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Tab Thacker
Tab Thacker (1962 - 2007)
Talmadge Layne “Tab” Thacker (10 March 1962 – 28 December 2007), was a former NCAA wrestler and actor. While at North Carolina State University Thacker won the NCAA heavyweight wrestling championship in 1984, collecting 4 Atlantic Coast Conference titles along with the Wolfpack. He finished his college career 92-11-1, ranking second in N.C. State history with […]
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Tabu Ley Rochereau
Tabu Ley Rochereau (1937 - 2013)
Pascal-Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabu was born in Bagata, in the then Belgian Congo. His musical career took off in 1956 when he sung with Joseph “Le Grand Kallé” Kabasele, and his band L’African Jazz. After finishing high school he joined the band as a full-time musician. Tabu Ley sang in the pan-African hit Indépendance Cha Cha […]
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Talia Castellano
Talia Castellano (1999 - 2013)
Talia Joy Castellano was born on August 18, 1999, in Orlando, Florida, and grew up in and around central Florida with her mother, Desiree Castellano, and in New York City with her father, Marc Winthrop. She had three siblings: Kaitlyn, Jackson Winthrop and Mattia Castellano. When she was 7 years old, Talia Castellano began experiencing […]
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Tamara Desni
Tamara Desni (1913 - 2008)
Tamara Desni (22 October 1913 – 7 February 2008) was a German-born British actress. Born as Tamara Brodsky, the daughter of actress Xenia Desni, Tamara Desni was born in Berlin. Her mother was born in Keiv, then in the Russian Empire, but emigrated to Germany sometime before the Russian Revolution. She became a star of German […]
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Tamara Toumanova
Tamara Toumanova (1919 - 1996)
After moving to Paris, Toumanova was given piano lessons and studied ballet with Olga Preobrajenska, who she described as her “first and only permanent teacher” and an “immortal friend”. At the age of six, the ballerina Anna Pavlova invited young Toumanova to perform in one of her gala concerts (08.06.1925). Toumanova danced a polka choreographed […]
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Tammi Terrell
Tammi Terrell (1945 - 1970)
Tammi Terrell Tammi Terrell (born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery; April 29, 1945 – March 16, 1970) was an American recording artist, best known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, most notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye. Terrell’s career began as a teenager, first recording for Scepter/Wand Records, before […]
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Tammy Faye Baker
Tammy Faye Baker (1942 - 2007)
Tammy Faye Baker She and Mr. Bakker, an Assemblies of God minister, worked as traveling evangelists in the early years of their marriage. He preached; she sang and played the accordion. They began their television career in the mid-1960s, joining Pat Robertson’s fledgling Christian Broadcasting Network as the original hosts of “The 700 Club.” In […]
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Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette (1942 - 1998)
Tammy Wynette was born Virginia Wynette Pugh in Bounds, Mississippi, a small town in Itawamba County, Mississippi, the only child of William Hollice Pugh (died February 13, 1943) and Mildred Faye Russell Pugh (1922–1991). Wynette’s father was a farmer and local musician who died of a brain tumor when Wynette was nine months of age. […]
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Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette (1942 - 1998)
Tammy Wynette Tammy had many serious physical ailments beginning in the 1970s. She had at least 26 major surgeries during her lifetime. Although some of these problems were often very serious, Wynette was still able to pursue her singing career and regularly toured to promote her work. In October 1970 after giving birth to Georgette, […]
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Taylor Negron
Taylor Negron (1957 - 2015)
Negron was born in Glendale, California, the son of Lucy (née Rosario) and Conrad Negron, Sr. He was born of two parents of Puerto Rican descent. Often Taylor joked that he was of Jewish, Iranian, or other nationalities, but those were loving light-hearted jokes. Negron grew up in La Cañada Flintridge, California, and was an […]
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Ted Bessell
Ted Bessell (1935 - 1996)
Born in Flushing, New York, Bessell grew up in Manhasset on Long Island, New York. He was originally gearing up for a career as a classical musician. As a 12-year-old child prodigy, he performed a piano recital at Carnegie Hall. Bessell played lacrosse in high school with future football star and actor Jim Brown. However, after […]
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Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy (1946 - 1989)
Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell at the Elizabeth Lund Home For Unwed Mothers (now the Lund Family Center) in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946 to Eleanor Louise Cowell (known for most of her life as Louise). His father’s identity has never been determined with certainty. His birth certificate assigns paternity to a salesman […]
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Ted Demme
Ted Demme (1963 - 2002)
Demme was born in New York City, the son of Gail (Kern) and Frederick Rogers Demme. He grew up in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York and attended South Side Senior High School. He graduated from SUNY-Cortland in 1985. His media career likely began with a radio show at WSUC-FM (SUNY-Cortland) in Cortland, New […]
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Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy (1932 - 2009)
Ted Kennedy A member of the prominent Kennedy and Fitzgerald families, he attended Harvard University before being expelled for cheating on an exam. After serving in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953, he was readmitted to Harvard, graduating in 1956. He then studied at The Hague’s International Law School, and received his law […]
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Ted Knight
Ted Knight (1923 - 1986)
Ted Knight Born to a Polish American family in Terryville, Connecticut. Some sources list his real name as Tadeus Wladyslaw Konopka, however, his gravestone reads, Theodore C. Konopka. He dropped out of high school to join the military during World War II. He received five battle stars during his Army service in World War II. […]
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Ted Lewis
Ted Lewis (1893 - 1970)
Ted Lewis World Welterweight Champion in 1915 and 1916 and from 1917 to 1919, Ted “Kid” Lewis was nicknamed the “Aldgate Sphinx.” He fought in six different divisions, at weights from 116 to 166 pounds, during his 20-year career. Ted Lewis became England’s youngest boxing champion in October 1913, when he won the British Featherweight […]
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Ted Oliver
Ted Oliver (1892 - 1957)
Actor. Born Virgil Oliver in Henderson Kentucky, he was veteran in some 90 movies from 1925 to 1943. His films included “Daring Days” (1925), “The Lone Ranger” (1927), “Before Dawn” (1933), “Car 99” (1935), “Klondike Annie” (1936), “Ambush” (1939), “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940) and “Batman” (1943). He died in Los Angeles, California.
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Ted Ross
Ted Ross (1934 - 2002)
Theodore “Ted” Ross Roberts (June 30, 1934 – September 3, 2002) was an American actor who was probably best known for his role as the Lion in The Wiz, an all-African American reinterpretation of The Wizard of Oz. He won a Tony Award for the original 1975 Broadway production, and went on to recreate the […]
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Teddy Pendergrass
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, […]
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Teddy Wilburn
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 […]
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Teddy Wilson
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 […]
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Teena Marie
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 […]
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Telly Savalas
Telly Savalas (1922 - 1994)
The second of five children, 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 […]
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Terence Alexander
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 […]
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Terence Fisher
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 […]
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Terence Rattigan
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 […]
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Teresa Lewis
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 […]
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Teresa Wright
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 […]
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Terry Clark
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 […]
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Terry McGovern
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 […]