Baah, Anthony Kwaku "Rebop" (Ghanaian-born Swedish musician) |
1944-1983 |
Ba, Mariama (Senegalese writer, activist) |
1929-1981 |
Ba, Oumar (Mauritanian historian, poet) |
b.1914 |
Baade, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter (German-born Am. astronomer) |
1893-1960 |
Baader, Franz Xaver von (German Roman Catholic philosopher) |
1765-1841 |
Baader, Johannes (German writer, artist) |
1875-1955 |
Baasha (or Baasa; King of Israel c.900-877 BC) |
9th cent. BC |
Baba Amte (born Murlidhar Devidas Amte; Indian social activist) |
1914-2008 |
Babalola, Solomon Adeboye (Nigerian poet, scholar) |
b.1926 |
Baba Taher "'Oryan" (Persian poet) |
c.1000-1055? |
Babbage, Charles (English mathematician, inventor) |
1792-1871 |
Babbit, Arthur Harold "Art" (Am. animator: Walt Disney Company) |
1907-1992 |
Babbitt, Bruce Edward (American politician) |
b.1938 |
Babbitt, Irving (American scholar, educator) |
1865-1933 |
Babbitt, Isaac (American inventor) |
1799-1862 |
Babbitt, Milton Byron (American composer, theorist) |
1916-2011 |
Babcock, Harold Delos (American astronomer) |
1882-1968 |
Babcock, Orville E. (American army officer) |
1835-1884 |
Babcock, Stephen Moulton (American agricultural chemist) |
1843-1931 |
Babel, Isaac Emmanuilovich (Russian writer) |
1894-1941 |
Babell, William (English organist, composer) |
c.1690-1723 |
Baber, Asa James (American writer, educator) |
1936-2003 |
Babes, Victor (Romanian physician, bacteriologist) |
1854-1926 |
Babeuf, Francois-Noel (pseudonym Gracchus Babeuf; Fr. agitator) |
1760-1797 |
Babic, Ljubomir (pseud. Ksaver Sandor Djalski; Croatian poet) |
1854-1935 |
Babinet, Jacques (French physicist) |
1794-1872 |
Babington, Anthony (English conspirator) |
1561-1586 |
Babinski, Joseph-Francois-Felix (French neurologist) |
1857-1932 |
Babits, Mihaly (Hungarian poet, writer, essayist, translator) |
1883-1941 |
Babo, Joseph Marius von (German dramatist) |
1756-1822 |
Babrius (Italian? writer of Greek fables) |
2nd cent. |
Babs, Alice (born Hildur Alice Nilsson; Swedish singer, actor) |
b.1924 |
Babson, Roger Ward (American financial statistician) |
1875-1967 |
Baburen, Dirck van (Dutch painter) |
c.1590-1624 |
Bacall, Lauren (born Betty Joan Perske; American actor) |
1924-2014 |
Baccelli, Guido (Italian physician, politician) |
1832-1916 |
Bacchelli, Riccardo (Italian critic, writer, dramatist, poet) |
1891-1985 |
Bacchus, Saint (Christian martyr; executed with Sergius) |
d.c.303 |
Bacchylides (Greek lyric poet; nephew of Simonides) |
5th cent. BC |
Baccio d'Agnolo (Florentine wood-carver) |
1462-1543 |
Bach, Alexander von (Austrian politician) |
1813-1893 |
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (German composer; son of J.S.) |
1714-1788 |
Bach, Christoph (German musician; son of Johann) |
1613-1661 |
Bach, Heinrich (German musician; son of Johann) |
1615-1692 |
Bach, Johann(es) "Hans" (German musician) |
c.1550-1626 |
Bach, Johann(es) "Hans" (German musician; son of Johann) |
1604-1673 |
Bach, Johann Ambrosius (Ger. music director; son of Christoph) |
1645-1695 |
Bach, Johann Bernhard (German composer; cousin of J.S. Bach) |
1676-1749 |
Bach, Johann Christian (German organist, composer; son of J.S.) |
1735-1782 |
Bach, Johann Christoph (German organist; son of J. Ambrosius) |
1671-1721 |
Bach, Johann Christoph (Ger. organist, comp.; son of Heinrich) |
1642-1703 |
Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich (German composer; son of J.S.) |
1732-1795 |
Bach, Johann Ludwig (German composer; 2nd cousin of J.S. Bach) |
1677-1731 |
Bach, Johann Michael (German organist, comp.; son of Heinrich) |
1648-1694 |
Bach, Johann Nicolaus (German organist; son of J.C. 1642-1703) |
1669-1753 |
Bach, Johann Sebastian (German organist, composer; son of J.A.) |
1685-1750 |
Bach, Julius Carl von (German engineer) |
1847-1931 |
Bach, Richard David (American writer) |
b.1936 |
Bach, Wilhelm Friedmann (Ger. organist, composer; son of J.S.) |
1710-1784 |
Bach, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst (German composer; son of J.C.F.) |
1759-1845 |
Bachaumont, Francois Le Coigneux de (French politician, wit) |
1624-1702 |
Bachaumont, Louis Petit de (French publicist) |
1690-1771 |
Bache, Alexander Dallas (American physicist) |
1806-1867 |
Bache, Benjamin Franklin (American journalist) |
1769-1798 |
Bachelard, Gaston (French philosopher, literary theorist) |
1884-1962 |
Bacheller, Irving Addison (American journalist, writer) |
1859-1950 |
Bacher, Robert Fox (Am. physicist; Manhattan Project leader) |
1905-2004 |
Bachet, Claude-Gaspar (French mathematician) |
1581-1638 |
Bachman, Charles William (American computer scientist) |
b.1924 |
Bachman, John (American clergyman, naturalist) |
1790-1874 |
Bachmann, Ingeborg (Austrian poet, writer) |
1926-1973 |
Bachofen, Johann Jakob (Swiss jurist, anthropologist) |
1815-1887 |
Back, Frederic (German-born Canadian animator) |
b.1924 |
Back, Sir George (English explorer) |
1796-1878 |
Backhaus, Wilhelm (German pianist) |
1884-1969 |
Backhuysen (or Bakhuysen), Ludolf (Dutch painter, etcher) |
1631-1708 |
Backus, Isaac (American clergyman) |
1724-1806 |
Backus, John Warner (Am. computer scientist; dev. FORTRAN) |
1924-2007 |
Backwell, Edward (English goldsmith, banker) |
d.1683 |
Bacon, Delia Salter (American writer; sister of Leonard) |
1811-1859 |
Bacon, Edmund Norwood (American architect, city planner) |
1910-2005 |
Bacon, Francis (English philosopher, writer) |
1561-1626 |
Bacon, Francis (Irish-born British painter) |
1909-1992 |
Bacon, Henry (American architect) |
1866-1924 |
Bacon, John (American clergyman, politician) |
1738-1820 |
Bacon, John (English sculptor) |
1740-1799 |
Bacon, Leonard (American clergyman; brother of Delia) |
1802-1881 |
Bacon, Leonard (American poet) |
1887-1954 |
Bacon, Nathaniel (English-born American colonial leader) |
1647-1676 |
Bacon, Sir Nicholas (English lawyer) |
1509-1579 |
Bacon, Roger (English philosopher, scientist) |
c.1220-1292 |
Baconthorpe (or Bacon or Bacho), John (English scholar) |
c.1290-1346 |
Badalla, Rosa Giacinta (Italian composer, Benedictine nun) |
c.1660-c.1710 |
Bada'uni, 'Abd al-Qadir (Indo-Persian historian) |
1540-c.1615 |
Baddeley, Robert (English actor) |
c.1732-1794 |
Bade, Josse (Jodocus Badius Ascensius; Flemish printer) |
1462-1537 |
Badeni, Kasimir Felix (Austrian statesman) |
1846-1909 |
Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth (English soldier) |
1857-1941 |
Badin, Stephen Theodore (French-born American clergyman) |
1768-1853 |
Badoglio, Pietro (Italian soldier) |
1871-1956 |
Badr al-Jamali (Fatimid ruler of Egypt) |
d.1094 |
Badr Khani Jaladat (Kurdish leader) |
1893-1951 |
Baeck, Leo (German rabbi, theologian) |
1873-1956 |
Baedeker, Karl (German publisher) |
1801-1859 |
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik (Belgian-born Am. chem.; inv. Bakelite) |
1863-1944 |
Baer, Arthur "Bugs" (American journalist) |
1886-1969 |
Baer, George Frederick (American lawyer, industrialist) |
1842-1914 |
Baer, Karl Ernst von (Estonian-born German embryologist) |
1792-1876 |
Baer, Maximilian Adelbert "Max" (American boxer) |
1909-1959 |
Baer, William Jacob (American painter) |
1860-1941 |
Baertson, Albert (Belgian painter) |
1866-1922 |
Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von (German chemist) |
1835-1917 |
Baez, Buenaventura (Dominican politician) |
1810-1884 |
Baez, Joan (American musician) |
b.1941 |
Baffin, William (English navigator) |
c.1584-1622 |
Bagdikian, Ben Haig (Turkish-born American media critic) |
b.1920 |
Bagehot, Walter (English economist, journalist) |
1826-1877 |
Baggesen, Jens Immanuel (Danish poet) |
1764-1826 |
Bagley, William Chandler (American educator) |
1874-1946 |
Bagnold, Enid (English writer, playwright) |
1889-1981 |
Bagoas (Persian courtier, soldier) |
4th cent. BC |
Bagot, Sir Charles (English diplomat) |
1781-1843 |
Bagration, Pyotr Ivanovich (Russian general) |
1765-1812 |
Bagyidaw (King of Burma 1819-1837; grandson of Bodawpaya) |
19th cent. |
Baha ad-Din Zuhayr (Arab poet) |
1186-1258 |
Baha' Allah (b.Mirza Hoseyn Ali Nuri; Persian religious leader) |
1817-1892 |
Bahar, Mohammad Taqi (Iranian poet) |
1885-1951 |
Bahcall, John Norris (American astrophysicist) |
1934-2005 |
Bahner, Adam Nyerere "Tay Zonday" (American singer, songwriter) |
b.1982 |
Bahr, Hermann (Austrian journ., playwright, theater manager) |
1863-1934 |
Bahrdt, Carl Friedrich (German theologian) |
1741-1792 |
Bahuti, Shaykh Mansur ibn Yunus al- (Egyptian jurist) |
d.1641 |
Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda (Spanish Jewish jurist, writer) |
11th cent. |
Bai (or Baj), Tommaso (Italian tenor, composer) |
c.1650-1714 |
Baif, Jean-Antoine de (French poet) |
1532-1589 |
Baikie, William Balfour (Scottish naturalist, philologist) |
1825-1864 |
Bailar, John Christian III (American biostatistician) |
b.1932 |
Bailey, David Harold (Am. mathematician, computer scientist) |
b.1948 |
Bailey, Derek (English composer, musician) |
1930-2005 |
Bailey, Florence Augusta née Merriam (American ornithologist) |
1863-1948 |
Bailey, Gamaliel (American reformer) |
1807-1859 |
Bailey, Henry Christopher (English writer) |
1878-1961 |
Bailey, James Anthony née McGinniss (American circus owner) |
1847-1906 |
Bailey, James Montgomery (American journalist) |
1841-1894 |
Bailey, Liberty Hyde (American horticulturist, botanist) |
1858-1954 |
Bailey, Nathan (or Nathaniel; English lexicographer) |
d.1742 |
Bailey, Paul (born Peter Harry Bailey; English writer) |
b.1937 |
Bailey, Pearl Mae (American singer) |
1918-1990 |
Bailey, Philip James (Eng. poet; assoc. with spasmodic school) |
1816-1902 |
Bailey, Samuel (English economist, philosopher) |
1791-1870 |
Bailey, Sherwood (Am. actor, civil engineer; Our Gang: "Spud") |
1922-1987 |
Bailey, Solon Irving (American astronomer; sel. Arequipa site) |
1854-1931 |
Baillaud, Edouard Benjamin (French astronomer; asteroid) |
1848-1934 |
Baillie, Lady Grizel née Hume (Scottish poet) |
1665-1746 |
Baillie, Joanna (Scottish dramatist, poet) |
1762-1851 |
Baillie, Matthew (Scottish physician; brother of Joanna) |
1761-1823 |
Baillie, Robert (Scottish clergyman) |
1599-1662 |
Baillie, Robert (Scottish nationalist leader) |
c.1634-1684 |
Baillot, Pierre-Marie-Francois de Sales (French violinist) |
1771-1842 |
Baillou (or Baillon), Guillaume de (Ballonius; Fr. physician) |
1538-1616 |
Bailly, Jean-Sylvain (French astronomer, politician) |
1736-1793 |
Baily, Edward Hodges (English sculptor) |
1788-1867 |
Baily, Francis (English astronomer) |
1774-1844 |
Bain, Alexander (Scottish philosopher, psychologist) |
1818-1903 |
Bainbridge, Beryl Margaret (English writer) |
b.1933 |
Bainbridge, John (English astronomer) |
1582-1643 |
Bainbridge, Kenneth Tompkins (Am physicist; Trinity Test dir.) |
1904-1996 |
Bainbridge, William (American naval officer) |
1774-1833 |
Baines, Thomas (English artist, naturalist, explorer) |
1822-1875 |
Baini, Giuseppe Giacobbe Baldassarre (It. clergyman, composer) |
1775-1844 |
Bainville, Jacques (French publicist, historian) |
1879-1936 |
Baird, Cora née Eisenberg (American puppeteer) |
1912-1967 |
Baird, Sir David (Scottish soldier) |
1757-1829 |
Baird, John Logie (Scottish inventor; father of television) |
1888-1946 |
Baird, John Lawrence (British diplomat, politician) |
1874-1941 |
Baird, Spencer Fullerton (American zoologist) |
1823-1887 |
Baird, Tadeusz (Polish composer, teacher) |
1928-1981 |
Bairnsfather, Charles Bruce (English soldier, cartoonist) |
1888-1959 |
Baize, Paul (French pediatrician, amateur astronomer; asteroid) |
