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Berlioz, Hector - (1803-1869), French composer
Berman, Bart - Dutch-Israeli pianist
Bermudo I of Asturias - Asturian monarch
Bernadotte, Folke - (1895-1948), Swedish count and diplomat
Bernard of Chartres - scholastic philosopher
Bernard of Clairvaux - (1090-1153), French scholastic philosopher
Bernard, Carlos - actor
Bernard, Francis - (1712-1779), colonial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts
Bernard, Tristan - (1866-1947), writer
Bernays, Edward L. - (1891-1995), public-opinion engineer
Bernays, Jakob - (died 1881), philologist
Berne, Eric - (1910-70), US psychiatrist, founder of Transactional Analysis
Berners Lee, Tim - inventor of the World Wide Web
Bernhardt, Sarah - (1844-1923), French actor
Bernie Ward - U.S. talk radio host
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo - (1598-1680), Italian architect, sculptor, painter
Bernoulli, Daniel - (1700-1782), Dutch born, Swiss mathematician and physicist
Bernoulli, Jakob - (1654-1705), Swiss mathematician
Bernoulli, Johann - (1667-1748), Swiss mathematician
Berns, Bert - songwriter
Bernsen, Corbin - (born 1954), US actor
Bernstein, Elmer - (born 1922), composer
Bernstein, Leonard - (1918-1990), US composer
Bernstorff, Christian Gunther von - (1769-1835), Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat
Berra, Yogi - (born 1925), US baseball player
Berrigan, Bunny - musician
Berrigan, Daniel - poet
Berrios, Angel O. - mayor
Berruti, Livio - (born 1939), Italian athlete
Berry, Chuck - (born 1926), US musician
Berry, Fred - (1951-2003), US actor
Berry, Halle - (born 1966), US actor
Berry, Richard - musician
Berry, Sir Anthony - (1925-1984), British politician
Berry, Wendell - poet
Berryman, John - poet
Berthier, Pierre - chemist
Berthlaume, Treffle - (1803-1884), sculptor
Berthollet, Claude Louis - (1748-1822)
Bertolucci, Bernardo - (born 1940), film director
Berton, Pierre - (born 1920), popularizer of Canadian history, TV personality, columnist
Bertram, Laura - actor
Bertrand, Joseph Louis Francois - (1822-1900), mathematician
Berwald, Frans - (1796-1868), composer
Berwanger, Jay - (1914-2002), US football star, winner of the first Heisman Trophy
Berwick, Dennison - (born 1956), literary travel author now working in fiction
Berzelius, Jons Jacob - (1779-1848), chemist
Beskow, Elsa - (1874-1953), painter
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm - (1784-1846), astronomer, mathematician
Bessemer, Henry - (1813-1898), investor of Bessemer steel
Bessette, Gerard - (born 1920), Quebecois author
Bessler, Johann Ernst Elias - (1680-1745), inventor
Besson, Luc - (born 1959), French film director
Best, Charles - (1899-1978), medical scientist, co-discovered insulin
Best, George - (born 1946), footballer
Best, Pete - (born 1941), drummer
Bester, Alfred - (1913-1987), US science fiction writer
Bethune, Norman - (1890-1939), battlefield surgeon
Betjeman, John - (1906-1984), poet
Bettelheim, Bruno - (1903-1990), child psychologist, psychiatrist
Bettencourt, Liliane - majority owner of L'Oreal, wealthiest person in France
Beuys, Joseph - (1921-1986), artist
Beza, Theodore - (1519-1605), reformer in Geneva
Bezier, Pierre - (1910-1999), mechanical engineer
Bhaktivedanta, Prabhupada A.C. - (1896-1977)
Bhaskar, Roy - philosopher
Bhaskar, Roy - philosopher
Bhattacharya, K C - (1875-1949)
Bhattacharya, K C - (1875-1949)
Bhave, Vinoba - (1895-1982)
Bhupathi, Mahesh - tennis player
Bhutto, Ali - (died 1979), President and Prime Minister of Pakistan
Bhutto, Benazir - (born 1953), Pakistani prime minister
Biafra, Jello - (born 1958), musician, politician
Bialy, Leszek - (1211-1227), Polish ruler
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz - (1644-1704), composer
Biberstein, Carol - children's book Great Grandma's Rocking Chair
Bichsel, Peter - (born 1935), writer
Bickerdyke, Mary Ann - (1817-1901), administrator and attorney
Bidatsu, emperor of Japan - (538-585)
Biddle, Edward - (1738-1779), Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress
Bieler, Gustave - (1904-1944), SOE agent, WWII hero
