| Taaffe, Eduard von (Austrian politician) |
1833-1895 |
| Taban lo Liyong (Ugandan writer, critic, editor, educator) |
b.1938 |
| Tabari, Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir at- (Arab historian) |
c.839-923 |
| Tabataba'i, Sayyid Zia od-Din (Iranian politician) |
c.1888-1969 |
| Tabinshwehti (King of Burma 1531-1550) |
1512-1550 |
| Tabourot, Jehan (pseud. Thoinot Arbeau) (French scholar) |
1519-1595 |
| Tacchini, Pietro (Italian astronomer) |
1838-1905 |
| Tache, Sir Etienne Pascal (Canadian politician) |
1795-1865 |
| Tachtsis, Kostas (Greek writer, translator) |
1927-1988 |
| Tacitus, Cornelius (Roman orator, politician, historian) |
c.56-c.120 |
| Tacitus, Marcus Claudius (Roman emperor 275-276) |
c.200-276 |
| Taewon-gun (aka Yi Ha-ung) (Korean ruler) |
1821-1898 |
| Taft, Alphonso (American jurist, politician) |
1810-1891 |
| Taft, Charles Phelps (American lawyer, publisher; son of Al.) |
1843-1929 |
| Taft, Horace Dutton (American educator; son of Alphonso) |
1861-1943 |
| Taft, Lorado Zadoc (American sculptor) |
1860-1936 |
| Taft, Robert Alphonso (American politician; son of W.H. Taft) |
1889-1953 |
| Taft, William Howard (27th U.S. president, 1909-1913) |
1857-1930 |
| Tagger, Theodor (pseudonym Ferdinand Bruckner) (Austrian poet) |
1891-1958 |
| Tagliacozzi, Gaspare (Italian surgeon) |
1545-1599 |
| Taglioni, Filippo (Italian ballet master, choreographer) |
1777-1871 |
| Taglioni, Marie (Italian dancer; daughter of Filippo) |
1804-1884 |
| Taglioni, Marie (Italian dancer; daughter of Paul) |
1833-1891 |
| Taglioni, Paul (Italian ballet master; son of Filippo) |
1808-1884 |
| Tagore, Debendranath (Indian Hindu philosopher, reformer) |
1817-1905 |
| Tagore, Sir Rabindranath (Indian Bengali poet; son of Deb.) |
1861-1941 |
| Taha Hussein (or Taha Husayn) (Egyptian writer, critic) |
1889-1973 |
| Tahtawi, Rifa'ah Rafi' at- (Egyptian educator, scholar) |
1801-1873 |
| Tahuereau, Jacques (French poet) |
c.1527-1555 |
| Tai Chen (Tai Tung-yuan) (Chinese philosopher) |
1724-1777 |
| Tai Chin (or Tai Wen-chin) (Chinese painter) |
1388-1462 |
| T'ai-go Wangsa (Korean monk) |
1301-1382 |
| Taiko Josetsu (Japanese Zen Buddhist priest, painter) |
14th-15th cent. |
| Taillefer (Norman trouvere) |
d.1066 |
| Taine, Hippolyte-Adolphe (French philosopher, hist., critic) |
1828-1893 |
| Tainter, Charles Sumner (American inventor) |
1854-1940 |
| Taira Kiyomori (Japanese samurai-ruler; son of Tadamori) |
1118-1181 |
| Taira Masakado (Japanese rebel leader) |
d.940 |
| Taira Masamori (Japanese samurai) |
12th cent. |
| Taira Tadamori (Japanese samurai; son of Masamori) |
1096-1153 |
| Tairov, Aleksandr Yakovlevich (Russian theatrical producer) |
1885-1950 |
| Tait, Archibald Campbell (Scottish prelate) |
1811-1882 |
| Tait, Peter Guthrie (Scottish physicist, mathematician) |
1831-1901 |
| Takahama Kyoshi (b. Takahama Kiyoshi) (Japanese poet) |
1874-1959 |
| Takahashi Korekiyo (orig. surname Kawamura)(Japanese financier) |
1854-1936 |
| Takamura Kotaro (Japanese poet, sculptor; son of Takamura Koun) |
1883-1956 |
| Takamura Koun (orig. Nakajima Kozo) (Japanese sculptor) |
1852-1934 |
| Takasugi Shinsaku (Japanese politician) |
1839-1867 |
| Takeda Shingen (Japanese warrior) |
1521-1573 |
| Takemoto Gidayu (aka Rihe Shimizu) (Japanese actor) |
1651-1714 |
| Takemitsu Toru (Japanese composer) |
1930-1996 |
| Takeshita Noboru (Japanese prime minister 1987-1989) |
b.1924 |
| Takeuchi Kokichi (aka Takeuchi Seiho) (Japanese painter) |
1864-1942 |
| Takizawa Bakin (orig. Okikuni) (Japanese writer) |
1767-1848 |
| Taksin (aka Phraya Taksin, Paya Tak) (King of Siam 1767-1782) |
1734-1782 |
| Takuan (Japanese Zen Buddhist priest) |
1573-1645 |
| Takuma Takemoto (aka Takuma Shoga) (Japanese painter) |
12th cent. |
| Talat Pasa, Mehmed (Turkish politician) |
1872-1921 |
| Talavera, Hernando de (Spanish prelate) |
1428-1507 |
| Talbot, Arthur Newell (American engineer, educator) |
1857-1942 |
| Talbot, Mary Anne (English soldier) |
1778-1808 |
| Talbot, Richard (Irish Jacobite) |
1630-1691 |
| Talbot, Silas (American naval officer) |
1751-1813 |
| Talbot, William Henry Fox (English physicist) |
1800-1877 |
| Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon (English judge) |
1795-1854 |
| Taliesin (Welsh poet) |
6th cent. |
| Tallchief, Maria (American dancer) |
b.1925 |
| Tallemant des Reaux, Gedeon (French writer) |
1619-1692 |
| Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles-Maurice de (French statesman) |
1754-1838 |
| Tallien, Jean-Lambert (French Revolutionary) |
1767-1820 |
| Tallis (or Tallys, Talles), Thomas (English organist, composer) |
c.1505-1585 |
| Talma, Francois-Joseph (French tragedian) |
1763-1826 |
| Talon, Jean-Baptiste (French colonial administrator) |
c.1625-1694 |
| Tam, Jacob ben Meir (French Talmudist) |
1100-1171 |
| Tamayo, Rufino (Mexican painter) |
1899-1991 |
| Tamayo y Baus, Manuel (Spanish dramatist) |
1829-1898 |
| Tamiris, Helen (American dancer, choreographer, teacher) |
1905-1966 |
| Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich (Soviet physicist) |
1895-1971 |
| Tamman ibn Ghalib Abu Firas "al-Farazdaq" (Arab poet) |
c.641-c.730 |
| Tammany (or Tamanend) (American Delaware Indian chief) |
fl. 1685 |
| Tan, Amy (American writer) |
b.1952 |
| Tanabe Hajime (Japanese philosopher) |
1885-1962 |
| Tanaka Giichi (Japanese soldier, politician) |
1863-1929 |
| Tanchelm (Flemish heretic) |
d.1115? |
| Tancred (Norman leader in 1st Crusade) |
1078?-1112 |
| Tandy, James Napper (Irish revolutionary) |
1740-1803 |
| Tandy, Jessica (English-born American actor) |
1909-1994 |
| Taney, Roger Brooke (Am. Supreme Court chief justice 1836-64) |
1777-1864 |
| Taneyev, Sergey Ivanovich (Russian composer, concert pianist) |
1856-1915 |
| T'ang Chi-yao (Chinese soldier) |
1881-1927 |
| Tange Kenzo (Japanese architect) |
b.1913 |
| T'ang T'ai Tsung (orig. Li Shih-min) (Chinese emperor 627-649) |
600-649 |
| Tanguay, Eva (Canadian-born American entertainer) |
1878-1947 |
| Tanguy, Yves (French-born American painter) |
1900-1955 |
| T'ang Yin (Chinese painter) |
1470-1523 |
| Tanhum ben Joseph (Jewish rabbinic scholar) |
13th cent. |
| Tani Buncho (orig. Seian Bungoro) (Japanese painter) |
1763-1840 |
| Tanizaki Jun-ichiro (Japanese novelist) |
1886-1965 |
| Tan Malaka, Ibrahim Datuk (Indonesian Communist leader) |
1894-1949 |
| Tanner, Henry Ossawa (American painter) |
1859-1937 |
| Tanner, Vaino Alfred (Finnish politician) |
1881-1966 |
| Tannhauser (German lyric poet) |
c.1200-c.1270 |
| Tanomura Chikuden (given name Takanori) (Japanese painter) |
1777-1835 |
| Tansillo, Luigi (Italian poet) |
1510-1568 |
| Tanucci, Bernardo (Italian politician) |
1698-1783 |
| Tanuma Okitsugu (Japanese politician) |
1719-1788 |
| T'ao Ch'ien (aka T'ao Yuan-ming) (Chinese poet) |
365-427 |
| T'ao Hung-ching (Chinese poet, calligrapher) |
451-536 |
| Taparelli, Massimo (Italian author, politician) |
1798-1866 |
| Tappan, Arthur (American merchant, philanthropist) |
1786-1865 |
| Tappan, Benjamin (American lawyer, politician; bro. of Arthur) |
1773-1857 |
| Tappan, Lewis (American businessman; bro. of Arthur) |
1788-1873 |
| Tarafah (Arab poet) |
6th cent. |
| Tarantino, Quentin Jerome (American filmmaker) |
b.1963 |
| Tara Singh (Indian Sikh leader) |
1885-1967 |
| Tarbell, Ida Minerva (American author, muckraker, lecturer) |
1857-1944 |
| Tarde, Jean-Gabriel de (French sociologist, criminologist) |
1843-1904 |
| Tardieu, Andre-Pierre-Gabriel-Amedee (French politician) |
1876-1945 |
| Tardivaux, Rene-Marie-Auguste (pseud. Rene Boylesve) (Fr. nov.) |
1867-1926 |
| Rabbi Tarfon (Jewish sage) |
c.130 CE |
| Tarham, Abdulhak Hamid (Turkish poet, playwright, diplomat) |
1852-1937 |
| Tariq ibn Ziyad (Muslim general) |
d.c.720 |
| Tarkington, Newton Booth (American writer, playwright) |
1869-1946 |
| Tarleton, Sir Banastre (English soldier) |
1754-1833 |
| Tarlton, Richard (English comedian, actor, ballad writer) |
d.1588 |
| Tarn, Mary Pauline (pseud. Renee Vivien)(Eng.-born French poet) |
1877-1909 |
| Tarnowski, Jan (Polish soldier) |
1488-1561 |
| Tarrasch, Siegbert (German chess master, physician) |
1862-1934 |
| Tarski, Alfred (Russian-born American mathematician) |
1902-1983 |
| Tart, Charles Theodore (American psychologist) |
b.1937 |
| Tartaglia, Niccolo (orig. surname Fontana) (Italian math.) |
1499-1557 |
| Tartini, Giuseppe (Italian violinist, composer) |
1692-1770 |
| Taschereau, Elzear Alexandre (Canadian prelate) |
1820-1898 |
| Taschereau, Sir Henry Elzear (Can. jurist; nephew of Elzear) |
1836-1911 |
| Tashiro, Shiro (Japanese-born American biochemist) |
1883-1963 |
| Taskin, Pascal (French harpsichord maker) |
1723-1793 |
| Tasman, Abel Janszoon (Dutch navigator, explorer of Oceania) |
1603?-1659? |
| Tassaert, Jean Pierre Antoine (Dutch sculptor) |
1729-1788 |
| Tassaert, Nicolas-Francois-Octave (French painter) |
1807-1874 |
| Tassie, James (Scottish gem engraver, modeler) |
1735-1799 |
| Tassie, William (Scottish modeler; nephew of James) |
1777-1860 |
| Tassis Peralta, Juan de (Spanish poet) |
1582-1622 |
| Tasso, Bernardo (Italian poet; father of Torquato) |
1493-1569 |
| Tasso, Torquato (Italian poet; son of Bernardo) |
1544-1595 |
| Tassoni, Alessandro (It. poet, political writer, lit. critic) |
1565-1635 |
| Tastu, Sabine-Casimire-Amable née Voiart (French poet) |
1795-1885 |
| Tata, Sir Dorabji Jamsetji (Indian indust.; son of Jamsetji) |
1859-1932 |
