Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, was a Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor who became one of the moguls of Fleet Street in London.

5 June 1894

Born on the same birth day (5 June): Abraham Sarmiento Jr. • Bata Živojinović • Isaac Heinemann • Megumi Nakajima • Pierre Bruneau (journalist) • Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick • Serhat Akın • Sören Bertram • Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo • Tony Richardson • Yves Blais

Born in the same month (June 1894): Alexander de Seversky • Bernard Ashmole • Chief Justice of New Zealand • Edward VIII • Erwin Schulhoff • Harry Schmidt (mathematician) • Hermann Oberth • Jacques Henri Lartigue • Jessie Baetz • José Carlos Mariátegui • Kiichiro Toyoda • Leo Kanner • Lloyd Hall • Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg • Milward Kennedy • Nikolai Chebotaryov • Robert Russell Bennett • W. W. E. Ross