Ted Williams (1918 - 2002)

Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career as a left fielder for the Boston Red Sox from 1939–1942 and 1946–1960. Nicknamed “The Kid”, “The Splendid Splinter”, “Teddy Ballgame”, “The Thumper” and “The Greatest Hitter […]

Teddy Burns Goulet (1970 - 1970)

French-Canadian actor. Appeared in the films, “The Awakening” (1970), “Big Red” (1962), “Vote For Michalski” (1961), “Les 90 Jours” (1959), Les Mains Nettes” (1958) and “Whispering City” (1947). (bio by: K)

Teddy Pendergrass (1950 - 2010)

Teddy Pendergrass Teddy Pendergrass, the Philadelphia soul singer whose husky, potent baritone was one definition of R&B seduction in the 1970s but whose career was transformed in 1982 when he was severely paralyzed in an auto accident, died on Wednesday night in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 59. His death was confirmed by his publicist, […]

Teddy Sampson (1898 - 1970)

American motion picture actress of the silent era (1910s-1920s). Appeared with legendary comic Stan Laurel in the 1918 comedy “Hickory Hiram.” Married to famed comic actor Ford Sterling. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Spouse:  Ford Sterling (1882 – 1939)* *Calculated relationshipCause of death: Cancer

Teddy Wilburn (1931 - 2003)

Teddy Wilburn Country Musiician. With brother Doyle, he made up one of the most succesful brother duos in country music history. They began their careers as children, along with older brothers Lester and Leslie and sister Geraldine, singing on street corners. The Wilburn Family was discovered in 1940 by Roy Acuff who brought them to […]

Teddy Wilson (1912 - 1986)

Teddy Wilson Mr. Wilson spent much of his career as a soloist or leader of his own small combos, but rose to prominence during a four-year stint with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. ”What I got out of playing with Teddy was something, in a jazz way, like what I got from playing Mozart in a […]

Teena Marie (1956 - 2010)

Teena Marie Teena Marie was an American singer-songwriter nicknamed Lady Tee, considered an R&B legend who proclaimed herself as the “Ivory Queen of Soul” because she was one of the first successful white performers of that genre of music. She had many classic hits including a duet with her mentor Rick James called “Fire and […]

Teiji Takagi (1875 - 1960)

Mathematician. His most important contribution came in 1920 when he introduced the Takagi class-field theory. It subsequently became the framework of algebraic number theory. The German mathematician Hasse included Takagi’s theory in his treatise on class field theory a few years later. For his career work, Takagi received many honors, including from Czechoslovakia, the University […]

Teijirou(Teijiro) Ueda (1970 - 1970)

Scholar of business management. Ueda also served as a president of Tokyo Shoka University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Teijirou(Teijiro) Ueda (1970 - 1970)

Scholar of business management. Ueda also served as a president of Tokyo Shoka University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Telford Taylor (1908 - 1998)

Attorney, Author.  Chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. Born in Schenectady, New York, he graduated from Harvard Law School with his degree in law in 1932.  His inital entrance into the public forum began at the end of World War II when, as a young Army Colonel at Nuremberg,  he helped write the rules for […]

Telly Savalas (1922 - 1994)

Telly Savalas Telly Savalas was born as Aristotelis Savalas on January 21, 1922, in Garden City, New York, to Greek American parents Christina (née Kapsalis), a New York City artist who was a native of Sparta, and Nick Savalas, a Greek restaurant owner. Savalas and his brother Gus sold newspapers and shined shoes to help […]

Temple Lea Houston (1860 - 1905)

Frontier Lawyer. At age 13, having lost both parents, he joined a cattle drive and later worked on a riverboat on the Mississippi River. In 1877 he returned to Texas to attend the Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Texas A&M). He transferred to Baylor University,  where he graduated in 1880 with honors in law and […]

Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)

In the late 1930s, as the young playwright struggled to have his work accepted, Tennessee Williams supported himself with a string of menial jobs that included a notably disastrous stint as caretaker on a chicken ranch in Laguna Beach, California. In 1939, with the help of his agent, Audrey Wood, he was awarded a $1,000 […]

Teodoro Alberto Bourse Herrera (1914 - 1997)

Artist. A painter, sculptor, humorist, his works are exposed in all of Latin America. He also illustrated many books, including the “Diccionario Lunfardo” (1978).

