Updated at November 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Michel Thomas |
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Birthdate | February 03, 1914 |
Birth Place | Poland |
Age (in 2024) | 110 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Teacher |
Michel Thomas is best known as Teacher who has born on February 03, 1914 in Poland. Currently, Michel Thomas is 110 years, 9 months and 4 days old. Michel Thomas will celebrate 111th birthday on Monday, 3rd of February 2025. Below the countdown to Michel Thomas upcoming birthday.
Remembered best for his development of a foreign language instructional system known as the Michel Thomas Method, this Holocaust survivor and linguist opened a Beverly Hills, California school called the Polyglot Institute.
While studying at the University of Bordeaux and the Sorbonne, he became involved in the French Resistance movement of World War II and was subsequently sent to several Nazi concentration camps.
He was the subject of a 1997 BBC documentary titled The Language Master.
A native of Lodz, Poland, he was the son of Jewish textile factory owners who later died at Auschwitz. After immigrating to the United States, he married (and later divorced) a teacher named Alice Burns; the couple raised two children.
A year before his death, he was awarded the Silver Star for his World War II-era work for the United States Army's Counter Intelligence Corps. Senators Bob Dole and John Warner presented him with the prestigious honor.
Michel Thomas is 110 years old today.
Michel Thomas was born on February 03, 1914 in Poland.
Michel Thomas zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Michel Thomas was best known as Teacher.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Michel Thomas's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1960 | British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation. |
1961 | The United States Air Force begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post. |
1966 | The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon. |
1971 | New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. |
1972 | The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history. |
1984 | Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. |
1984 | Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. |
1989 | After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months. |
1989 | A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. |
1994 | Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle. |
1995 | Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
1998 | Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy. |
2005 | One hundred five people are killed when Kam Air Flight 904 crashes in the Pamir Mountains in Afghanistan. |
2007 | A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. |
2014 | Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia. |
1986 | The birth of Lucas Duda, American baseball player |
1986 | The birth of Mathieu Giroux, Canadian speed skater |
1986 | The birth of Kanako Yanagihara, Japanese actress |
1987 | The birth of Elvana Gjata, Albanian singer |
1988 | The birth of Cho Kyu-hyun, South Korean singer |
1989 | The birth of Meng Jia, Chinese singer and actress |
1989 | The birth of Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Martin Taupau, New Zealand rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Corey Norman, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Olli Aitola, Finnish ice hockey player |
1995 | The birth of Tao Tsuchiya, Japanese actress |
1998 | The birth of Tyler Huntley, American football player |
1999 | The birth of Kanna Hashimoto, Japanese actress |
2003 | The birth of Lozea Vilarino, French rhythmic gymnast |
2013 | The death of Cardiss Collins, American politician (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian composer and producer (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of James Muri, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Jam Mohammad Yousaf, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (b. 1954) |
2015 | The death of Martin Gilbert, English historian, author, and academic (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Mary Healy, American actress and singer (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Charlie Sifford, American golfer (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Nasim Hasan Shah, Pakistani lawyer and judge, 12th Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of Joe Alaskey, American actor (b. 1952) |
2016 | The death of Balram Jakhar, Indian lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of Madhya Pradesh (b. 1923) |
2016 | The death of József Kasza, Serbian politician and economist (b. 1945) |
2017 | The death of Dritëro Agolli, Albanian poet, writer and politician (b. 1931) |
2019 | The death of Julie Adams, American actress (b. 1926) |
2019 | The death of Kristoff St. John, American actor (b. 1966) |
2020 | The death of George Steiner, French-American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1929) |
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