Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
Edmond J. Thomas
Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal Communications Commission Born c. 1943. Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Universi...
Clarence Thomas
Born: June 23, 1948 Pin Point, Georgia American Supreme Court justice President George Bush (1924–) named Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Cou...
Pamela Thomas-Graham
Group president for Liz Claiborne Born Pamela Thomas in 1963, in Detroit, MI; married Lawrence Otis Graham (an author and attorney), 1992; children: Gordon Julian Thomas, a set of...
John W. Thompson
Chief Executive Officer of Symantec Born John Wendell Thompson, April 24, 1949, in Fort Dix, NJ; married (divorced); married Sandi Thompson (an attorney), 1998; children: a son ...
Emma Thompson
British actor Emma Thompson (born 1959) has accrued a long and impressive list of film credits to her name, many of them literary adaptations. Early in her career she appeared in S...
Lonnie Thompson
July 1, 1948 • Gassaway, West Virginia Paleoclimatalogist Scientist Lonnie Thompson is an authority on ice. For more than thirty years,...
Henry David Thoreau
Born: July 12, 1817 Concord, Massachusetts Died: May 6, 1862 Concord, Massachusetts American writer Henry David Thore...
Jim Thorpe
Born: May 28, 1888 Bellemonta, Oklahoma Died: March 28, 1953 Lomita, California American football player, baseball player, and Olymp...
James Thurber
Born: December 8, 1894 Columbus, Ohio Died: November 2, 1961 New York, New York American writer and artist James Thur...
Strom Thurmond
Born James Strom Thurmond, December 5, 1902, in Edgefield, SC; died of natural causes, June 26, 2003, in Edgefield, SC. Politician. Former U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond died in June of 2003,...
Elizabeth Tilberis
British journalist Liz Tilberis (1947–1999) had an impressive career as editor-in-chief of British Vogue before arriving at ...
Robert L. Tillman
President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of Lowe's Born c. 1944. Education: University of North Carolina, Wilmington (UNCW), B.S.; two–year J...
Timbaland
Music producer and rap musician Born Timothy Z. Mosley, March 10, 1971; son of Garland (an Amtrak employee) and Latrice (ran a homeless shelter) Mosley. Addresses: ...
Justin Timberlake
January 31, 1981 • Memphis, Tennessee Singer, songwriter In late 2002 Justin Timberlake managed to make the leap that many young stars ...
Marshal Tito
Born: May 25, 1892 Kumrovec, Croatia Died: May 4, 1980 Ljubljana, Yugoslavia Yugoslav politician and president The Yu...
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Arguably Indonesia's best-known writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, also known as Pramoedya or Pram (1925–2006), was the author of novels that chronicled much of that Southeast Asian co...
Iva Toguri
Born July 4, 1916, in Los Angeles, CA; died September 26, 2006, in Chicago, IL. Radio announcer. Iva Toguri was considered one of the infamous voices of "Tokyo Rose" during World War II, a...
J. R. R. Tolkien
Born: January 3, 1892 Bloemfontein, South Africa Died: September 2, 1973 Bournemouth, England English writer, essayist, poet, and ed...
Leo Tolstoy
Born: August 28, 1828 Tula Province, Russia Died: November 9, 1910 Astapovo, Russia Russian novelist The Russian nove...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Born: November 24, 1864 Albi, France Died: September 9, 1901 Malromé, France French painter The French painter Henri ...