English/Dutch industrialist, dies at 45

1840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America

1840 Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1840 Thomas Hardy, England, poet and novelist, Far from the Madding Crowd

1839 Thomas Reed, American Politician

1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)

1838 Thomas Busby, composer, dies

1838 Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72

1838 Thomas Benton Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1838 Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison"

1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times

1837 Thomas Babington, British Poet

1837 1st U.S. electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport

1836 John Thomas Croxton, Major General Union volunteers

1836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S., author/editor, Story of a Bad Boy

1836 Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Major General Confederate Army

1836 Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, Diseases of the Heart

1836 Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Major General Union volunteers

1836 Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1836 Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician

1834 Thomas R Malthus, English vicar/economist, moral restraint

1834 Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Major General Union volunteers

1833 Edwin Thomas Booth, U.S., U.S. Hall of Fame/actor, Hamlet

1833 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Major General Union Army

1833 Thomas Howard Ruger, Major General Union volunteers

1833 Thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian

1832 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers

1832 Thomas Ogden Osbord, Major General Union volunteers

1832 Moncure Daniel Conway, U.S., abolitionist, Life of Thomas Paine

1831 Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72

1831 William Thomas Clark, Major General Union volunteers

1830 Allen Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1830 Thomas Edward Brown, British Poet

1830 John Rogers Thomas, composer

1830 Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer, dies at 56

1829 Thomas Ewing, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers

1829 Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies

1829 Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright, Caste

1828 Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Major General Confederate Army

1827 Thomas Rowlandson, caricaturist, dies

1826 Thomas John Lucas, Major General Union volunteers

1826 William Thomas Best, composer

1826 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83

1826 Thomas Hewson Neill, Major General Union volunteers

1826 John Thomas, composer

1826 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 Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1825 Thomas Hart Taylor, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1825 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist

1825 Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

1825 Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1825 Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies

1825 Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans

1824 Thomas Starr King, New York, Unitarian clergyman, Christianity and Humanity

1824 Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1824 Thomas James Churchill, Major General Confederate Army

1824 George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1824 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lieutenant General 2nd Corps, ANV, Confederate

1824 Thomas J. Jackson, American Soldier

1823 Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary War, Union

1823 Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer

1823 Thomas Hughes, England, author, Tom Brown's School Days

1823 Thomas John Wood, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1823 Thomas Francis Meagher, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1823 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1822 Thomas Casimer Devin, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Thomas Leiper Kane, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1820 Thomas Kilby Smith, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Thomas Andrews Hendricks, D, 21st U.S. Vice President

1819 Thomas Blanchard patents lathe

1819 William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether, HOF 1920

1819 Thomas Ball, U.S., sculptor/painter/singer

1819 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore

1819 Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen, Confederacy

1817 Thomas McKean, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 83

1817 Thomas Davidson, Scottish Scientist

1816 George Henry Thomas, Major General Union Army

1815 Thomas Couture, French painter/author

1815 Thomas Jackson Rodman, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1815 Thomas Stanhope Bocock, Confederacy

1815 Thomas Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1814 Thomas Spence, English Writer

1814 Thomas Crawford, U.S. sculptor, Babes in the Wood

1814 Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer

1814 Thomas Green, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1813 Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist, ozone

1813 Henry Thomas Smart, composer

1813 Thomas West Sherman, Major General Union Army

1813 Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1812 Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1812 Thomas Gold Appleton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, American critic, writer, and artist

1811 Thomas Percy, English bishop of Dromore, dies at 82

1811 Thomas Gautier, writer

1811 C L Ambroise Thomas, French composer, Caid, Francoise de Rimini

1811 U.S. Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the U.S.)

1810 Thomas Bragg, Attorney General, Confederacy

1810 Thomas Jefferson McKean, Major General Union volunteers

1810 Thomas Wright, historian

1809 Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1809 Thomas Alfred Davies, Major General Union volunteers

1809 Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer

1809 Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72

1809 Thomas Holcroft, English Dramatist

1808 Thomas Turner, Commander Union Navy

1808 Thomas Cook, England, tour director, Thomas Cook and Son

1808 Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy

1808 Thomas Cook, founder, Cook travel bureau

1808 Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1808 Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1808 William Thomas Ward, Major General Union volunteers