1901-1995 |
Bajer, Fredrik (Danish writer, teacher, politician, pacifist) |
1837-1922 |
Ba Jin (or Pa Chin; pseudonym of Li Feigan; Chinese writer) |
1904-2005 |
Bajza, Jozsef (Hungarian journalist, poet) |
1804-1858 |
Baker, Alan (English mathematician, educator) |
b.1939 |
Baker, Augustine (born David Baker; Welsh religious) |
1575-1641 |
Baker, Sir Benjamin (English civil engineer) |
1840-1907 |
Baker, Carlos Heard (American teacher, writer, critic) |
1909-1987 |
Baker, Chesney Henry Jr. "Chet" (American musician, singer) |
1929-1988 |
Baker, George "Father Divine" (American religious leader) |
1877-1965 |
Baker, George (American cartoonist) |
1915-1975 |
Baker, George Fisher (American financier) |
1840-1931 |
Baker, George Pierce (American educator) |
1866-1935 |
Baker, Henry (English naturalist) |
1698-1774 |
Baker, Houston Alfred Jr. (American educator, critic) |
b.1943 |
Baker, Sir Herbert (English architect) |
1862-1946 |
Baker, James Addison (American politician) |
b.1930 |
Baker, Joesphine (born Freda J. McDonald; American entertainer) |
1906-1975 |
Baker, Newton Diehl (American lawyer, politician) |
1871-1937 |
Baker, Peter "Ginger" (English musician) |
b.1940 |
Baker, Ray Stannard (pseudonym David Grayson; Am. journalist) |
1870-1946 |
Baker, Sir Richard (English writer) |
c.1568-1645 |
Baker, Russell Wayne (American newspaper columnist, writer) |
b.1925 |
Baker, Sir Samuel White (English explorer in Africa) |
1821-1893 |
Baker, Sara Josephine (American pediatrician) |
1873-1945 |
Baker, Valentine (English soldier; brother of Samuel) |
1827-1887 |
Baker, William Oliver (Am. chemist, businessman: Bell Labs) |
1915-2005 |
Bakewell, Robert (English agriculturist) |
1725-1795 |
Bakht Khan (Indian soldier, rebel) |
c.1797-1859 |
Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (Russian philosopher, critic) |
1895-1975 |
Bakhuizen van den Brink, Reiner Cornelis (Dutch hist., writer) |
1810-1865 |
Baki (Mahmud Abdulbaki; Turkish poet) |
1526-1600 |
Bakin, Kyokutei (Japanese writer) |
1767-1849 |
Bakker, James Orsen "Jim" (American evangelist) |
b.1939 |
Bakker, Tammy Faye née LaValley (American evangelist) |
1942-2007 |
Bakshi, Ralph (British Palestine-born Am. animation director) |
b.1938 |
Bakst, Leon (born Lev Samoylovich Rosenberg; Russian artist) |
1866-1924 |
Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (Russian anarchist, writer) |
1814-1876 |
Balada, Leonardo (Spanish-born American composer, teacher) |
b.1933 |
Baladhuri, Ahmad ibn Yahya al- (Arab historian) |
d.c.892 |
Balaguer i Cirera, Victor (Spanish poet, politician, historian) |
1824-1901 |
Balakauskas, Osvaldas (Lithuanian composer, educator) |
b.1937 |
Balakirev, Mily Alekseyevich (Russian composer) |
1837-1910 |
Balanchine, George (Russian-born American choreographer) |
1904-1983 |
Balard, Antoine-Jerome (French chemist) |
1802-1876 |
Balash (or Valakhsh; King of Iran 484-488 of Sasanian dynasty) |
5th cent. |
Balassi (or Balassa), Balint (Hungarian lyric poet) |
1554-1594 |
Balban (Sultan of Slave Dynasty of Delhi 1266-1287) |
d.1287 |
Balbi, Adriano (Italian geographer) |
1782-1848 |
Balbinus, Decimus Caelius Calvinus (Roman emperor 238) |
d.238 |
Balbo, Cesare (Conte di Vinadio; Italian politician, writer) |
1789-1853 |
Balbo, Italo (Italian aviator, politician) |
1896-1940 |
Balboa, Vasco Nunez de (Spanish explorer, conquistador) |
1475-1519 |
Balbuena, Bernardo de (Spanish poet, prelate) |
1568-1627 |
Balbus, Lucius Cornelius "Major" (Roman politician) |
1st cent. BC |
Balch, Emily Greene (American economist, sociologist) |
1867-1961 |
Balchin, Nigel Martin (English writer) |
1908-1970 |
Balcon, Sir Michael (English film producer) |
1896-1977 |
Balderston, John Lloyd (American playwright) |
1889-1954 |
Baldinucci, Filippo (Florentine art historian) |
c.1624-1696 |
Baldomir, Alfredo (Uruguayan soldier, polit.; pres. 1938-43) |
1884-1948 |
Baldovinetti, Alesso (or Alessio; Florentine painter) |
1425?-1499 |
Baldry, John William "Long John" (English-born Can. musician) |
1941-2005 |
Baldung, Hans "Hans Grien" (German painter, engraver, designer) |
c.1484-1545 |
Baldwin I (Emperor of Constantinople 1204-1205) |
1172-1205 |
Baldwin II (Emperor of Constantinople 1228-1261) |
1217-1273 |
Baldwin (Count of Luxembourg; French prelate, politician) |
d.1354 |
Baldwin, Abraham (American politician) |
1754-1807 |
Baldwin, Craig (American filmmaker) |
b.1952 |
Baldwin, Frank Stephen (American calculator inventor) |
1838-1925 |
Baldwin, Henry (Am. jurist; Supreme Court justice 1830-1844) |
1780-1844 |
Baldwin, James Arthur (American essayist, writer, playwright) |
1924-1987 |
Baldwin, James Mark (American psychologist) |
1861-1934 |
Baldwin, Loammi (American civil engineer, apple grower) |
1745-1807 |
Baldwin, Loammi (American civil engineer; son of Loammi) |
1780-1838 |
Baldwin, Matthias William (American locomotive industrialist) |
1795-1866 |
Baldwin, Robert (Canadian politician) |
1804-1858 |
Baldwin, Roger Nash (American reformer; ACLU founder) |
1884-1981 |
Baldwin, Stanley (English politician) |
1867-1947 |
Bale, John (English prelate, writer) |
1495-1563 |
Balen, Hendrick van (Flemish painter) |
1575-1632 |
Balenciaga, Cristobal (Spanish couturier) |
1895-1972 |
Bales, Peter (Balesius; English calligrapher) |
1547-c.1610 |
Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa (Nigerian politician) |
1912-1966 |
Balfe, Michael William (Irish composer, singer) |
1808-1870 |
Balfour, Arthur James (British politician) |
1848-1930 |
Balfour, Francis Maitland (British zoologist; brother of A.J.) |
1851-1882 |
Balfour of Pittendreich, Sir James (Scottish jurist) |
c.1525-1583 |
Balfour, Robert (Scottish philosopher) |
1550-1625? |
Baliol, Edward de (Scottish king 1332-1356; son of John) |
d.1364 |
Baliol, John de (Scottish king 1292-1296) |
1249-1315 |
Ball, Albert (English airman) |
1896-1917 |
Ball, Sir Alexander John (British naval officer) |
1757-1809 |
Ball, Frances "Mother Frances Mary Theresa" (English religious) |
1794-1861 |
Ball, Harvey R. (Am. advertiser; designed Smiley Face, 1963) |
1921-2001 |
Ball, Hugo (German writer, actor; a founder of Dadaism) |
1886-1927 |
Ball, John (English rebel) |
d.1381 |
Ball, John (Irish alpinist, politician) |
1818-1889 |
Ball, John (British golfer) |
1861-1940 |
Ball, Lucille Desiree (American actor) |
1911-1989 |
Ball, Roland Sherwood "Ernie" (Am. businessman: guitar strings) |
1930-2004 |
Ball, Thomas (American sculptor) |
1819-1911 |
Balla, Giacomo (Italian artist) |
1871-1958 |
Ballance, John (Irish-born New Zealand politician) |
1839-1893 |
Ballanche, Pierre-Simon (French philosopher) |
1776-1847 |
Ballantine, Bill O. (Am. illustrator, clown, writer, educator) |
1910-1999 |
Ballantine, William (English lawyer) |
1812-1887 |
Ballantyne, James (Scottish printer) |
1772-1833 |
Ballantyne, Robert Michael (Scottish writer) |
1825-1894 |
Ballard, Christophe (French music printer; son of Robert II) |
1641-1715 |
Ballard, Christophe-Jean-Francois (French music printer) |
d.1765 |
Ballard, James Graham (Shanghai-born British writer) |
1930-2009 |
Ballard, Jean-Baptiste-Christophe (French music printer) |
1663-1750 |
Ballard, Pierre (French music printer; son of Robert) |
d.1639 |
Ballard, Pierre-Robert-Christophe (French music printer) |
d.1812 |
Ballard, Robert (French music printer) |
d.1588 |
Ballard, Robert II (French music printer; son of Pierre) |
d.1673 |
Ballin, Albert (German ship owner) |
1857-1918 |
Ballinger, Richard Achilles (American lawyer) |
1858-1922 |
Ballivian, Adolfo (Bolivian soldier, statesman, diplomat) |
1831-1874 |
Ballivian, Jose (Bolivian general, politician; pres. 1841-47) |
1805-1852 |
Ballmer, Steven Anthony (Am. businessman: Microsoft Corp. CEO) |
b.1956 |
Ballou, Adin (American clergyman) |
1803-1890 |
Ballou, Hosea (American clergyman) |
1771-1852 |
Balluet d'Estournelles, Paul-Henri-Benjamin (Fr. polit., dipl.) |
1852-1924 |
Balmaceda, Jose Manuel (Chilean politician; president 1886-91) |
1840-1891 |
Balmer, Johann Jakob (Swiss mathematician, physicist) |
1825-1898 |
Balmes, Jaime Luciano (Spanish philosopher) |
1810-1848 |
Balmont, Konstantin Dmitriyevich (Russian Symbolist poet) |
1867-1943 |
Balnaves, Henry (Scottish politician) |
c.1512-1579 |
Balodis, Janis (Latvian soldier, politician) |
1881-1965 |
Balog, James (American photographer) |
b.1952 |
Balon (or Ballon), Jean (French ballet dancer) |
1676-1739 |
Balsamon, Theodore (Byzantine legal scholar, prelate) |
c.1105-c.1195 |
Balta, Jose (Peruvian soldier, politician; president 1868-72) |
1814-1872 |
Baltard, Victor (French architect) |
1805-1874 |
Baltimore, David (American microbiologist) |
b.1938 |
Balue, Jean (French prelate, politician) |
c.1421-1491 |
Baluze, Etienne (French historian) |
1630-1718 |
Balzac, Honore de (born Honore Balssa; French writer) |
1799-1850 |
Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez de (French man of letters, critic) |
1597-1654 |
Ba Maw (Burmese politician) |
1893-1977 |
Bambara, Toni Cade (b.Toni Cade; Am. writer, activist, teacher) |
b.1939 |
Bamberger, Ludwig (German politician, economist) |
1823-1899 |
Bamford, Samuel (English reformer, poet) |
1788-1872 |
Bampton, John (English clergyman) |
1690?-1751 |
Bana (aka Banabhatta; Sanskrit writer) |
7th cent. |
Banach, Stefan (Polish mathematician) |
1892-1945 |
Banai, Yossi (Israeli musician, actor, comedian) |
1932-2006 |
Bances y Lopez-Candamo, Francisco Antonio de (Spanish poet) |
1662-1704 |
Banchieri, Adriano (born Tomaso; Italian composer, theorist) |
1568-1634 |
Bancroft, Edward (American scientist, secret agent) |
1744-1821 |
Bancroft, George (American historian, statesman) |
1800-1891 |
Bancroft, Hubert Howe (American historian) |
1832-1918 |
Bancroft, Richard (English prelate; archbishop of Canterbury) |
1544-1610 |
Bancroft, Sir Squire (English actor, theater manager) |
1841-1926 |
Bancroft, Wilder Dwight (American chemist) |
1867-1953 |
Bandaranaike, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias (Ceylonese politician) |
1899-1959 |
Banda Singh Bahadur (aka Lachman Das; Sikh military leader) |
1670-1716 |
Bandeira, Manuel (Brazilian poet, translator, educator) |
1886-1968 |
Bandel, Ernst von (German sculptor) |
1800-1876 |
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse (Swiss-born Am. explorer) |
1840-1914 |
Bandello, Matteo (Italian monk, soldier, writer) |
1485-1561 |
Bandeira Filho, Manuel Carneirode Sousa (Braz. poet, essayist) |
1886-1968 |
Bandiera, Attilio (Italian patriot) |
1810-1844 |
Bandiera, Emilio (Italian patriot; brother of Attilio) |
1819-1844 |
Bandinelli, Baccio (or Bartolommeo; Florentine sculptor) |
1493?-1560 |
Bando Mitsugoro VIII (born Morita Toshiro; Japanese actor) |
1906-1975 |
Bandula, Maha (Burmese general) |
d.1825 |
Baner, Johan (Swedish general) |
1596-1641 |
Banerjea, Sir Surendranath (Indian politician) |
1848-1925 |
Banerjee, Tarashankar (Indian writer) |
1898-1971 |
Banerji, Bibhuti Bhusan (Bengali writer) |
1894-1950 |
Banfield, Raffaello de (English composer, theater director) |
1922-2008 |
Bang, Bernhard Lauritz Frederik (Danish veterinarian) |
1848-1932 |
Bang, Billy (b. William Vincent Walker; Am. musician, composer) |
1947-2011 |
Bang, Hermann Joachim (Danish writer) |
1857-1912 |
Bang Klang Thao "Sri Indraditya" (Thai chieftain) |
fl. 1220-1250 |
Bangs, John Kendrick (American humorist) |
1862-1922 |
Bangs, Lester (American rock music journalist) |
1948-1982 |
Banhart, Devendra (American singer, songwriter, musician) |
b.1981 |
Banim, John (Irish poet, playwright, writer) |
1798-1842 |