| Tata, Jamsetji Nasarwanji (Indian industrialist) |
1839-1904 |
| Tata, Sir Ratanji (Indian industrialist; son of Jamsetji) |
1871-1918 |
| Tatarescu, Gheorghe (Romanian politician) |
1892-1957 |
| Tate, Sir Henry (English sugar refiner, philanthropist) |
1819-1899 |
| Tate, John Orley Allen (American poet, critic, biographer) |
1899-1979 |
| Tate, Nahum (Irish-born British poet; poet laureate 1692-1715) |
1652-1715 |
| Tatian (Tatianos) (Syrian Christian writer) |
c.120-173 |
| Tatlin, Vladimir (Soviet painter, sculptor, architect) |
1885-1953 |
| Tatus, Arthur (American musician) |
1910-1956 |
| Tatum, Edward Lawrie (American biochemist) |
1909-1975 |
| Taube, Henry (Canadian-born Am. chemist, researcher, teacher) |
1915-2005 |
| Tauchnitz, Christian Bernhard (German printer, publisher) |
1816-1895 |
| Tauchnitz, Karl Christoph Traugott (German printer, publisher) |
1761-1836 |
| Taufa'ahau Tupou IV (Tongan monarch, 1965-2006) |
1918-2006 |
| Tauler, Johannes (German mystic, preacher) |
c.1300-1361 |
| Taunay, Viscount Alfredo d'Escragnolle (Braz. writer, hist.) |
1843-1899 |
| Tauriscus of Tralles (Greek sculptor) |
2nd cent. BC |
| Tausen, Hans (the Danish Luther) (Danish religious reformer) |
1494-1561 |
| Tavares, Eugenio de Paulo (Cape Verdean poet; wrote in Crioulo) |
1867-1930 |
| Taverner, John (English composer) |
c.1490-1545 |
| Taverner, Richard (English religious reformer) |
1505?-1575 |
| Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste (French traveler) |
1605-1689 |
| Tawney, Richard Henry (English economic historian) |
1880-1962 |
| Tayama Rokuya (pen name Tayama Katai) (Japanese novelist) |
1871-1930 |
| Taylor, Alan John Percivale (British historian) |
1906-1989 |
| Taylor, Ann (English poet; sister of Jane) |
1782-1866 |
| Taylor, Bert Leston (American journalist) |
1866-1921 |
| Taylor, Brook (English mathematician) |
1685-1731 |
| Taylor, Cecil (American pianist, composer) |
b.1930 |
| Taylor, David Watson (American naval officer, marine architect) |
1864-1940 |
| Taylor, Edward (English-born American poet, clergyman) |
1645?-1729 |
| Taylor, Edward Thompson (American clergyman) |
1793-1871 |
| Taylor, Elizabeth née Coles (English novelist) |
1912-1975 |
| Taylor, Frank B. (American geologist; continental drift) |
1860-1939 |
| Taylor, Frederick Winslow (American efficiency engineer) |
1856-1915 |
| Taylor, George (Irish-born American iron manufacturer) |
1716-1781 |
| Taylor, Sir Henry (English poet) |
1800-1886 |
| Taylor, Isidore-Justin-Severin (French writer) |
1789-1879 |
| Taylor, James Bayard (American writer, translator, journalist) |
1825-1878 |
| Taylor, Jane (English poet; "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star") |
1783-1824 |
| Taylor, Jeremy (English prelate, author) |
1613-1667 |
| Taylor, John "the water-poet" (English pamphleteer, journalist) |
1580-1653 |
| Taylor, John (American politician, agriculturist) |
1753-1824 |
| Taylor, John (English-born American religious leader) |
1808-1887 |
| Taylor, John Edward (English liberal journalist) |
1791-1844 |
| Taylor, John W. (American politician) |
1784-1854 |
| Taylor, Joseph (English actor) |
1586?-1652 |
| Taylor, Joseph Deems (American composer, music critic) |
1885-1966 |
| Taylor, Kenneth Nathaniel (Am. publisher; fd. Tyndale House) |
1917-2005 |
| Taylor, Laurette (orig. Loretta Cooney) (American actor) |
1884-1946 |
| Taylor, Lucy Hobbs (American dentist) |
1833-1910 |
| Taylor, Maxwell Davenport (American general, diplomat) |
1901-1987 |
| Taylor, Nathaniel William (American theologian) |
1786-1858 |
| Taylor, Peter Hillsman (American writer, playwright, teacher) |
1917-1994 |
| Taylor, Richard (American army officer; son of Zachary) |
1826-1879 |
| Taylor, Richard Edward (Canadian physicist in America) |
b.1929 |
| Taylor, Rowland (English Protestant martyr) |
d.1555 |
| Taylor, Theodore Brewster (Mexico-born Am. physicist, activist) |
1925-2004 |
| Taylor, Thomas (the Platonist) (English scholar) |
1758-1835 |
| Taylor, Tom (English dramatist) |
1817-1880 |
| Taylor, William (American clergyman) |
1821-1902 |
| Taylor, Zachary (12th U.S. president, 1849-1850) |
1784-1850 |
| Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich (Russian composer, conductor) |
1840-1893 |
| Tcherepnin, Alexander Nikolayevich (Rus. composer; son of Nik.) |
1899-1977 |
| Tcherepnin, Nikolay Nikolayevich (Russian composer) |
1873-1945 |
| Tchernichowsky, Saul Gutmanovich (Russian-born Hebrew poet) |
1875-1943 |
| Tchicai, John (Danish musician, teacher) |
b.1936 |
| Tchicaya U Tam'si (b. Gerald Felix Tchicaya) (Congolese poet) |
1931-1988 |
| Teach (or Thatch), Edward "Blackbeard" (English pirate) |
d.1719 |
| Teagarden, Jack (orig. Weldon Leo) (American musician) |
1905-1964 |
| Teague, Walter Dorwin (American industrial designer) |
1883-1960 |
| Teale, Edwin Way (American naturalist, photographer, writer) |
1899-1980 |
| Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu (Maori queen) |
1931-2006 |
| Teasdale, Sara (orig. Sara Trevor) (American poet) |
1884-1933 |
| Tebaldi, Renata Ersilia Clotilde (Italian singer) |
1922-2004 |
| Tecumseh (American Shawnee Indian chief) |
1768-1813 |
| Tedder, Arthur William (British air chief marshal) |
1890-1967 |
| Tefnakhte (Egyptian king c.730-720 BC) |
d.c.720 BC |
| Tegetmeier, William Bernhard (English naturalist) |
1816-1912 |
| Tegetthoff, Wilhelm von (Austrian admiral) |
1827-1871 |
| Teggart, Frederick John (Irish-born American historian) |
1870-1946 |
| Tegh Bahadur (Indian Sikh religious leader) |
1621?-1675 |
| Tegner, Esaias (Swedish poet, teacher, scholar, cleric) |
1782-1846 |
| Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (Fr. paleontologist, philosopher) |
1881-1955 |
| Teirlinck, Herman Louis-Cesar (Flemish writer, poet, essayist) |
1879-1967 |
| Teisserenc de Bort, Leon-Philippe (French meteorologist) |
1855-1913 |
| Teitelbaum, Moses (Siget-born rebbe of Satmar Hassidim) |
1914-2006 |
| Teixeira, Pedro (Portuguese soldier in Brazil) |
1575-1640 |
| Teixeira Gomes, Manuel (Portuguese politician) |
1860-1941 |
| Tejada Sorzano, Jose Luis (Bolivian politician; pres. 1934-36) |
1881-1938 |
| Tekakwitha, Kateri (American Mohawk religious) |
1656-1680 |
| Te Kooti Rikirangi (Maori religious leader) |
c.1830-1893 |
| Te-Kuang (Mongol leader) |
10th cent. |
| Teleki, Pal (Hungarian geographer, politician) |
1879-1941 |
| Teleki, Samuel (Hungarian explorer) |
1845-1916 |
| Telemann, Georg Philipp (German composer) |
1681-1767 |
| Telesilla (Greek poet) |
5th cent. BC |
| Telesio, Barnardino (Italian philosopher) |
1509-1588 |
| Telford, Thomas (Scottish civil engineer) |
1757-1834 |
| Teller, Edward (Hungarian-born American physicist) |
1908-2003 |
| Tellez, Gabriel (pseud. Tirso de Molina) (Spanish dramatist) |
c.1580-1648 |
| Tellez-Giron, Pedro (Duque de Osuna)(Span. soldier, politician) |
1574-1624 |
| Tellier, Charles-Albert-Abel (French engineer) |
1828-1913 |
| Telling, Edward Riggs (Am. businessman: Sears, Roebuck & Co.) |
1919-2005 |
| Temin, Howard Martin (American oncologist) |
1934-1994 |
| Temple, Frederick (English prelate, primate) |
1821-1902 |
| Temple, Henry John "Pam" (English politician) |
1784-1865 |
| Temple, Shirley (American actor, politician) |
b.1928 |
| Temple, Sir William (English diplomat, essayist) |
1628-1699 |
| Temple, William (English prelate, primate; son of Frederick) |
1881-1944 |
| Temur Khan (Ch'eng Tsung) (Chinese emperor 1295-1307) |
1267-1307 |
| Ten Broeck, Abraham (American Revolutionary leader) |
1734-1810 |
| Tench, Watkin (British soldier, writer) |
c.1758-1833 |
| Tenchi (orig. Amemikoto-Harukiwake) (Japanese emperor 662-671) |
626-671 |
| Tencin, Claudine-Alexandrine Guerin de (French writer) |
1685-1749 |
| Tenerani, Pietro (Italian sculptor) |
1789-1869 |
| Tenet, George John (Am. government admin.; CIA dir. 1997-2004) |
b.1953 |
| Teniers, David (the Elder) (Flemish painter) |
1582-1649 |
| Teniers, David (the Younger) (Flemish painter) |
1610-1690 |
| Tenison, Thomas (English prelate, primate) |
1636-1715 |
| Tennant, Frederick Robert (English theologian) |
1866-1957 |
| Tennant, Kylie (b. Kathleen) (Australian writer, playwright) |
1912-1988 |
| Tennant, Smithson (English chemist) |
1761-1815 |
| Tennent, Gilbert (American clergyman; son of William) |
1703-1764 |
| Tennent, William (Irish-born American clergyman) |
1673-1746 |
| Tenney, James Carl (American composer, music theorist) |
1934-2006 |
| Tenniel, Sir John (English cartoonist, illustrator) |
1820-1914 |
| Tennyson, Alfred (English poet; poet laureate 1850) |
1809-1892 |
| Tenreiro, Francisco Jose de Vasques (Sao Tomean poet, teacher) |
1921-1963 |
| Tenskwatawa (Shawnee religious leader; brother of Tecumseh) |
c.1768-1834 |
| Terauchi Hisaichi (Japanese army officer) |
1879-1946 |
| Terauchi Masatake (orig. Tada Jusaburo) (Japanese gen., polit.) |
1852-1919 |
| Terborch (or Ter Borch), Gerard (Dutch painter) |
1617-1681 |
| Terbrugghen, Hendrik (Dutch painter) |
1588-1629 |
| Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) (Roman playwright) |
186/5-159? BC |
| Terentianus Maurus (Roman prosodist) |
2nd cent. |
| Teresa of Avila, Saint (Spanish Carmelite, mystic) |
1515-1582 |
| Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna (Russian-b. Sov. astronaut) |
b.1937 |
| Terhune, Albert Payson (American writer) |
1872-1942 |
| Terkel, Studs (orig. Louis) (American journalist) |
b.1912 |
