Former students of Bernd's included Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, and Elger Esser.

He obtained an appointment in 1850 to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from Representative Thomas Hamlet Averett, the man who had defeated his father in the 1848 election.

* October 20 – Thomas Vincent Welch, American politician ( b. 1850 )

* February 1 – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor ( b. 1850 )

* Senator Thomas Hart Benton in December 1849 or January 1850: Texas's western and northern boundaries would be the 102nd meridian west and 34th parallel north.

Originally kept by his disciple Thomas Southwood Smith, it was acquired by University College London in 1850.

In 1850, Sherman was promoted to the substantive rank of Captain and married Thomas Ewing's daughter, Eleanor Boyle (" Ellen ") Ewing, in a Washington ceremony attended by President Zachary Taylor and other political luminaries.

), and Thomas Gaisford ( Oxford, 1850 ).

* Heck Thomas ( 1850 – 1912 ), Bill Tilghman ( 1854 – 1924 ), and Chris Madsen ( 1851 – 1944 ), the legendarily fearless " Three Guardsmen " of the Oklahoma Territory

Illustration by Holman Hunt of Thomas Woolner's poem " My Beautiful Lady ", published in The Germ, 1850

Seymour was incorporated on May 1850, and was named for Governor Thomas H. Seymour.

It was to be named in honor of Thomas Garrigue Masaryk ( 1850 – 1937 ), first President of Czechoslovakia and resistance leader during World War I.

Around 1850, two enterprising Scottish brother, Alexander and Thomas Gimmel, organized the Hampshire and Baltimore Coal Company.

File: Germ. jpg | Illustration to Thomas Woolner's poem " My Beautiful Lady " ( 1850 )

under the system of supervision by town superintendents, Thomas W. potter served in 1844 and 1845, John C. Potter in 1846, Paul K. Davison in 1847 and 1848, Dr. Amos Allen from 1850 to 1853 and Daniel H. Davison from 1854 to 1856.

I. Vosburgh ; 1845, George Sipperly ; 1846, S. Coons ; 1847, Calvin Sliter ; 1848 – 1850, A. H. Fox ; 1851, C. Sliter ; 1852 – 1853, A. Mott ; 1854 – 1855, N. Upham ; 1856 – 1857, O. Horton ; 1858 – 1860, P. H. Thomas ; 1861, W. Stevens ; 1862 – 1865, Joel B. Peck ; 1866 – 1867, B.

Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;

Thomas Valpy French, came to India in 1850, founded St. John's College, Agra, and became first Bishop of Lahore in 1877.

* Thomas Corwin-Governor of Ohio from 1840 to 1842 ; U. S. Senator from 1845 to 1850

Samuel bought the donation land claim in which Barlow is located from Thomas McKay on September 17, 1850.

On January 16, 1850, Robert Logan, Thomas Davison and Daniel Bieber were appointed by the court to review the boundaries of a new township to be formed from the northwestern part of Wilkins.

Reynoldsville was originally called Winslow Township and was renamed after local postmaster Thomas Reynolds in 1850.

Three years later, William Card's grandsons ( Jonathan Card's two young sons ), Thomas ( 1762 – 1850 ) and Jonathan ( 1764 – 1836 ), would serve in Colonel Herrick's Vermont regiment on the " Yankee " or Patriot lines during 1780 / 1.

* Awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1850, it was presented to him on 3 June by Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, the President of the Institute.

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (), sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English, ( 7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937 ) was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia.

* 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