Banim, Michael (Irish writer; brother of John) |
1796-1874 |
Banister, John (English musician, composer) |
c.1625-1679 |
Bankes, Sir John (English jurist) |
1589-1644 |
Bankhead, Tallulah Brockman (Am. actor; daughter of W.B.) |
1903-1968 |
Bankhead, William Brockman (American politician) |
1874-1940 |
Banks, Isabella née Varley "Mrs. Linnaeus Banks" (Eng. writer) |
1821-1897 |
Banks, Sir Joseph (English naturalist) |
1743-1820 |
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss (American politician, army officer) |
1816-1894 |
Banks, Russell (American writer) |
b.1940 |
Banks, Thomas (English sculptor) |
1735-1805 |
Bannatyne, George (Scottish anthologist) |
1545-1608? |
Banneker, Benjamin (American mathematician, astronomer) |
1731-1806 |
Banting, Sir Frederick Grant (Canadian physician) |
1891-1941 |
Bantock, Sir Granville (English composer) |
1868-1946 |
Banvard, John (American painter, writer) |
1815-1891 |
Banville, Etienne-Claude-Jean-Baptiste-Theodore de (Fr. writer) |
1823-1891 |
Banville, John (Irish writer, literary editor: The Irish Times) |
b.1945 |
Baour Lormian, Pierre-Marie-Francois-Louis (Fr. poet, dram.) |
1770-1854 |
Baptie, Norval (American athlete) |
c.1879-1966 |
Baptista, Cyro (Brazilian musician, teacher) |
b.1950 |
Baptiste the Elder (born Nicolas Anselme; French actor) |
1761-1835 |
Baquerizo Moreno, Alfredo (Ecuadorian politician) |
1859-1951 |
Baquero y Diaz, Gaston (Cuban poet, critic, journalist) |
1918-1997 |
Bar, Francois de (French historiographer) |
1538-1606 |
Bara, Theda (born Theodosia Goodman; American actor) |
1885-1955 |
Baraka, Imamu Amiri (b.Everett LeRoi Jones; Am. poet, writer) |
b.1934 |
Baraguay d'Hilliers, Achille (French army commander) |
1795-1878 |
Baraguay d'Hilliers, Louis (French general; father of Achille) |
1764-1813 |
Barahona de Sota, Luis (Spanish poet) |
1548?-1595 |
Baran, Paul (Polish-born American electrical engineer) |
1926-2011 |
Baran, Paul Alexander (Russian-born Am. Marxist economist) |
1910-1964 |
Baranauskas, Antanas (Lithuanian prelate, writer) |
1835-1902 |
Barani (or Barni), Ziya'-ud-Din (Indian Muslim historian) |
1285-1357? |
Baranov, Aleksandr Andreyevich (Russian fur trader, governor) |
1746-1819 |
Barany, Robert (Austrian physician) |
1876-1936 |
Barat, Saint Madeleine-Sophie (French religious) |
1779-1865 |
Baratieri, Oreste (Italian general) |
1841-1901 |
Baratynsky (or Boratynsky), Yevgeny Abramovich (Russian poet) |
1800-1844 |
Barbara, Saint (Christian virgin martyr) |
d.c.200 |
Barbari, Jacopo de' (Venetian painter, engraver) |
1440-1516 |
Barbarino, Bartolomeo "Il Pesarino" (Italian composer, singer) |
c.1568-c.1617 |
Barbauld, Anna Letitia née Aikin (English writer, poet, editor) |
1743-1825 |
Barbeitos, Arlindo do Carmo Pires (Angolan poet) |
b.1940 |
Barbe-Marbois, Francois de (French politician) |
1745-1837 |
Barber, Donn (American architect) |
1871-1925 |
Barber, Samuel Osborne II (American composer) |
1910-1981 |
Barber, Theodore Xenophon (American psychologist) |
1917-2005 |
Barbera, Joseph Roland "Joe" (Am. animator, cartoon artist) |
1911-2006 |
Barberi, Domenico "Dominic of the Mother of God" (It. relig.) |
1792-1849 |
Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules-Amedee (French writer, critic) |
1808-1889 |
Barbie, Klaus (German Nazi leader) |
1913-1991 |
Barbier, Antoine-Alexandre (French bibliographer) |
1765-1825 |
Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco "Il Guercino" (Italian painter) |
1591-1666 |
Barbirolli, Sir John (born Giovanni Battista; Brit. conductor) |
1899-1970 |
Barbon, Nicholas (English economist) |
c.1640-1698 |
Barbon, Praise-God "Barebone" (English clergyman) |
c.1596-1680? |
Barbosa, Jorge Vera-Cruz (Cape Verdean poet) |
1902-1971 |
Barbou, Jean (French printer) |
1490-1543 |
Barbou, Jean-Joseph (French printer) |
1683-1752 |
Barbou, Joseph-Gerard (French printer; nephew of Jean-Joseph) |
1715-1813 |
Barbou, Hugues (French printer; son of Jean) |
1538-1603 |
Barbour, Ian Graeme (China-born American scholar, teacher) |
b.1923 |
Barbour, James (American politician; brother of Philip) |
1775-1842 |
Barbour (or Barbere or Barbier), John (Scottish poet) |
1325?-1395 |
Barbour, Philip Pendleton (Am. Supreme Court justice 1836-1841) |
1783-1841 |
Barbusse, Henri (French editor, writer) |
1873-1935 |
Barclay, Alexander (Scottish-born? British priest, poet) |
c.1476-1552 |
Barclay, Florence Louisa née Charlesworth (English writer) |
1862-1921 |
Barclay, Sir George (British conspirator) |
fl. 1696 |
Barclay, John (Scottish satirical poet) |
1582-1621 |
Barclay, John (Scottish clergyman) |
1734-1798 |
Barclay, Robert (Scottish Quaker) |
1648-1690 |
Barclay de Tolly, Mikhail Bogdanovich (Russian field marshal) |
1761-1818 |
Bard, Allen J. (American electrochemist) |
b.1933 |
Bard, John (American physician) |
1716-1799 |
Bard, Samuel (American physician; son of John) |
1742-1821 |
Bard, William (American insurance executive; son of Samuel) |
1778-1853 |
Bardeen, John (American physicist; co-invented transistor) |
1908-1991 |
Bardesanes (or Bardaisan; Syrian Christian poet, theologian) |
154-c.222 |
Bardi, Giovanni (Italian scholar, music patron) |
1534-1612 |
Bardiya (aka Smerdis; Persian noble; son of Cyrus the Great) |
6th cent. BC |
Bardot, Brigitte Anne-Marie (French actor, singer, activist) |
b.1934 |
Bardsley, Warren (Australian cricketer) |
1884-1954 |
Baren (or Pa Jen; pseudonym of Wang Renshu; Chinese writer) |
1901-1972 |
Barenboim, Daniel (Argentinian-born pianist, conductor) |
b.1942 |
Barents, Willem (Dutch navigator) |
c.1550-1597 |
Barere de Vieuzac, Bertrand (French revolutionist) |
1755-1841 |
Baretti, Giuseppe Marc'Antonio (Italian critic) |
1719-1789 |
Bargeld, Blixa (b. Christian Emmerich; German composer, writer) |
b.1959 |
Barghash ibn Sa'id (Sultan of Zanzibar 1870-1888) |
c.1834-1888 |
Bargonne, Frederic-Charles (pseud. Claude Farrere; Fr. writer) |
1876-1957 |
Barham, Richard Harris (pseud. Thomas Ingoldsby; Eng. writer) |
1788-1845 |
Bar Hebraeus (aka ibn al-'Ibri; Abu al-Faraj; Syrian scholar) |
1226-1286 |
Bari, Judi (American environmentalist, labor leader) |
1949-1997 |
Baring, Alexander (English financier, diplomat; son of Francis) |
1774-1848 |
Baring, Charles Thomas (English prelate; grandson of Francis) |
1807-1879 |
Baring, Edward Charles (English banker; grandson of Francis) |
1828-1897 |
Baring, Evelyn (British diplomat; grandson of Francis) |
1841-1917 |
Baring, Sir Francis (English banker) |
1740-1810 |
Baring, Sir Francis Thornhill (Eng. pol.; grandson of Francis) |
1796-1866 |
Baring, Maurice (English journalist, writer; son of Edward) |
1874-1945 |
Baring, Thomas George (English statesman; son of Sir F.T.) |
1826-1904 |
Baring-Gould, Sabine (English writer) |
1834-1924 |
Barker, Clive (English writer) |
b.1952 |
Barker, Sir Ernest (English historian) |
1874-1960 |
Barker, George Granville (English poet, teacher) |
1913-1991 |
Barker, Lady Mary Anne née Stewart "Lady Broome" (Jam. writer) |
1831-1911 |
Barker, Pat (English writer) |
b.1943 |
Barker, Robert (Irish painter) |
1739-1806 |
Barker, Robert William "Bob" (American game show host) |
b.1923 |
Barker, Thomas (English painter) |
1769-1847 |
Barkhausen, Heinrich (German physicist, electrical engineer) |
1881-1956 |
Barkla, Charles Glover (English physicist) |
1877-1944 |
Barkley, Alben William (Am. politician, vice-president 1949-53) |
1877-1956 |
Barkly, Sir Henry (English colonial governor) |
1815-1898 |
Barlaam the Calabrian (Italo-Greek prelate, theologian) |
c.1290-c.1350 |
Barlach, Ernst (German sculptor, playwright, poet) |
1870-1938 |
Barlow, Joel (American poet, diplomat; Hartford Wit) |
1754-1812 |
Barlow, John Perry (American rancher, writer, lecturer) |
b.1947 |
Barlow, Peter (English mathematician, optician) |
1776-1862 |
Barnabas, Saint (Apostolic Father of church) |
1st cent. |
Barnack, Oskar (German engineer) |
1879-1936 |
Barnard, Lady Anne née Lindsay (Scottish writer) |
1750-1825 |
Barnard, Chester Irving (American businessman, sociologist) |
1886-1961 |
Barnard, Christiaan Neethling (South African surgeon) |
b.1922 |
Barnard, Edward Emerson "E.R." (American astronomer; asteroid) |
1857-1923 |
Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter (American educator) |
1809-1889 |
Barnard, George Grey (American sculptor) |
1863-1938 |
Barnard, Henry (American educator) |
1811-1900 |
Barnardo, Thomas John (Irish-born British physician) |
1845-1905 |
Barnato, Barney (born Barnett Isaacs; English speculator) |
1852-1897 |
Barnave, Antoine-Pierre-Joseph-Marie (French politician) |
1761-1793 |
Barnes, Barnabe (English lyric poet) |
1569?-1609 |
Barnes, Clive Alexander (British-born American writer, critic) |
1927-2008 |
Barnes, Djuna (American writer, painter) |
1892-1982 |
Barnes, Ernest William (English clergyman, mathematician) |
1874-1953 |
Barnes, George Nicoll (Scottish-born British labor leader) |
1859-1940 |
Barnes, Julian Patrick (English television critic, writer) |
b.1946 |
Barnes (or Bernes or Berners), Juliana (Eng. religious, writer) |
15th cent. |
Barnes, Robert (English martyr) |
1495-1540 |
Barnes, Thomas (English journalist) |
1785-1841 |
Barnes, William (English poet, philologist, clergyman) |
1801-1886 |
Barnet, Miguel (Cuban writer, poet, essayist) |
b.1940 |
Barnett, John (English singer, composer) |
1802-1890 |
Barnett, John Francis (Eng. pianist, composer; nephew of John) |
1837-1916 |
Barnett, Samuel Augustus (English clergyman) |
1844-1913 |
Barney, Joshua (American naval officer) |
1759-1818 |
Barney, Natalie Clifford (American literary figure, writer) |
1876-1972 |
Barnfield, Richard (English poet) |
1574-1627 |
Barnhardt, Robert Knox (American lexicographer) |
1933-2007 |
Barnum, Phineas Taylor (American showman) |
1810-1891 |
Barocci (or Baroccio), Federico (Fiori da Urbino; It. painter) |
c.1526-1612 |
Baroja y Nessi, Pio (Spanish writer) |
1872-1956 |
Baron, Devorah (Belorussian-born Israeli writer) |
1887-1956 |
Baron, Jacques (French poet, critic, writer) |
1905-1986 |
Baron, Michel (born Michel Boyron; French actor) |
1653-1729 |
Baroni, Leonora (Italian singer, musician, composer) |
1611-1670 |
Baronio, Cesare (Italian ecclesiastical historian) |
1538-1607 |
Barozzi, Giacomo "Giacomo da Vignola" (Italian architect) |
1507-1573 |
Barr, Amelia Edith née Huddleston (English-born Am. writer) |
1831-1919 |
Barr, Archibald (Scottish engineer, inventor) |
1855-1931 |
Barr, William Pelham (American statesman) |
b.1950 |
Barra, Francisco Leon de la (Mexican diplomat, politician) |
1863-1939 |
Barrande, Joachim (French geologist, paleontologist) |
1799-1883 |
Barraque, Jean-Henri-Alphonse (French composer) |
1928-1973 |
Barras, Paul-Francois-Jean-Nicolas de (French revolutionist) |
1755-1829 |
Barrell, Joseph (American geologist) |
1869-1919 |
Barrere, Camille-Eugene-Pierre (French diplomat) |
1851-1940 |
Barres, Auguste-Maurice (French writer, politician) |
1862-1923 |
Barrett, Andrea (American writer, teacher) |
b.1954 |
Barrett, Charles Simon (American organizer of farmers) |
1866-1935 |
Barrett, Craig Radford (American businessman, engineer; Intel) |
b.1939 |
Barrett, Roger Keith "Syd" (English musician) |
b.1946 |
Barrett, John (American journalist, diplomat) |
1866-1938 |
Barrett, Lawrence (American actor) |
1838-1891 |
Barrett, Wilson (English actor, playwright, theater manager) |
1846-1904 |
Barrette, J. Roy W. (English-born Am. insurance executive) |
1897-1995 |
Barrie, Sir James Matthew (Scottish writer, dramatist) |
1860-1937 |
Barrington, Daines (English lawyer, naturalist; son of John) |