| Terman, Lewis Madison (American psychologist) |
1877-1956 |
| Termier, Pierre-Marie (French geologist) |
1859-1930 |
| Terpander (Greek musician, poet) |
fl. c.647 BC |
| Terra, Gabriel (Uruguayan lawyer, politician) |
1873-1942 |
| Terragni, Giuseppe (Italian architect; member of "Gruppo 7") |
1904-1942 |
| Terray, Joseph-Marie (French priest, politician) |
1715-1778 |
| Terriss, William (orig. William Charles James Lewin)(Eng.actor) |
1847-1897 |
| Terry, Alfred Howe (American army officer) |
1827-1890 |
| Terry, Dame Alice Ellen (English actor) |
1847-1928 |
| Terry, Eli (American clock manufacturer) |
1772-1852 |
| Terry, Lucy (married name Prince) (West African-born Am. poet) |
1730-1821 |
| Terry, Randall (American anti-abortion activist) |
b.1959 |
| Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus)(Latin wtr.) |
c.155/160-c.240 |
| Terzaghi, Karl (Czech-born American civil engineer) |
1883-1963 |
| Teschner, Richard (Czech puppeteer) |
1879-1948 |
| Tesla, Nikolo (Croatian-born American physicist, inventor) |
1856-1943 |
| Tessin, Carl Gustaf (Swedish politician; son of Nicodemus II) |
1695-1770 |
| Tessin, Nicodemus (the Elder) (Swedish architect) |
1615-1681 |
| Tessin, Nicodemus (the Younger) (Swedish architect) |
1654-1728 |
| Tetens, Johannes Nikolaus (German mathematician, philosopher) |
1736-1807 |
| Tetmajer Przerwa, Kazimierz (Polish poet, writer) |
1865-1940 |
| Tetrazzini, Luisa (Italian coloratura soprano) |
1871-1940 |
| Tetreault, Martin (French-Canadian composer, musician) |
b.1957 |
| Tetricus, Gaius Pius Esuvius (Roman politician) |
3rd cent. |
| Tetzel (or Tezel), Johann (German Dominican monk) |
c.1465-1519 |
| Tevfik, Mehmed (pseud. Tevfik Fikret) (Turkish poet) |
1867-1915 |
| Tevfik Pasa, Ahmed (Turkish politician) |
1845-1936 |
| Tevis, Lloyd (American businessman) |
1824-1899 |
| Tewodros II (orig. Kasa) (Ethiopian emperor 1855-1868) |
c.1818-1868 |
| Tey, Josephine (Elizabeth Mackintosh)(Scot. writer, playwright) |
1897-1952 |
| Thabit Ibn Qurrah (Syrian math., physician, philosopher) |
c.836-901 |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace (India-born English novelist) |
1811-1863 |
| Thalberg, Irving Grant (American motion-picture executive) |
1899-1936 |
| Thalberg, Sigismund Fortune Francois (German/Austrian pianist) |
1812-1871 |
| Thales of Miletus (Greek philosopher, scientist, mathematician) |
625?-547? BC |
| Thalmann, Ernst (German Communist leader) |
1886-1944 |
| Thant, U (Burmese diplomat; UN secretary-general 1961-1971) |
1909-1974 |
| Than Tun (aka Thakin Than Tun) (Burmese politician) |
1911-1968 |
| Tharaud, Jean (French journalist, novelist; brother of Jerome) |
1877-1952 |
| Tharaud, Jerome (French journalist, novelist; brother of Jean) |
1874-1953 |
| Tharrawaddy Min (Burmese king 1837-1846) |
d.1846 |
| Thatcher, Margaret Hilda née Roberts (English politician) |
b.1925 |
| Thaxter, Celia née Laighton (American poet) |
1835-1894 |
| Thayer, Abbott Handerson (American painter) |
1849-1921 |
| Thayer, Ernest Lawrence (American writer) |
1863-1940 |
| Thayer, Sylvanus (American army officer, educator) |
1785-1872 |
| Theaetetus (Greek mathematician) |
c.414-c.369 BC |
| Theile, Johann (German composer) |
1646-1724 |
| Theiler, Max (South African-born Am. physician, bacteriologist) |
1899-1972 |
| Themba, Daniel Canadoise Dorsay "Can" (S. African journalist) |
1924-1969 |
| Themistius (Greek rhetorician, politician) |
c.317-c.388 |
| Themistocles (Athenian statesman, general) |
c.524-c.460 BC |
| Thenard, Louis-Jacques (French chemist) |
1777-1857 |
| Theobald (Anglo-Norman prelate) |
c.1090-1161 |
| Theobald, Lewis (English playwright, Shakespearean critic) |
1688-1744 |
| Theocritus (Greek poet; created pastoral poetry) |
c.310-250 BC |
| Theodahad (Ostrogoth king 534-536) |
d.536 |
| Theodore, Saint (Greek prelate) |
c.602-690 |
| Theodore of Mopsuestia (Greek theologian) |
c.350-428/9 |
| Theodore of Rhaithu (Greek theologian) |
6th cent. |
| Theodore Ascidas (Greek prelate, theologian) |
d.558 |
| Theodore Prodromus (aka Ptochoprodromus) (Byzantine writer) |
d.c.1166 |
| Theodore Studites, Saint (Byzantine theologian) |
759-826 |
| Theodoret of Cyrrhus (Greek theologian of Antioch school) |
c.393-c.458 |
| Theodoric the Great (Ostrogoth conqueror, king 493-526) |
454?-526 |
| Theodorus Lector (Theodore the Reader) (Byzantine historian) |
6th cent. |
| Theodosius I (the Great) (Roman general, emperor 379-395) |
347-395 |
| Theodosius (Greek geometer, astronomer) |
2nd cent. BC |
| Theodosius of Alexandria (Byzantine prelate) |
d.566 |
| Theodosius of Palestine, Saint (Byzantine religious) |
c.423-529 |
| Theodosius I Boradiotes (Byzantine prelate) |
d.1183? |
| Theodotion (Jewish scholar) |
2nd cent. |
| Theodotus (Theodotus the Tanner) (Byzantine theologian) |
2nd cent. |
| Theodotus of Ancyra (Byzantine prelate) |
d.c.466 |
| Theodotus the Gnostic (Christian theologian) |
2nd cent. |
| Theodulf of Orleans (Visigothic ecclesiastic, scholar) |
750-821 |
| Theodurus Abu Qurrah (Syrian Greek Orthodox prelate, theol.) |
c.750-c.825 |
| Theognis (Greek elegiac poet) |
fl.c.545 BC |
| Theognostos (Byzantine religious) |
9th cent. |
| Theognostus of Alexandria (Greek theologian) |
3rd cent. |
| Theoleptus of Philadelphia (Byzantine prelate, theologian) |
c.1250-c.1326 |
| Theon of Alexandria (Greek mathematician) |
4th cent. |
| Theophanes (the Confessor) (Greek monk, chronicler) |
c.752-818 |
| Theophanes the Greek (Byzantine painter) |
c.1330/40-1405 |
| Theophilus (Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire 829-842) |
d.842 |
| Theophilus (Greek prelate) |
d.412 |
| Theophilus of Antioch (Syrian prelate) |
d.180 |
| Theophrastus (Greek philosopher, scientist) |
c.372-c.287 BC |
| Theophylactus of Ochrida (Greek prelate, scholar) |
c.1050-c.1109 |
| Theophylactus Simocattes (Byzantine historian) |
d.640? |
| Theopompus of Chios (Greek historian, rhetorician) |
b.c.380 BC |
| Theorell, Axel Hugo Teodor (Swedish biochemist) |
1903-1982 |
| Theotokas, Yorgos (or Georgios) (Greek writer, playwright) |
1906-1966 |
| Theotokis, Konstantinos (Greek writer) |
1872-1923 |
| Theotokopoulos, Domenikos (Crete-born Spanish painter) |
1541-1614 |
| Theramenes (Athenian politician, general) |
d.404/3 BC |
| Theremin, Leon (b. Lev Sergeyevich Termen) (Russian inventor) |
1896-1993 |
| Therese de Lisieux, Saint (French Carmelite nun) |
1873-1897 |
| Theriault, Yves (Canadian writer, essayist, playwright) |
1916-1983 |
| Theroux, Paul Edward (American novelist, travel writer) |
b.1941 |
| Thesiger, Frederick (1st Baron Chelmsford) (English jurist) |
1794-1878 |
| Thesiger, Frederick Augustus (Eng. soldier; son of Frederick) |
1827-1905 |
| Thesiger, Frederick John Napier (Eng. col. admin.; son of F.A.) |
1868-1933 |
| Thespis (Greek poet; eponym for "thespian") |
6th cent. BC |
| Theudius (Greek mathematician, philosopher) |
4th cent. BC |
| Thevenin, Denis (pseud. Georges Duhamel)(Fr. dramatist, writer) |
1884-1966 |
| Thibaud, Jacques (French violinist) |
1880-1953 |
| Thibaudeau, Antoine-Clair (French politician) |
1765-1854 |
| Thibaut de Champagne (French lyric poet) |
1201-1253 |
| Thibaut, Anton Friedrich Justus (German jurist) |
1772-1840 |
| Thibaw (or Theebaw) (Burmese king 1878-1885) |
1858-1916 |
| Thibodeaux, Rufus (American musician) |
1934-2005 |
| Thielmann, Johann Adolf von (German soldier) |
1765-1824 |
| Thierry, Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin (French historian) |
1795-1856 |
| Thierry de Chartres (French educator, theologian) |
c.1100-c.1156 |
| Thiers, Louis-Adolphe (French politician, historian) |
1797-1877 |
| Thietmar (or Dietmar, Dithmar) (German chronicler) |
975-1018 |
| Thimonnier, Barthelemy (French tailor) |
1793-1859 |
| Thirkell, Angela Margaret née Mackail (English novelist) |
1890-1961 |
| Thistlewood, Arthur (English conspirator) |
1770-1820 |
| Thokoly, Imre (Hungarian patriot) |
1657-1705 |
| Thoma, Hans (German painter, lithographer, etcher, illustrator) |
1839-1924 |
| Thoma, Ludwig (pseud. Peter Schlemihl)(Ger. journalist, writer) |
1867-1921 |
| Thomas of Bayeux (Anglo-Norman prelate) |
d.1100 |
| Thomas of Celano (Italian Franciscan monk) |
c.1190-c.1260 |
| Thomas of Erceldoune (aka Thomas Learmont)(Scot. poet, prophet) |
fl.1220-1297 |
| Thomas, Albert (French politician) |
1878-1932 |
| Thomas, Audrey Grace née Callahan (American-born Can. writer) |
b.1935 |
| Thomas, Augustus (American dramatist) |
1857-1934 |
| Thomas, Charles-Louis-Ambroise (French composer) |
1811-1896 |
| Thomas, Christian Friedrich Theodore (German-born Am. cond.) |
1835-1905 |
| Thomas, Clarence (American Supreme Court justice 1991-) |
b.1948 |
| Thomas, David Alfred (Welsh colliery owner, gov. official) |
1856-1918 |
| Thomas, Donald Michael (English poet, writer, translator) |
b.1935 |
| Thomas, Dylan Marlais (Welsh poet, prose writer) |
1914-1953 |
| Thomas, Ebenezer (pseud. Eben Fardd) (Welsh poet) |
1802-1863 |
| Thomas, Edward Donnall (American physician) |
b.1920 |
| Thomas, George Brinton Jr. (American mathematician, teacher) |
1914-2006 |
| Thomas, George Henry (American army officer) |
1816-1870 |
| Thomas, Gwyn (Welsh writer, playwright) |
1913-1981 |
| Thomas, Isaiah (American printer) |
1749-1831 |
| Thomas, James Henry (English labor leader, politician) |
1874-1949 |
| Thomas, John (American physician, Revolutionary officer) |
1724-1776 |
| Thomas, John (English-born Am. physician, religious leader) |
