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Abubakar Tafawa became
the first Prime Minister when Nigeria gained independence from GB in 1960; but
in a powersharing arrangement worked out by the British, he served under the
Presidency of Nnamdi Azikiwe [Africa]
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: lover of Madame de Staël (even while he was Bishop
of Autun) on April 22
Cecilia Tandowska her birthname,
Faktorowicz her
married name: died too young to know her son Max would become the great cosmetics magnate Max
Factor; alluded to but not named on Oct 17; see his
dates on the Index
Henry Ossawa Tanner painted "The
Banjo Lesson" (1893) while living in France. The painting is
eventually hailed as one of the major works of art of the late 19th Century [Africa page]
Richard Tarlton (born 1530; died
September 5 1588): broadcasting the newes out of purgatorie on March 15; he isn’t actually on the page
for Dec 18, but should be - see my note to him on March 15 and
his bio here [the world
as stage]
Boris Taslitzky: Study for "The Death of Danielle Casanova" on
May 9
Torquato Tasso:
translated by Sophie de Grouchy on May 5 [serious scribes]
Sharon Marie Tate (married
name Polański; and yes, that Polański, Rajmund Roman the film
director): murdered by followers of the cult of Charles Manson on Aug 9 1969 – and he is definitely in deep red: the full and horrific
tale here [the world as stage]
Carlo Sigmund Taube: (born July 4 1897;
died you-know-where on October 11 1944): fellow-prisoner at Terezin on April 1; bio here; his one surviving
work, “Ein jüdisches Kind“, words by his wife Erika, music by Gary
Bachlund,
based on Carlo’s original, here [musical maestros]
Fritz
Taussig (Bedřich Fritta was his
pseudonym): born 1906; deported to
Terezin on December 4 1941; died in Oswiecim November 1944); his bio here; on the blog on April 1 [illustrious
illustrators]
Jane Taylor: named as the authoress of “Twinkle
Twinkle Little Star” on March 15,
though actually her sister Anne was
just as culpable [lighter writers]
John Baxter ("Doc") Taylor of the University of Pennsylvania became the first African
American to win an Olympic Gold Medal, in 1908, at the London Games; his event was
the 4x400-meter medley. Normally I
wouldn't include someone who did nothing more significant than run 400 metres
around a track (I ran the same distance for a bus only last week and that
didn't make the record books), but I am interested in the fact that this was
thirty years earlier than Jesse Owens, and yet no one seems to have heard of him? [Africa]
John David Beckett Taylor (Baron Taylor of Warwick): noted
as "the first person of African
ancestry to sit in the British House of Lords" in one of the major sources
for my Africa page. However... I thought that honour had already
gone to Leary Constantine, who took up his seat on March 26 1969, titled "Baron
Constantine of Maraval in Trinidad and Tobago and of Nelson in the County
Palatine of Lancaster". John Taylor only took up his seat on on October 2
1996.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: the Africa page has his commission, aged only 23, to
write his "Ballade in A Minor for Britain"; much more about him
in my novel "A Journey In Time"; also among the musical maestros
Robert Teichmüller
(born May 4 1863; died May 6 1939): taught Erwin Schulhoff in Leipzig on April
1 [musical maestros]
Herménégilde
Tell:
fathering an important lady, but was he also imprisoning an important man, on Oct 21
Henry John Temple (Lord, or
actually 3rd Viscount) Palmerston: supporting the princess on May 16
Hananiah
ben Teradion: father of Beruriah on Jan 12; my page has a lengthy quote from
Mishnah about him, but I wonder: is that perhaps why Beruriah gets quoted, as a way of honouring him by proxy;
that, rather than wanting to include her? [mediaeval
page of Woman-Blindness]
Friar
Thaddeus: doing battle with Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the “Maharal” of
Prague: on March 11; but is
this a folk-legend from a later period, recalling Saint Jude Thaddaeus, whose
statue can be found on the Charles Bridge (click here to see
it)?
Emperor Theodosius (born
January 11 347; died January 17 395): can be found on
Jerry Darring’s “Timeline of Christian Anti-Semitism“ on July 14; most of that list
is on the GER page, but he has been
retained here, less for his qualities than his historical significance: he was
the man who imposed the Nicene Creed on European Christianity and thereby
established Roman Catholicism as we still know it. But he is also here for the
reason given on the timeline, under 388 CE [purple cloaks]
Michail (Mikis) Theodorakis (born July 29 1925; died September 2 2021): setting “Zorba the Greek” on Feb 18 [musical maestros]
Wilhelm (Willy) Thern (born June 22 1847; died
April 7 1911): taught Erwin Schulhoff in Vienna on April 1 [musical maestros]
Paul Edward Theroux: dumped by Crow on Aug 17 [serious scribes]
Ngugi wa
Thiongo: published "Weep
Not, Child", the first major novel in English by an East African, in 1964
[Africa and serious
scribes]
Ronald Stuart Thomas (born
March 29 1913; died September 25 2000): poetically bilingual
(that’s “dwyieithog” in Cymry) on Feb 9 [reverend writers]
Catherine Thomson: step-mothering Lily Gaskell on Sept 29; artist-brother William John Thomson is on the same page
David Thompson: teaching at Clifton on Jan
16
Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron: quoted re Maimonides on Oct 12 [serious scribes]
Tommy Thumb: collecting nursery rhymes in
his Pretty Song Book of 1744
Ludwig Tieck: visited
by Anna Brownell Jameson on May 17
Nehemiah Tile: founder of the
Tembu National Church, the first of a series of African-controlled churches in
South Africa, in the Transkei region of South Africa [Africa]
Timon
of Phlius (lived around 268 BCE): known as Timon the Sillographer
from his three books of “Silloi”, lampoons and satires in mock-Homeric form
(with emphasis on the “mock”... click here); questioning again everything he hadn’t already questioned with Pyrrho on May 11 [philosophers]
Tippu Tip: a Swahili trader
who gained control over the ivory and slave trade in the east African interior
and became a rival to Msiri
(for whom see above) [Afica]
Gherman Stepanovich
Titov (born September 11 1935; died September 20 2000): orbiting Earth in Vostok
2 on Aug 7
Elio Toaff (born April
30 1915; died April 19 2015): Chief Rabbi of Rome from 1951 to 2002: see July 14; his bio here
Herman Toivo ja Toivo: founded SWAPO (South
West Africa People's Organization) with Sam
Nujoma in 1960 [Africa]
Alice B (for Babette) Toklas: the
life-sharer of Gertrude Stein on Feb 3
Francois
Tombalbaye: the first head of state when
Chad became independent from France on August 11 1960 [Africa]
Alfonso Toro: transcribing
Luis Rodriguez de Carvajal on Dec 8;
you can read him in translation here [serious scribes]
Senchán Torpéist: Eireland's Homer on April
24 (bio here) [poets
or serious scribes?]
