Thomas Silverstein

Thomas Edward Silverstein was an American criminal who spent the last 42 years of his life in prison after being convicted of four separate murders while imprisoned for armed robbery, one of which was overturned. Silverstein spent the last 36 years of his life in solitary confinement for killing corrections officer Merle Clutts at the Marion Penitentiary in Illinois. Prison authorities described him as a brutal killer and a former leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Silverstein maintained that the dehumanizing conditions inside the prison system contributed to the three murders he committed. He was the longest-held prisoner in solitary confinement within the Bureau of Prisons at the time of his death. Correctional officers refused to talk to Silverstein out of respect for Clutts.

4 February 1952

Born on the same birth date (4 February 1952): Jenny Shipley • Lisa Eichhorn

Born on the same birth day (4 February): Augustin Pyramus de Candolle • Dan Quayle • David Brenner • Doug Fister • Florence LaRue • Gyula Grosics • Hunter Biden • Jacques Prévert • Jenny Shipley • Lodovico Lazzarelli • Mauricio Pinilla • Neil Johnston • Oliver Ames (governor) • Siobhan Dowd • Virginia M. Alexander • Édouard Estaunié

Born in the same month (February 1952): Brad Whitford • Danilo Türk • Danny White • Dwight Jones (basketball) • James Ingram • Jenny Shipley • Peter Kitchen • Raisa Smetanina • Ricardo La Volpe • Tim Powers • Tomislav Nikolić