1805-1871 |
| Thomas, John Jacob (Trinidadian teacher, writer) |
1840-1889 |
| Thomas, Lewis (American author, biologist, physician) |
1913-1993 |
| Thomas, Lowell Jackson (American traveler, journalist, author) |
1892-1981 |
| Thomas, Martha Carey (American educator) |
1857-1935 |
| Thomas, Norman Mattoon (American social reformer, politician) |
1884-1968 |
| Thomas, Phillip Edward (English writer, poet, critic) |
1878-1917 |
| Thomas, Robert Bailey (American publisher) |
1766-1846 |
| Thomas, Ronald Stuart (Welsh poet, Anglican priest, scholar) |
b.1913 |
| Thomas, Seth (American clock manufacturer) |
1785-1859 |
| Thomas, Seth (American clock manufacturer; son of Seth) |
1816-1888 |
| Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist (English metallurgist, inventor) |
1850-1885 |
| Thomas, William (pseudonym Islwyn) (Welsh clergyman, poet) |
1832-1878 |
| Thomas, William Isaac (American sociologist) |
1863-1947 |
| Thomas a' Kempis (Thomas Hammerken) (Ger. ecclesiastic, writer) |
1379/80-1471 |
| Thomas Aquinas, Saint (Italian religious, philosopher) |
1225-1274 |
| Thomasius, Christian (German jurist, philosopher) |
1655-1728 |
| Thome, Francois-Luc-Joseph (French composer) |
1850-1909 |
| Thompson, Benjamin (American-born British physicist, statesman) |
1753-1814 |
| Thompson, Danny (English musician) |
b.1939 |
| Thompson, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth (Scottish zoologist, scholar) |
1860-1948 |
| Thompson, David (English-born Canadian explorer, fur trader) |
1770-1857 |
| Thompson, Dorothy (American journalist, writer) |
1894-1961 |
| Thompson, Edward Herbert (American archaeologist) |
1860-1935 |
| Thompson, Francis Joseph (English poet, writer) |
1859-1907 |
| Thompson, Sir Henry (English surgeon) |
1820-1904 |
| Thompson, Hunter Stockton (American journalist, writer) |
1939-2005 |
| Thompson, James Myers "Jim" (American writer, screenwriter) |
1906-1977 |
| Thompson, James Walter (American businessman) |
1847-1928 |
| Thompson, Sir John Sparrow David (Canadian jurist, politician) |
1844-1894 |
| Thompson, John Taliaferro (Am. soldier; inv. submachine gun) |
1860-1940 |
| Thompson, Linda née Pettifer (English musician, singer) |
b.1948 |
| Thompson, Malachi (American musician) |
1949-2006 |
| Thompson, Reginald Campbell (English archaeologist) |
1876-1941 |
| Thompson, Richard John (English musician, singer) |
b.1949 |
| Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (English physicist, writer) |
1851-1916 |
| Thompson, Smith (American Supreme Court justice 1823-1843) |
1768-1843 |
| Thompson, William Tappan (pseud. Major Jones) (Am. journalist) |
1812-1882 |
| Thoms, William John (English antiquary) |
1803-1885 |
| Thomsen, Christian Jurgensen (Danish archaeologist) |
1788-1865 |
| Thomsen, Hans Peter Jorgen Julius (Danish chemist) |
1826-1909 |
| Thomsen, Vilhelm Ludwig Peter (Danish philologist) |
1842-1927 |
| Thomson, Charles Edward Poulett (English polit., col. admin.) |
1799-1841 |
| Thomson, Sir Charles Wyville (Scottish naturalist) |
1830-1882 |
| Thomson, Elihu (English-born Am. electrical engineer, inventor) |
1853-1937 |
| Thomson, George (Scottish folk song collector) |
1757-1851 |
| Thomson, Sir George Paget (English physicist; son of Sir J.J.) |
1892-1975 |
| Thomson, James (Scottish-born English poet, dramatist) |
1700-1748 |
| Thomson, James (B.V. or Bysshe Vanolis) (Scottish poet) |
1834-1882 |
| Thomson, John (Scottish painter) |
1778-1840 |
| Thomson, John (English photographer) |
1837-1921 |
| Thomson, John Arthur (Scottish biologist) |
1861-1933 |
| Thomson, Joseph (Scottish geologist, explorer) |
1858-1895 |
| Thomson, Sir Joseph John (Eng. physicist; disc. electron 1897) |
1856-1940 |
| Thomson, Mortimer Neal (pseud. Q.K. Doesticks) (Am. humorist) |
1831-1875 |
| Thomson, Robert William (Scot. engineer; inv. pneumatic tire) |
1822-1873 |
| Thomson, Roy Herbert (Canadian-born Brit. newspaper publisher) |
1894-1976 |
| Thomson, Thomas (Scottish chemist) |
1773-1852 |
| Thomson, Tom (Canadian painter, woodsman, guide) |
1877-1917 |
| Thomson, Virgil Garnett (American composer, conductor, critic) |
1896-1989 |
| Thomson, William (Irish-born British mathematician, physicist) |
1824-1907 |
| Thonet, Michael (German furniture manufacturer) |
1796-1871 |
| Thorarensen, Bjarni Vigfusson (Icelandic jurist, poet) |
1786-1841 |
| Thoraresen, Jakob (Icelandic poet, writer) |
1886-1972 |
| Thorbecke, Johan Rudolf (Dutch politician) |
1798-1872 |
| Thoreau, Henry David (orig. David Henry Thoreau) (Am. writer) |
1817-1862 |
| Thorek, Max (Hungarian-born American physician) |
1880-1960 |
| Thorez, Maurice (French politician) |
1900-1964 |
| Thorfinn Karlsefni (Icelandic explorer, colonizer) |
fl. 1002-1007 |
| Thorild, Thomas (surname orig. Thoren) (Swed. journalist, poet) |
1759-1808 |
| Thorlaksson, Gudbrandur (Icelandic ecclesiastic, scholar) |
1541-1627 |
| Thornbury, George Walter (English writer) |
1828-1876 |
| Thorndike, Dame Agnes Sybil (English actor) |
1882-1976 |
| Thorndike, Ashley Horace (American educator) |
1871-1933 |
| Thorndike, Edward Lee (American psychologist; bro. of Ashley) |
1874-1949 |
| Thorndike, Lynn (American historian; brother of Ashley) |
1882-1965 |
| Thornhill, Sir James (English painter) |
1676-1734 |
| Thorn-Prikker, Jan (Dutch painter) |
1868-1932 |
| Thornton, Matthew (American physician, Revolutionary patriot) |
1714?-1803 |
| Thornton, William (British West Indies-born American architect) |
1759-1828 |
| Thornycroft, Sir (William) Hamo (English sculptor) |
1850-1925 |
| Thornycroft, Sir John Isaac (English naval architect) |
1843-1928 |
| Thoroddsen, Jon Thortharson (Icelandic writer, poet) |
1818-1868 |
| Thorp, John (American machinist, inventor) |
1784-1848 |
| Thorpe, Benjamin (English philologist) |
1782-1870 |
| Thorpe, Sir Thomas Edward (English chemist) |
1845-1925 |
| Thorpe, James Francis "Jim" (American athlete) |
1866-1953 |
| Thorpe, Rose Alnora née Hartwick (American writer) |
1850-1939 |
| Thorpe (or Thorp), Thomas Bangs (American writer) |
1815-1878 |
| Thors, Olafur (Icelandic politician) |
1892-1964 |
| Thorsteinsson, Steingrimur Bjarnason (Icelandic poet, lyricist) |
1831-1913 |
| Thorvaldsen, Albert Bertel (Danish sculptor) |
1768/70-1844 |
| Thou, Jacques-Auguste de (French politician, historian) |
1553-1617 |
| Thrale, Hester Lynch (Hester Salusbury) (Eng. woman of letters) |
1741-1821 |
| Thrane, Marcus Moller (Norwegian journalist, Socialist leader) |
1817-1890 |
| Thrasybulus (Athenian general, politician) |
d.388 BC |
| Thring, Edward (English educator) |
1821-1887 |
| Throckmorton (or Throgmorton), Sir Nicholas (English diplomat) |
1515-1571 |
| Thubron, Colin (English travel writer, novelist) |
b.1939 |
| Thucydides (Greek historian) |
d.c.401 BC |
| Thue, Axel (Norwegian mathematician) |
1863-1922 |
| Thuille, Ludwig (Austrian composer) |
1861-1907 |
| Thunberg, Carl Peter (Swedish botanist) |
1743-1828 |
| Thunen, Johan Heinrich von (German agriculturist) |
1783-1850 |
| Thun und Hohenstein, Franz Anton (Austrian polit.; son of F.) |
1847-1916 |
| Thun und Hohenstein, Friedrich von (Austrian diplomat, polit.) |
1810-1881 |
| Thun und Hohenstein, Leo (Austrian polit.; bro. of Friedrich) |
1811-1888 |
| Thurber, Charles (American inventor) |
1803-1886 |
| Thurber, James Grover (American cartoonist, writer) |
1894-1961 |
| Thureau-Dangin, Paul (French historian) |
1837-1913 |
| Thuret, Gustave-Adolphe (French botanist) |
1817-1875 |
| Thurloe, John (English politician) |
1616-1668 |
| Thurlow, Edward (1st Baron Thurlow) (English judge) |
1731-1806 |
| Thurman, Wallace Henry (Am. editor, critic, writer, playwright) |
1902-1934 |
| Thurmond, James Strom (American politician) |
1902-2003 |
| Thurneysen, Rudolf (Swiss philologist) |
1857-1940 |
| Thurnwald, Richard Christian (Ger. anthropologist, sociologist) |
1869-1954 |
| Thurstan (or Turstin) (English prelate) |
d.1140 |
| Thurston, Howard (American magician) |
1869-1936 |
| Thurstone, Louis Leon (American psychologist) |
1887-1955 |
| Thutmose I (Egyptian king c.1525-c.1512 BC) |
d.c.1512 BC |
| Thutmose II (Egyptian king c.1512-1504 BC) |
d.1504 BC |
| Thutmose III (Egyptian king 1504-1450 BC) |
d.1450 BC |
| Thutmose IV (Egyptian king 1425-1417 BC) |
d.1417 BC |
| Thwaites, Ruben Gold (American historian) |
1853-1913 |
| Thynne, Francis (English writer; son of William) |
1545-1608 |
| Thynne, Thomas (English politician) |
1734-1796 |
| Thynne, William (English scholar) |
d.1546 |
| Thyssen, Fritz (German industrialist) |
1873-1951 |
| Tian Han (pseud. of Tian Shouchang) (Chinese playwright, poet) |
1898-1968 |
| Tibaldi, Pellegrino (Italian painter, architect; bro. of Dom.) |
1527-1596 |
| Tibaldi, Domenico (Italian painter, engraver, architect) |
1541-1582 |
| Tibbett, Lawrence Mervil (American baritone) |
1896-1960 |
| Tiberius (T. Claudius Nero Caesar Augustus) (Roman emp. 14-37) |
42 BC-AD 37 |
| Tibulus, Albius (Roman elegiac poet) |
c.55-c.19 BC |
| Tickell, Thomas (English poet) |
1686-1740 |
| Ticknor, George (American educator, historian) |
1791-1871 |
| Ticknor, William Davis (American publisher) |
1810-1864 |
| Tieck, Christian Friedrich (German sculptor; brother of Ludwig) |
1776-1851 |
| Tieck, Johann Ludwig (German writer, critic) |
1773-1853 |
| Tiedemann, Dietrich (German philosopher) |
1748-1803 |
| Tiele, Cornelis Petrus (Dutch theologian) |
1830-1902 |
