Kenneth Todd Young was a former United States Ambassador to Thailand and former president of the Asia Society. A resident of Larchmont, New York, Young died of a heart attack in Washington, DC at the age of 56.
Young was actively involved with Harvard University. Young graduated with an A.B. in 1939 and A.M. in 1942. He was a trustee of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and member of the Visiting Committee, Harvard Department of Far Eastern Languages. The Kenneth T. Young Professorship of Sino-Vietnamese History was established in 1973 in his honor.