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Bocelli, Andrea - (born 1958), Italian musician
Bochco, Steven - (born 1943), US producer, writer
Bocklin, Arnold - (1827-1901), painter
Bocuse, Paul - (born 1926), Chief cook
Bode, Johann Elert - (1747-1826), astronomer
Bodhidharma - (440-528), Buddhist saint
Bodine, Geoff - (born 1949), automobile racer
Bodmer, Johann Jakob - (1698-1783)
Bodmer, Karl - (1809-1893), US painter of the American West
Body, Jack - composer, artist, ethnomusicologist
Boeing, William - (born 1881), engineer
Boelcke, Oswald - (1891-1916), World War I fighter ace
Boerhaave, Herman - (1668-1738), physician
Boerigter, Marc - athlete
Boerum, Simon - (1724-1775) New York delegate to the Continental Congress
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus - (AD 480-524 or 525), philosopher
Boetie, Etienne de La - (1530-1563), French philosopher and politician
Bofill, Ricardo - (born 1939), architect
Bogan, Lucille - musician
Bogarde, Dirk - (1921-1999), actor
Bogart, Humphrey - (1899-1957), US actor
Bogdanovich, Peter - (born 1939), film director
Boggs, Dock - musician
Boggs, Hale - (died 1972), US Congressman from Louisiana
Boggs, Wade - (born 1958), baseball player
Bogguss, Suzy - (born 1956), country singer
Bogosian, Eric - (born 1953), actor, writer
Bohm Bawerk, Eugen von - (1851-1914), economist
Bohm, David - (1917-1992), physicist
Bohm, Karl - (1894-1981), conductor
Bohr, Aage Niels - (born 1922)
Bohr, Niels - (1885-1962), Danish physicist
Boileau Despreaux, Nicolas - (1636-1711), poet
Boissonade, Gustave Emille - (1825-1910), French jurist
Boissonade, Jean Francois - (1774-1857), French classicist
Boitano, Brian - (born 1963), figure skater
Boito, Arrigo - (1842-1918), Italian composer, opera composer
Bojado, Francisco - (born 1983) boxer
Bojaxhi, Elona - Albanian model and actress
Bok, Bart - (1906-1983), astronomer
Bok, Christian - (born 1966), author of Eunoia
Bok, Hannes - (1914-1964), author
Bolan, Marc - (1947-1977), musician (T-Rex)
Boland, Eavan - (born 1944), poet
Bolcom, William - (born 1938), composer, musician
Bolden, Buddy - (1877-1930), musician, "inventor of jazz"(?)
Boldon, Ato - (born 1973), Trinidad and tobago athlete
Boldrewood, Rolf - (1826-1915), novelist
Bolduc, Madame - singer, songwriter, harmonicist, violinist
Boleslaus I of Bohemia - (935-972), Czech ruler
Boleslaus I of Poland - (966-1025), sometimes called the Great, Poland
Boleslaus II of Poland - (1058-1079), Polish ruler
Boleslaus II the Pious - (972-999), Czech ruler
Boleslaus III of Bohemia - (999-1002), Czech ruler
Boleslaus III of Poland - (1107-1138), Polish ruler
Boleslaus IV of Poland - (1146-1173), Polish ruler
Boleslaus V , Duke of Poland - (1243-1279), Polish ruler
Bolet, Jorge - concert pianist
Boleyn, Anne - (1507-1536), second Queen consort of Henry VIII of England)
Bolger, Ray - (1904-1987), actor, dancer
Bolin, Tommy - (died 1976), rock guitarist (Deep Purple)
Bolivar, Simon - (1783-1830), South American independence leader
Boll, Heinrich - (1917-1985), author
Bolling, Ruben - US cartoonist (Tom the Dancing Bug)
Bolster, Stephanie - Canadian writer
Bolt, Robert - (1924-1995), dramatist
Boltzmann, Ludwig - (1844-1906), physicist
Bolyai, Janos - (1802-1860), mathematician, non-euclidean geometry
Bolzano, Bernard - (1781-1848), philosopher, mathematician, and theologian
Bombardier, Joseph - snowmobile maker
Bombeck, Erma - (1927-1996), US humorist, writer
Bomberg, David - (1890-1957), painter
Bombieri, Enrico - (born 1940), mathematician
Bonaduce, Danny - (born 1959), actor
Bonano, Sharkey - (1904-1972), musician
Bonaparte, Joseph - (1768-1844), King of Naples
Bonaparte, Mathilde - (born 1820), hostess and socialite
Bonaparte, Napoleon - (1769-1821), Corsican general, Emperor of France
Bond, Christopher - governor
Bond, Katherine - author
Bond, Michael - author of Paddington Bear series
Bond, Nigel - snooker player
