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B - 1720 biographies |
Baum, L. Frank - (1856-1919), US writer of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Baumann, Johannes - (1874-1953), Swiss president
Baur, Ferdinand Christian - (1792-1860), theologian
Bautista, Danny - (born 1972), baseball player
Bavier, Simeon - (1825-1896), Swiss president
Bax, Arnold - (1883-1953), composer
Bax, Ernest Belfort - (1854,1926), journalist and philosopher
Baxter, Anne - (1923-1985), actress
Baxter, Charles - American author, novelist
Baxter, James K. - (1926-1972), poet
Baxter, Stephen - (born 1957), British science fiction author
Baxter, Warner - (1889-1951), actor
Bayard, James A. - (1767-1815), U.S. Senator from Delaware
Bayard, John - (1738-1808), Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress
Bayer, Herbert - (1900-1985), graphic designer
Bayer, Johann - (1572-1625), astronomer
Bayes, Nora - (1880-1928) US singer, actress
Bayes, Thomas - (1702-1761), mathematician, statistician
Bayley, Barrington - British science fiction author
Baylor, Don - baseball player and coach
Baylor, Elgin - (born 1934), National Basketball Association star
Bazalgette, Joseph William - (1819-1891)
Beach, Amy - (1867-1944), composer
Beach, Sylvia - (born 1887), publisher
Beagle, Peter S. - (born 1939), US fantasy author
Beals, Jennifer - (born 1963) US actress
Beamon, Bob - (born 1946), athlete
Bean, Alan - (born 1932), astronaut
Bear, Greg - (born 1951), US science fiction author
Beard, Charles A. - (born 1874), historian
Beard, James - (1903-1985), chef, cookbook writer
Beard, Stephanie - Canadian radio and television personality, voice actress
Bearden, Milton - US spy, author
Bearden, Romare - (1914-1988), painter
Beardsley, Aubrey - (1872-1898), illustrator
Beardsley, Monroe - (1915-1985), U.S. philosopher
Beart, Emmanuelle - (born 1965), French actor
Beatrice, Princess of Portugal - (1372-1410), heiress to the throne and wife of John I of Castile
Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands - (born 1938)
Beatty, Alfred Chester, Sir - (1875-1968)
Beatty, David - (1871-1936), British
Beatty, John - (1828-1914), U.S. Congressman from Ohio
Beatty, John - (1749-1826), New Jersey delegate to Continental Congress
Beatty, John - (born 1961), Marvel comics illustrator
Beatty, Ned - (born 1937), actor
Beatty, Warren - (born 1937), US film director
Beaufort, John - 1st Earl of Somerset
Beaufort, Margaret - (1443-1509), mother of Henry VII of England
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de - (1732-1799), comedy playwright
Beaumier, Colleen - Canadian politican
Beaumont, Charles - (died 1967), writer
Beaumont, Francis - (1586-1616), poet
Beauregard, P.G.T. - (1818-1893), general
Beausoleil - musician
Beauvoir, Simone de - (1908-1986), French author
Beaux, Cecilia - painter
Beaverbrook, Maxwell Aitken, Lord - (1879-1964), UK politician & newspaper tycoon
Bebel, August - (1840-1913), politician
Becaud, Gilbert - (died 2001), musician
Beccaria, Giovanni Battista - (1716-1781)
Bechet, Sidney - (1897-1959), jazz musician
Bechstein, Ludwig - (1801-1860), narrator and poet
Beck - (born 1970), singer-songwriter, musician
Beck, Aaron - psychologist
Beck, C.C. - (1910-1989), creator of the original Captain Marvel
Beck, Jeff - (born 1944), singer-songwriter, musician
Beck, Kimberly - (born 1956), actor
Beckenbauer, Franz - (born 1945), footballer
Becker, Boris - (born 1967), (Germany)
Becker, Donald - Linux programmer
Becker, Gary - (born 1930), economist
Becker, Jurek - dramatist, author
Beckett, Arthur William a - (died 1909), British journalist
Beckett, Gilbert Abbott a - (1811-1856), writer
Beckett, Gilbert Arthur a - (died 1891), British writer
Beckett, Samuel - (1906-1989), Irish-born playwright
Beckett, Samuel - (1906-1989), Irish-born playwright
Beckham, David - (born 1975), association football player
Beckinsale, Kate - (born 1973), actress
Beckman, Joshua - poet
Beckmann, Max - (1884-1950), painter
Beckwith, Alan - (born 1952)
