Italian footballer who is the captain of Serie A club Roma. His primary position is that of a trequartista, though he has also been successfully…
French politician, minister of culture and French-speaking communities in 1993. Link to Wikipedia biography
French TV producer. Sophie had married on 21 June 1980 and divorced on 13 April 1983; one son born in 1981. She made a second…
Italian conductor, revered by many as the greatest conductor of his time during a career that spanned 70 years. Considered without peer in the symphonic…
Italian noted family, the daughter of Arturo Toscanini.
Mexican director, producer and distributor of early Mexican cinema films, who was his country’s first filmmaker. He used a Cinematograph camera and projector which was…
Italian professor of economic geography at a commercial school in Bologna, director of the University of Bari (1940-1944) and Secretary of the Italian Esperanto Federation…
Italian ballerina and the choreographer of Torino. Tosco received a degree in letters from the Univeriste de la Danse and is the permanent ballerina of…
Italian film and stage actor. Toso graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1939 and immediately started his film career. He was particularly prolific…
Peruvian actor from a noted family who started acting when he was 4 years old and appeared on many Peruvian TV shows during his career.…
American actor and model. He is known for his roles in the 2011 film Scream 4, the Fox crime drama series The Following, the ABC…
French TV producer and executive with many credits and great prestige, married to Sophie Bouniol, a TV producer. Toscan was director of advertising and commercials,…
French freemason, grand master of ‘La Grande Loge de France’ (1983-1985). He died in Toulouse on 20 March 2001.
Italian TV host on national RAI television, who was unjustly convicted of being a member of the Camorra and drug trafficking in 1985, and sentenced…
Italian actor and comedian. Link to Wikipedia biography (Italian)
Italian television presenter, best known for creating and hosting the Zecchino d’Oro festival of children’s songs. Tortorella began his career in the 1950s with a…
Brazilian stage and screen actor and voice-over artist, as well as a television, film and theatre director and producer. Torres’ career in Brazilian film, stage…
Spanish soccer team manager and former player who competed as a striker for Atlético Madrid, Liverpool, Chelsea, AC Milan and Sagan Tosu (2001-2019) and the…
Spanish supercentenarian who was the oldest living person in Spain since the death of 111-year-old Francisco Fernandez on 7 September 2012 until her own death…
Peruvian football/soccer winger who currently plays for Ayacucho FC in the Torneo Descentralizado, the top tier of association football in Peru. Torres has made five…
Peruvian soccer midfielder, nicknamed Pittbull, who played for various club teams from 1999 to 2016 and for his national team from 2005 to 2010. He…
French actor and politician. He entered the Comédie-Française in 1990 as a pensionnaire, becoming a sociétaire in 1994. He left in 1999 having played many…
American football player, a quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings (1993), Detroit Lions (1994), San Francisco 49ers (1995–1996), Seattle Seahawks (1996–1997) and Indianapolis Colts (1997). Although…
Italian volunteer relief worker, who with her colleague, Simona Pari, was kidnapped in broad daylight from her home in Iraq on 7th september, 2004 in…
Italian actress who worked in theatre, film, television and radio. Torrieri made her professional debut in 1937, in the stage company led by Paola Borboni,…
French musician, a cello virtuoso and composer of the “Israeli Symphony,” 1955. Died 18 December 1990, Chaussy, France. Link to Wikipedia biography
Spanish photographer who died in 1982, he is the subject of a monograph written by Ana María Carabias Torres and published in 1997.
Brazilian actress, whose mother, Fernanda Montenegro, is considered by many to be the greatest Brazilian actress of all time. In the film “The Flash and…
French actor who specialized in dubbing. He was the voice of the dog Scooby-Doo in the eponymous animated series before being replaced by Eric Missoffe.…
French fashion designer, who established the label Torrente in 1969. She was elected a member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in 1971.…
Italian beauty queen, Miss Italy of 1987.
Chilean doctor, businessman and radical politician. He studied at the Liceo de La Serena and then entered the University of Chile, where he graduated in…
Peruvian soccer midfielder who played for Sport Boys (1986), Internazionale San Borja (1987–1991), Sporting Cristal (1992–1995), Juan Aurich (1996), Alianza Atlético (1997), Sporting Cristal (1998),…
Spanish civil engineer and mathematician. During his lifetime Torres-Quevedo was herald for a variety of inventions in the fields of computing and civil engineering. His…
Argentine pop science expert and technology journalist, a columnist with the newspaper La Nación. Link to Wikipedia biography (Spanish)
Portuguese politician and con man. With only a fourth grade education, this child, one of 14 in his family, worked as a resin tapper until…
Mexican-American pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB), nicknamed El Carnicero (The Butcher), who played for the Chicago White Sox (2009–2010), Colorado Rockies (2012), New York…
He was a psychic an actor, known for Funny Lady (1975), Tödliche Täuschung (1987) and Barnaby Jones (1973). died of AIDS on March 22, 1986…
American politician from the state of California. Torres served in the United States Army from 1949 to 1953. Active in the labor movement, he was…
Norwegian architect who began working at his father and uncle’s architect company Torp & Torp in 1965, and took over as head in 1974. He…
Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He is the current governor of Tamaulipas for the term 2011 through 2016. Link to Wikipedia…
Mexican physician and assassinated politician, who held a number of public offices, such as Federal deputy, Secretary of Health of Tamaulipas and Director-general of the…
Spanish novelist, poet, dramatist and film director. He was the brother of acclaimed poet and actress Josefina de la Torre. He died on 10 January…
Italian film director. She was highly successful with her film “Tana da Morire,” a musical about the Mafia, at the Venice Film Festival in 1997,…
Known as Joselín, he was a Puerto Rican politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1976 to 1984. Link to Wikipedia biography
Albanian-Italian modern dancer, a ballerina who performs to classical, jazz and funk music.
American Republican politician, who served as Secretary of State of Utah from 1953 to 1963. He served in the Utah Legislature in 1947. Toronto was…
Norwegian architect. In 1965 together with Are Telje and Knut Aasen he founded the architecture firm Telje-Torp-Aasen Arkitektkontor after they had won the competition of…
Italian geographer who chose to follow a military career, training in Turin first at the Academy of Artillery, then at the Higher School of War.…
French long jumper who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris…