Tousuke Fukuzawa (1970 - 1970)

Business magnate. Founded the Daido Electric Power Company. To some, he was known as “The King of Electric Power.” (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Toyohachi Fujita (1970 - 1970)

Oriental history scholar. Fujita served as a liaison between Japanese and Chinese students and authors. The Toyohachi Fujita collection of Japanese and Chinese books are a property of Tokyo’s Bunkyo Library. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Tracy Lamar Coley (1964 - 2002)

Actor. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he was most noted for his role as the blues singer on the TV series “Martin” from 1992 to 1995. His other television credits included “In the House”, “The Wayans Bros.” and “The Jamie Foxx Show.” For feature films, he appeared in “Blood and Concrete” (1991), “Notes in a Minor […]

Tracy Reed (1942 - 2012)

Actress. Born Clare Tracy Compton Pelissier, the daughter of director Anthony Pelissier and actress Penelope Dudley-Ward, she was the granddaughter of actress Fay Compton, her parents divorced while she was a child. After her mother’s remarriage to director Carol Reed, she took her stepfather’s surname and broke into the film industry at the age of […]

Travis Alexander (1977 - 2008)

On June 4, 2008, salesman Travis Victor Alexander (July 28, 1977 – June 4, 2008) was killed by his ex-girlfriend, Jodi Ann Arias (born July 9, 1980), in Alexander’s house in Mesa, Arizona. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder on May 8, 2013 and sentenced to natural life in state prison on April 13, 2015. At […]

Travis Banton (1894 - 1958)

Motion Picture Costume Designer. Designed costumes for a large variety of films from the 1920s to the 1950s. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Parents:  Rentfro B. Banton (1865 – 1949)

Travis Hirschi (1935 - 2017)

Travis Warner Hirschi (April 15, 1935 – January 2, 2017) was an American sociologist and an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Arizona. He helped to develop the modern version of the social control theory of crime and later the self-control theory of crime. Travis Hirschi was born in Rockville, Utah. He attended […]

Trevor Bannister (1934 - 2011)

In 1960 Bannister appeared on stage at the Cambridge Theatre in London in Billy Liar, which starred Albert Finney. He starred as Darkie Pilbeam, a wartime spiv, in the 1968 television series The War of Darkie Pilbeam, and from 1969 to 1970 he appeared as “Heavy Breathing” in Jack Rosenthal’s sitcom, The Dustbinmen. Shortly afterwards, […]

Trevor Goddard (1962 - 2003)

Actor of both film and television. Goddard is best remembered for his role as, ‘Lieutenant Commander Michael ‘Mic’ Brumby’ on the television series, “JAG” from 1998 to 2001. Goddard was born on October 14, 1962, in Croyden, Surrey, England, and was a professional boxer before he got into acting. He was discovered during a light-heavyweight […]

Trevor Howard (1913 - 1988)

Trevor Howard was born in Cliftonville, Kent, England, the son of Mabel Grey (Wallace) and Arthur John Howard. He was educated at Clifton College (to which he left in his will a substantial legacy for a drama scholarship) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), acting on the London stage for several years […]

Trini Guillem (1970 - 2000)

Actress. She was born and died in Valencia (Comunidad Valenciana, Spain). She had a long career on stage, where she became one of the best actresses on the Spanish scene. She is remembered for her role in Tres Forasters de Madrid and for her work in the television series Herència de Sang. She won the […]

Tris Coffin (1909 - 1990)

Tris Coffin was born in the gold and silver mining community of Mammoth in Juab County in central Utah and reared in the state capital of Salt Lake City. He began acting while he was in high school and thereafter joined traveling stock companies. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech from the […]

Tris Speaker (1888 - 1958)

Tristram Edgar Speaker (April 4, 1888 – December 8, 1958), nicknamed “The Grey Eagle”, was an American baseball player. Considered one of the best offensive and defensive center fielders in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB), he compiled a career batting average of .345 (sixth all-time). His 792 career doubles represent an MLB career […]

Tristan Bernard (1866 - 1947)

French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.