Teófilo Calle (1937 - 2005)

Stage, Screen and Television Actor and Playwright. He was born in Casas Benítez (Cuenca). His career spent 50 years, from his stage debut in 1954. He appeared on stage in “Liliom,” “Hoy es Fiesta,” “Los Pobrecitos” among more than 250 plays. He also appeared in a few films such as “Dragon Rapide” (1986) and “Los […]

Terence Alexander (1923 - 2009)

Alexander was born in London, the son of a doctor, and grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire, and Norwood College, Harrogate, and started acting in the theatre at the age of 16. During World War II he served in the British Army as a lieutenant with the 27th Lancers, and […]

Terence Fisher (1904 - 1980)

Fisher was one of the most prominent horror directors of the second half of the 20th century. He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour, and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day. His first major gothic horror film […]

Terence Rattigan (1911 - 1977)

Terence Rattigan was born in 1911 in South Kensington, London, United Kingdom, of Irish Protestant extraction. He had an elder brother, Brian. They were the grandsons of Sir William Henry Rattigan, a notable India-based jurist, and later a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for North-East Lanarkshire. His father was Frank Rattigan CMG, a diplomat whose […]

Terence Young (1915 - 1994)

Terence Young began his film career as a screenwriter in British films of the 1940s, working, for example, on Brian Desmond Hurst’s On the Night of the Fire (1939), Dangerous Moonlight (1941), and A Letter From Ulster (1942). In 1946, he returned to assist Hurst with the script of Theirs is the Glory, which recaptured […]

Teresa Graves (1948 - 2002)

Actress. She was the star of the television show “Get Christie Love” in the 1970s. She began her career as a singer, later turning to acting. She appeared regularity on “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” in 1969 and 1970. She had supporting roles in “Vampira,” “Black Eye,” and “That Man Bolt.” She eventually gave up her […]

Teresa Lewis (1969 - 2010)

Teresa Wilson grew up in poverty in Danville, Virginia, where her parents both worked in a textile mill. Teresa sang in a church during her youth. At 16, she dropped out of school and married a man she met at that church. The couple had one daughter, Christie Lynn Bean, but the marriage soon ended […]

Teresa Wright (1918 - 2005)

Muriel Teresa Wright was born on October 27, 1918 in Harlem, New York City, the daughter of Martha (née Espy) and Arthur Wright, an insurance agent. Her parents separated when she was young. She grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, where she attended Columbia High School. After seeing Helen Hayes star in Victoria Regina at […]

Terrence Evans (1934 - 2015)

Actor.  He appeared in a number of television programs and movies from 1970 to 2010. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, he appeared first in movies and then went into television roles.   Evans appeared in such movies as “Pale Rider,” “Born in East L.A.” “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”, “Down in the Valley”, “The Texas Chainsaw […]

Terry Becker (1921 - 2014)

American Actor, Director and Producer. Born Solomon Becker, he was best known for his role as Chief Francis Ethelbert Sharkey in the television series, ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’, for three seasons. He made his first TV appearance in 1952’s ‘Danger’ and had roles in ‘Perry Mason’, ‘Bonanza’, ‘Rawhide’, ‘The Asphalt Jungle’, ‘Gunsmoke’, […]

Terry Burnham (1949 - 2013)

Actress. She is remembered best for her outstanding performance as “Markie” opposite Janice Rule in Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare as a Child” which aired during the first season on April 29, 1960. Her earliest TV appearance was in the Climax TV Series “The Day They Gave Babies Away (1955) and her last on […]

Terry Clark (1956 - 2001)

Terry Clark was convicted of kidnapping and raping a six-year-old girl from Roswell, New Mexico in 1986. Pending appeals in that case, he was released on bond. While he was out on bond in that case, nine-year-old Dena Lynn Gore of Artesia, New Mexico was raped and killed on July 17, 1986. Dena’s bound and […]

Terry Glenn (1974 - 2017)

Terry Glenn was drafted in the first round (seventh overall) of the 1996 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots. He signed a six-year, $12 million contract. Glenn recorded 90 receptions for 1,132 yards and six touchdowns in his rookie season. At the time, his 90 receptions were the most ever in a single season […]

Terry Kohler (1934 - 2016)

Terry Kohler was born on May 14, 1934, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. His father was Walter J. Kohler, Jr. (1904–76), a sales executive at the Kohler Company, president of The Vollrath Company, and a three-term Governor of Wisconsin. His mother was Marie Celeste McVoy Kohler (1900-1974), a Chicago socialite who had been married and divorced and […]

Terry McGovern (1880 - 1918)

Terry McGovern A feared puncher called “Terrible Terry, the Brooklyn Terror”, he held the world bantemweight and featherweight crowns at the dawn of the 20th. century. Born Joseph Terrence McGovern, he was raised in Brooklyn and received no formal education. Just when he took-up boxing is unclear but his first recorded professional fight was a […]