1717-1800 |
Barrington, George (born George Waldron; Irish adventurer) |
1755-1804 |
Barrington, John Shute (born John Shute; Eng. lawyer, polit.) |
1678-1734 |
Barrington, Samuel (English naval officer; son of John) |
1729-1800 |
Barrington, Shute (English prelate; son of John) |
1734-1826 |
Barrington, William Wildman (English politician; son of John) |
1717-1793 |
Barrios, Eduardo (Chilean writer) |
1884-1963 |
Barrios, Justo Rufino (Guatemalan general, politician) |
1835-1885 |
Barron, Bill (American musician) |
1927-1989 |
Barron, Charlotte May née Wind "Bebe" (American composer) |
1925-2008 |
Barron, Clarence Walker (American editor, publisher) |
1855-1928 |
Barron, Frank Xavier (American research psychologist) |
1922-2002 |
Barron, James (American naval officer) |
1768-1851 |
Barron, Kenneth "Kenny" (American musician) |
b.1943 |
Barron, Louis (American electronic engineer, composer) |
1920-1989 |
Barros, Joao de (Portuguese historian) |
c.1496-1570 |
Barros Arana, Diego (Chilean historian) |
1830-1907 |
Barros Luco, Ramon (Chilean politician; president 1910-1915) |
1835-1919 |
Barrot, Camille-Hyacinthe-Odilon (French politician) |
1791-1873 |
Barrow (or Barrowe), Henry (English church reformer, martyr) |
c.1550-1593 |
Barrow, Isaac (English prelate) |
1614-1680 |
Barrow, Isaac (English divine, scholar, mathematician) |
1630-1677 |
Barrow, Sir John (English traveler) |
1764-1848 |
Barrow, John David (Eng. cosmologist, physicist, mathematician) |
b.1952 |
Barry, Ann née Street (Irish actor; wife of Spranger) |
1734-1801 |
Barry, Sir Charles (English architect) |
1795-1860 |
Barry, Dave (American humorist) |
b.1947 |
Barry, Edward Middleton (English architect; son of Sir Charles) |
1830-1880 |
Barry, Elizabeth (English actor) |
1658-1713 |
Barry, James (Irish historical painter) |
1741-1806 |
Barry, Jeanne du née Becu (Comtesse du Barry; French courtier) |
1743-1793 |
Barry, John (Irish-born American naval officer) |
1745-1803 |
Barry, John (b.John Barry Prendergast; English composer) |
1933-2011 |
Barry, Sir John Wolfe Wolfe- (Eng. civil eng.; son of Charles) |
1836-1918 |
Barry, Leonora Marie née Learney (Irish-born Am. labor leader) |
1849-1930 |
Barry, Lynda (American cartoonist) |
b.1956 |
Barry, Martin (English physician, embryologist) |
1802-1855 |
Barry, Philip James Quinn (American playwright) |
1896-1949 |
Barry, Sir Redmond (Irish colonial judge in Australia) |
1813-1880 |
Barry, Spranger (Irish actor) |
1719-1777 |
Barrymore, Ethel (Am. actor; daughter of Maurice & Georgiana) |
1879-1959 |
Barrymore, Georgiana Emma née Drew (Am. actor; wife of M.) |
1854-1893 |
Barrymore, John (American actor; son of Maurice & Georgiana) |
1882-1942 |
Barrymore, Lionel (American actor; son of Maurice & Georgiana) |
1878-1954 |
Barrymore, Maurice (born Herbert Blythe; American actor) |
1847-1905 |
Bar-Salibi, Jacob (Syrian prelate, theologian) |
d.1171 |
Bar Sauma, Rabban (Turk. Nestorian Christian prelate, traveler) |
c.1220-1294 |
Barsotti, Charles (Italian-born American newspaper editor) |
1850-1927 |
Barstow, Stanley "Stan" (English writer, playwright) |
b.1928 |
Bart (or Barth), Jean (French privateer, naval officer) |
1650-1702 |
Bartas, Guillaume de Sallustre, Seigneur du (French poet) |
1544-1590 |
Bartel, Paul (American director, writer, actor) |
1938-2000 |
Bartenstein, Johann Christoph von (Austrian statesman) |
1689-1767 |
Barth, Heinrich (German explorer) |
1821-1865 |
Barth, John Simmons (American writer) |
b.1930 |
Barth, Karl (Swedish theologian) |
1886-1968 |
Barth, Paul (German philosopher, sociologist) |
1858-1922 |
Barth, Thomas Fredrik Weiby (Norwegian petrologist, geochemist) |
1899-1971 |
Barthelemy, Auguste Marseille (French poet, satirist) |
1796-1867 |
Barthelemy, Francois de (French politician) |
1747-1830 |
Barthelemy, Jean-Jacques (French abbe, scholar) |
1716-1795 |
Barthelemy-Saint-Hilaire, Jules (Fr. journalist, philosopher) |
1805-1895 |
Barthelme, Donald (American writer) |
1931-1989 |
Barthelme, Frederick (American writer; brother of Donald) |
b.1943 |
Barthes, Roland Gerard (French semiologist, critic, teacher) |
1915-1980 |
Barthez, Paul-Joseph (French physician, philosopher) |
1734-1806 |
Bartholdi, Frederic-Auguste (French sculptor) |
1834-1904 |
Bartholin, Caspar Berthelsen (Bartholinus; Danish physician) |
1585-1629 |
Bartholin, Erasmus (Danish physician, mathematician, physicist) |
1625-1698 |
Bartholin, Thomas (Danish physician, math.; son of Caspar) |
1616-1680 |
Bartholomaeus Anglicus (English Franciscan friar) |
fl. c.1220-1240 |
Bartholome, Paul-Albert (French sculptor) |
1848-1928 |
Bartholomew, Saint (Christian apostle) |
1st cent. |
Bartholomew, John George (Scottish cartographer) |
1860-1920 |
Barthou, Jean-Louis (French politician) |
1862-1934 |
Bartik, Jean Jennings (American computer programmer: ENIAC) |
1924-2011 |
Bartlett, Sir Frederic Charles (English psychologist) |
1886-1969 |
Bartlett, John (American publisher, editor, bookseller ) |
1820-1905 |
Bartlett, John Russell (American bibliographer, librarian) |
1805-1886 |
Bartlett, Josiah (American physician, Revolutionary leader) |
1729-1795 |
Bartlett, Paul Wayland (American sculptor) |
1865-1925 |
Bartlett, Robert Abram "Captain Bob" (Can.-born Am. explorer) |
1875-1946 |
Bartok, Bela Viktor Janos (Hungarian composer, pianist) |
1881-1945 |
Bartold, Vasily Vladimirovich (Russian anthropologist) |
1869-1930 |
Bartoli, Adolfo (Italian literary scholar) |
1833-1894 |
Bartoli, Daniello (Italian religious, historian) |
1608-1685 |
Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (Italian linguist) |
1873-1946 |
Bartolini, Lorenzo (Italian sculptor) |
1777-1850 |
Bartolo of Saxoferrato (Bartolus; Italian jurist) |
1314-1357 |
Bartolommeo, Fra (Baccio della Porta; Florentine painter) |
1472-1517 |
Bartolozzi, Francesco (Italian engraver) |
1727-1815 |
Barton, Andrew (Scottish naval officer) |
d.1511 |
Barton, Bernard (English poet) |
1784-1849 |
Barton, Bruce (American businessman, writer, politician) |
1886-1967 |
Barton, Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" (Am. fdr. American Red Cross) |
1821-1912 |
Barton, Sir Derek Harold Richard (English organic chemist) |
1918-1998 |
Barton, Sir Edmund (Australian politician) |
1849-1920 |
Barton, Elizabeth "the Maid/Nun of Kent" (English prophet) |
c.1506-1534 |
Barton, Jacqueline K. (American biophysical chemist) |
b.1952 |
Bartos, Karl (German musician, songwriter) |
b.1952 |
Bartosch, Berthold (Bohemian filmmaker, animator) |
1893-1968 |
Bartram, John (American botanist) |
1699-1777 |
Bartram, William (American naturalist; son of John) |
1739-1823 |
Bartsch, Karl (German philologist, critic) |
1832-1888 |
Bartsch, Rudolf Hans (Austrian writer) |
1873-1952 |
Baruch, Bernard Mannes (American businessman, statesman) |
1870-1965 |
Barwick, John (English clergyman) |
1612-1664 |
Baryatinski, Aleksandr Ivanovich (Russian field marshal) |
1814-1879 |
Barye, Antoine-Louis (French sculptor) |
1795-1875 |
Barylovicz, Dimitry "Dosoftei" (Moldavian prelate) |
1624-1693/1705 |
Baryshnikov, Mikhail (Latvian-born American ballet dancer) |
b.1948 |
Barzun, Jacques Martin (French-born American writer, educator) |
b.1907 |
Basanavicius, Jonas (Lithuanian scholar, politician) |
1851-1927 |
Basasiri, al- (Buyid military commander) |
d.1060 |
Basava (Indian religious reformer) |
12th cent. |
Basavan (Mughal painter) |
16th cent. |
Baschet, Marcel (French painter) |
1862-1941 |
Basedow, Johann Bernhard (German educational reformer) |
1724-1790 |
Basehart, John Richard (American actor) |
1914-1984 |
Bashir Shihab II (Lebanese ruler) |
1767-1850 |
Bashkirtseff, Marie (Russian painter, diarist) |
1860-1884 |
Basie, William James "Count" (American bandleader, composer) |
1904-1984 |
Basil, Saint (aka Basilius; Cappadocian church father) |
c.329-379 |
Basil I "the Macedonian" (Eastern Roman emperor 867-886) |
812?-886 |
Basil II "Bulgaroctonus" (Eastern Roman emperor 976-1025) |
c.958-1025 |
Basil of Ancyra (Greek prelate, theologian) |
d.c.364 |
Basil the Chamberlain (Byzantine courtier) |
d.985 |
Basile, Adreana (Italian composer, singer) |
c.1590-c.1640 |
Basile, Giambattista (Neapolitan soldier, writer) |
c.1575-1632 |
Basilides (Syrian mystic) |
2nd cent. |
Basiliscus (Eastern Roman emperor 475-476) |
d.477 |
Basin, Thomas (French prelate, historian) |
1412-1491 |
Basire, James (English engraver) |
1730-1802 |
Baskerville, John (English printer, typographer) |
1706-1775 |
Baskin, Burt "Butch" (American entrepreneur: Baskin-Robbins) |
1913-1967 |
Basnage, Jacques (French Protestant theologian, historian) |
1653-1725 |
Basov, Nikolay Gennadiyevich (Russian physicist, educator) |
1922-2001 |
Bass, George (English explorer) |
1771-1803 |
Bass, Michael Thomas (English brewer) |
1799-1884 |
Bass, Sam (American outlaw) |
1851-1878 |
Bassani, Giorgio (Italian poet, screenwriter, writer) |
1916-2000 |
Bassani, Giovanni Battista (Italian composer, violinist) |
c.1657-1716 |
Bassano, Francesco (Venetian painter; son of Jacopo) |
1549-1592 |
Bassano, Giovanni (Italian musician, composer: Venetian School) |
c.1558-1617 |
Bassano, Jacopo (or Giacomo) da (Venetian painter) |
c.1517-1592 |
Bassano, Leandro (Venetian painter; son of Jacopo) |
1557-1622 |
Basse, William (English poet) |
d.1653? |
Basselin (or Bachelin), Olivier (French poet) |
c.1400-1450 |
Bassermann, Albert (German actor) |
1867-1952 |
Bassermann, Ernst (German politician) |
1854-1917 |
Basset, Rene (French Orientalist) |
1855-1924 |
Bassett, John Spencer (American historian) |
1867-1928 |
Bassi, Agostino Maria (Italian bacteriologist) |
1773-1856 |
Bassi, Ugo (Italian priest, patriot) |
1801-1849 |
Basso, Joseph Hamilton (American writer) |
1904-1964 |
Bassompierre, Francois de (French soldier, statesman) |
1579-1646 |
Bassville, Nicolas-Jean Hugou de (French diplomat) |
1753-1793 |
Basta, Giorgio (Transylvanian soldier) |
1550-1607 |
Bastable, Charles Francis (Irish economist) |
1855-1945 |
Bastiaans, Jan C. (Dutch psychiatrist) |
1917-1997 |
Bastian, Adolf (German ethnologist) |
1826-1905 |
Bastiat, Claude-Frederic (French economist) |
1801-1850 |
Bastidas, Rodrigo de (Spanish explorer) |
1460-1526 |
Bastien-Lepage, Jules (French painter) |
1848-1884 |
Bastos, Augusto Roa (Paraguayan writer, journalist, poet) |
1917-2005 |
Bastwick, John (English physician) |
1593-1654 |
Bat'a, Tomas (Czech industrialist) |
1876-1932 |
Bataille, Felix-Henry (French playwright) |
1872-1922 |
Bataille, Georges (French writer, critic) |
1897-1962 |
Batchelor, Joy (Eng. director, producer, writer, art director) |
1914-1991 |
Bate, Walter Jackson (American literary critic, biographer) |
1918-1999 |
Bateman, Alan Mara (Canadian geologist) |
1889-1971 |
Bateman, Ellen (American actor; daughter of Hezekiah) |
1844-1936 |
Bateman, Henry Mayo (Australian cartoonist) |
1887-1970 |
Bateman, Hester née Needham (English silversmith) |
1709-1794 |
Bateman, Hezekiah Linthicum (American actor, manager) |
1812-1875 |
Bateman, Kate Josephine (American actor; daughter of Hezekiah) |
1842-1917 |
Bates, Blanche (American actor) |
1873-1941 |
Bates, Henry Walter (English naturalist) |
1825-1892 |
Bates, Herbert Ernest (English writer) |
1905-1974 |
Bates, Katharine Lee (American educator, writer) |
1859-1929 |
Bates, Marston (American zoologist) |
1906-1974 |
Bates, Sir Percy Elly (English ship owner) |
1879-1946 |
Bates-Batcheller, Tryphosa née Bates (Am. socialite, singer) |
1876-1952 |
Bateson, Gregory (English-born American anthropologist) |
1904-1980 |
Bateson, William (English biologist) |