1807 Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University

1807 Thomas Duncan, painter

1806 Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer, dies at 58

1805 Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry

1804 Thomas Jefferson re-elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president

1804 Lorenzo Thomas, Major General Union Army

1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy

1803 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet

1802 Thomas Fearnley, Norway, landscape painter

1802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor

1801 Thomas Jefferson is the 1st president inaugurated in Washington D.C.

1801 Thomas Cole, U.S., romantic landscape painter, Hudson River School

1800 Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet and historian, Ivry, Naaseby

1800 Thomas Babington, British Poet

1800 Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Commander Union Navy

1799 Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer

1799 Thomas Hood, English poet/composer, Song of the Shirt

1799 Thomas Hewitt Key, English Writer

1798 Thomas Holliday Hicks, Union Gov

1798 Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller, Fairy legends

1796 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author

1796 Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist, Bulfinch's Mythology

1795 Thomas Ainsworth, English/Netherlands industrialist, Twentse textile

1795 Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian, French Revolution

1795 Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 62

1795 Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian, History of Rome

1795 Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England

1794 African Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated

1794 Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65

1793 Thomas Mckean, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 72

1790 Thomas Norris, composer, dies at 49

1790 Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies

1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st U.S. Secretary of State

1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State

1789 Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire

1788 Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian

1788 Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter

1788 Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies

1788 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61

1787 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Philadelphia, pioneer of educating the deaf

1787 Thomas Stone, U.S. attorney/signer (Dec of Ind), dies at about 44

1786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry

1785 Thomas Love Peacock, English author, Headlong Hall

1785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks

1785 Thomas De Quincey, Eng, writer, Confessions of English Opium Eater

1784 Thomas Hastings, composer

1783 Thomas Sully, U.S. portrait painter, Queen Victoria

1783 Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer

1782 Thomas Hart Benton, rep, "Old Bullion"

1781 Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49

1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US

1780 Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician

1780 Thomas Chalmers, 1st moderator, Free Church of Scotland 1843-47

1779 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, dies at 61

1779 Thomas Moore, Irish Poet

1778 Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22

1778 Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67

1777 Thomas Campbell, poet, Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic

1776 Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"

1776 Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"

1776 Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged

1776 Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed

1776 George Thomas Smart, composer

1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published

1775 Thomas Cochrane, English Politician

1775 Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist

1773 Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer

1773 Thomas Young, British philologist/physician, light interference

1771 Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54

1771 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54

1771 Thomas Gray, English Poet

1770 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies

1768 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle, dies at 75

1768 Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel

1768 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 Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat

1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder, Farmer's Almanac

1766 Thomas Malthus, Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer

1766 Thomas Malthus, England, population expert, Law of Malthus

1765 Thomas Attwood, composer

1765 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 Thomas Campbell, founder, Church of Disciples in America

1762 Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes," premieres in London

1761 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50

1759 Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Rainham Norfolk UK, topographer

1758 Thomas Greatorex, composer

1756 Thomas Anton Kunz, composer

1756 Thomas Rowlandson, English painter/cartoonist/etcher

1756 Thomas Linley, composer

1754 Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare

1753 Thomas Bewick, England, artist, British Birds, Aesop's Fables

1752 Thomas Chatterton, English poet, Christabel

1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch

1750 Thomas Spence, English Writer

1749 Thomas Lynch, signer, Declaration of Independence

1749 Isaiah Thomas, U.S., printer/editor/publisher/historian

1748 Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer

1746 Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Declaration of Independence

1745 Thomas Holcroft, English Dramatist

1743 Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, D-R, 3rd President, 1801-09

1741 Thomas Norris, composer

1740 Thomas Tickell, poet, dies

1738 Thomas Nelson, merchant, signer of Declaration of Independence

1737 Thomas Paine, political essayist, Common Sense, Age of Reason

1736 Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies

1735 Thomas Coutts, Scottish banker

1733 Thomas Linley, composer

1732 Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer

1729 Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer

1729 Thomas Percy, English literary/bishop of Dromore

1728 Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England, Pleasures of Melancholy

1727 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter, Blue Boy, baptized

