* Thomas Tallis

* November 23 – Thomas Tallis, English composer ( b. c. 1510 )

* Thomas Tallis

* January 21 – * Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a monopoly on producing printed sheet music to Thomas Tallis and William Byrd

Most often choirs consist of four sections intended to sing in four part harmony, but there is no limit to the number of possible parts as long as there is a singer available to sing the part: Thomas Tallis wrote a 40-part motet entitled Spem in alium, for eight choirs of five parts each ; Krzysztof Penderecki's Stabat Mater is for three choirs of 16 voices each, a total of 48 parts.

Tallis ', and a reference in the prefatory material to the Cantiones sacrae published by Tallis and Byrd in 1575 tends to confirm that Byrd was a pupil of Thomas Tallis of the Chapel Royal.

They may also reflect the fact that Byrd's fellow monopolist Tallis and his printer Thomas Vautrollier had died, thus creating a more propitious climate for publishing ventures.

Byrd is honored together with John Merbecke and Thomas Tallis with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on November 21.

* William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, In Chains of Gold.

His recordings include the lute songs of Dowland, operas by Handel, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, songs and semioperas by Purcell ( such as The Fairy Queen ), traditional English folk songs, works by Thomas Tallis, and the Bach alto repertoire.

The nearby Thomas Tallis School is built on the former site of an RAF aerodrome, formerly a barrage balloon centre.

* Thomas Tallis School — opened in 1971

Thomas Tallis was the last organist at the Abbey prior to its dissolution.

* Thomas Tallis

His recorded legacy includes, Vaughan Williams ' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis ', Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and a 1966 recording of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with the additional forces of the Band of HM Royal Marines.

* Thomas Tallis: Mass " Puer natus est nobis " ( 1554 )

* Ralph Vaughan Williams-Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Symphony No. 1 (' A Sea Symphony ')

* Ralph Vaughan Williams-Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Concerto Grosso

The " Mag and Nunc " was set by many composers-such as Thomas Tallis, Herbert Sumsion, Charles Wood and John Tavener-of Anglican church music, often for choir a cappella or choir and organ.

This final verse, separated from its proper hymns and sung to the tune " Old 100th ", " Duke Street ", " Lasst uns erfreuen ", " The Eighth Tune " by Thomas Tallis, among others, frequently marks the dedication of alms or offerings at Sunday worship.

Among the Library's most valuable possessions are the manuscripts of Purcell's The Fairy-Queen, Sullivan's The Mikado, Vaughan Williams ' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Serenade to Music, and the newly discovered Handel Gloria.

Another formative experience for the young Howells was the premiere in September 1910 at the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival of Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

Thomas Tallis

* July 30 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician ( b. 1505 )

Anne Boleyn, the second queen consort of King Henry VIII of England, spent her early youth there, after her father, Thomas Boleyn had inherited it in 1505.

Geoffrey's grandson, Thomas Boleyn, inherited the castle in 1505.

Later, the Hall was in the possession of the Boleyn family, and home to Sir Thomas Boleyn, created Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Elizabeth, between 1499 and 1505.

Other historians maintain that Anne was born after 1505, probably in 1507, and by that time Sir Thomas had moved to Hever Castle in Kent.

However, they spent most of their childhood at another of the family's homes, Hever Castle in Kent, which became their chief residence in 1505 when Thomas inherited the property from his father.

Thomas Tallis ( c. 1505 – 23 November 1585 the Julian calendar, 3 December 1585, by the Gregorian calendar ) was an English composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered one of England's greatest early composers.

1485 probably at Berwick-by-Swyre, Dorset, the son of James Russell ( d. Nov. 1505 ) and his first wife Alice Wise, daughter of Thomas Wise of Sidenham, near Tavistock, Devon.

Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, KG ( REYE-əths-lee ; 21 December 1505 – 30 July 1550 ), known as The Lord Wriothesley between 1544 and 1547, was a politician of the Tudor period born in London to William Wrythe and Agnes Drayton.

* Thomas Berkeley, de jure 6th Baron Berkeley ( 1505 – 1534 )

* Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton ( 1505 – 1550 )

The work takes its name from the original composer of the melody, Thomas Tallis ( c. 1505 – 1585 ).

* 1505 – 06: Walter Lynch fitz Thomas

* The Incredulity of St. Thomas with St. Magnus Bishop ( c. 1505 )

* 1505 November – murder of the Portuguese factor António de Sá, the other Portuguese men and the destruction of the church of St. Thomas in Kollam.

Bishop Thomas Spence founded a Franciscan house in 1480, and King's College was founded at Old Aberdeen by Bishop Elphinstone, for eight prebendaries, chapter, sacristan, organist, and six choristers, in 1505.

* Anatomia 1522 – 1867: Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

* Connelly, Thomas L. Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee 1861 – 1862.

* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1972 – Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish screenwriter and director

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist

* 1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )

* 1970 – Thomas Lennon, American actor

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )

* 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator

* 1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer

* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )

* 1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer

* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

* 1974 – Thomas Tevana, American actor

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )

* 1944 – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician