Thomas was the 19th most common given name among people in the file born in 1910 — 11,766 carried it. Across all birth years, 687,691 people in the file carry the name; the largest birth cohort of Thomass was 1921.
Living to 76
Thomas lived to 76. Among the 1,923,002 people in the file born in 1910, half lived past 79 and one in four reached 87; the longest-lived made it to 101. Only deaths reported to Social Security between 1936 and 2011 appear in the file, so members of this cohort who died young are not counted — these are the lifespans of its survivors.
Died the same month
153,547 other deaths in the file were recorded in November 1986 without a recorded day, among them Annie Lyness, Ruby Chapman and Ada Francis.
Other Oderkerk records
3 people with this surname appear in the file. More Oderkerk deaths in the file fall in the 1980s than in any other decade; California holds the largest share of last residences.