Bierce, Ambrose - (1842 - c.1914), US writer
Biermann, Wolf - (born 1936), writer
Bierstadt, Albert - (1830-1902), painter
Bigard, Barney - (1906-1980), USA jazz musician
Bigelow, Wilfred - first artificial pacemaker
Biggers, Earl Derr - (1884-1933), author
Biggs, Jason - (born 1978), American actor
Bigod, Roger - (died 1107), Norman knight, 1st Earl of Norfolk
Bikel, Theodore - (born 1924), musician
Bilal, Enki - (born 1951), Yugoslavian-born comic book artist
Bilderdijk, Willem - (1756-1831), author
Biletnikoff, Fred - (born 1943), American football star, coach
Bilk, Acker - (born 1929), musician
Bill, Buffalo - (1846-1917), US frontiersman and showman
Bille, Ejler - (born 1910), painter
Billings, Josh - (1818-1825) US humorist
Billings, William - (1746-1800), composer
Binchois, Gilles - (c.1400-1460), Belgian composer
Binda, Alfredo - (1902-1986), Italian cyclist
Bindon, John - (1943-1993), actor, bodyguard
Binet, Alfred - (1857-1911), psychologist
Binford, Lewis - (born 1930), archaeologist
Binge, Ronald - (1910-1969), composer
Bingham, George Caleb - (1811-1879), painter
Bingham, William - (1752-1804), Continental Congressman, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
Binning, Hugh - (1627-1653), philosopher
Binoche, Juliette - (born 1964), French actress
Binyon, Laurence - (1869-1943), poet
Biot, Jean Baptiste - (1774-1862), physicist
Birch, John - (born 1945), US soldier, missionary, first casualty of the Cold War
Birch, S.J. Lamorna - (1869-1955), painter
Bircher Benner, Maximilian - (1867-1939), physician, Muesli inventor
Bird, Dickie - (born 1933), cricket umpire
Bird, John - British comedian
Bird, Larry - (born 1956), NBA basketball player, Hall of Famer
Bird, Lynda - (born 1945), first lady of the United States
Birdsell, Sandra - (born 1942), has published 3 works of short fiction and 3 novels, wrote The Two-Headed Calf
Birgitta, Saint - (1303-1373), patron saint of Europe
Birkeland, Kristian - (1867-1917), physicist and industrialist
Birkin, Jane - (born 1946), actor
Birtwistle, Harrison - (born 1934), composer, opera composer
Biruni - (973-1048), scientist, mathematecian
Bisbal, David - (born 1979) singer, winner of Operacion Triunfo
Bishop, Billy - (1884-1956), WW1 and WW2 Flying Ace
Bishop, Elizabeth - (1911-1979), poet
Bishop, Joey - (born 1918), comedian, actor
Bismarck, Otto von - (1815-1898), German statesman
Bissell, Emily - (1861-1948)
Bisset, Jacqueline - (born 1944), French actress
Bissett, Bill - (born 1939), Canadian poet
Bissoondath, Neil - (born 1955), Canadian author who lives in Quebec City
Bithorn, Hiram - (1916-1952), first Puerto Rican major league baseball player
Bitzius, Albert - (1797-1854), author, aka Jeremias Gotthelf
Bixby, Bill - (1934-1993), US actor
Bizet, Georges - (1838-1875), composer of Carmen
Bjerknes, Vilhelm - (1862-1951), Norwegian physicist and meteorologist
Bjork - (born 1965), Icelandic singer
Bjorling, Jussi - Swedish musician
Bjorndalen, Ole Einar - (born 1974), biathlete
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne - (1832-1910), author
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne - (1832-1910), author
Black, Ben - (1889-1950), impresario and popular composer
Black, Cilla - (born 1943), musician
Black, Clint - (born 1962), songwriter, musician
Black, Davidson - Canadian anthropologist
Black, Frank - American musician
Black, Hugo - (1886-1971), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
Black, Jack - actor, musician
Black, Jim - musician
Black, Karen - (born 1942), actress
Black, Lewis - comedian
Black, Mary - musician
Black, Roger - (born 1966), British athlete
Blackbeard - (1680-1718), pirate
Blackman, Honor - (born 1927), actress
Blackmore, R D - novelist
Blackmore, Ritchie - musician
Blackmun, Harry - (1908-1999), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
Blackwell, Elizabeth - (1821-1910), first female physician in the United States
Blackwood, Algernon - (1869-1951), author
Blackwood, William - (died 1834), English writer
Blade, Brian - musician
Blaha, John - astronaut