Bond, Ward - (1903-1960), actor
Bondar, Roberta - first Canadian woman in space
Bondarchuk, Sergei - (1920-1994), film director
Bonde, Gustav - (1620-1667), Swedish politician
Bondone, Giotto di - (1267-1337), painter
Bondra, Peter - hockey player
Bonds, Barry - (born 1964), baseball player
Bonds, Bobby - (1946-2003), baseball player and coach
Bone, Scott Cordelle - (Rep.) 1921-1925
Bonestell, Chesley - (died 1986), US science fiction visual artist
Bonet, Lisa - (born 1967), US actress
Bonetti, Peter - (born 1941), athlete
Bong, Richard - (1920-1945), US fighter ace
Bongo, Ali - magician
Bonham, Jason - (born 1966), musician
Bonham, John - (1948-1980), drummer (Led Zeppelin)
Bonhoffer, Dietrich - (1906-1945), German theologian
Boniek, Zbigniew - athlete
Boniface I, Pope - (pope 417-418)
Boniface II, Pope - (pope 526-530)
Boniface III, Pope - (pope 604-606)
Boniface IV, Pope - (pope 615-618)
Boniface IX, Pope - (pope 1390-1404)
Boniface of Savoy - (1245-1263)
Boniface V, Pope - (pope 615-618)
Boniface VI, Pope - (pope 891-896)
Boniface VII, Pope - died in 985
Boniface VIII, Pope - (pope 1303-1304)
Boniface, Saint - (680-755)
Bonnard, Pierre - (1867-1947), painter
Bonner, Neville - politician
Bonnet, Charles - (1720-1793), botanist
Bonney, Thomas George - (1833-1923), geologist
Bonnot de Condillac, Etienne - (1715-1780), philosopher
Bono - (born 1960), lead singer of Irish rock band U2
Bono, Sonny - (1935-1998), US pop musician and congressman
Bonsels, Waldemar - (1880-1952), writer
Bonvin, Roger - (1907-1982), Swiss Federal Councilor
Booker, James - musician
Boole, George - (1815-1864), philosopher, mathematician
Boon, Louis Paul - Flemish journalist and novelist
Boone, Daniel - (1734-1820), US frontiersman
Boone, Debby - (born 1956), singer
Boone, Pat - (born 1934), US musician
Boone, Richard - (died 1981), actor
Boorman, John - (born 1933), film director
Booth, Edwin - (born 1833), actor
Booth, John Wilkes - (1838-1865), US assassin of Abraham Lincoln
Booth, Margaret - (1898-2002), film editor
Booth, Shirley - (1898-1992), actor
Booth, William - (1829-1912), and Catherine Booth (Salvation Army cofounders)
Bopp, Franz - (1791-1867), linguist
Borchardt, Carl Wilhelm - (born 1817), mathematician
Borcherds, Richard Ewen - mathematician
Borchert, Wolfgang - (1921-1947), dramatist, author
Bordeaux, Henri - (1870-1963), French novelist
Borden, Robert Laird - (1854-1937), Prime Minister of Canada
Bordet, Jules - (1870-1961), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1919
Borduas, Paul Emile - abstract painter (Les Automatistes)
Boreanaz, David - (born 1971), actor
Borel, Felix Edouard Justin Emile - French mathematician
Borg, Bjorn - (born 1956), Swedish tennis professional
Borg, Carl Oscar - (1879-1947)
Borge, Victor - (1909-2000), Danish comedian
Borges, Jorge Luis - (1899-1986), Argentinean writer
Borgia, Cesare - (1476-1507), Renaissance politician
Borgia, Lucrezia - (1480-1519), Renaissance ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI
Borglum, Gutzon - (died 1941), sculptor
Borgman, Eric Bruno - (born 1975), actor, director and writer
Borgnine, Ernest - (born 1917), US actor
Boris III, of Bulgaria - (1894-1943), Bulgarian monarch
Borivoj - (870-895), Bohemian aristocrat
Borman, Frank - astronaut
Born, Max - (1882-1970), German physicist
Borneman, Ernest - (1915-1995), German writer, critic, and sexologist
Borodin, Alexander - (1833-1887), Russian composer
Boros, Julius - (died 1994), golfer
Borowski, Tadeusz - poet
Borrel, Andree - (1919-1944), SOE agent, WW II heroine
Borromini, Francesco - (1599-1667), Italian architect
Borrow, George - American novelist
Borson, Roo - (born 1952), Canadian writer
Borsuk, Karol - (1905-1982)
Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus - (1868-1931), mathematician, statistician
Boru, Brian - (940-1014), High King of Ireland
Borzage, Frank - (1893-1952), film director
Borzov, Valeri - (born 1949), track & field