| Tiemann, Johann Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand (German chemist) |
1848-1899 |
| Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Italian painter) |
1696-1770 |
| Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico (Italian painter; son of G.B.) |
1727-1804 |
| Tiepolo, Lorenzo (Italian painter; son of G.B.) |
1736-1776 |
| Tierney, George (English politician) |
1761-1830 |
| Tietjens, Eunice Strong née Hammond (American author) |
1884-1944 |
| Tietz, Johann Daniel (Latin: Titius) (German astronomer) |
1729-1796 |
| Tiffany, Charles Lewis (American jeweler; father of Louis) |
1812-1902 |
| Tiffany, Louis Comfort (American painter, stained-glass artist) |
1848-1933 |
| Tigellinus, Ofonius (Roman politician) |
d.69 |
| Tiger, Lionel (Canadian social scientist) |
b.1937 |
| Tiglath-pileser I (king of Assyria c.1115-c.1077) |
d.c.1077 BC |
| Tiglath-pileser II (king of Assyria c.964-934) |
d.c.934 BC |
| Tiglath-pileser III (aka Pulu) (king of Assyria 745-727) |
d.727 BC |
| Tigranes I (the Great) (King of Armenia 95/4-c.55) |
c/140-c.55 BC |
| Tikhomirov, Vasily Dimitrievich (Russian dancer, teacher) |
1876-1956 |
| Tikhonov, Nikolay Semyonovich (Soviet poet, writer) |
1896-1979 |
| Tikkanen, Henrik (Swedish-Finnish writer, artist) |
1924-1984 |
| Tilak, Bal Gangadhar (Indian nationalist) |
1856-1920 |
| Tilden, Samuel Jones (American politician, reformer) |
1814-1886 |
| Tildy, Zoltan (Hungarian Communist president 1946-1948) |
1889-1961 |
| Tilghman, Benjamin Chew (American inventor) |
1821-1901 |
| Tilghman, Tench (American Revolutionary officer) |
1744-1786 |
| Tillemont, Louis-Sebastien Le Nain de (French historian) |
1637-1698 |
| Tiller, Terence Rogers (English playwright, translator, poet) |
b.1916 |
| Tillett, Benjamin (English labor leader) |
1860-1943 |
| Tilley, Cecil Edgar (Australian-born British mineralogist) |
1894-1973 |
| Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard (Canadian politician) |
1818-1896 |
| Tilley, Vesta (orig. Matilda Alice Powles)(English entertainer) |
1864-1952 |
| Tillich, Paul Johannes (Prussian-born Am. theologian, philos.) |
1886-1965 |
| Tillier, Claude (French journalist, novelist) |
1801-1844 |
| Tillman, Benjamin Ryan (American politician) |
1847-1918 |
| Tillotson, John (English archbishop of Canterbury 1691-1694) |
1630-1694 |
| Tilyou, George Cornelius (American businessman) |
1862-1914 |
| Timaeus (Italian-born Greek astronomer) |
fl. c.400 BC |
| Timaeus (Sicilian-born Greek historian) |
c.356-c.260 BC |
| Timagenes (Greek historian) |
1st cent. BC |
| Timanthes (Greek painter) |
fl. c.400 BC |
| Timdeharis (Greek philosopher; prepared first star catalog) |
c.200 BC |
| Timesitheus, Gaius Furius Sabinus Aquila (Roman general) |
d.243 |
| Timken, Henry (German-born American inventor, manufacturer) |
1831-1909 |
| Timmermans, Felix (Flemish writer, poet, playwright) |
1886-1947 |
| Timoleon of Corinth (Greek statesman, general) |
d.337? BC |
| Timomachus (Byzantine painter) |
1st cent. BC |
| Timon (Athenian misanthrope) |
5th cent. BC |
| Timon of Philius (Greek skeptic) |
c.320-c.230 BC |
| Timoshenko, Semyon Konstantinovich (Soviet army commander) |
1895-1970 |
| Timotheus (Greek poet) |
c.450-c.360 BC |
| Timotheus (Athenian statesman, general) |
d.354 BC |
| Timothy, Saint (Turkish-born Christian religious) |
d.97 |
| Timrod, Henry (Am. poet; "the laureate of the Confederacy") |
1828-1867 |
| Timur (Timur Lenk; Tamerlane or Tamburlaine) (Turkic conqueror) |
1336-1405 |
| Tinayre, Marcelle née Chasteau (French novelist) |
1872-1948 |
| Tinbergen, Jan (Dutch economist; brother of Nikolaas) |
1903-1994 |
| Tinbergen, Nikolaas (Dutch ethologist; brother of Jan) |
1907-1988 |
| Tinctoris, Johannes (Belgian composer, music theorist) |
c.1435-1511 |
| Tindal, Matthew (English Deist) |
1657-1733 |
| Tinel, Edgar Pierre Joseph (Belgian pianist, composer) |
1854-1912 |
| Ting, Samuel Chao Chung (American physicist) |
b.1936 |
| Tingley, Katherine Augusta née Westcott (American theosophist) |
1847-1929 |
| Ting Ling (Romanised as Ding Ling) (Chinese writer) |
1904-1986 |
| Tinker, Chauncey Brewster (American educator) |
1876-1963 |
| Tinne, Alexandrine-Pieternella-Francoise (Dutch explorer) |
1835-1869 |
| Tino de Camaino (Sienese sculptor) |
c.1285-1337 |
| Tintoretto (orig. Jacopo Robusti) (Italian painter) |
c.1518-1594 |
| Tiomkin, Dimitri (Russian-born American composer) |
1894-1979 |
| Tipper, Constance Fligg née Elam (English metallurgist) |
1894-1995 |
| Tippett, Keith Graham (English composer, educator, bandleader) |
b.1947 |
| Tippu Tib (aka Muhammed bin Hamid) (Arab trader) |
1837-1905 |
| Tiptoft, John (Earl of Worcester) (English administrator) |
1427?-1470 |
| Tipton, Billy (Dorothy) (American musician) |
1914-1989 |
| Tipu Sultan (or Tippu Sultan) (Sultan of Mysore 1782-1799) |
1749/53-1799 |
| Tiraboschi, Girolamo (Italian scholar) |
1731-1794 |
| Tirard, Pierre-Emmanuel (French politician) |
1827-1893 |
| Tirmidhi, at- (Arab scholar) |
d.c.892 |
| Tirpitz, Alfred von (German naval commander) |
1849-1930 |
| Tirso de Molina (pseud. of Gabriel Tellez) (Spanish dramatist) |
1584-1648 |
| Tiruvalluvar (Indian Tamil poet) |
c.2nd cent. |
| Tiruvalluvar (also Thiruvalluvar) (Tamil poet-saint) |
4th/5th cent. |
| Tischbein, Johann August Friedrich (German painter) |
1750-1812 |
| Tischbein, Johann Heinrich (German painter) |
1722-1789 |
| Tischbein, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (German painter) |
1751-1829 |
| Tischendorf, (Lobegott Friedrich) Konstantin von (Ger. scholar) |
1815-1874 |
| Tiselius, Arne Wilhelm Kaurin (Swedish biochemist) |
1902-1971 |
| Tisi, Benvenuto (aka Benvenuto da Garofalo) (Italian painter) |
1481-1559 |
| Tiso, Josef (or Joseph) (Slovak clergyman, politician) |
1887-1947 |
| Tissandier, Gaston (French aeronaut) |
1843-1899 |
| Tissaphernes (Chithrafarna) (Persian satrap in Asia Minor) |
d.c.395 BC |
| Tisserand, Francois-Felix (French astronomer) |
1845-1896 |
| Tissot, James (orig. Jacques-Joseph) (French painter, engraver) |
1836-1902 |
| Tisza, Kalman (Hungarian politician; prime minister 1875-1890) |
1830-1902 |
| Tisza, Istvan (Hungarian politician; son of Kalman) |
1861-1918 |
| Titchener, Edward Bradford (English-born American psychologist) |
1867-1927 |
| Titchmarsh, Edward Charles (English mathematician) |
1899-1963 |
| Titelouze, Jehan (French organist, composer) |
1562/3-1633 |
| Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian painter) |
1488/90-1576 |
| Titl, Anton Emil (Bohemian composer) |
1809-1882 |
| Tito (orig. Josip Broz) (Yugoslav statesman) |
1892-1980 |
| Titulescu, Nicolae (Romanian diplomat, politician) |
1883-1941 |
| Titus, Saint (Christian religious) |
1st cent. |
| Titus (Titus Flavius Vespasianus) (Roman emperor 79-81) |
AD 39-81 |
| Titus Maccius Plautus (Roman comic dramatist) |
254?-184 BC |
| Tjokroaminoto, Omar Said (Indonesian nationalist) |
1882-1935 |
| Toba II (Go-Toba) (Japanese emperor 1183-1198) |
1180-1239 |
| Toba Sojo (aka Kakuyu; Abbot of Toba) (Japanese painter) |
1053-1140 |
| Tobey, Mark (American painter, teacher) |
1890-1976 |
| Tobin, James (American economist) |
b.1918 |
| Toch, Ernst (Austrian-born American composer) |
1887-1964 |
| Tocqueville, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de (Fr. writer, pol.) |
1805-1859 |
| Todd, Sir Alexander Robertus (British chemist) |
b.1907 |
| Todd, Henry John (English clergyman, editor) |
1763-1845 |
| Todd, John "Jack" (Irish-born Am. computer scientist, teacher) |
1911-2007 |
| Todd, Thomas (American jurist; Supreme Court justice 1807-1826) |
1765-1826 |
| Todt, Fritz (German military engineer) |
1891-1942 |
| Toepler, August Joseph Ignaz (German physicist) |
1836-1912 |
| Toft, Ralph (English potter; brother? of Thomas) |
fl. 1670-1680 |
| Toft, Thomas (English potter) |
fl. 1660-1680 |
| Togliatti, Palmiro (Italian politician) |
1893-1964 |
| Togo Heihachiro (Japanese admiral) |
1846-1934 |
| Togon-temur (Hui Tsung; Shun Ti) (Chinese emperor 1333-1368) |
1320-1370 |
| Tojo Hideki (Japanese general; prime minister 1941-1944) |
1884-1948 |
| Tokiwa Mitsunaga (Japanese painter) |
fl. 1173 |
| Toklas, Alice Babette (American literary figure) |
1877-1967 |
| Tokoku, Kitamura (Japanese intellectual, poet, critic) |
1868-1894 |
| Tokuda Shusei (orig. Tokuda Sueo) (Japanese novelist) |
1871-1943 |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu (orig. Matsudaira Takechiyo) (Japanese shogun) |
1543-1616 |
| Tokutomi Roka (orig. Tetsujiro) (Japanese novelist) |
1868-1927 |
| Tokutomi Soho (orig. Tokutomi Ichiro) (Japanese writer) |
1863-1957 |
| Toland, John (orig. Junius Janus) (Irish Deist) |
1670-1722 |
| Tolbert, William Richard Jr. (Liberian polit.; pres. 1971-80) |
1913-1980 |
| Tolbukhin, Fyodor Ivanovich (Russian general) |
1894-1949 |
| Toledo, Francisco de (Spanish administrator in Peru) |
1515-1582 |
| Toledo, Juan Bautista de (Spanish architect) |
d.1567 |
| Toledo, Pedro de (Spanish general) |
1484-1553 |
| Tolentino de Almeida, Nicolau (Portuguese poet) |
1740-1811 |
| Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (South African-born British writer) |
1892-1973 |
| Tollens, Hendrik Franciscus Caroluszoon (Dutch poet) |
1780-1856 |
| Toller, Ernst (German poet, playwright, political activist) |
1893-1939 |
| Tolliver, Mose (American artist) |
c.1920-2006 |
| Tolman, Edward Chace (American psychologist; bro. of R.C.) |
1886-1959 |
