On 23 July 1567, while practising fencing in the backyard of Cecil House in the Strand, the seventeen-year-old Oxford killed Thomas Brincknell, an under-cook in the Cecil household.

The Popish Plot of 1678 sparked renewed interest in the Gunpowder Plot, resulting in a book by Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, which refuted " a bold and groundless surmise that all this was a contrivance of Secretary Cecil ".

* 1546 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician ( d. 1623 )

Selig also began acquiring many players that would become long-standing fan favorites, including Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Jim Gantner, Stormin ' Gorman Thomas, Don Money, and Cecil Cooper.

GM Harry Dalton was able to build a winning club with a combination of home-grown players like Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Gorman Thomas, as well as getting players that were cast-offs from other teams that became major contributors like Cecil Cooper, Ben Oglivie, and Mike Caldwell.

The Brewers alone had three players finish in the top five in the league in home runs with Gorman Thomas, who led the league with 39, Ben Oglivie, who hit 34, and Cecil Cooper, who hit 32.

Examples were Thomas Cromwell under Henry VIII ; William Cecil, Lord Burghley under Elizabeth I ; Clarendon under Charles II and Godolphin under Queen Anne.

Sir Thomas Sean Connery ( born 25 August 1930 ) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards ( one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award ) and three Golden Globes ( including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award ).

* February 8 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician ( b. 1546 )

* May 5 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician ( d. 1623 )

Having survived all his children except Robert and Thomas, Burghley died at his London residence, Cecil House on 4 August 1598, and was buried in St Martin's Church, Stamford.

His elder son, Sir Thomas Cecil, who inherited the Barony of Burghley on his death, was later created Earl of Exeter.

His half-brother was Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter and philosopher Francis Bacon was his first cousin.

In addition, the Cecil family fostered arts: they supported musicians such as William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Robinson.

* Sir William Cecil features prominently in Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy's play ' The O ' Neill ' ( 1969 ), in which Kilroy uses Cecil to challenge the myth surrounding Gaelic Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone just after the latter's victory over the English at The Yellow Ford.

Both Sir William Cecil and Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex ( especially the latter ), eagerly support this marriage offer.

Mary's sister, Elizabeth I held the property until 1574 when she gave the manor house ( but not the manor ) to Christopher Hatton who sold it in the same year to Sir Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter.

Shortly afterwards, the Queen sent Edward Seymour with Thomas Cecil, eldest son of William Cecil, on a tour across Europe to improve their education.

The other portraits around the hall include other prominent members of Oriel such as Cecil Rhodes, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Arnold, James Anthony Froude, John Keble, John Henry Newman, Richard Whately and John Robinson.

* Seekers of the Truth: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume One, by Cecil Lytle, Celestial Harmonies, 1992

* Reading of a Sacred Book: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume Two, by Cecil Lytle, Celestial Harmonies, 1992

* Words for a Hymn to the Sun: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume Three, by Cecil Lytle, Celestial Harmonies, 1992

* Thomas Tlou & Alec Campbell, History of Botswana ( Gaborone: Macmillan, 2nd edn.

* Benjamin, Thomas, The Craft of Modal Counterpoint, 2nd ed.

The accomplished and politically well-connected naturalist Archibald Menzies complained that his servant had been pressed into service during a shipboard emergency ; sailing master Joseph Whidbey had a competing claim for pay as expedition astronomer ; and Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, whom Vancouver had disciplined for numerous infractions and eventually sent home in disgrace, proceeded to harass him publicly and privately.

* 1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor ( b. c. 1654 )

Gen. John Buford's brigade, Col. Thomas T. Munford's 2nd Virginia Cavalry was overwhelmed until Stuart sent in two more regiments as reinforcements.

* 1322 – Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician ( b. 1278 )

* 1794 – Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician and 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior ( d. 1852 )

Gospel of Thomas, usually dated to the late 1st or early 2nd century, was also among the finds in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945.

* Basic Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits ; 2nd Ed ; Thomas L Floyd ; David Buchla ; 593 pages ; 1998 ; ISBN 978-0-13-082987-0.

* The Family Shakspeare, in which nothing is added to the original text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family by Thomas Bowdler in 10 volumes, Facsimile reprint of 2nd edition, revised, in 1820, Eureka Press, 2009.

Gladstone's role in the decision to invade was described as relatively hands-off, and that the decision to invade was made by certain members of his cabinet such as Spencer Cavendish, Secretary of State for India, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, Hugh Childers, Secretary of State for War, and Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, the Foreign Secretary.

* January 31 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councilor ( b. c. 1645 )

* March 30 – 2nd performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion BWV 245 ( including 5 movements from his " Weimarer Passion ") at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

** Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell ( d. 1349 )

* May 21 – Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and statesman ( b. 1443 )

Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, later Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk.

* Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.

** Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent ( d. 1397 )

* Thomas West, 2nd Baron West ( d. 1415 )

* date unknown – Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent ( b. 1350 )

* August 11 – Domhnall II, Earl of Mar, Sir Robert Keith, Thomas Randolph, 2nd Earl of Moray, Murdoch III, Earl of Menteith and Robert Bruce ( at the Battle of Dupplin Moor )

Sir Edward Borough was the eldest son of the 2nd Baron's eldest son, Sir Thomas Borough, who would become the 1st Baron Burgh in December 1529 after his father was declared insane.

Manuscript painting of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster | Thomas of Lancaster ( left ); Isabella supported her husband, Edward II of England | Edward in his rivalry with Lancaster, which resulted in Lancaster's execution in 1322.