Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Edward Thomas |
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Birthdate | March 03, 1878 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 146 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Poet |
Edward Thomas is best known as Poet who has born on March 03, 1878 in England. Currently, Edward Thomas is 146 years, 9 months and 8 days old. Edward Thomas will celebrate 147th birthday on Monday, 3rd of March 2025. Below the countdown to Edward Thomas upcoming birthday.
British war-era poet, essayist, and literary critic of Welsh heritage. His essay collections include The Heart of England and Light and Twilight; his poetry collections include Six Poems and Last Poems.
He was born in London and attended college in Oxford. Upon graduation, he became a book reviewer.
He and sixteen other War Poets were honored on a stone plaque at Westminster Abbey.
He married Helen Thomas, with whom he had three children: Merfyn, Bronwen, and Myfanwy.
Robert Frost's famous poem, "The Road Not Taken," inspired Thomas to enlist as an older man in World War I. Sadly, this decision cost Thomas his life.
Edward Thomas is 146 years old today.
Edward Thomas was born on March 03, 1878 in England.
Edward Thomas zodiac sign is Pisces.
Edward Thomas was best known as Poet.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Edward Thomas's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Edward Thomas's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1958 | Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time. |
1969 | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module. |
1972 | Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures. |
1974 | Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard. |
1980 | The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. |
1985 | Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures. |
1985 | A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless. |
1986 | The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become fully independent from the United Kingdom. |
1991 | An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. |
1991 | United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on its final approach to Colorado Springs killing everyone on board. |
2005 | James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion. |
2005 | Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling. |
2005 | Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006, where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur. |
2013 | A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominantly Shia Muslim area. |
2017 | The Nintendo Switch releases worldwide. |
1988 | The birth of Jan-Arie van der Heijden, Dutch footballer |
1988 | The birth of Max Waller, English cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Erwin Mulder, Dutch footballer |
1990 | The birth of Vladimir Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Anri Sakaguchi, Japanese actress |
1991 | The birth of Cho-rong, South Korean singer |
1993 | The birth of Gabriela Cé, Brazilian tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Josef Dostál, Czech kayaker |
1993 | The birth of James Roberts, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Umika Kawashima, Japanese singer and actress |
1995 | The birth of Maine Mendoza, Filipina actress |
1996 | The birth of Cameron Johnson, American basketball player |
1996 | The birth of Andile Phehlukwayo, South African cricketer |
1997 | The birth of Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer |
1998 | The birth of Jayson Tatum, American basketball player |
2014 | The death of William R. Pogue, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Ernest Braun, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of M. Stanton Evans, American journalist and author (b. 1934) |
2016 | The death of Hayabusa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1968) |
2016 | The death of Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmentalist (b. 1973) |
2016 | The death of Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1962) |
2016 | The death of Thanat Khoman, Thai politician and diplomat, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1914) |
2016 | The death of Sarah Tait, Australian Olympic rower (b. 1983) |
2017 | The death of René Préval, Haitian politician (b. 1943) |
2018 | The death of Roger Bannister, English middle-distance athlete, first man to run a four-minute mile (b. 1929) |
2018 | The death of Mal Bryce, Australian politician (b. 1943) |
2018 | The death of Vanessa Goodwin, Australian politician (b. 1969) |
2018 | The death of David Ogden Stiers, American actor, voice actor and musician (b. 1942) |
2019 | The death of Peter Hurford OBE, British organist and composer (b. 1930) |
2020 | The death of Charles J. Urstadt, American real estate executive and investor (b. 1928) |
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