1861-1926 |
Bathurst, Allen (English politician) |
1684-1775 |
Bathurst, Charles (English agriculturist, administrator) |
1867-1958 |
Bathurst, Ralph (English clergyman, physician; uncle of Allen) |
1620-1704 |
Bathycles (Greek sculptor) |
6th cent. BC |
Batista y Zaldivar, Fulgencio (Cuban soldier, dictator) |
1901-1973 |
Batlle, Lorenzo (Uruguayan general, politician; pres. 1868-72) |
1810-1887 |
Batlle Berres, Luis (Uruguayan journalist, politician) |
1897-1964 |
Batlle y Ordonez, Jose (Uruguatan journalist, politician) |
1856-1929 |
Batman, John (Australian colonizer) |
1801-1839 |
Batoni (or Battoni), Pompeo Girolamo (Italian painter) |
1708-1787 |
Batsanyi, Janos (Hungarian poet) |
1763-1845 |
Battani, al- (Albategni; Arab astronomer, mathematician) |
c.858-929 |
Battersby, Sir Alan Rushton (English organic chemist, educator) |
b.1925 |
Batterson, James Goodwin (American businessman) |
1823-1901 |
Battishill, Jonathan (English composer) |
1738-1801 |
Battisti, Cesare (Italian journalist, patriot) |
1875-1916 |
Batu Khan (Mongol ruler; grandson of Genghis Khan) |
d.1255 |
Baty, Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston (Fr. playwright, producer) |
1885-1952 |
Batyushkov, Konstantin Nikolayevich (Russian poet, essayist) |
1787-1855 |
Batz, Jean de (French royalist) |
1760-1822 |
Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre (French poet) |
1821-1867 |
Baudissin, Wolf Heinrich von (Ger. literary critic, translator) |
1789-1878 |
Baudot, Jean-Maurice-Emile (French engineer) |
1845-1903 |
Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Niecislaw (Polish linguist) |
1845-1929 |
Baudrillard, Jean (French semiologist) |
1929-2007 |
Baudry, Paul-Jacques-Aime (French painter, muralist) |
1828-1886 |
Baudouin (Belgian king 1951-1993) |
1930-1993 |
Bauer, Andreas Friedrich (German engineer) |
1783-1860 |
Bauer, Bruno (German theologian, historical writer) |
1809-1882 |
Bauer, Georg (Georgius Agricola; German mineralogist, scholar) |
1494-1555 |
Bauer, Gustav Adolf (German politician) |
1870-1944 |
Bauer, Harold (English-born American pianist) |
1873-1951 |
Bauer, Konrad "Conny" (German musician, singer) |
b.1943 |
Bauer, Otto (Austrian politician) |
1881-1938 |
Bauer, Sebastian Wilhelm Valentin (German submarine inventor) |
1822-1875 |
Bauer, Yevgeni (aka Yevgeny; Russian film director) |
1865-1917 |
Bauernfeld, Eduard von (Viennese playwright) |
1802-1890 |
Baugh, Cecil Archibald (Jamaican ceramist; Jam. School of Art) |
1908-2005 |
Bauhin, Gaspard (or Caspar; Swiss botanist, anatomist) |
1560-1624 |
Bauhin, Jean (Swiss physician, botanist; brother of Gaspard) |
1541-1613 |
Baum, Lyman Frank (American writer; created Wizard of Oz) |
1856-1919 |
Baum, Vicki (born Hedvig; Austrian-born American writer) |
1888-1960 |
Baumann, Oskar (Austrian explorer) |
1864-1899 |
Baumbach, Rudolf (German poet) |
1840-1905 |
Baume, Antoine (French chemist) |
1728-1804 |
Baumer, Gertrud (German writer, reformer) |
1873-1954 |
Baumes, Caleb Howard (American politician) |
1863-1937 |
Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb (German philosopher) |
1714-1762 |
Baumgarten, Michael (German theologian) |
1812-1889 |
Baumgarten, Siegmund Jakob (German theologian) |
1706-1757 |
Baur, Ferdinand Christian (German theologian, scholar) |
1792-1860 |
Bausch, John Jacob (American businessman with Henry Lomb) |
1830-1926 |
Bavius (Roman poet) |
d.35 BC |
Bax, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor (English composer, poet) |
1883-1953 |
Bax, Ernest Belfort (English writer) |
1854-1926 |
Baxandall, Michael David Kighley (Welsh art historian, critic) |
b.1933 |
Baxter, Andrew (Scottish philosopher) |
1686/7-1750 |
Baxter, George (English printer; son of John) |
1804-1867 |
Baxter, James Keir (New Zealand poet) |
1926-1972 |
Baxter, John (English bookseller, printer) |
1781-1858 |
Baxter, Les (American musician, composer) |
1922-1996 |
Baxter, Percival Proctor (Am. politician: Maine gov. 1921-1925) |
1876-1969 |
Baxter, Richard (English Puritan clergyman, writer) |
1615-1691 |
Bay, Michel de (Michael Baius or Bajus; Belgian theologian) |
1513-1589 |
Bay, Zoltan (Hungarian electrical engineer) |
1900-1992 |
Bayan (Mongol official) |
14th cent. |
Bayard, Pierre Terrail (French military hero) |
c.1473-1524 |
Bayard, James Asheton (American politician) |
1767-1815 |
Bayard, Thomas Francis (American politician; grandson of James) |
1828-1898 |
Baybars I (Mamluk sultan of Egypt & Syria 1260-1277) |
1223-1277 |
Baybars II (Mamluk sultan of Egypt & Syria 1309-1310) |
d.1310 |
Bayer, Friedrich (German industrialist) |
1825-1880 |
Bayer, Johann (German astronomer) |
1572-1625 |
Bayes, Nora (born Dora Goldberg; American actor, singer) |
1880-1928 |
Bayes, Thomas (English preacher, mathematician) |
1702-1761 |
Bayeu y Subias, Francisco (Spanish painter) |
1734-1795 |
Bayezid I (Sultan of Ottomam Empire 1389-1402; son of Murad I) |
c.1360-1403 |
Bayezid II (Sultan of Ottomam Emp. 1481-1512; son of Mehmed II) |
c.1447-1512 |
Bayinnaung (King of Burma 1551-1581) |
d.1581 |
Bayle, Pierre (French philosopher, critic) |
1647-1706 |
Baylebridge, William (Charles W. Blocksidge; Australian writer) |
1883-1942 |
Bayley, Richard (American physician) |
1745-1801 |
Baylis, Lillian Mary (English theater manager) |
1874-1937 |
Bayliss, Sir William Maddock (English physiologist) |
1860-1924 |
Baylor, Robert Emmet Bledsoe (American jurist, clergyman) |
1793?-1873 |
Bayly, Ada Ellen (pseudonym Edna Lyall; English writer) |
1857-1903 |
Bayly, Thomas Haynes (English writer, song writer) |
1797-1839 |
Baynes, Thomas Spencer (English philosopher) |
1823-1887 |
Bayrakdar Mustafa Pasa (Ottoman politician) |
1775-1808 |
Bazaine, Achille-Francois (Marshal of France) |
1811-1888 |
Bazalgette, Sir Joseph William (English civil engineer) |
1819-1891 |
Bazan, Alvaro de (Marques de Santa Cruz; Spanish admiral) |
1526-1588 |
Bazard, Amand (French Socialist) |
1791-1832 |
Bazelon, David Thomas (American writer, social critic, teacher) |
1923-2005 |
Bazille, Jean-Frederic (French painter) |
1841-1870 |
Bazin, Andre (French film critic, film theorist) |
1918-1958 |
Bazin, Henri-Emile (French engineer) |
1829-1917 |
Bazin, Herve (Jean-Pierre-Marie Herve-Bazin; Fr. poet, writer) |
1911-1996 |
Bazin, Rene-Francois-Nicolas-Marie (French writer) |
1853-1932 |
Baziotes, William (American painter, teacher) |
1912-1963 |
Bazna, Elyesa (pseudonym Cicero; Albanian spy) |
1904-1970 |
Bazzi, Giovanni Antonio "Il Sodoma" (Italian painter) |
1477-1549 |
Beach, Amy Marcy née Cheney (American pianist, composer) |
1867-1944 |
Beach, Alfred Ely (Am. publisher, inventor; son of Moses Yale) |
1826-1896 |
Beach, Frederick Converse (American publisher; son of Alfred) |
1848-1918 |
Beach, Moses Sperry (American newspaperman; son of Moses Yale) |
1822-1892 |
Beach, Moses Yale (American journalist, inventor) |
1800-1868 |
Beach, Rex Ellingwood (American writer) |
1877-1949 |
Beach, Sylvia Woodbridge (American bookseller, publisher) |
1887-1962 |
Beadle, Erastus Flavel (American publisher) |
1821-1894 |
Beadle, George Wells (American geneticist) |
1903-1989 |
Beal, Gifford Reynolds (American painter) |
1879-1956 |
Beale, Dorothea (English educator) |
1831-1906 |
Bean, Leon Leonwood (American hunter, entrepreneur) |
1873-1967 |
Bean, Phantly Roy (American frontiersman) |
1825?-1903 |
Beard, Charles Austin (American historian) |
1874-1948 |
Beard, Daniel Carter "Dan" (Am. illus., Boy Scouts organizer) |
1850-1941 |
Beard, Mary née Ritter (American historian) |
1876-1958 |
Beard, Matthew Jr. (American actor: Our Gang "Stymie") |
1925-1981 |
Bearden, Romare (American cartoonist, painter, writer) |
1911-1988 |
Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (English illustrator) |
1872-1898 |
Beaton, Sir Cecil Walter Hardy (British photographer, designer) |
1904-1980 |
Beaton (or Bethune), David (Scottish prelate, statesman) |
c.1494-1546 |
Beaton, James (Scottish administrator, prelate; uncle of David) |
1470?-1539 |
Beatrix (French noblewoman) |
d.1184 |
Beattie, Ann (American writer) |
b.1947 |
Beattie, James (Scottish poet, essayist) |
1735-1803 |
Beatty, Clyde (American animal trainer, circus owner) |
1903-1965 |
Beatty, David (British admiral) |
1871-1936 |
Beauchamp, Alphonse de (French historian) |
1767-1832 |
Beauchamp, George D. (American instrument maker, inventor) |
1899-1941 |
Beauchamp, Pierre (French ballet dancer) |
c.1636-c.1719 |
Beauchamp, Richard de (Earl of Warwick; English soldier) |
1382-1439 |
Beauchamp, Thomas de (Earl of Warwick; English nobleman) |
1345?-1401 |
Beauchemin, Neree (French-Canadian poet, physician) |
1850-1931 |
Beauclerk, Topham (English dandy) |
1739-1780 |
Beau de Rochas, Alphonse-Eugene (French engineer) |
1815-1893 |
Beaufort, Sir Francis (English naval officer) |
1774-1857 |
Beaufort, Henry (English cardinal, statesman) |
c.1374-1447 |
Beaufort, Margaret (English noblewoman) |
1443-1509 |
Beaufort, Sir Thomas (Duke of Exeter; English soldier) |
d.1427 |
Beaufre, Andre (French soldier) |
1902-1975 |
Beauharnais, Josephine de (Martinique-born French empress) |
1763-1814 |
Beaujoyeulx, Balthasar de (Italian composer, choreographer) |
d.1587 |
Beuharnais, Alexandre (French army officer) |
1760-1794 |
Beaumanoir, Philippe de Remi de (French jurist) |
c.1246-1296 |
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de (French playwright) |
1732-1799 |
Beaumont, Elie de (Fr. geologist) |
1798-1874 |
Beaumont, Francis (English dramatist) |
1584-1616 |
Beaumont, Francois de (Baron des Adrets; French soldier) |
1513-1587 |
Beaumont, Sir John (English poet) |
1583-1627 |
Beumont, Robert de (Chief justiciar of England) |
1104-1168 |
Beaumont, William (American surgeon) |
1785-1853 |
Beaumont de la Bonniniere, Gustave-Auguste de (Fr. publicist) |
1802-1866 |
Beauneveu, Andre (French sculptor, miniaturist) |
c.1330-c.1410 |
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant (American army officer) |
1818-1893 |
Beauvoir, Simone de (French writer, essayist) |
1908-1986 |
Beaux, Eliza Cecilia (American painter) |
1863-1942 |
Beaver, Bruce Victor (Australian poet, writer, journalist) |
b.1928 |
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken (Can.-born Brit. publisher) |
1879-1964 |
Bebel, August (German Social Democratic leader, writer) |
1840-1913 |
Bebey, Francis (Cameroonian writer, musician, composer) |
b.1929 |
Beccafumi, Domenico (Domenico di Pace; It. painter, sculptor) |
c.1486-1551 |
Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana (Italian economist, jurist) |
1738-1794 |
Beccaria, Giambatista (born Francesco; Italian physicist) |
1716-1781 |
Becher, Johann Joachim (German chemist, physician) |
1635-1682 |
Becher, Johannes Robert (German poet, critic, editor) |
1891-1958 |
Bechet, Sidney (American musician, composer) |
1897-1959 |
Bechstein, Ludwig (German poet, writer, folklorist) |
1801-1860 |
Bechtel, Friedrich (German scholar) |
1855-1924 |
Beck, Emily Morison (Am. editor: Bartlett's Fam. Quotations) |
1915-2004 |
Beck, Jeff (English musician) |
b.1944 |
Beck, Jozef (Polish soldier, politician) |
1894-1944 |
Beck, Ludwig (German general) |
1880-1944 |
Beck, Martin (Hungarian-born Am. theater manager, impresario) |
1868?-1940 |
Beck, Max Wladimir von (Austrian politician) |
1854-1943 |
Becke, Friedrich Johann Karl (Austrian mineralogist, geologist) |
1855-1931 |
Becker, Carl Heinrich (German scholar, politician) |
1876-1933 |
Becker, Carl Lotus (American historian) |
1873-1945 |
Becker, Dietrich (German violinist, composer) |
c.1623-c.1679 |
