Charlie Thomas (musician)

Charles Nowlin Thomas was an American singer best known for his work with The Drifters. Thomas was performing with The Five Crowns at the Apollo Theater in 1958 when George Treadwell fired his group, called The Drifters. Treadwell recruited the Five Crowns to become the new Drifters.

7 April 1937

Born on the same birth day (7 April): Aaron Gray (rugby league) • Alison Lapper • Brigitte van der Burg • Bruce Gary • Daniel Ellsberg • Emerson Hyndman • Francis Ford Coppola • Hindrek Kesler • Jackie Chan • Jakub Smrž • Jane Priestman • Kim Kap-soo • Louise Currie • Marju Lauristin • Mitch Daniels • Spencer Dryden

Born in the same month (April 1937): Arie Selinger • Barry Shepherd • Bob Luman • Colin Powell • David Mills (cricketer) • Efi Arazi • Ferdinand Piëch • George Steele • George Takei • Gert Potgieter (athlete) • Jack Nitzsche • Jean-Pierre Beltoise • John White (footballer, born 1937) • Joseph Estrada • Joseph Lelyveld • Robin Eames • Ronald Hamowy • Saddam Hussein • Seymour Hersh • Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood • Tom Veivers • Tony Harrison • Valerie Singleton