* 1574 – Thomas Platter the Younger, Swiss physician ( d. 1628 )

* January 26 – Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist scholar ( b. 1499 )

* September 21 – The first performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Globe Theatre in London, is reported by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter the Younger.

* February 10 – Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist ( d. 1582 )

Julius Caesar was originally published in the First Folio of 1623, but a performance was mentioned by Thomas Platter the Younger in his diary in September 1599.

* September 21-First recorded performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Globe Theatre in London, reported by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter the Younger.

: First official record: Thomas Platter the Younger's Diary, 21 September 1599

In 2004 Thomas co-starred with Marla Sokoloff, Jennifer Tilly, and Barry Watson in the theatrical feature Combo Platter aka Love on the Side.

He translated Journal of a Younger Brother: The Life of Thomas Platter ( 1964 ), and was co-author with Sam McGredy of A family of roses ( 1971 ).

* Thomas Platter ( 1499 – 1582 ), humanist scholar and writer

* Thomas Platter the Younger ( c. 1574 – 1628 ), Swiss-born physician, traveller and diarist

Thomas Platter, a famous citizen of 16th century Grächen, published his autobiography describing a life from humble beginnings as a goatherd to a fulfilled existence as lord of a manor, master of herbal lore, publisher and school director.

His sons Felix Platter and Thomas Platter the Younger both studied medicine, a thwarted ambition of Platter's own early life.

He wrote: " England is a woman's paradise and a servant's prison " ( a quotation from publication by Thomas Platter the Younger, written in October 1599 ).

Thomas Platter ( the Elder ) was a master of several languages, knowing Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, among others.

als: Thomas Platter der Ältere

de: Thomas Platter der Ältere

fr: Thomas Platter le Vieux

Very characteristic of the age are the autobiography of the Valais scholar Thomas Platter ( 1499 – 1582 ) and the diary of his still more distinguished son Felix ( 1536 – 1614 ), both written in German, though not published till long after.

The Consolation of Philosophy stands, by its note of fatalism and its affinities with the Christian doctrine of humility, midway between the pagan philosophy of Seneca the Younger and the later Christian philosophy of consolation represented by Thomas Aquinas.

There are records of commercial fishing operations on the river Pleiße in Leipzig dating back to 1305, when the Margrave Dietrich the Younger granted the fishing rights to the church and convent of St. Thomas.

Study for a portrait of Thomas More's family, c. 1527, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Rowland Lockey after Hans Holbein the Younger, The Family of Sir Thomas More, c. 1594

After several other publications, some reflecting his interest in and knowledge of continental Europe, Bowdler's last work was an expurgated version of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1826 under the supervision of his nephew and biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger.

* April 11 – Thomas Wyatt the Younger, English rebel ( executed ) ( b. 1521 )

Thomas Cromwell was a patron of Hans Holbein the Younger, as were Sir Thomas More and Anne Boleyn.

The Younger Pliny Reproved, colorized copperplate print by Thomas Burke ( 1749 – 1815 )

Having narrowly avoided implication in Sir Thomas Seymour's attempted abduction of her sickly half-brother, the boy King Edward VI ; she becomes an unintentional figurehead for a Protestant rebellion led by Thomas Wyatt the Younger when her half-sister Queen Mary I of England, a devout Roman Catholic, succeeds to the throne.

Other artists with works in the collection include: Bernardino Fungai, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Fioravante Ferramola, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Ludovico Carracci, Antonio Verrio, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Domenico Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francis Hayman, Pompeo Batoni, Benjamin West, Paul Sandby, Richard Wilson, William Etty, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, James Barry, Francis Danby, Richard Parkes Bonington & Alphonse Legros.

Miniaturists represented in the collection include Jean Bourdichon, Hans Holbein the Younger, Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, Peter Oliver, Jean Petitot, Alexander Cooper, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Flatman, Rosalba Carriera, Christian Friedrich Zincke, George Engleheart, John Smart, Richard Cosway & William Charles Ross.

Woodcut by Hans Holbein the Younger from Leland's Naenia ( 1542 ), showing Thomas Wyatt ( poet ) | Sir Thomas Wyatt

The first bridge, opened in 1831, was designed by John Rennie the Younger and Thomas Telford as part of the Wash Embankment works.

* November 12 — Thomas Arnold the Younger, English literary scholar ( born 1823 )

* A set of Portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger, including two portraits of Henry and Charles Brandon, sons of Henry VIII ; Thomas More, the Dukes of Suffolk, and Lady Meutas

* Stationer Thomas Marsh publishes Seneca's Tragedies in English, a collected edition of ten dramas written by Seneca the Younger ( or attributed to him ), translated by Jasper Heywood, John Studley, Alexander Neville, Thomas Newton, and Thomas Nuce.

* 1524 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian ( d. 1583 )

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

* December 31 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian ( b. 1524 )

* September 7 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian ( d. 1583 )

In 1515 Ambrosius lived in the Swiss town of Stein am Rhein, where he helped a Schaffhausen painter named Thomas Schmid with the murals in the main hall of the St George monastery.

The county is named for Albert Gallatin, a Swiss native who served as Secretary of the Treasury for President Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Holenstein ( 7 February 1896-31 October 1962 ) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1955-1959 ).

* the Vice-Chancellor: Thomas Helbling who is in charge of the Federal Council sector within the Swiss Federal Chancellery.

Weyer's appeal for clemency for those accused of the crime of witchcraft was opposed later in the sixteenth century by the Swiss physician Thomas Erastus and the French legal theorist Jean Bodin.

" In Andrew Herman & Thomas Swiss, editors, The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Metaphor, Magic, and Power.

Sigarms, and its European sister companies, Sauer & Sohn, Blaser, Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH and Swiss Arms were bought by Michael Lüke and Thomas Ortmeier in October, 2000.

The record also marked the arrival of Swiss drummer Thomas Wydler, a member of Die Haut, and saw guest appearances from Race, Pew, and Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S. Howard, who had briefly toured with the Bad Seeds as a substitute member in 1985.

Thomas Erastus ( September 7, 1524 – December 31, 1583 ) was a Swiss physician and theologian best known for a posthumously published work in which he argued that the sins of Christians should be punished by the state, and not by the church withholding the sacraments.

** Thomas Ammann, Swiss art dealer and collector ( 1950 – 1993 )

The Waltham Watch Company complied immediately with the requirements of Ball's guidelines, later followed by Elgin National Watch Company and most of the other American manufacturers: Aurora, Hamilton, Hampden, E. Howard & Co., Illinois, Seth Thomas, later on joined by some Swiss watch manufacturers: Audemars Piguet, Gallet, Longines, Record Watch, Vacheron Constantin.

Then, towards the end of the century, the lever escapement ( invented by Thomas Mudge in 1759 ) was put into limited production by a handful of makers including Josiah Emery ( a Swiss based in London ) and Abraham-Louis Breguet.

He is also known for playing Geoff, an alcoholic car salesman in the TV sitcom Swiss Toni, also starring Charlie Higson and Rhys Thomas as his colleagues.

In 2007, Thomas Demenga became composer-in-residence, a first among Swiss orchestras.