Becker, Gary Stanley (American economist, academic) |
b.1930 |
Becker, George Ferdinand (American geologist) |
1847-1919 |
Becker, Jurek (Polish-born German writer) |
b.1937 |
Becker, Nikolaus (German poet) |
1809-1845 |
Becker, Wilhelm Adolf (German classical archaeologist) |
1796-1846 |
Becket, Frederick Mark (Canadian-born American metallurgist) |
1875-1942 |
Becket, Thomas (aka Thomas a' Becket; English prelate) |
c.1118-1170 |
Beckett, Sir Edmund (English lawyer, architect, horologist) |
1816-1905 |
Beckett, Samuel Barclay (Irish writer, critic, dramatist) |
1906-1989 |
Beckett, Scott Hastings (American actor; Our Gang: "Scotty") |
1929-1968 |
Beckford, William (English writer, dilettante, art collector) |
1760-1844 |
Beckmann, Max (German painter) |
1884-1950 |
Becknell, William (Am. pioneer; traced Santa Fe trail 1822) |
1796?-1865 |
Beckwith, Sir George (English army officer, colonial governor) |
1753-1823 |
Beckwith, John Charles (Eng. army officer; nephew of George) |
1789-1862 |
Beckwith, Sir Thomas Sydney (Eng. army officer; bro. of Sir G.) |
1772-1831 |
Beckx, Pierre-Jean (Belgian ecclesiastic) |
1795-1887 |
Becque, Henry-Francois (French dramatist, critic) |
1837-1899 |
Becquer, Gustavo Adolfo (Spanish poet, writer) |
1836-1870 |
Becquerel, Alexandre-Edmond (French physicist; son of A.-C.) |
1820-1891 |
Becquerel, Antoine-Cesar (French physicist) |
1788-1878 |
Becquerel, Antoine-Henri (French physicist; son of Alexandre) |
1852-1908 |
Becvar, Antonin (Czech astronomer; asteroid, crater) |
1901-1965 |
Bedaux, Charles Eugene (French-born Am. efficiency engineer) |
1886-1944 |
Beddoes, Thomas (English physician, scientific writer) |
1760-1808 |
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (English poet; son of Thomas) |
1803-1849 |
Bede, Saint "The Venerable" (Anglo-Saxon scholar, historian) |
672/3-735 |
Bedel, Maurice (French writer) |
1883-1954 |
Bedford, David Vickerman (English composer) |
1937-2011 |
Bedier, Charles-Marie-Joseph (French writer, scholar) |
1864-1938 |
Bedil, Mirza (Indian Muslim poet) |
1644-1721 |
Bednorz, Johannes Georg (German physicist) |
b.1950 |
Bedraja (aka P'ra P'etraja; King of Siam 1688-1703) |
d.1703 |
Bedreddin (Ottoman theologian, jurist) |
1358-1416/20 |
Bedwell, William (English scholar) |
1561?-1632 |
Bee, Barnard Elliott (American soldier) |
1824-1861 |
Beebe, Charles William (American naturalist, explorer) |
1877-1962 |
Beebe, Lucius Morris (American journalist) |
1902-1966 |
Beecham, Sir Thomas (English conductor, impresario) |
1879-1961 |
Beecher, Catharine Esther (Am. educator; daughter of Lyman) |
1800-1878 |
Beecher, Edward (American Congregational clergyman, educator) |
1803-1895 |
Beecher, Henry Ward (American clergyman) |
1813-1887 |
Beecher, Lyman (American Presbyterian clergyman) |
1775-1863 |
Beecher, Thomas Kinnicut (American Congregational clergyman) |
1824-1900 |
Beechey, Frederick William (English naval officer, geographer) |
1796-1856 |
Beechey, Sir William (English painter) |
1753-1839 |
Beecroft, John (English adventurer) |
1790-1854 |
Beer, George Louis (American historian) |
1872-1920 |
Beer, Michael (German playwright; brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer) |
1800-1833 |
Beer, Thomas (American writer) |
1889-1940 |
Beer, Wilhelm (German banker, astronomer; brother of Michael) |
1797-1850 |
Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maximilian (English critic, caricaturist) |
1872-1956 |
Beer-Hofmann, Richard (Austrian poet, playwright, writer) |
1866-1945 |
Beernaert, Auguste Marie Francois (Belgian politician) |
1829-1912 |
Beers, Clifford Whittingham (American reformer) |
1876-1943 |
Beers, Ethel Lynn née Ethelinda Eliot (American poet) |
1827-1879 |
Beery, Wallace (American actor) |
1886-1949 |
Beesly, Edward Spencer (English historian) |
1831-1915 |
Beeston, Christopher (English actor, manager) |
1570?-1638 |
Beethoven, Ludwig van (German composer, pianist) |
1770-1827 |
Beets, Nicolaas (Dutch clergyman, writer) |
1814-1903 |
Beffroy de Reigny, Louis-Abel "Cousin Jacques" (Fr. dramatist) |
1757-1811 |
Begas, Karl (German painter) |
1794-1854 |
Begas, Oskar (German painter; son of Karl) |
1828-1883 |
Begas, Reinhold (German sculptor; son of Karl) |
1831-1911 |
Begin, Louis Nazaire (Canadian prelate) |
1840-1925 |
Begin, Menachem Wolfovich (Israeli prime minister 1977-1983) |
1913-1992 |
Beguyer de Chancourtois, Alexandre-Emile (French geologist) |
1820-1886 |
Behaghel, Otto (German philologist) |
1854-1936 |
Behaim (or Behem), Martin (German navigator, geographer) |
c.1436-1507 |
Behaim (or Beham or Beheim), Michel (German Meistersinger) |
1416-c.1472 |
Behaine, Rene (French writer) |
1880-1966 |
Beham, Barthel (German painter, engraver; brother of Hans) |
1502-1540 |
Beham, Hans Sebald (German painter, engraver) |
1500-1550 |
Behan, Brendan Francis (Irish writer, playwright) |
1923-1964 |
Behar, Ruth (Cuban cultural anthropologist, poet, writer) |
b.1956 |
Behler, John Luther (American naturalist, herpetologist) |
1943-2006 |
Behm, Ernst (German geographer, statistician) |
1830-1884 |
Behn, Aphra (or Ayfara; English dramatist, writer, poet) |
1640-1689 |
Behn, Sosthenes (St. Thomas, V.I.-born American businessman) |
1882-1957 |
Behrens, Peter (German architect) |
1868-1940 |
Behring, Emil Adolf von (German bacteriologist) |
1854-1917 |
Behrman, David (Austrian composer) |
b.1937 |
Behrman, Samuel Nathaniel (American writer, playwright) |
1893-1973 |
Behzad (Ostad Kamal od-Din Behzad; Persian painter) |
c.1455-c.1536 |
Bei Dao (or Pei-tao; pseudonym of Zhao Zhenkai; Chinese poet) |
b.1949 |
Beiderbecke, Leon Bismarck "Bix" (American musician, composer) |
1903-1931 |
Beilby, Sir George Thomas (Scottish industrial chemist) |
1850-1924 |
Beilstein, Friedrich Konrad (German chemist) |
1838-1906 |
Beins, Burkhard (German composer, musician) |
b.1964 |
Beissel, Johann Conrad (German-born American clergyman) |
1690-1768 |
Beit, Alfred (German-born British financier, philanthropist) |
1853-1906 |
Beith, John Hay (pseudonym Ian Hay; British writer, playwright) |
1876-1952 |
Bejart, Armande-Gresinde-Claire-Elisabeth (French manager) |
1642-1700 |
Bejart, Genevieve (French comedic actor) |
c.1624-1675 |
Bejart, Joseph (French comedic actor) |
c.1617-1659 |
Bejart, Louis (French comedic actor) |
c.1630-1678 |
Bejart, Madeleine (French comedic actor) |
1618-1672 |
Bek, Anthony (English prelate) |
1240-1311 |
Beke, Charles Tilstone (English geographer) |
1800-1874 |
Bekesy, Georg von (Hungarian-born American physiologist) |
1899-1972 |
Bekhterev,Vladimir Mikhaylovich (Russian neuropathologist) |
1857-1927 |
Bekhtereva, Natalia Petrovna (Russian neuroscientist) |
1924-2008 |
Bekker, August Immanuel (German classical scholar) |
1785-1871 |
Bekker, Balthasar (Dutch theologian) |
1634-1698 |
Bel, Matyas (Matthias Belius; Hungarian scholar) |
1684-1749 |
Belain d'Esnambuc, Pierre (French trader) |
1585-1637 |
Belalcazar (or Benalcazar), Sebastian de (Spanish conquistador) |
c.1495-1551 |
Belasco, David (American playwright, producer) |
1853-1931 |
Belaunde, Victor Andres (Peruvian diplomat) |
1883-1966 |
Belcher, Angela M. (American materials scientist, engineer) |
b.1967? |
Belcher, Sir Edward (English naval officer) |
1799-1877 |
Belcher, Jonathan (American colonial governor) |
1682-1757 |
Belcredi, Richard (Austrian statesman) |
1823-1902 |
Belgioioso, Cristina née Trivulzio (Italian patriot, writer) |
1808-1871 |
Belgrand, Marie-Francois-Eugene (French hydrographic engineer) |
1810-1878 |
Belgrano, Manuel (Argentinean general, patriot) |
1770-1820 |
Belidor, Bernard Forest de (French engineer) |
1698-1761 |
Belin, Edouard (French engineer) |
1876-1963 |
Belinsky, Vissarion Grigoryevich (Russian literary critic) |
1811-1848 |
Belisarius (Byzantine general) |
c.505-565 |
Belknap, William Worth (American army officer, politician) |
1829-1890 |
Bell, Alexander Graham (Scottish-born Am. inventor, educator) |
1847-1922 |
Bell, Alexander Melville (Scottish-born American educator) |
1819-1905 |
Bell, Andrew (Scottish engraver; published Encyclopaedia Brit.) |
1726-1809 |
Bell, Andrew (Scottish clergyman, educator) |
1753-1832 |
Bell, Arthur Clive Howard (English critic) |
1881-1964 |
Bell, Sir Charles (Scottish anatomist, natural theologian) |
1774-1842 |
Bell, Charles Frederic Moberly (English journalist) |
1847-1911 |
Bell, Daniel (American sociologist) |
1919-2011 |
Bell, Derrick Albert (Am. law professor; critical race theory) |
1930-2011 |
Bell, Eric Temple (Scottish-born American mathematician) |
1883-1960 |
Bell, George Kennedy Allen (English prelate) |
1883-1958 |
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian (Eng. traveler, archaeologist) |
1868-1926 |
Bell, Henry (Scottish engineer) |
1767-1830 |
Bell, Henry Glassford (Scottish lawyer, man of letters) |
1803-1874 |
Bell, Sir Isaac Lowthian (Scot. metallurgical chemist. indust.) |
1816-1904 |
Bell, John (Scottish traveler) |
1691-1780 |
Bell, John (British publisher) |
1745-1831 |
Bell, John (American politician) |
1797-1869 |
Bell, John (English sculptor) |
1811-1895 |
Bell, John Joy (Scottish journalist, writer) |
1871-1934 |
Bell, Josephine (Doris Bell Ball; English physician, writer) |
1897-1987 |
Bell, Julian (English poet; son of Clive and Vanessa) |
1908-1937 |
Bell, Lawrence Dale (American aircraft designer) |
1894-1956 |
Bell, Thomas (English dental surgeon, naturalist) |
1792-1880 |
Bell, Vanessa (English wife of Clive Bell) |
1879-1961 |
Bella, Giano della (Florentine political leader) |
d.c.1305 |
Bella, Stefano della (Italian designer, engraver) |
1610-1664 |
Bellamy, Edward (American journalist, writer) |
1850-1898 |
Bellamy, Jacobus (Dutch poet) |
1757-1786 |
Bellarmine, Saint Robert (Italian prelate, controversialist) |
1542-1621 |
Bellay, Guillaume du (French general, diplomat) |
1491-1543 |
Bellay, Jean du (Fr. prelate, diplomat; brother of Guillaume) |
c.1492-1560 |
Bellay, Joachim du (French poet; nephew of Guillaume & Jean) |
c.1522-1560 |
Belleau, Remy (or Remi; French poet, scholar) |
1528-1577 |
Bellegarde, Heinrich Joseph Johannes von (Austrian statesman) |
1756-1845 |
Belle-Isle, Charles-Louis-Auguste Fouquet de (French Marshal) |
1684-1761 |
Bellenden (or Ballenden), John (Scottish ecclesiastic, poet) |
fl. 1533-1587 |
Bellenden, William (Scottish classical scholar) |
c.1555-1633 |
Belli, Carlos German (Peruvian poet, translator, journalist) |
b.1927 |
Belli, Giuseppe Gioacchino (Italian poet) |
1791-1863 |
Belli, Pierino (Italian soldier, jurist) |
1505-1575 |
Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb von (Russian admiral, explorer) |
1778-1852 |
Bellini, Gentile (Venetian painter; son of Jacopo) |
c.1429-1507 |
Bellini, Giovanni (Venetian painter; son of Jacopo) |
c.1430-1516 |
Bellini, Jacopo (Venetian painter) |
c.1400-c.1470 |
Bellini, Lorenzo (Italian physician, anatomist) |
1643-1704 |
Bellini, Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco (It. composer) |
1801-1835 |
Bellmann, Carl Michael (Swedish poet-musician) |
1740-1795 |
Bellmer, Hans (Silesian doll-maker, photographer, illustrator) |
1902-1975 |
Bello, Andres (Venezuelan poet, scholar, writer) |
1781-1865 |
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (French-born Brit. writer) |
1870-1953 |
Belloc, Marie Adelaide (Mrs. Belloc Lowndes; English writer) |
1868-1947 |
Bellori, Giovanni Pietro (Italian art historian) |
c.1615-1696 |
Bellotto, Bernardo (aka Canaletto Belotto; Italian painter) |
1720-1780 |
Bellow, Saul (born Solomon Bellows; Canadian-born Am. writer) |
1915-2005 |