Becquerel, Antoine Henri - (1852-1908), French physicist
Bedard, Myriam - (born 1969), Olympic Gold Medal
Bede - (c. 672-735 C.E.), scholastic philosopher, historian
Bedford, David - (born 1937), composer
Bee, Thomas - (1739-1812), South Carolina delegate to Continental Congress
Beebe, Charles William - (1877-1962), biologist
Beefheart, Captain - (born 1941), avant garde blues musician and painter
Beer, Wilhelm - (1797-1850), astronomer
Beerbohm, Max - (1873-1956), theater critic
Beery, Wallace - (1885-1949), actor
Beethoven, Ludwig van - (baptized 1770-1827), German-born composer
Beg, Ulugh - (1394-1449), astronomer
Beggs, James M. - (born 1926), sixth Administrator of NASA
Behaim, Martin - (1436-1507), cartographer
Behan, Brendan - (1923-1964), playwright, novelist
Behan, John - sculptor, Aosdána
Behn, Aphra - (1640-1689), poet
Behring, Emil Adolf von - (1854-1917), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901
Beiderbecke, Bix - (1903-1931), jazz trumpeter
Beissel, Henry - (born 1929), Canadian writer
Belafonte, Harry - (born 1927), US singer
Belanger, Mauril - Canadian politician
Belasco, Lionel - (1881-1967), musician
Belisarius - (505-565), Roman general
Beliveau, Jean - ice hockey player
Belknap, Jeremy - (1744-1798), American clergyman and historian
Bell, Alexander Graham - (1847-1922), inventor
Bell, Chris - musician
Bell, Eric Temple - (1883-1960), mathematician
Bell, Gertrude - (1868-1926), archaeologist, writer, spy
Bell, Gordon - (born 1934), computer engineer
Bell, Jocelyn - astronomer
Bell, Lauralee - (born 1968), soap opera actress
Bell, Madison Smartt - Waiting for the End of the World (1985), and A Soldier's Joy (1989) amongst others
Bell, Marilyn - first person to swim Lake Ontario
Bell, Robert - (born 1950), bassist, singer
Bell, Steve - (born 1951), contemporary British political cartoonist
Bell, Vanessa - (1879-1961), painter
Bell, William - Canadian musician, writer
Bellairs, John - (1938-1991), author
Bellamy, David - (born 1933), botanist
Bellamy, Edward - US author
Bellamy, Madge - (1899-1990), US actress
Bellamy, Ralph - (1904-1991), actor
Belli, Gioconda - (born 1948), poet
Belli, Melvin - (1907-1996), attorney, actor
Bellingham, Linda - actress
Bellini, Gentile - (c.1429-1507), Italian painter
Bellini, Giovanni - (c.1430-1516), Italian painter
Bellini, Jacopo - (c.1400-1470), Italian painter
Bellini, Vincenzo - (1801-1835), Italian composer
Bellisario, Donald P. - (born 1936), US television producer
Bellman, Carl Michael - (1740-1795), Swedish musician
Belloc, Hilaire - poet
Bellocq, Ernest J. - (1873-1949), photographer
Bellotto, Bernardo - Polish painter
Bellow, Saul - (born 1915), writer
Belmondo, Jean Paul - (born 1933), French actor
Belushi, James - (born 1954), US actor
Belushi, John - (1949-1982), US comedian
Bely, Andrey - (1880-1934), poet and author
Belyayev, Pavel Ivanovich - (1925-1970), cosmonaut
Belzer, Richard - (born 1944), actor, comedian
Bembo, Pietro - (1470-1547), Italian cardinal
Benedict I, Pope - (pope 575-579)
Benedict II, Pope - (pope 682-683)
Benedict III, Pope - (pope 855-858)
Benedict IV, Pope - (900-903)
Benedict IX, Pope - (Theophylactus, c. 1012-maybe 1055 or 1065)
Benedict of Aniane - (died 821), monastic founder and saint
Benedict of Nursia - scholastic philosopher
Benedict V, Pope - (pope 964-965)
Benedict VI, Pope - (pope 972-974)
Benedict VII, Pope - (pope 975-983)
Benedict VIII, Pope - (pope 1012-1024)
Benedict X, Pope - (reigned 1058-1059; died c. 1073 or 1080)
Benedict XI, Pope - (pope 1303-1304), (possibly poisoned)
Benedict XII, Pope - (pope 1334-1342)
Benedict XIII, Antipope - ( -1424)
Benedict XIII, Pope - (pope 1724-1730)
Benedict XIV, Pope - (1740-1758)
Benedict XV, Pope - (1914-1922)
Benet, Stephen Vincent - (1898-1943), poet
Benford, Gregory - (born 1941), US science fiction author
Benigni, Roberto - (born 1952), Italian actor
Bening, Annette - (born 1958), US actor
Benitez, Clara - matriarch of famous boxing family
Benitez, Lucecita - singer