1719 Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children"

1718 Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker, baptized

1716 Thomas Gray, English poet, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

1713 Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies

1712 Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54

1712 Thomas Osborne, English Prime Minister 1690 - 1694, dies at 80

1711 Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician

1710 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician, rules of Simpson

1710 Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer, Alfred, Rule Britannia

1709 Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74

1708 Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 80

1702 Thomas Eisenhut, composer, dies at 58

1702 Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies

1702 Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies

1694 English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest

1693 Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st duke of Newcastle, English minister of finance

1691 Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service

1689 Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist

1682 Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London

1680 Thomas Blood, English Soldier

1679 Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher

1674 Thomas Traherne, British Clergyman

1674 Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies

1671 Thomas, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 59

1671 Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels

1667 Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried

1663 Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64

1663 Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor, steam engine

1661 Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53

1660 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York

1657 Thomas Bullis, composer

1656 Thomas Tomkins, composer, dies

1652 Thomas Otway, England, playwright and poet, Venice Preserved

1649 Thomas Shepard, American Clergyman

1648 Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament

1648 Thomas Ford, composer, dies

1648 Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer, dies at 79

1647 Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies

1646 Thomas H earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles), dies

1646 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Oxford

1645 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol

1645 Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax beats royalists

1644 Thomas Eisenhut, composer

1643 Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for Parliamentarians

1641 Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48

1639 Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England

1639 Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies

1635 Thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist, Coriolanus

1632 Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM, 1690-1694, founder, Tories

1631 Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies

1628 1st deportation from what is now U.S., Thomas Morton from Mass

1627 Thomas Bullis, composer

1627 Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies

1625 Thomas Corneille, French playwright

1624 Thomas Erpenius, van Erp, orientalist/arab (Arab grammatica), dies

1624 Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist

1623 Thomas Weelkes, composer, dies at 47

1622 Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized

1619 Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53

1612 Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader, King's Men

1612 Thomas Bodley, diplomat/founder (Bodleian Library), dies

1612 Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general

1610 Thomas West baron De La Mar appointed as 1st Governor of Virginia colony

1610 Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia

1608 Thomas Fuller, England, literary, History of the Holy War

1605 Thomas Shepard, American Clergyman

1605 Thomas Browne, British writer, Garden of Cyrus

1604 Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies

1603 Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68

1599 Thomas Selle, composer

1595 Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite), dies

1593 Thomas Wentworth, London, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland

1588 Thomas Hobbes, born in England, philosopher, Leviathan

1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia

1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe

1585 Thomas Tallis, composer, dies

1584 Thomas Erpenius, van Erpe, Dutch orientalist/arabist, grammar

1583 Thomas Erastus, Switzerland, theologist, dies

1582 Thomas Simpson, composer

1581 Thomas Overbury, poet, baptized

1580 Thomas Middleton, English playwright, Game of Chess

1576 Thomas Weelkes, composer

1575 English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis and William Byrd music press monopoly

1572 Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36

1568 Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer

1567 Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician

1559 Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52

1558 Thomas Kyd, English dramatist, Spanish Tragedy

1556 Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66

1556 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic

1555 Thomas Villanova, Spanish saint/archbishop of Valencia, dies

1554 Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies

1554 Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated

1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary

1549 Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded

1546 Thomas Elyot, British diplomat, dies

1546 Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46

1545 Thomas Bodley, England, diplomat and scholar

1540 Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed

1540 English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic

1540 Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister

1538 Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth, 1572

1536 Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall

1535 Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57

1535 Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason

1534 Sir Thomas Moore confined in London Tower

1533 Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury

1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor

1530 Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal/adviser to England's King Henry VIII, dies

1529 English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested

1529 Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor

1529 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey lays-off English Lord Chancellor

1525 Thomas Munzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed

1524 Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80

1518 English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan

1517 Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay

1515 Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor

1514 Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York

1491 Thomas Basin, French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies

1489 Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr

1478 Thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint, Utopia

1471 Thomas Kempis, Thomas Hammerken von Kempen, monk, dies at 91

1471 Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91

1471 Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55

1414 Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies

1380 Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais

1274 Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48

1173 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Absp of Canterbury

1170 Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II

1117 Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury


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