Richard Tottel (date of birth
unknown; died 1594): publishing Arthur Brooke’s "The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet" on Jan 30; click here for the
background, here for the text);
otherwise best known for “Tottel’s Miscellany”, for which click here [the world as stage]
Roger Toulouse (born February 19
1918; died September 11 1994): in the Picasso-Max Jacob meet-up group on August 19 ; his portrait of “Le
Poète Max Jacob” here; his website here [illustrious illustrators]
Ahmed Sékou Touré: the
first head of state when Guinea gained independence from France on on October 2
1958 [Africa]
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar (born
April 5 1820; died March 20 1910): the photographer whose studio hosted the
1874 Impressionist exhibition at 35 Boulevard des Capucines on Feb 5 (excellent page here); dating Jeanne Duval on April 9
[illustrious illustrators]
William de Tracey: one of the four riders of the apocalypse on Dec 29
Edward John Trelawney: with Byron
on August 13
Arnold Toynbee (born August 23 1852 in Syria; died March 9 1883): gave his name to the
Hall by the Aldgate in London's East End: June 5 and here (not to be confused with his
nephew, historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee who can be found here and here)
Thomas Tresham: born
1543; died September 11 1605 or he would have been among the Gunpowder Plotters
on Nov 5; family connections to the Catesbys here; role
with the Earl of Essex here; son Francis Tresham here
Norbert Troller: (born January 12 1896, survived Teresienstadt, died in New
York, either in 1981 or 1984 depending on which source you go to - try here, or here - but
given the time and place there must surely be a record that can be checked):
definitely April 1 on this blog [illustrious
illustrators]
Margarethe von Trotta: filming “Arendt in Jerusalem” on Jan 11; bio here [the
world as stage]
Chrétien de Troyes: matronised by Eleanor
of Aquitaine on April 1
Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị,
remembered simply as “the Trưng sisters”: led the Vietnamese to freedom from China... but
alas it only lasted three years and they were overthrown... listed among the
Supra Idesses on April 17 and the China page; full tale here and here
Tselaphchad’s daughters, Machlah, No'ah, Chaglah, Milkah and Tirtsah, are all linked on the
Nov 24 blog-page to Numbers 27 and Numbers 36
Philibert Tsiranana: the
first head of state when Madagascar became independent from France on June 26
1960 [Africa]
Morgan Tsvangirai: the Africa page has "2002: President Robert Mugabe wins disputed election and then arrests opposition
leader on charges of treason. The
country is expelled from the British Commonwealth"
Sir William Mark Tully: neither feline nor Cicero on Jan 3 (and I don’t usually acknowledge
aristocratic titles, but in his case I am very happy to make an exception; had
there been a Nobel Prize for what proper journalism should be rather than all
that tabloid garbage, he would have been awarded that instead: click here) [historians]
George Turberville: (born circa 1540; died circa 1597): best known for doing a Petrarch
(publishing a book of poems addressed to the woman he loved), but he is on Jan 30 for
including some of Bandello’s stories
in his own “Tragical Tales” [The
Poets]
Samori Ture: the leader of the
Mandinka who created an empire in the upper Niger River basin in 1865 [also
under 1880 on the Africa page]
Ramon II, Viscount of Turenne: father of Maria de Ventadorn on Jan 13 [Trobairitz]
Aidan John Turner: not even
a cameo, not even an understudy, but still taking a bow on Dec 3
Joseph Mallord William Turner
(born
April 23 1775 in Covent Garden; died December 19 1851 in Chelsea): creating a good impression on the French artists of the mid 19th
century on Feb 5; definitely a recognisable style on April 16 [illustrious
illustrators]; Ruskin's book
about him gets a mention on Anna Brownell Jameson's
page, May 17;
in Cheyne Walk on Sept 29; Vita Sackville-West on March 28; in Margate on Dec 29
Mikhail Tushmalov (he was Georgian, so it should really be Tushmalishvili): the first to transform Mussorgsky’s piano version into an orchestral on June 2; (this from Tchaikovsky) [musical maestros]
Augustin Tuset (born January 27
1893; died November 11 1967): in the Picasso-Max Jacob meet-up
group on Aug 19 [illustrious
illustrators]
Tristan Tzara (born April 16 1896;
died December 25 1963): merely
mentioned on April 11; not even
mentioned on March 23) [illustrious
illustrators]
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