Bellows, George Wesley (American artist, lithographer) |
1882-1925 |
Belmondo, Jean Paul (French screen & stage actor) |
b.1933 |
Belmont, Alva Ertskin née Smith (American socialite, reformer) |
1853-1933 |
Belmont, August (American banker; son of Auguste) |
1853-1924 |
Belmont, Auguste (American banker, art connoisseur, sportsman) |
1816-1890 |
Belmont, Eleanor Elise née Robson (English-born Am. actor) |
1879-1979 |
Belmonte y Garcia, Juan (Spanish bullfighter) |
1892-1962 |
Belmontet, Louis (French poet) |
1799-1879 |
Belo, Carlos Filipe Ximenes (East Timorese clergyman, bishop) |
b.1948 |
Beloch, Karl Julius (German historian) |
1854-1929 |
Belon, Pierre (French naturalist) |
1517-1564 |
Below, Fritz von (Prussian general) |
1853-1918 |
Belshazzar (Baltasar, Balthasar; Crown prince of Babylonia) |
d.c.539 BC |
Belson, Jordan (American filmmaker, artist) |
1926-2011 |
Belter, John Henry (German-born American furniture maker) |
1804-1863 |
Beltrami, Eugenio (Italian mathematician) |
1835-1899 |
Belushi, John Adam (American comedian, actor) |
1949-1982 |
Belyayev, Pavel Ivanovich (Russian astronaut) |
1925-1970 |
Belzberg, Edet (documentary filmmaker, teacher) |
b.1970? |
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista (Italian explorer, archaeologist) |
1778-1823 |
Bem, Jozef (Polish general) |
1794-1850 |
Bembo, Antonia (Italian composer, singer) |
c.1640-c.1720 |
Bembo, Pietro (Italian prelate, scholar) |
1470-1547 |
Bemelmans, Ludwig (Austrian-born Am. painter, illus., writer) |
1898-1962 |
Bemis, Samuel Flagg (American historian) |
1891-1973 |
Bemont, Charles (French historian) |
1848-1939 |
Benard, Abraham-Joseph "Fleury" (French actor) |
1750-1822 |
Benary, Barbara (American composer, ethnomusicologist) |
b.1946 |
Benacerraf, Baruj (Venezuelan-born American pathologist) |
1920-2011 |
ben Asher, Aaron ben Moses (Hebrew grammarian, scholar) |
10th cent. |
Benavente y Martinez, Jacinto (Spanish dramatist) |
1866-1954 |
Benavides, Alonzo de (Spanish missionary) |
b.1580? |
Benavides, Oscar Raimundo (Peruvian soldier, politician) |
1876-1945 |
Benbow, John (English naval officer) |
1653-1702 |
Benchley, Robert Charles (American humorist; Algonquin wit) |
1889-1945 |
Bencivieni di Pepo "Cimabue" (Italian painter) |
c.1240-c.1302 |
Benckendorff, Aleksandr Khristoforovich (Rus. gen., politician) |
1783-1844 |
Benckendorff, Aleksandr Konstantinovich (Russian diplomat) |
1849-1917 |
Benda, Franz (or Frantisek; Bohemian violinist, composer) |
1709-1786 |
Benda, Friedrich Ludwig (Bohemian composer; son of Georg) |
1752-1792 |
Benda, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich (Bohemian musician, composer) |
1745-1814 |
Benda, Georg Anton (Bohemian musician; brother of Franz) |
1722-1795 |
Benda, Julien (French philosopher, writer) |
1867-1956 |
Benda, Karl Hermann Heinrich (Bohemian violinist, composer) |
1748-1836 |
Bendian, Gregg (American musician, composer, bandleader) |
b.1963 |
Bendix, Vincent (American inventor, industrialist) |
1882-1945 |
Bendl, Karel (Czech composer) |
1838-1897 |
Benedek, Ludwig August von (Austrian general) |
1804-1881 |
Beneden, Pierre-Joseph van (Belgian zoologist) |
1809-1894 |
Benedetti, Mario (Uruguayan writer, activist, poet, essayist) |
b.1920 |
Benedetti, Vincente (French diplomat) |
1817-1900 |
Benedetto da Maiano (or Majano; Italian sculptor) |
1442-1497 |
Benedict of Nursia, Saint (Italian religious) |
c.480-547 |
Benedict, Manson (American physical chemist, educator) |
1907-2006 |
Benedict, Ruth née Fulton (American anthropologist) |
1887-1948 |
Benedict Biscop, Saint (aka Benet Biscop; Anglo-Saxon eccles.) |
c.628-690 |
Benedictsson, Victoria Maria née Bruzelius (Swedish writer) |
1850-1888 |
Benediktsson, Einar (Icelandic poet) |
1864-1940 |
Benedix, Roderich Julius (German writer) |
1811-1873 |
Benelli, Sem (Italian dramatist) |
1877-1949 |
Benenson, Peter (Brit. lawyer; fd. Amnesty International, 1961) |
1921-2005 |
Benes, Edvard (Czechoslovak statesman) |
1884-1948 |
Benet Goita, Juan (Spanish civil engineer, writer) |
1927-1993 |
Benet, Stephen Vincent (American writer; brother of William) |
1898-1943 |
Benet, William Rose (American poet, writer, editor) |
1886-1950 |
Benezet, Saint (Benedictus; French religious) |
c.1165-1184? |
Benezit, Emmanuel (French writer on art) |
1854-1920 |
Benfey, Theodor (German Sanskrit scholar, philologist) |
1809-1881 |
Bengel, Johann Albrecht (German theologian, scholar) |
1687-1752 |
Bengtsson, Frans Gunnar (Swedish poet, biographer, writer) |
1894-1954 |
Ben-Gurion, David (Polish-born Israeli politician) |
1886-1973 |
Benhadad I (or Benadad; aka Adad-Idri; King of Damascus) |
d.c.841 BC |
Benincasa, Ursula (Italian religious) |
1547-1618 |
Benioff, Victor Hugo (American geophysicist) |
1899-1968 |
Benivieni, Girolamo (Italian poet) |
1453-1542 |
Benjamin of Tudela (Spanish rabbi, traveler) |
12th cent. |
Benjamin, Arthur Leslie (Australian pianist, composer, cond.) |
1893-1960 |
Benjamin, Asher (American architect) |
1773-1845 |
Benjamin, Judah Philip (St. Thomas, V.I.-born American lawyer) |
1811-1884 |
Benjamin, Rene (French writer) |
1885-1948 |
Benjamin, Walter (German aesthetician, political essayist) |
1892-1940 |
Ben Jelloun, Tahar (Moroccan poet, writer, dramatist) |
b.1944 |
Benkei (Japanese warrior-monk) |
d.1189 |
Benlowes, Edward (English poet) |
1602-1676 |
Benn, Sir Ernest John Pickstone (English publisher) |
1875-1954 |
Benn, Gottfried (German poet, essayist) |
1886-1956 |
Benn, William Wedgwood (English politician; brother of Ernest) |
1877-1960 |
Bennet, Henry (1st Earl of Arlington; English politician) |
1618-1685 |
Bennett, Enoch Arnold (English writer, dramatist, critic) |
1867-1931 |
Bennett, Charles Edwin (American Latin scholar) |
1858-1921 |
Bennett, Edward Herbert (English-born American architect) |
1874-1954 |
Bennett, Floyd (American aviator) |
1890-1928 |
Bennett, Gwendolyn B. (American poet, essayist, writer, artist) |
1902-1981 |
Bennett, James Gordon (Scottish-born American editor) |
1795-1872 |
Bennett, James Gordon (Am. editor, sportsman; son of James) |
1841-1918 |
Bennett, John Hughes (English physician) |
1812-1875 |
Bennett, Louise "Miss Lou" (Jamaican poet, folklorist) |
1919-2006 |
Bennett, Richard (American actor, producer) |
1872-1944 |
Bennett, Richard Bedford (Canadian politician) |
1870-1947 |
Bennett, Robert Russell (American composer, arranger, musician) |
1894-1981 |
Bennett, Samm (American singer, songwriter, musician) |
b.1957 |
Bennett, William John (American drug czar 1989-1990) |
b.1943 |
Bennett, Sir William Sterndale (English pianist, composer) |
1816-1875 |
Bennett-Coverly, Louise Simone née Bennett (Jamaican poet) |
1919-2006 |
Bennewitz (or Bienewitz), Peter (German astronomer, geographer) |
1501-1552 |
Bennigsen, Leonty Leontyevich (German-born Russian general) |
1745-1826 |
Bennigsen, Karl Wilhelm Rudolf von (German politician) |
1824-1902 |
Bennink, Han (Dutch musician) |
b.1942 |
Benno, Saint (German prelate) |
c.1010-1106 |
Benny, Jack (born Benjamin Kubelsky; American comedian) |
1894-1974 |
Benois, Aleksandr Nikolayevich (Russian painter) |
1870-1960 |
Benoit, Pierre (French writer) |
1886-1962 |
Benoit, Pierre Leonard Leopold (Belgian composer) |
1834-1901 |
Benoit de Saint-Maure (or Saint-More; French trouvere) |
12th cent. |
Benserade, Isaac de (French poet, dramatist) |
1612/3-1691 |
Benso, Camillo (Conte di Cavour; Italian statesman) |
1810-1861 |
Benson, Arthur Christopher (English educator; ; son of E.W.) |
1862-1925 |
Benson, Edward Frederic (English writer; son of Edward W.) |
1867-1940 |
Benson, Edward White (Eng. prelate; archbishop of Canterbury) |
1829-1896 |
Benson, Sir Frank Robert (English actor-manager) |
1858-1939 |
Benson, Frank Weston (American painter) |
1862-1951 |
Benson, Godfrey Rathbone (English writer; brother of Sir Frank) |
1864-1945 |
Benson, Richard Meux (English ecclesiastic) |
1824-1915 |
Benson, Robert Hugh (English clergyman; son of Edward W.) |
1871-1914 |
Benson, William Shepherd (American naval officer) |
1855-1932 |
Bent, Charles (American pioneer; brother of William) |
1799-1847 |
Bent, James Theodore (English explorer, archaeologist) |
1852-1897 |
Bent, William (American pioneer; brother of Charles) |
1809-1969 |
Bentham, George (English botanist; nephew of Jeremy) |
1800-1884 |
Bentham, Jeremy (English jurist, philosopher) |
1748-1832 |
Bentham, Sir Samuel (English naval engineer, architect) |
1757-1831 |
Bentinck, William (Dutch-born English soldier, diplomat) |
1649-1709 |
Bentinck, William Cavendish (English soldier, politician) |
1774-1839 |
Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish (British politician) |
1738-1809 |
Bentivoglio, Guido (Italian prelate, diplomat, historian) |
1579-1644 |
Bentley, Arthur Fisher (Am. political scientist, philosopher) |
1870-1957 |
Bentley, Edmund Clerihew (English journalist, man of letters) |
1875-1956 |
Bentley, Eric Russell (English-born Am. critic, playwright) |
b.1916 |
Bentley, John Francis (English architect) |
1839-1902 |
Bentley, Phyllis Eleanor (English writer) |
1894-1977 |
Bentley, Richard (English clergyman, scholar, critic) |
1662-1742 |
Bentley, Richard (English publisher) |
1794-1871 |
Benton, Thomas Hart (American politician) |
1782-1858 |
Benton, Thomas Hart (American painter; grandnephew of Thomas) |
1889-1975 |
Benton, William (American businessman, politician, publisher) |
1900-1973 |
Bentov, Itzhak (Czechoslovakian business consultant, writer) |
1923-1979 |
Bentsen, Lloyd Millard Jr. (American politician) |
b.1921 |
Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer (b.Eliezer Yizhak Perlman; Hebrew scholar) |
1858-1922 |
Benz, Carl Friedrich (German engineer) |
1844-1929 |
Benzer, Seymour (American physicist, biologist, geneticist) |
1921-2007 |
Ben-Zvi, Itzhak (Ukrainian-born Israeli politician) |
1884-1963 |
Beolco, Angelo "Il Ruzzante" (Italian actor, playwright) |
1502-1542 |
Berain, Jean "The Elder" (French artist, engraver) |
1637-1711 |
Berain, Jean "The Younger" (French engraver; son of Jean) |
1678-1726 |
Beran, Josef (Czechoslovak prelate) |
1888-1969 |
Beranger, Pierre-Jean de (French poet, song writer) |
1780-1857 |
Beraud, Henri (French writer) |
1885-1958 |
Berberova, Nina Nikolayevna (Rus. writer, biographer, editor) |
1901-1993 |
Berceo, Gonzalo de (Spanish poet) |
c.1198-c.1264 |
Berchem (or Berghem), Claes Pietersz (Dutch painter, etcher) |
1620-1683 |
Berchet, Giovanni (Italian poet) |
1783-1851 |
Berchtold, Leopold Anton Johann (Austro-Hungarian politician) |
1863-1942 |
Berckheyde, Gerrit (Dutch painter; brother of Job) |
1638-1698 |
Berckheyde, Job (Dutch painter; brother of Gerrit) |
1630-1693 |
Bercovici, Konrad (Rumanian-born American writer) |
1882-1961 |
Berdichevsky, Micah Joseph (German-Jewish writer) |
1865-1921 |
Berdyayev, Nikolay Aleksandrovich (Russian philosopher) |
1874-1948 |
Berengar of Friuli (King of Italy; Holy Roman emperor 915-924) |
d.924 |
Berengar of Tours (aka Berengarius; French theologian) |
c.999-1088 |
Berengario da Carpi, Giacomo (or Jacopo; It. physician, anat.) |
c.1460-1530 |
Berenger, Alphonse-Marie-Marcellin-Thomas (French politician) |
1785-1866 |
Berenger, Rene (French jurist, politician) |
1830-1915 |
Berenguer, Damaso (Cuban-born Spanish soldier, politician) |
1873-1953 |
Berenson, Bernard (Lithuanian-born American art critic) |
1865-1959 |
Berent, Waclaw (Polish writer) |
1873-1940 |
Beresford, Charles William de la Poer (British naval officer) |
1846-1919 |
Beresford, John (Irish politician) |
1738-1805 |
Beresford, John Davys (English writer) |