Blaikie, William Garden - (1820-1899), writer
Blaine, David - (born 1973), American illusionist
Blair, Bonnie - (born 1964), Olympic gold medalist in speed skating
Blair, Linda - (born 1959), actress
Blaise, Clark - (born 1940), Canadian writer
Blake, Amanda - (died 1989), actress
Blake, Eubie - (1883-1983), USA composer & musician
Blake, Peter artist - (born 1932), artist
Blake, Peter yachtsman - (1948-2001), champion yachtsman
Blake, Robert - (born 1933), actor
Blake, William - (1757-1827), English painter, poet
Blakely, Susan - (born 1952), actress
Blakey, Art - (1919-1990), musician
Blanc, Louis - (1811-1886), French politician
Blanc, Melvin Mel Jerome - (1908-1989), voice actor
Blanchard, Jonathan - (1738-1788), New Hampshire delegate to Continental Congress
Blanche of Castile - (died 1252), wife of Louis VIII of France
Blanchett, Cate - actor
Blanco, Galo - (born 1976) Spain Tennis player
Bland, Richard - (1710-1776) Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress
Blanda, George - (born 1927), National Football League and American Football League star
Blankers Koen, Fanny - (born 1918), athlete
Blanks, Billy - (born 1955), martial arts expert
Blanqui, Louis Auguste - (1805-1881, French revolutionary
Blanton, Jimmy - musician
Blass, Bill - (died 2002), fashion designer
Blassie, Fred - (1918-2003), former professional wrestler
Blatchford, Robert - (1854-1943), socialist author
Blatter, Sepp - (born 1935), FIFA president
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna - mystic and theosophist
Blaylock, James - (born 1950), author
Bledsoe, Tempest - (born 1973), US actress
Bleeth, Yasmine - (born 1968), US actress
Blennerhassett, Harman - (born 1765), Irish lawyer
Bleriot, Louis - (1872-1936), French aviator and the first man to fly across the English channel
Blessed, Brian - (born 1937), television personality
Bley, Carla - (born 1938), US jazz musician
Blier, Bertrand - (born 1939), French film director
Blige, Mary J. - (born 1971), musician
Bligh, William - (1754-1817), naval commander
Blish, James - (1921-1975), US-born science fiction writer
Bliss, Arthur - (1891-1975), composer
Blix, Hans - (born 1928)
Blobel, Gunter - biologist
Bloch, Ernest - (1880-1959), composer
Bloch, Ernst - (1885-1977), philosopher
Bloch, Felix - (1905-1983), 1952 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
Bloch, Ivan - (1872-1922), physician
Bloch, Marc - (1886-1944), medieval France
Bloch, Robert - (1917-1994), US horror author
Block, Adrian - (or Adriaen), (fl. 17th century), Dutch explorer
Block, Walter - economist
Blocker, Dan - (1928-1972), actor
Blomstedt, Herbert - (born 1927), Swedish conductor
Blondell, Joan - (1906-1979), actress
Blondet, Giselle - actress, show host
Blood, Benjamin Paul - (1832-1919), philosopher and poet
Blood, Thomas - (died 1680), thief of the British Crown Jewels
Bloom, Luka - musician
Bloom, Orlando - (born 1977), actor
Bloomfield, Leonard - (1887-1949), linguist
Bloomfield, Mike - (died 1981), musician
Blount, Charles - (1563-1606), Earl of Devonshire, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Blow, John - (1648-1708), composer
Blow, Kurtis - singer
Blucher, Gebhard Leberecht von - (1742-1819)
Bluetooth, Harold - (ca 911-987), Harald Blåtann : 974-985
Bluford, Guion - astronaut
Blume, Judy - (born 1938), youth and adult author
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich - German anthropologist
Blunden, Edmund - poet
Blunkett, David - (born 1947), British cabinet minister
Bluth, Don - (born 1938), animator
Bly, Robert - poet
Blyton, Enid - (1896-1968), British children's writer
Boal, Augusto - (born 1931), dramatist
Boardman, Peter - (1950-1982), British climber
Boas, Franz - (1858-1942), linguist
Boas, Orlando Villas - indianist
Bobet, Louison - cyclist
Bobko, Karol - astronaut
Bobola, Andrew - (born 1590), Jesuit missionary and martyr
Bobrikov, Nikolai Ivanovich - (1839-1904), Russian governor-general of Finland
Boccaccio, Giovanni - (1313-1375), Italian novelist
Boccherini, Luigi - (1743-1805), composer
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