Boscawen, Edward - (1711-1761), naval commander
Bosch Gimpera, Pere - (1891-1974), anthropologist
Bosch, Hieronymus - (c.1460-1518), painter
Boscovich, Rudjer Josip - (1711-1787)
Bose, Miguel - (born 1956), singer
Bose, Satyendra Nath - (1894-1974), physicist
Bosin, Blackbear - (1921-1980), native American artist
Bosley, Tom - (born 1927), US actor
Bosman, Herman Charles - (1905-1951), author
Bosnich, Mark - (born 1972), athlete
Bosschaert, Ambrosius - (1573-1612), painter
Bossuet, Jacques Benigne - (1627-1704)
Bossy, Mike - (born 1957), ice hockey player
Bostwick, Barry - (born 1945), actor
Boswell, James - (1740-1795), Scotland
Bothe, Walther - (1891-1957), physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954
Botta, Mario - (born 1943), Swiss architect
Botticelli, Sandro - (1445-1510), Italian painter
Bottiger, Karl - (born 1760)
Bottomley, Horatio - British politician and journalist
Bottoms, Timothy - (born 1951), actor
Botvinnik, Mikhail - (1911-1995), chess player
Bouch, Thomas - (1822-1890), railways
Boucher, Gaetan - Two Olympic Gold and one bronze Medal - 1984
Boudinot, Elias - (1800-1839), Cherokee Indian journalist and publisher
Boudinot, Elias Cornelius - (1835-1890) Confederate Colonel and Congressman
Boukreev, Anatoli - (1958-1997), Russian climber
Boulanger, Lili - (1893-1918), composer
Boulanger, Nadia - (1887-1979), composer
Boulez, Pierre - (born 1925), France avant garde composer
Boulle, Pierre - (1912-1994), French author
Boulmerka, Hassiba - Algerian athlete
Bounds, Leonard Victor - (born 1964), author/statistician
Bourbaki, Nicolas - fictional mathematician serving as a pseudonym for a cabal
Bourchier, Thomas - (c. 1404-1486), Archbishop of Canterbury
Bourdelle, Antoine - (1861-1929), French sculptor
Bourdieu, Pierre - (1930-2002), French philosopher
Bourgeois, Louise - (born 1911), visual artist
Bourke White, Margaret - (born 1906), US aviator
Bourne, Possum - (1956-2003), rally driver
Bournonville, August - (1805-1879)
Bourvil - (1917-1970), (André Raimbourg), actor
Boutros Ghali, Boutros - (born 1922), UN secretary general
Bouvier, Jacqueline - (later Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis), (1929-1994)
Bova, Ben - (born 1932), US science fiction author
Bow, Clara - (1905-1965), US actress
Bowden, Mark - screen writer
Bowditch, Nathaniel - (1773-1838), US mathematician, writer on navigation
Bowdler, Thomas - (born 1754), medical doctor and literary censor
Bowdoin, James - (1726-1790) American intellectual leader and revolutionary
Bowdoin, James III - (1752-1811) American philanthropist and diplomat
Bowe, Riddick - (born 1967), world champion boxer
Bowell, Mackenzie - (1823-1917)
Bowering, George - (born 1935), Canadian writer
Bowering, Marilyn - Canadian writer
Bowersox, Kenneth - astronaut
Bowes Lyon, Elizabeth - (1900-2002), (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), consort of King George VI
Bowie, David - (born 1947), British musician
Bowles, Chester - (died 1986), politician
Bowles, Paul - (1910-1999), novelist
Bowlly, Al - popular vocalist
Bowser, William John - (1867-1933)
Boxer, Barbara - US politician
Boxleitner, Bruce - US actor
Boyce, Max - entertainer
Boyce, William - (born 1711), composer
Boyd, David - Canadian writer
Boyd, George Elroy - Canadian writer
Boyd, John - (1927-1997), inventor of the decision cycle
Boyd, Liona - classical guitarist
Boyd, William - writer
Boye, Karin - Swedish writer
Boyer, Charles - (1897-1978), French actor
Boyington, Pappy - (died 1988), US WW2 fighter pilot
Boyle, Peter - (born 1935), actor
Boyle, Robert - (1627-1691), physicist
Boyle, T. Coraghessan - author of The Road to Wellville, The Tortilla Curtain and A Friend of the Earth
Bozzo, Laura - (born 1950), Peruvian talk show host
Brabham, Jack - (born 1926), Australian race driver
Bracco, Lorraine - (born 1955), actress
Bracero, Rafael - sportscaster
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