| Tolman, Richard Chace (American physicist) |
1881-1948 |
| Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus (American poet) |
1898-1966 |
| Tolstaya, Tatyana Nikitichna (Russian writer) |
b.1951 |
| Tolstoy, Aleksey Konstantinovich (Russian poet, writer, dram.) |
1817-1875 |
| Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich (Russian writer) |
1882-1945 |
| Tolstoy, Dmitry Andreyevich (Russian official) |
1823-1889 |
| Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich (Russian novelist, moral philosopher) |
1828-1910 |
| Tolstoy, Pyotr Andreyevich (Russian diplomat, politician) |
1645-1729 |
| Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe (It. writer, prince of Lampedusa) |
1896-1957 |
| Tombaugh, Clyde William (American astronomer; disc. Pluto) |
1906-1997 |
| Tombs, Sir Henry (English soldier) |
1824-1874 |
| Tomioka Tessai (Japanese painter) |
1836-1924 |
| Tomkins, Thomas (English organist, composer) |
1572-1656 |
| Tomkis (or Tomkys), Thomas (English dramatist) |
fl. 1604-1615 |
| Tomlin, Bradley Walker (American painter) |
1899-1953 |
| Tomlin, Mary Jean "Lily" (American actor, comedian) |
b.1939 |
| Tomline, Sir George Pretyman (English prelate) |
1750-1827 |
| Tomlinson, Alfred Charles (English poet, critic, translator) |
b.1927 |
| Tomlinson, Ambrose Jessup (American religious leader) |
1865-1943 |
| Tomlinson, Charles (English scientist, educator,encyclopaedist) |
1808-1897 |
| Tomlinson, Henry Major (English journalist, writer) |
1873-1958 |
| Tommaseo, Niccolo (Dalmatian-born Italian writer) |
1802-1874 |
| Tommasini, Vincenzo (Italian composer) |
1878-1950 |
| Tommaso di Giovanni di Simone Guidi (aka Masaccio)(It. painter) |
1401-1428 |
| Tomonaga Shin'ichiro (Japanese physicist) |
1906-1979 |
| Tompion, Thomas (English clockmaker, watchmaker) |
1639-1713 |
| Tompkins, Daniel D. (American politician; vice-pres. 1817-25) |
1774-1825 |
| Tompkins, Peter (American journalist, spy, writer) |
1919-2007 |
| Tompkins, Sally Louisa "Captain Sally" (Am. hospital admin.) |
1833-1916 |
| Tompson, Benjamin (Native American Puritan poet, teacher) |
1642-1714 |
| Tone, Theobald Wolfe (Irish republican, rebel) |
1763-1798 |
| Tonegawa Susumu (Japanese-born American biologist) |
b.1939 |
| Tonino Della Colli (Italian cinematographer) |
1923-2005 |
| Tonisson, Jaan (Estonian lawyer, newspaper editor, politician) |
1868-1941? |
| Tonnies, Ferdinand Julius (German sociologist) |
1855-1936 |
| Tonson, Jacob (English bookseller, publisher) |
1656-1736 |
| Tonti (or Tonty), Henry de (French colonist in America) |
1650-1704 |
| Tonti, Lorenzo (Italian-born French banker; father of Henry) |
17th cent. |
| Toofa, Leon Teamo "Fafa" (Tahitian master canoe builder) |
1938-2005 |
| Tooke, (John) Horne (English political radical, philologist) |
1736-1812 |
| Toole, John Kennedy (American novelist) |
1937-1969 |
| Toombs, Robert Augustus (American politician) |
1810-1885 |
| Toomer, Jean (b. Nathan Eugene Toomer) (American poet, writer) |
1894-1967 |
| Toorop, Johannes Theodoor "Jan" (Java-born Dutch painter) |
1858-1928 |
| Topelius, Zacharias (Finnish writer, educator) |
1818-1898 |
| Topete y Carballo, Juan Bautista (Spanish admiral, politician) |
1821-1885 |
| Topffer, Rodolphe (Swiss artist, writer) |
1799-1846 |
| Toplady, Augustus Montague (English clergyman; "Rock of Ages") |
1740-1778 |
| Torelli, Giacomo (Italian stage designer, engineer) |
1608-1678 |
| Torelli, Giuseppe (Italian violinist, composer) |
1658-1709 |
| Torelli, Salinguerra (Italian ruler of Ferrara) |
c.1160-c.1244 |
| Torga, Miguel (pseud. of Adolfo Correia da Rocha) (Port. poet) |
1907-1995 |
| Torii Kiyonobu (surname also Shobei) (Japanese painter) |
1664-1729 |
| Torn, David (American musician) |
b.1953 |
| Tornebohm, Alfred Elis (Swedish geologist) |
1838-1911 |
| Torquemada, Juan de (Spanish Dominican monk, prelate) |
1388-1468 |
| Torquemada, Juan de (Spanish Franciscan monk, historian) |
c.1563-1624 |
| Torquemada, Tomas de (Spanish Dominican grand inquisitor) |
1420-1498 |
| Torquet, Eugene (pseud. John-Antoine Nau) (Am.-born Fr. writer) |
1873-1918 |
| Torrence, Frederic Ridgely (American author, editor) |
1875-1950 |
| Torrens, Sir Robert (English soldier, economist) |
1780-1864 |
| Torrens, Sir Robert Richard (English-born Australian polit.) |
1814-1884 |
| Torrente Ballester, Gonzalo (Spanish writer, critic, essayist) |
b.1910 |
| Torres, Luis Vaez de (Spanish navigator) |
fl. 1606 |
| Torres Bodet, Jaime (Mex. poet, writer, educator, politician) |
1902-1974 |
| Torres Naharro, Bartolome de (Spanish dramatist, theorist) |
1484?-1525? |
| Torres Villarroel, Diego de (Spanish mathematician, writer) |
c.1693-1770 |
| Torrey, Charles Cutler (American Semitic scholar) |
1863-1956 |
| Torrey, John (American botanist, chemist) |
1796-1873 |
| Torricelli, Evangelista (Italian mathematician, physicist) |
1608-1647 |
| Torrigiano, Pietro (Florentine sculptor) |
1472-1522 |
| Torrijos Herrera, Omar (Panamanian general, politician) |
1929-1981 |
| Torroja Miret, Eduardo (Spanish architect, engineer) |
1899-1961 |
| Torstenson, Lennart (Count of Ortala ) (Swedish soldier) |
1603-1651 |
| Torsvan, Berwick Traven (pseud. B. Traven) (Am.-born Ger. nov.) |
1890-1969 |
| Torvalds, Linus Benedict (Finnish software engineer; dev.Linux) |
b.1969 |
| Tory, Geoffroy (French printer, typographer) |
c.1480-c.1533 |
| Tosa Mitsunobu (Japanese painter; founder of Tosa school) |
1434-1525 |
| Toscanelli dal Pozzo, Paolo (Italian physician, cosmographer) |
1397-1482 |
| Toscanini, Arturo (Italian conductor) |
1867-1957 |
| Toshusai Sharaku (orig. Saito Jurobei) (Japanese painter) |
fl. 1795 |
| Tostig (Earl of Northumbria) (Anglo-Saxon ruler) |
d.1066 |
| Totila (aka Baduila) (King of the Ostrogoths in Italy 541-552) |
d.552 |
| Tottel, Richard (English printer) |
c.1525-1594 |
| Toulet, Paul-Jean (French writer) |
1867-1920 |
| Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, Henri-Marie-Raymond de (French painter) |
1864-1901 |
| Tourette, Georges Gilles de la (French physician) |
1857-1904 |
| Tourette, Jack (Swiss-born American orator, critic) |
b.1943 |
| Tourjee, Eben (American musician) |
1834-1891 |
| Tournachon, Gaspard-Felix (pseud. Nadar) (Fr. writer, photo.) |
1820-1910 |
| Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de (French botanist, physician) |
1656-1708 |
| Tournemire, Charles-Arnould (French organist, composer) |
1870-1939 |
| Tourneur, Cyril (English dramatist) |
c.1575-1626 |
| Tournier, Michel (French writer, essayist) |
b.1924 |
| Tournon, Charles Thomas Maillard de (Italian clergyman) |
1668-1710 |
| Tourte, Francois-Xavier (French violin bow manufacturer) |
1747-1835 |
| Tourville, Anne-Hilarion de Cotentin de (French naval officer) |
1642-1701 |
| Tousard, Anne-Louis de (French army officer) |
1749-1817 |
| Toussaint-Louverture (Haitian general, liberator) |
c.1743-1803 |
| Tout, Thomas Frederick (English historian) |
1855-1929 |
| Toutin, Jean (French painter) |
1578-1644 |
| Tovey, Sir Donald Francis (English composer, writer on music) |
1875-1940 |
| Towers, John Henry (American naval officer) |
1885-1955 |
| Town, Ithiel (American architect) |
1784-1844 |
| Townes, Charles Hard (American physicist; invented Maser) |
b.1915 |
| Townsend, Christopher (American cabinetmaker; brother of Job) |
1701-1773 |
| Townsend, Edmund (American cabinetmaker; son of Job) |
1736-1811 |
| Townsend, Francis Everett (American physician) |
1867-1960 |
| Townsend, James (American cabinetmaker; son of Job) |
d.1827 |
| Townsend, Job (American cabinetmaker) |
1699-1765 |
| Townsend, Job Edward Jr. (American cabinetmaker; son of Job) |
1726-1818 |
| Townsend, John (American cabinetmaker; son of Christopher) |
1732-1804 |
| Townsend, Sir John Sealy Edward (Irish physicist) |
1868-1957 |
| Townsend, Jonathan (American cabinetmaker; son of Christopher) |
1745-1772 |
| Townsend, Meredith White (English journalist) |
1831-1911 |
| Townsend, Robert M. (American cabinetmaker; son of Job) |
d.1805 |
| Townsend, Thomas (American carpenter, innkeeper; son of Job) |
1742-1822 |
| Townshend, Charles (English statesman) |
1674-1738 |
| Townshend, Charles (English statesman; grandson of Charles) |
1725-1767 |
| Townshend, George (English soldier; grandson of Charles) |
1724-1807 |
| Toynbee, Arnold (English sociologist, economist) |
1852-1883 |
| Toynbee, Arnold Joseph (English historian; nephew of Arnold) |
1889-1975 |
| Toynbee, Paget (English philologist; brother of Arnold) |
1855-1932 |
| Toynbee, Theodore Philip (English writer, editor) |
1916-1981 |
| Toyotomi Hidetsugu (Japanese warrior; nephew of Hideyoshi) |
1568-1595 |
| Toyotomi Hideyori (Japanese ruler; son of Hideyoshi) |
1593-1615 |
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Japanese warrior, statesman) |
1537-1598 |
| Tozzer, Alfred Marston (American anthropologist) |
1877-1954 |
| Tozzi, Federigo (Italian writer) |
1883-1920 |
| Traba, Marta (Argentinean writer, art critic) |
1930-1983 |
| Tracy, Alexandre de Prouville de (French soldier) |
1603-1670 |
| Tracy, Spencer (American actor) |
1900-1967 |
| Tradescant, John (English naturalist) |
1570/5-1638 |
| Tradescant, John (English naturalist; son of John) |
1608-1662 |
| Traetta, Tommaso Michele Francesci Saverio (Italian composer) |
1727-1779 |
| Traherne, Thomas (English poet, religious writer) |
1637-1674 |
| Traill, Catherine Parr née Strickland (Eng.-born Can. writer) |
1802-1899 |
