Téllez Girón, Pedro, duque de Osuna, 1574-1624 (Library of Congress Name Authority)—

Spanish politician, soldier, and aristocrat holding the titles of Spanish Viceroy of Sicily, Spanish Viceroy of Naples, 7th Count of Ureña, 2nd Marquis of Peñafiel, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Grandee of Spain, and member of the Spanish Supreme Council of War. Téllez Girón was deposed in 1620 following accusations that he took part in a conspiracy to seize Venice. Alternatively, the Neapolitan aristocracy alleged that he intended to cut ties with Spain and become King of Naples. Téllez Girón denied all charges and died in prison before judgment was delivered.

Taylor, Emily, 1795-1872 (Library of Congress Name Authority)—

Emily Taylor was born into a family of notable Unitarians including an uncle, the hymnist John Taylor of Norwich and a great-grandfather, Dr John Taylor, a Hebrew scholar. Her brother, the solicitor Edgar Taylor (1793-1839), was an author and translator especially noted for his rendering of work by the Brothers Grimm. Scarlet fever at age 7 left Emily Taylor partially deaf. Despite this obstacle, she operated a school, assisted by Sarah Ann Glover (1786-1867), a musical theorist with notable work in a cappella singing.

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595 (Library of Congress Name Authority)—

The Italian poet whose La Gierusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) dates from 1581 also garnered much sympathy among later readers for his long confinement to a mental asylum. Rinaldo (1562), his first publication, is an epic poem. Aminta, written in 1573 and published in 1591, and Torrismondo (1586) are dramas. His shorter poems include many odes and love sonnets. He authored criticism as well, especially Discorsi dell'arte poetica (1587) and Discorsi del poema erico (1594).

Timur, 1336-1405 (Library of Congress Name Authority)—

Known as "Tamerlane" in English, Timur Lenk was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and founder of the Timurid Empire around modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, and central Asia. Timur is remembered for his military prowess as well as the barbarity of his conquests. His life has been memorialized in numerous plays, operas, films, and poems, perhaps most notably in Nicholas Rowe's Tamerlane (1701), Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II (1563-1594), Edgar Allan Poe's "Tamerlane" (1827), Antonio Vivaldi's Bajazet (1735), and George Frideric Handel's Tamerlano (1724). .

Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, Duke of, 1660-1718 (Library of Congress Name Authority)—

English Whig politician who served as Chief Minister of Great Britain, Lord High Treasurer, Lord Chamberlain, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, and Secretary of State for the Northern Department. Talbot was part of the Immortal Seven group which sent for William of Orange to depose King James II during the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

Talbot, Catherine, 1721-1770 (Library of Congress Name Authority)—

Noted eighteenth-century bluestocking, author, and scholar Catherine Talbot declined to publish any but a very few of her writings during her lifetime. They were edited by her friend Elizabeth Carter as The Works of the Late Mrs. Catherine Talbot (1780). On her father's early death she was adopted by her father's friend, Thomas Secker, later Archbishop of Canterbury.