Thomas Tallis
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~ English organist and composer of church and secular music; was granted a monopoly in music printing with William Byrd (1505-1585)
Thomas De Quincey
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~ English writer who described the psychological effects of addiction to opium (1785-1859)
Thomas Robert Malthus
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~ an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)
Thomas Middleton
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~ English playwright and pamphleteer (1570-1627)
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
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~ general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)
Thomas More
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~ English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state
Thomas Aquinas
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~ (Roman Catholic Church) Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology; presented philosophical proofs of the existence of God (1225-1274)
Thomas Hart Benton
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~ United States artist whose paintings portrayed life in the Midwest and South (1889-1975)
Thomas Chippendale
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~ a British cabinetmaker remembered for his graceful designs (especially of chairs) which influenced his contemporaries (1718-1779)
Thomas Reid
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~ Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796)
Thomas J. Hanks
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~ United States film actor (born in 1956)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
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~ United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851)
Thomas Bayes
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~ English mathematician for whom Bayes' theorem is named (1702-1761)