| Traill, Thomas Stewart (Scottish physician) |
1781-1862 |
| Train, George Francis (American merchant, eccentric, traveler) |
1829-1904 |
| Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus; Germanicus) (Roman emp. 98-117) |
AD 53-117 |
| Trakl, Georg (Austrian poet, pharmacist) |
1887-1914 |
| Tran Hung Dao (orig. Tran Quoc Tuan) (Vietnamese general) |
d.1300 |
| Tranquilli, Secondo (pseud. Ignazio Silone)(It. writer, polit.) |
1900-1978 |
| Transtromer, Tomas (Swedish poet, psychologist) |
b.1931 |
| Traube, Isidor (German physical chemist) |
1860-1943 |
| Traube, Ludwig (German clinician, pathologist; bro. of Moritz) |
1818-1876 |
| Traube, Moritz (German wine merchant, physiological chemist) |
1826-1894 |
| Traubel, Helen (American operatic soprano) |
1903-1972 |
| Traubel, Horace Logo (American author) |
1858-1919 |
| Traun, Otto Ferdinand (Austrian soldier) |
1677-1748 |
| Trauttmansdorff, Maximilian von (Austrian diplomat, statesman) |
1584-1650 |
| Traven, B. (pen name of Ret Marut) (Ger. revolutionary, writer) |
1890?-1969 |
| Travers, Ben (English playwright) |
1886-1980 |
| Travers, Morris William (English chemist) |
1872-1961 |
| Travers, Pamela Lyndon (Australian writer; cr. Mary Poppins) |
b.1906 |
| Travies de Villers, Charles Joseph (Fr. painter, caricaturist) |
1804-1859 |
| Travis, William Barret (American lawyer, soldier) |
1809-1836 |
| Trebonius, Gaius (Roman general) |
d.43 BC |
| Trediakovsky, Vasily Kirillovich (Rus. poet, lit. theoretician) |
1703-1769 |
| Tree, Sir Herbert Draper Beerbohm (English actor-manager) |
1853-1917 |
| Treece, Henry William (English writer, poet) |
1912-1966 |
| Treich-Laplene, Marcel (French explorer) |
1860-1890 |
| Treilhard, Jean-Baptiste (French politician) |
1742-1810 |
| Treitschke, Heinrich von (German historian, publicist) |
1834-1896 |
| Trelawny, Edward (English colonial admin.; son of Sir Jonathan) |
1699-1754 |
| Trelawny, Edward John (English writer, adventurer) |
1792-1881 |
| Trelawny, Sir Jonathan (English prelate) |
1650-1721 |
| Tremain, Rose (British writer) |
b.1943 |
| Tremblay, Francois-Joseph le Clerc du (French religious) |
1577-1638 |
| Tremblay, Michel (Canadian playwright, writer) |
b.1942 |
| Trembley, Abraham (Swiss naturalist, experimental zoologist) |
1700-1784 |
| Trench, Richard Chenevix (Irish Anglican archbishop of Dublin) |
1807-1886 |
| Trenchard, Hugh Montague (English airman) |
1873-1956 |
| Trendelenburg, Friedrich Adolf (German philosopher) |
1802-1872 |
| Trepov, Aleksandr Fyodorovich (Russian prime min.; son of F.) |
1862-1928 |
| Trepov, Dmitry Fyodorovich (Russian police official; son of F.) |
1855-1906 |
| Trepov, Fyodor Fyodorovich (Russian police official) |
1803-1889 |
| Tresaguet, Pierre-Marie-Jerome (French engineer) |
1716-1796 |
| Tresham, Francis (English conspirator) |
1567?-1605 |
| Treub, Melchior (Dutch botanist) |
1851-1910 |
| Trevellick, Richard F. (English-born American labor leader) |
1830-1895 |
| Trevelyan, George Macaulay (English historian; son of George) |
1876-1962 |
| Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (English politician, historian) |
1838-1928 |
| Treviranus, Gottfried Reinhold (Ger. naturalist; bro. of L.C.) |
1776-1837 |
| Treviranus, Ludolph Christian (German physician, botanist) |
1779-1864 |
| Trevisa, John (English translator) |
d.1402 |
| Trevithick, Richard (English engineer, inventor) |
1771-1833 |
| Trevor, William (pen name of William Trevor Cox)(Irish writer) |
b.1928 |
| Trevor-Ropr, Hugh Redwald (English historian) |
b.1914 |
| Tribonian (Latin: Tribonianus) (Byzantine jurist) |
d.545 |
| Triclinius, Demetrius (Demetrio Triclinio) (Byzantine scholar) |
14th cent. |
| Trifonov, Yury Valentinovich (Russian writer) |
1925-1981 |
| Trigo, Filipe (Spanish novelist) |
1864-1916 |
| Trikoupis, Kharilaos (Greek politician) |
1832-1896 |
| Trilling, Lionel (American literary critic, teacher) |
1905-1975 |
| Trimble, Robert (American jurist) |
1777-1828 |
| Trindade Coelho, Jose Francisco (Portuguese writer, magistrate) |
1861-1908 |
| Triolet, Elsa (Russian-born Fr. writer; wife of Louis Aragon) |
1896-1970 |
| Tripp, Clarence Arthur (American writer, psychologist) |
1919-2003 |
| Trippe, Juan (American businessman; fnd. Pan American Airways) |
1899-1981 |
| Trissino, Gian Giorgio (Italian literary theorist, philologist) |
1478-1550 |
| Trist, Nicholas Philip (American diplomat) |
1800-1874 |
| Tristano, Leonard Joseph "Lennie" (American musician, teacher) |
1919-1978 |
| Trivet (or Trevet), Nicholas (English chronicler) |
1258?-1328? |
| Troelstra, Pieter Jelles (Dutch politician) |
1860-1930 |
| Troeltsch, Ernst (German scholar) |
1865-1923 |
| Trogus, Pompeius (Roman historian) |
1st cent. BC |
| Troland, Leonard Thompson (American psychologist, physicist) |
1889-1932 |
| Trolle, Gustav Eriksson (Swedish prelate) |
1488-1535 |
| Trollope, Anthony (English novelist, post office official) |
1815-1882 |
| Trollope, Frances née Milton (Eng. novelist; mother of Anthony) |
1780-1863 |
| Trollope, Thomas Adolphus (English writer, essayist) |
1810-1892 |
| Tromp, Cornelis Maartenszoon (Dutch admiral; son of Maarten) |
1629-1691 |
| Tromp, Maarten Harpertszoon (Dutch admiral) |
1598-1653 |
| Trotsky, Leon (Lev Davidovich Bronstein)(Rus. Communist leader) |
1879-1940 |
| Trotter, Wilfred Batten Lewis (English surgeon, sociologist) |
1872-1939 |
| Trout, Kilgore (Bermuda-born American writer) |
1907-1981 |
| Trowbridge, John (American physicist) |
1843-1923 |
| Trowbridge, John Townsend (pseud. Paul Creyton) (Am. writer) |
1827-1916 |
| Troy, Jean-Francois de (also spelled Detroy) (French painter) |
1679-1752 |
| Troyat, Henri (b.Lev Tarassov) (Russian-born French writer) |
b.1911 |
| Troyon, Constant (French painter; member of Barbizon group) |
1810-1865 |
| Trudeau, Garretson Beekman "Garry" (American cartoonist) |
b.1948 |
| Trudeau, Pierre Elliott (Canadian prime min. 1968-79, 1980-84) |
b.1919 |
| Trudell, John (Santee Sioux activist, poet, musician) |
b.1946 |
| Trueba y la Quintana, Antonio de (Spanish poet, novelist) |
1819-1889 |
| Truffaut, Francois (French movie director) |
1932-1984 |
| Truinet, Charles-Louis-Etienne (pseud. Nuitter) (French writer) |
1828-1899 |
| Trujillo, Julian (Colombian politician; president 1878-1880) |
1829-1884 |
| Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas (Dominican general, polit.) |
1891-1961 |
| Truman, Harry S (33rd U.S. president, 1945-1953) |
1884-1972 |
| Trumbic, Ante (Croatian politician) |
1864-1938 |
| Trumbo, Dalton (American screenwriter, writer) |
1905-1976 |
| Trumbull, Benjamin (American Congregational clergyman, hist.) |
1735-1820 |
| Trumbull, John (American lawyer, poet; cousin of Jonathan) |
1750-1831 |
| Trumbull, John (American painter; son of Jonathan) |
1756-1843 |
| Trumbull, Jonathan (Am. merchant, politician; father of John) |
1710-1785 |
| Trumbull, Jonathan (Am. soldier, politician; son of Jonathan) |
1740-1809 |
| Trumbull, Joseph (American businessman; son of Jonathan) |
1737-1778 |
| Trumpler, Robert Julius (Swiss-born American astronomer) |
1886-1956 |
| Trung Nhi (Vietnamese nationalist; sister of Trung Trac) |
d.43 AD |
| Trung Trac (Vietnamese nationalist; sister of Trung Nhi) |
d.43 AD |
| Trunk, Yehiel Yeshaia (or Jehiel Isaiah) (Polish writer) |
1887-1961 |
| Truong Vinh Ky (aka Petrus Ky) (Vietnamese scholar) |
1837-1898 |
| Truscott, Dorothy Hayden née Johnson (Am. bridge player,writer) |
1925-2006 |
| Truth, Sojourner (Isabella Van Wagener) (American evangelist) |
c.1797-1883 |
| Truxtun, Thomas (American naval officer) |
1755-1822 |
| Tryon, William (British colonial administrator in America) |
1729-1788 |
| Tsai-ch'un (reign title T'ung-chih) (Chinese emperor 1862-1875) |
1856-1875 |
| Ts'ai Hsiang (Chinese horticulturist) |
11th cent. |
| Ts'ai Lun (Chinese eunuch; invented paper AD 105) |
AD 50?-118? |
| Tsai-t'ien (reign title Kuang-hsu) (Chinese emperor 1875-1908) |
1871-1908 |
| Ts'ai Yuan-pei (Chinese educator, revolutionary) |
1863-1940 |
| Tsankov, Aleksandur (Bulgarian politician; premier 1923-1926) |
1879-1959 |
| Ts'ao Chan (also Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in) (Chinese novelist) |
1715?-1763 |
| Ts'ao Chih (Chinese lyric poet, writer; son of Ts'ao Ts'ao) |
192-232 |
| Ts'ao K'un (Chinese soldier, statesman) |
1862-1938 |
| Ts'ao P'ei (Chinese emperor 220-227; son of Ts'ao Ts'ao) |
188-227 |
| Ts'ao Ts'ao (Chinese general) |
155-220 |
| Tschermak von Seysenegg, Erich (Austrian botanist; son of Gus.) |
1871-1962 |
| Tschermak von Seysenegg, Gustav (Austrian mineralogist) |
1836-1927 |
| Tscherning, Anton Frederik (Danish politician) |
1795-1874 |
| Tschirky, Oscar Michel (Swiss-born American maitre d'hotel) |
1866-1950 |
| Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried Walter von (German math., physicist) |
1651-1708 |
| Tschudi, Aegidus (or Gilg) (Swiss historian) |
1505-1572 |
| Tsederbaum, Yuly Osipovich (pseud. L. Martov) (Russian rev.) |
1873-1923 |
| Tsegaye, Gabre-Medhin (Ethiopian playwright, poet) |
b.1936 |
| Tseng Kuo-fan (Wen-cheng) (Chinese soldier, administrator) |
1811-1872 |
| Tseng-tzu (aka Tseng Ts'an) (Chinese philosopher) |
505-c.436 BC |
| Tserclaes, Johann (Graf von Tilly) (Flemish general) |
1559-1632 |
| Tshombe, Moise-Kapenda (Congolese politician) |
1919-1969 |
| Tshwete, Stephen Vukile (South African anti-apartheid activist) |
1938-2002 |
| Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich (Russian scientist) |