Benitez, Wilfredo - (born 1958), world champion boxer
Benjamin, Judah - (1811-1884), Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America
Benjamin, Walter - (1892-1940), literary critic and writer
Benn, Gottfried - (1886-1956), dramatist, author
Benn, Nigel - (born 1964), world champion boxer
Benn, Tony - (1925-), British politician
Bennett, Arnold - (1867-1931), English novelist
Bennett, Constance - (1904-1965), actress
Bennett, Granville - (1833-1910), Dakota Territory delegate to U.S. Congress
Bennett, James Gordon, Jr. - (1841-1918), publisher
Bennett, Joan - (1910-1990), actress
Bennett, Richard Bedford - (1870-1947), eleventh Prime Minister of Canada
Bennett, Tony - (born 1926), musician
Bennett, W.A.C. - (1900-1979), Canadian politician
Bennett, Willard - (1903-1987), American physicist
Bennett, William - British flautist
Bennett, William R. - (born 1932), Canadian politician
Benni, Stefano - (born 1947)
Bennington, Chester - (born 1976), musician
Benny, Jack - (1894-1974), actor, comedian
Benohr, Astrid - (born 1957), world record holder in various multiple ironman disciplines
Benoist, Robert - (1895-1944), race car driver, war hero
Benovsky, Moric - (1746-1786), Slovak explorer, soldier, writer, king of Madagascar
Benson, Edward White - (1829-1896), Archbishop of Canterbury
Benson, Egbert - (1746-1833), U.S. judge, Congressman from New York
Benson, Elmer A. - (1895-1985), U.S. Senator and Governor of Minnesota
Benson, George - (born 1943), musician
Bentham, Jeremy - (1748-1832), lawyer, eccentric, and philosopher
Bentine, Michael - (1922-1996)
Bentley, Edmund Clerihew - (1875-1956), author
Bentley, Robert - (died 1958), humorist, actor
Benton, Brook - (1931-1988), musician
Benton, Thomas Hart - (1889-1975), painter
Benvenuti, Nino - (born 1938), world boxing champion
Benz, Karl - (1844-1929), automotive pioneer
Beradino, John - (1917-1996), baseball player and soap opera actor
Beregovoi, Georgi - (1921-1995), astronaut
Berenger, Tom - (born 1949), US actor
Berenguela of Castile - (1180-1246), Castilian monarch
Beresford, Bruce - (born 1940), film director
Beresford, Richard - (1755-1803), South Carolina delegate to Continental Congress
Berg, Alan - (died 1984), radio talk show host
Berg, Alban - (1885,-1935), Austrian composer
Berg, Carol - author
Berg, Dave - (1920-2002), cartoonist for Mad magazine
Berg, Gertrude - (1899-1966), actress
Berg, Moe - US spy and baseball player
Bergen, Candice - (born 1946), actress
Bergen, Edgar - (1903-1978), US ventriloquist
Berger, Erna - (1900-1990), German singer
Berger, Gerhard - (born 1959), Austrian Grand Prix racing driver
Berger, Henri - (1844-1929), Hawaiian musician
Berger, Karen - comic book editor
Berger, Karl - jazz musician
Berger, Oscar - Czech cartoonist
Berger, Peter L. - (born 1929), Vienna-born US sociologist
Berger, Richard - (1894-1984), Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history
Berger, Senta - (born 1941), Austrian actress
Bergh, Henry - (1811-1888), founder of SPCA
Bergier, Arnold Henry - sculptor
Bergkamp, Dennis - (born 1969), athlete
Bergman, Ingmar - (1918-), Swedish film director
Bergman, Ingrid - (1915-1982), Swedish-born actress
Bergman, Peter - (born 1953), soap opera actor
Bergner, Elisabeth - (died 1986), actress
Bergomi, Giuseppe - athlete
Bergonzoli, Annibale - Lieutenant-General at Bardia
Bergson, Henri - (1859-1941), Nobel Prize Winner
Bering, Vitus - (1680-1741)
Berio, Luciano - (1925-2003), opera composer
Berjer, Barbara - (1920-2002), soap opera actress
Berkeley, Busby - (1895-1976), film director
Berkeley, George - (1685-1753), philosopher
Berlage, Henrik Petrus - architect
Berle, Milton - (1908-2002), US actor, comedian
Berlin, Irving - (1888-1989), composer, songwriter, musician
Berlin, Isaiah - (1909-1997), philosopher
Berlin,Brigid - (born 1939) Actor and artist
Berliner, Emil - (1851-1929), telephone and recording pioneer
Berlinguer, Enrico - (1922-1984), politician
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