Trixie Friganza (1870 - 1955)

Entertainer. Exuberant, plus-size comedian. Born Delia O’Callahan in Grenola, Kansas, she took her mother’s maiden name for her stage debut as a chorus girl in 1889. She scored her first lead role in the musical comedy “The Little Joker” (1894) and went on to star in the hit Broadway shows “The Belle of Bohemia” (1900), […]

Troy Davis (1968 - 2011)

Troy Davis An American man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989, murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King restaurant when he intervened to defend a man being assaulted in a nearby parking lot. During Davis’s 1991 trial, seven witnesses […]

Troy Donahue (1936 - 2001)

Born Merle Johnson, Jr. in New York City, Donahue was the son of a retired stage actress and the manager of the motion picture department of General Motors. One evening, producer William Asher and director James Sheldon spotted him in a diner at Malibu and arranged for a screen test with Columbia Pictures. It was unsuccessful, […]

Troy Gentry (1967 - 2017)

Troy Gentry American Country Singer and Songwriter. Troy Gentry was one-half of the popular country duo, Montgomery Gentry. Along with Eddie Montgomery, they performed together since the 1990s and formed Montgomery Gentry in 1999. The duo are best known for their singles “My Town”, “Daddy Won’t Sell The Farm”, and “Something to Be Proud Of”, […]

Troy N. Smith, Sr (1922 - 2009)

Businessman, Entrepreneur. He was the founder of the Sonic Drive-In food chain, formerly known as Top Hat. Raised in east-central Oklahoma, he served in the Army Air Corps during the Second World War, before returning home to Oklahoma where he worked as a milk and bread delivery man. Between 1948 and 1953 he operated a […]

Trude Marlen (1912 - 2005)

Austrian Actress. Real name Trude Posch, she was married to actor Wolf Albach-Retty until his death and was the stepmother of actress Romy Schneider. She is remembered for films such as “Spiel Mit der Feuer” (1934), “Der Favorit der Kaiserin” (1936), “Sherlock Holmes und die Graue Dame” (1937), “Ich Bin Sebastian Ott” (1939), “Operette” (1940), […]

Trudy Marshall (1920 - 2004)

Trudy Marshall was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Madeline (née Breedan) and Frederick Marshall. A popular magazine cigarette girl during her modeling days for Harry Conover, she was at different times “The Old Gold Girl”, “The Chesterfield Girl”, and “The Lucky Strike Girl”. She was signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1942 and groomed […]

True Boardman (1880 - 1918)

Actor. Motion picture figure in the silent era (1910s and 1920s). (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Truman Bradley (1905 - 1974)

Actor, Radio Narrator. Born in Sheldon, Missouri, he began his career as a radio broadcaster in the 1930s and is regarded as one of the golden voices of radio. He was noted for hosting and narrating both radio and television programs to include “Young Dr. Kildare”, “Charlie Chan”, “Frontier Days”, “Action Sports” and “Science Fiction […]

Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)

Author. He is best remembered for his novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1958) and for his nonfiction novel “In Cold Blood” (1966). Both stories were later made into movies of the same name. Born Truman Streckfus Persons in New Orleans, Louisiana to Archulus “Arch” Persons, a salesman, and Lillie Mae Faulk, a 16-year-old beauty queen. When […]

Truman Gaige (1906 - 2002)

Actor. He made appearances on television’s “Hallmark Hall of Fame” and movies, as well as in movies, such as his role as ‘Sam Pincus’ in “Grace Quigley”(1984). He also appeared on the Braodway stage, some of his original appearances were in “A Wonderful Night” (1929), “You Never Know” (1938), “Kismet” (1955), “Saratoga” (1960), and “Gigi” […]

Trygve Haavelmo (1911 - 1999)

After attending Oslo Cathedral School, Trygve Haavelmo received a degree in economics from the University of Oslo in 1930 and eventually joined the Institute of Economics with the recommendation of Ragnar Frisch. Haavelmo was Frisch’s assistant for a period of time until he was appointed as head of computations for the institute. In 1936, Haavelmo studied […]

Tsumasaburo Bando (1901 - 1953)

Actor and movie producer. Born as “Denkichi Tamura,” he became commonly known as “Bantsuma.” He launched his own movie production company at age 24 and became a famous silent film star. His career faded when silent films began, but he did appear in films as late as 1943, most notably in “The Life of Matsu […]

Tsuru Aoki (1892 - 1961)

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Tsuru Aoki emigrated to Los Angeles, California in 1903 with her aunt and uncle, Otojirō Kawakami, who had previously owned a theatrical group called “Kawakami-za” in Japan. Aoki was later adopted by another uncle Aoki Toshio and relocated to San Francisco. Toshio worked as a sketch artist for a local newspaper. […]

Tupac Shakur (1971 - 1996)

Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and briefly as Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. His double disc albums All Eyez on […]

Tura Satana (1938 - 2011)

Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her father was a silent movie actor of Japanese and Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of American Indian (Cheyenne) and Scots-Irish background. After the end of World War II and a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California, […]