1857-1935 |
| Tsiranana, Philibert (Malagasy politician; president 1960-1972) |
1910-1978 |
| Tso-ch'iu Ming (Chinese author) |
4th/5th cent. BC |
| Tsong-kha-pa (Tibetan lama; founded Yellow Hat Buddhist sect) |
1357-1419 |
| Tso Tsung't'ang (Chinese general, official) |
1812-1885 |
| Tsou Yen (Chinese philosopher) |
340-260? BC |
| Tsubouchi Shoyo (orig. Tsubouchi Yuzo) (Japanese writer) |
1859-1935 |
| Tsuruya Namboku IV (b. Ebiya Genzo) (Japanese playwright) |
1755-1829 |
| Tsushima Shuji (pseud. Dazai Osamu) (Japanese writer) |
1909-1948 |
| Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna (Russian poet, playwright, writer) |
1892-1941 |
| Tsvett, Mikhail Semyonovich (Russian botanist) |
1872-1919 |
| Tuan Ch'i-jui (Chinese soldier, politician) |
1865-1936 |
| Tubieres-Grimoard, Anne-Claude-Philippe (French archaeologist) |
1692-1765 |
| Tubman, Harriet Ross (Araminta Greene) (American abolitionist) |
c.1820-1913 |
| Tubman, William Vacanarat Shadrach (Liberian politician) |
1895-1971 |
| Tuchman, Barbara née Wertheim (American historian) |
1912-1989 |
| Tucholsky, Kurt (German essayist, poet, critic, journalist) |
1890-1935 |
| Tucker, Abraham (English moralist) |
1705-1774 |
| Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson (American anarchist, journalist) |
1854-1939 |
| Tucker, Charlotte Maria (pseud. A.L.O.E.) (English writer) |
1821-1893 |
| Tucker, Josiah (English economist) |
1712-1799 |
| Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly (American novelist) |
1784-1851 |
| Tucker, Richard (orig. Reuben Ticker) (American singer) |
1913-1975 |
| Tucker, Samuel (American naval officer) |
1747-1833 |
| Tucker, Sophie (orig. Sophie Abuza) (Russian-born Am. singer) |
1884-1966 |
| Tuckerman, Joseph (American Unitarian clergyman) |
1778-1840 |
| Tuckey, James Kingston (British naval officer, explorer) |
1776-1816 |
| Tudor, Antony (British-born Am. ballet dancer, choreographer) |
1908/9-1987 |
| Tudor, William (American author, editor) |
1779-1830 |
| Tu Duc (orig. Nguyen Phuoc Hoang Nham) (Emperor of Annam) |
1829-1883 |
| Tufts, Charles (American farmer, brick manufacturer) |
1781-1876 |
| Tufts, John (American Congregational clergyman) |
1689-1752 |
| Tu Fu (Chinese poet, gentleman farmer, traveler) |
712-770 |
| Tugwell, Rexford Guy (American economist) |
1891-1979 |
| Tukaram (Marathi poet, ascetic) |
1607-1649 |
| Tuke, Sir Samuel (English Royalist, playwright) |
c.1620-1674 |
| Tukey, John Wilder (Am. statistician; coined "bit", "software") |
1915-2000 |
| Tukhachevsky, Mikhail Nikolayevich (Rus. general, politician) |
1893-1937 |
| Tukulti-Ninurta I (Assyrian king c.1294-c.1208) |
d.c.1208 BC |
| Tukulti-Ninurta II (Assyrian king 890-884) |
d.884 BC |
| Tulasne, Louis-Rene (French botanist; fdr. of modern mycology) |
1815-1885 |
| Tull, Jethro (English agriculturist, inventor) |
1674-1741 |
| Tulloch, John (Scottish theologian) |
1823-1886 |
| Tully, Jim (American writer) |
1891-1947 |
| Tulp, Nicolaes (or Claes Pieterszoon) (Dutch anatomist) |
1593-1674 |
| Tulsidas (Hindu poet, writer) |
1543?-1623 |
| Tumulty, Joseph Patrick (American lawyer) |
1879-1954 |
| Tung Ch'i-ch'ang (Chinese painter, calligrapher, theoretician) |
1555-1636 |
| Tung Cho (Chinese general) |
d.192 |
| Tung Chung-shu (Chinese scholar) |
c.179-c.104 BC |
| Tun Perak (Malaccan politician) |
d.1498 |
| Tunstall (or Tonstall), Cuthbert (English prelate, scholar) |
1474-1559 |
| Tupac Amaru (Inca chieftain) |
d.1572 |
| Tupac Amaru (Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui) (Peruvian Indian rev.) |
1742?-1781 |
| Tupac Yupanqui (Inca ruler 1471-1493; father of Huayna Capac) |
d.1493 |
| Tupolev, Andrey Nikolayevich (Russian aeronautical engineer) |
1888-1972 |
| Tupper, Benjamin (American soldier, pioneer) |
1738-1792 |
| Tupper, Sir Charles (Canadian politician; prime minister 1896) |
1821-1915 |
| Tupper, Sir Charles Hibbert (Canadian lawyer, politician) |
1855-1927 |
| Tupper, Martin Farquhar (English writer) |
1810-1889 |
| Tura, Cosme (Italian painter; founder Ferrarese school) |
c.1430-1495 |
| Turati, Filippo (Italian Socialist leader) |
1857-1932 |
| Turberville (or Turbervile), George (English poet) |
1540?-1597? |
| Turenne, Vicomte de (Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne) (Fr. marshal) |
1611-1675 |
| Turgenev, Aleksandr Ivanovich (Russian historian) |
1784?-1846 |
| Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich (Russian writer, poet, playwright) |
1818-1883 |
| Turgenev, Nikolay Ivanovich (Russian gov. official, economist) |
1789-1871 |
| Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques (French administrator, economist) |
1727-1781 |
| Turina, Joaquin (Spanish composer) |
1882-1949 |
| Turing, Alan Mathison (English mathematician, logician) |
1912-1954 |
| Turmair, Johannes (aka Aventinus) (German Humanist, historian) |
1477-1534 |
| Turnbull, Herbert Westren (English mathematician) |
1885-1961 |
| Turnebe, Odet de (French playwright,poet) |
1553-1581 |
| Turner, Charles Yardley (American painter) |
1850-1918 |
| Turner, Ethel Sibyl (Mrs. Herbert Curlewis)(Australian writer) |
1872-1958 |
| Turner, Francis (English prelate) |
1638?-1700 |
| Turner, Frederick Jackson (American historian) |
1861-1932 |
| Turner, Herbert Hall (English astronomer) |
1861-1930 |
| Turner, Joseph Mallord William (English painter) |
1775-1851 |
| Turner, Nat (American slave leader, insurrectionist) |
1800-1831 |
| Turner, Ralph Edmund (American historian) |
1893-1964 |
| Turner, William (English clergyman, physician, botanist) |
1510-1568 |
| Turow, Scott (American writer, attorney) |
b.1949 |
| Turpin (or Tilpin) (French ecclesiastic) |
d.794 |
| Turpin, Richard "Dick" (English robber, smuggler) |
1706-1739 |
| Turturro, John (American actor) |
b.1957 |
| Tusi, Nasir ad-Din at- (Persian philosopher, scientist, math.) |
1201-1274 |
| Tussaud, Marie née Grosholtz (Madame Tussaud) (Swiss sculptor) |
1760-1850 |
| Tusser, Thomas (English versifier on agriculture) |
1524-1580 |
| Tutankhamen (king of Egypt 1361-1352 BC) |
c.1370-1352 BC |
| Tutu, Desmond Mpilo (South African clergyman, polit. activist) |
b.1931 |
| Tutuola, Amos (Nigerian writer) |
b.1920 |
| Tuwhare, Honi (New Zealand Maori poet, playwright, writer) |
b.1922 |
| Tutwiler, Julia Strudwick (American educator, prison reformer) |
1841-1916 |
| Tuve, Merle Antony (American physicist) |
1901-1982 |
| Tuwim, Julian (Polish poet) |
1894-1953 |
| Tvardovsky, Aleksandr Trifonovich (Russian poet, editor) |
1910-1971 |
| Tvrtko I (surnamed Kotromanic) (King of the Serbs and Bosnia) |
c.1338-1391 |
| Twachtman, John Henry (American painter) |
1853-1902 |
| Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (American writer) |
1835-1910 |
| Twardowski of Skrzpna, Samuel (Polish poet, diarist, essayist) |
c.1600-1661 |
| Tweed, William Marcy "Boss Tweed" (American politician) |
1823-1878 |
| Twenhofel, William Henry (American geologist) |
1875-1957 |
| Twichell, Joseph Hopkins (American Congregational clergyman) |
1838-1918 |
| Tworkov, Jack (Polish-born American painter) |
1900-1982 |
| Twort, Frederick William (English bacteriologist) |
1877-1950 |
| Twysden, Sir Roger (English political writer) |
1597-1672 |
| Tyard, Pontus de (French poet, theorist; member of La Pleiade) |
c.1522-1605 |
| Tye, Christopher (English composer) |
c.1500-c.1573 |
| Tyler, Anne (American writer) |
b.1941 |
| Tyler, Bennet (American theologian) |
1783-1858 |
| Tyler, John (American jurist; father of John) |
1747-1813 |
| Tyler, John (10th U.S. president, 1841-1845) |
1790-1862 |
| Tyler, Lyon Gardiner (Am. educator; son of Pres. John Tyler) |
1853-1935 |
| Tyler, Moses Coit (American literary historian, reformer) |
1835-1900 |
| Tyler, Royall (American jurist, dramatist; Colon and Spondee) |
1757-1826 |
| Tyler, Walter "Wat" (English leader of Peasant's Revolt 1381) |
d.1381 |
| Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett (English anthropologist) |
1832-1917 |
| Tynan, Katharine (later Katherine Hinkson) (Irish poet, nov.) |
1861-1931 |
| Tynan, Kenneth Peacock (English drama critic) |
1927-1980 |
| Tynyanov, Yury Nikolayevich (Russian literary critic, writer) |
1894-1943 |
| Tyndale, William (Eng. translator of New Testament, Pentateuch) |
c.1494-1536 |
| Tyndall, John (Irish physicist, popularizer of science) |
1820-1893 |
| Tyner, McCoy (American pianist) |
b.1938 |
| Tyrrell, George (Irish theologian) |
1861-1909 |
| Tyrrell, Sir James (English soldier, royal official) |
d.1502 |
| Tyrtaeus (Greek elegiac poet of Sparta) |
fl. c.650 BC |
| Tyrwhitt, Thomas (English scholar) |
1730-1786 |
| Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Sir Gerald Hugh (English composer, painter) |
1883-1950 |
| Tyson, Charles Wesley "Wes" (Am. chem. eng.; one/Four Horsemen) |
1905-1977 |
| Tyson, Edward (English physician) |
1650-1708 |
| Tytler, Alexander Frase (Scottish historian, writer) |
1747-1813 |
| Tytler, James (Scottish writer, editor, balloonist, eccentric) |
c.1747-1804 |
| Tytler, Patrick Fraser (Scottish historian) |
1791-1849 |
| Tyutchev, Fyodor Ivanovich (Russian poet, diplomat) |
1803-1873 |
| Tzara, Tristan (Romanian-born French poet, essayist, Dadaist) |
1896-1963 |
| Tzetzes, John (Byzantine poet, scholar) |
c.1110-c.1180 |
| Tz'u-hsi (aka Hsiao-ch'in) (Chinese empress dowager) |
1835-1908 |
| Tzu Ssu (Chinese philosopher; grandson of Confucius) |
483-402 BC |