Lowell Bruce Laingen (born August 6, 1922) is an American retired diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Malta from 1977 and 1979.
 Laingen is best known as the most senior American official held hostage during the Iran hostage crisis, serving as the Chargé d'affaires (head of diplomatic mission) at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
The Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line (Persian: دانشجویان مسلمان پیرو خط امام‎ ‎ "Dânešjuyân Mosalmân Piru Xatt Emâm"), also called the Muslim Students of the Imam Khomeini Line, was an Iranian student group that occupied the U.S. embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979.
 The students were supporters of the Islamic Revolution who occupied the embassy to show their support for Ayatollah Khomeini and their outrage that the ex-Shah of Iran was admitted to the United States for cancer treatment, instead of being returned to Iran for trial and execution.
 The occupation triggered the Iran hostage crisis where 52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days.
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States.
 Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981 after a group of Iranian students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
 It stands as the longest hostage crisis in recorded history.
The Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem lasted from April 2 to May 10, 2002 in Bethlehem in the West Bank.
 As part of Operation Defensive Shield, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) occupied Bethlehem and tried to capture suspected Palestinian militants. Dozens of them fled into the Church of the Nativity and sought refuge.
 In addition there were some 200 monks resident in the church and many Palestinians who had arrived at the site for different reasons.
 The Franciscan order maintained no hostages were held, while Israeli sources claimed the monks and others were being held hostage by gunmen.
 After 39 days, an agreement was reached, according to which the militants turned themselves in to Israel and were exiled to Europe and the Gaza Strip.
The 2014 Sydney hostage crisis, also known as the Sydney siege and Lindt Cafe siege, occurred on 15–16 December 2014 when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café located at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia.
 Police treated the event as a terrorist attack at the time but Monis' motives have subsequently been debated.
Terence Hardy "Terry" Waite {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 31 May 1939) is an English humanitarian and author.
Raoul Pantin (June 5, 1943 – January 15, 2015) was a Trinidadian journalist, editor, poet and playwright.
 He penned six plays during his career.
 Pantin survived the 1990 Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt and terrorist attack, in which he and other employees of the Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT) station were held hostage for six days.
 He later chronicled his first-hand account of the coup attempt in a 163-page book, "Days of Wrath: The 1990 Coup in Trinidad and Tobago."
Richard Henry Morefield (September 9, 1929 – October 11, 2010) served in the United States Foreign Service and was one of the 66 staff members at the American embassy in Teheran who were taken captive by a militant Islamist student group called the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line on November 4, 1979, as part of what became known as the Iran hostage crisis.
 He was one of 52 Americans who were held as a hostage for 444 days, until negotiations for the remaining captives being held hostage were concluded with the signing of the Algiers Accords on January 19, 1981, with their release coming the following day.
Thomas Sutherland (May 3, 1931 – July 22, 2016), Dean of Agriculture at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad members near his Beirut home on June 9, 1985.
 He was released on November 18, 1991 at the same time as Terry Waite, having been held hostage for 2353 days.
In 2002, he was held hostage in Bouaké in the center of the country during a rebellion.
 He was released a few days later.

Question: Thomas Sutherland was held hostage for 2353 days and released at the same time as English humanitarian and author born on what day?
Answer: born 31 May 1939