1873-1947 |
Beresford, John Spencer (Eng.-born Am. psychiatrist, activist) |
1924-2007 |
Beresford, Steve (English musician, composer) |
b.1950 |
Beresford, William Carr (British general) |
1768-1854 |
Berg, Alban Maria Johannes (Austrian composer) |
1885-1935 |
Berg, Max (German architect) |
1870-1947 |
Berg, Paul Timmy (American biochemist) |
b.1926 |
Bergbom, Kaarlo (Finnish writer, theatrical producer) |
1843-1906 |
Bergen, Edgar John (American ventriloquist, actor) |
1903-1978 |
Berger, John Peter (British writer, playwright, art critic) |
b.1926 |
Berger, Thomas Louis (American writer) |
b.1924 |
Berger, Victor Louis (Transylvanian-born Am. Soc. editor, pol.) |
1860-1929 |
Bergey, David Hendricks (American bacteriologist) |
1860-1937 |
Bergh, Henry (American reformer) |
1811-1888 |
Berghaus, Heinrich (German geographer, cartographer) |
1797-1884 |
Berghaus, Hermann (German cartographer; nephew of Heinrich) |
1828-1890 |
Bergius, Friedrich Karl Rudolf (German chemist) |
1884-1949 |
Bergman, Bo Hjalmar (Swedish poet, postal official) |
1869-1967 |
Bergman, Ernst Ingmar (Swedish film, theater director) |
1918-2007 |
Bergman, Hjalmar Fredrik Elgerus (Swedish dramatist, writer) |
1883-1931 |
Bergman, Ingrid (Swedish actor) |
1915-1982 |
Bergman, Torbern Olof (Swedish chemist, physicist) |
1735-1784 |
Bergmann, Ernst Gustav Benjamin von (German surgeon) |
1836-1907 |
Bergson, Henri-Louis (French philosopher) |
1859-1941 |
Bergstrom, Sune Karl (Swedish biochemist) |
1916-2004 |
Beria (or Beriya), Lavrenty Pavlovich (Russian politician) |
1899-1953 |
Bering, Vitus Jonassen (Danish navigator) |
1681-1741 |
Berio, Luciano (Italian composer, teacher, conductor) |
1925-2003 |
Berke (or Barakah; Mongol ruler; grandson of Genghis Khan) |
d.1267 |
Berkeley, Busby (American film director, choreographer) |
1895-1976 |
Berkeley, George (Irish philosopher) |
1685-1753 |
Berkeley, Sir Lennox Randal Francis (English composer) |
1903-1989 |
Berkeley, Sir William (English colonial governor) |
1606-1677 |
Berken, Ludwig van (aka Louis de Berquen; Flemish lapidary) |
15th cent. |
Berkley, James John (English engineer) |
1819-1862 |
Berkman, Alexander "Sasha" (Russian-born American anarchist) |
1870-1936 |
Berkner, Lloyd Viel (American physicist, engineer) |
1905-1967 |
Berkowitz, David Richard née Falco (American serial killer) |
b.1953 |
Berlage, Hendrik Petrus (Dutch architect) |
1856-1934 |
Berland, Gretchen Kimberly (American? physician, filmmaker) |
b.1964? |
Berlanga, Tomas de (Spanish prelate) |
d.1551 |
Berle, Adolf Augustus (American lawyer, diplomat) |
1895-1971 |
Berle, Milton (born Milton Berlinger; American actor, comedian) |
1908-2002 |
Berlichingen, Gotz (or Gottfried) von (German knight) |
1480-1562 |
Berlier, Jean-Baptiste (French engineer) |
1843-1911 |
Berlin, Irving (Israel Isidore Baline; Russian-born Am. comp.) |
1888-1989 |
Berlin, Sir Isaiah (Latvian-born English philosopher) |
1909-1997 |
Berlin, Naphtali Zevi Judah "ha-Neziv" (Russian Jewish scholar) |
1817-1893 |
Berliner, Emile (German-born American inventor) |
1851-1929 |
Berlinghieri, Bonaventura (Italian painter) |
fl. 1235-1244 |
Berlin Painter (Greek vase painter) |
fl. 500-460 BC |
Berlioz, Louis-Hector (French composer, conductor) |
1803-1869 |
Berman, Bart (Dutch-born Israeli pianist, composer) |
b.1938 |
Bermejo, Bartolome (aka Bartolome de Cardenas; Spanish painter) |
fl. 1474-1495 |
Bernacchi, Antonio (Italian alto castrato, composer, teacher) |
1685-1756 |
Bernadette of Lourdes, Saint (French religious) |
1844-1879 |
Bernadotte af Wisborg, Folke (Swedish soldier) |
1895-1948 |
Bernal, John Desmond (Irish-born British physicist) |
1901-1971 |
Bernanos, Georges (French writer) |
1888-1948 |
Bernard of Chartres (French Humanist, philosopher) |
d.c.1130 |
Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint (French ecclesiastic) |
1090-1153 |
Bernard of Cluny (aka Bernard of Morlaix; French monk, poet) |
12th cent. |
Bernard of Montjoux, Saint (Bernard of Menthon; It. religious) |
d.1081? |
Bernard, Claude (French physiologist) |
1813-1878 |
Bernard, Emile (French painter) |
1868-1941 |
Bernard, Jean-Jacques (French playwright; son of Tristan) |
1888-1972 |
Bernard, Simon (French military engineer) |
1779-1839 |
Bernard, Tristan (born Paul; French playwright, writer) |
1866-1947 |
Bernard de Ventadour (Provencal troubadour) |
d.1195? |
Bernardes, Artur da Silva (Brazilian politician; pres. 1922-26) |
1875-1955 |
Bernardes, Diogo (Portuguese poet) |
c.1530-1605 |
Bernardi, Francesco (aka Senesino; Italian alto castrato) |
1686-1758 |
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri (French writer) |
1737-1814 |
Bernardino of Siena, Saint (Italian religious, theologian) |
1380-1444 |
Bernauer, Agnes (German victim) |
d.1435 |
Bernays, Edward (Austrian public relations expert, writer) |
1891-1995 |
Berne, Eric Lennard (American psychologist) |
1910-1970 |
Berne, Tim (American musician) |
b.1954 |
Berners-Lee, Timothy John (English computer scientist) |
b.1955 |
Bernhard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar; German general) |
1604-1639 |
Bernhard (German noble) |
1649-1706 |
Bernhard, Sandra (American comedian, singer, actor, writer) |
b.1955 |
Bernhard, Thomas (Austrian playwright, writer, poet) |
1931-1989 |
Bernhardt, Sarah (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; French actor) |
1844-1923 |
Berni, Francesco (Italian satirist, poet, translator) |
1497/8-1535 |
Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo (It. sculptor, architect, painter) |
1598-1680 |
Bernini, Pietro (Italian sculptor) |
1562-1629 |
Bernis, Francois-Joachim de Pierre de (Fr. cardinal, statesman) |
1715-1794 |
Berno, Anthony (Canadian software engineer) |
b.1970 |
Bernoulli, Christoph (Swiss naturalist; grandson of Johann II) |
1782-1863 |
Bernoulli, Daniel (Swiss mathematician; son of Johann I) |
1700-1782 |
Bernoulli, Jakob I (Swiss mathematician; brother of Johann I) |
1654-1705 |
Bernoulli, Jakob II (Swiss mathematician; brother of Johann II) |
1759-1789 |
Bernoulli, Johann I (Swiss mathematician; brother of Jakob I) |
1667-1748 |
Bernoulli, Johann II (Swiss mathematician; son of Johann I) |
1710-1790 |
Bernoulli, Johann III (Swiss astronomer; son of Johann II) |
1744-1807 |
Bernoulli, Nikolaus (Swiss mathematician; nephew of Jakob I) |
1687-1759 |
Bernstein, Aaron (German writer) |
1812-1884 |
Bernstein, Eduard (German writer, politician) |
1850-1932 |
Bernstein, Henry-Leon-Gustave-Charles (French dramatist) |
1876-1953 |
Bernstein, Herman (Russian-born American journalist, writer) |
1876-1935 |
Bernstein, Leonard (born Louis; American composer, conductor) |
1918-1990 |
Bernstein, Michele (French writer; Situationist International) |
b.1932 |
Bernstorff, Johann Hartwig Ernst (German diplomat) |
1712-1772 |
Berossus (or Berosus, Berossos, Berosos; Babylonian priest) |
fl. c.290 BC |
Berr, Henri (French historian, philosopher) |
1863-1954 |
Berra, Lawrence Peter "Yogi" (American baseball coach, manager) |
b.1925 |
Berridge, Michael John (Rhodesian-born British biologist) |
b.1938 |
Berrigan, Daniel (American priest, poet, essayist) |
b.1921 |
Berrigan, Ted (American poet, editor) |
1934-1983 |
Berruguete, Alonso (Spanish sculptor, painter; son of Pedro) |
c.1488-1561 |
Berruguete, Pedro (aka Pedro Espanol; Spanish painter) |
d.1504 |
Berry, Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" (American musician) |
b.1926 |
Berry, Edward Wilber (American paleobotanist) |
1875-1945 |
Berry, Martha McChesney (American educator) |
1866-1942 |
Berry, Richard Stephen (American physical chemist) |
b.1931 |
Berry, Wendell Erdman (Am. conservationist, farmer, writer) |
b.1934 |
Berryer, Pierre-Antoine (French lawyer, politician) |
1790-1868 |
Berryman, John (American poet, biographer, writer, academic) |
1914-1972 |
Bert, Paul (French physiologist, politician) |
1833-1886 |
Bertani, Agostino (Italian physician, revolutionary) |
1812-1886 |
Bertaut, Jean de Caen (French prelate, poet) |
1552-1611 |
Bertha (aka Berta, Berte, Berthe; Carolingian queen) |
d.783 |
Berthelier, Philibert (Swiss patriot) |
c.1465-1519 |
Berthelot, Philippe-Joseph-Louis (Fr. dipl.; son of Marcelin) |
1866-1934 |
Berthelot, Pierre-Eugene-Marcelin (French chemist) |
1827-1907 |
Berthier, Louis-Alexandre (French soldier, marshal of France) |
1753-1815 |
Berthold of Henneberg (aka Berthold of Mainz; German prelate) |
1442-1504 |
Berthold von Regensburg (German preacher) |
c.1220-1272 |
Bertholet, Alfred (Swiss cleric, scholar) |
1868-1951 |
Berthollet, Claude-Louis (French chemist) |
1748-1822 |
Bertillon, Alphonse (French criminologist) |
1853-1914 |
Bertillon, Jacques (French statistician; brother of Alphonse) |
1851-1922 |
Bertin, Francois-Edouard (French journalist; son of elder L.F.) |
1797-1871 |
Bertin, Louis-Francois (French journalist; brother of L.F.) |
1766-1841 |
Bertin de Vaux, Louis-Francois (Fr. journalist, administrator) |
1771-1842 |
Bertin, Louis-Marie-Armand (Fr. journalist; son of elder L.F.) |
1801-1854 |
Bertolucci, Attilio (Italian poet, literary critic, translator) |
1911-2000 |
Berton, Henri "Francois" (French composer; son of Henri-Montan) |
1784-1832 |
Berton, Henri-Montan (French composer; son of Pierre-Montan) |
1767-1844 |
Berton, Pierre (Canadian writer) |
b.1920 |
Berton, Pierre-Montan (French musician) |
1727-1780 |
Bertoni, Ferdinando Gasparo (Italian organist, composer) |
1725-1813 |
Bertozzi, Carolyn Ruth (American chemist) |
b.1966 |
Bertrand, Gabriel-Emile (French biochemist) |
1867-1962 |
Bertrand, Henri-Gratien (French engineer, general) |
1773-1844 |
Bertrand, Joseph Louis Francois (French mathematician) |
1822-1900 |
Bertrand, Louis-Jacques-Napoleon "Aloysius" (French writer) |
1807-1841 |
Bertrand, Louis-Marie-Emile (French writer) |
1866-1941 |
Bertrand, Marcel-Alexandre (French geologist) |
1847-1907 |
Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (French poet) |
13th cent. |
Bertran de Born (French soldier, troubador) |
d.c.1202-15 |
Bertuch, Friedrich Justin (German writer, publisher) |
1747-1822 |
Berube, Allan Ronald (American historian, activist, scholar) |
1946-2007 |
Berulle, Pierre de (French prelate) |
1575-1629 |
Berwald, Franz Adolf (Swedish composer, orthopedic surgeon) |
1796-1868 |
Berwinski, Ryszard Wincenty (Polish poet, writer) |
1819-1879 |
Berzelius, Jons Jacob (Swedish chemist) |
1779-1848 |
Berzsenyi, Daniel (Hungarian poet) |
1776-1836 |
Besant, Annie née Wood (Eng. theosophist, Indian polit. leader) |
1847-1933 |
Besant, Sir Walter (English writer, philanthropist) |
1836-1901 |
Beseler, Hans Hartwig von (Prussian general; nephew of Wilhelm) |
1850-1921 |
Beseler, Wilhelm Hartwig (Prussian politician) |
1806-1884 |
Beser, Jacob (Am. radar specialist on Enola Gay & Bock's Car) |
1921-1992 |
Besnard, Paul-Albert (French painter, etcher) |
1849-1934 |
Bespaloff, Alexis Jacques (Romanian-born Am. oenophile, writer) |
1934-2006 |
Bessa Luis, Maria Agustina (Portuguese writer) |
b.1922 |
Bessa Victor, Geraldo (Angolan poet, scholar) |
b.1917 |
Bessarion (born Basil; Byzantine theologian, Humanist) |
1403-1472 |
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (German astronomer, mathematician) |
1784-1846 |
Bessemer, Sir Henry (English engineer, inventor) |
1813-1898 |
Bessenyei, Gyorgy (Hungarian playwright, poet) |
1747-1811 |
Bessey, Charles Edwin (American botanist) |
1845-1915 |
Bessie, Simon Michael (American publisher: Atheneum Publishers) |
1916-2008 |
Bessieres, Jean-Baptiste (Duc d'Istrie; Marshal of France) |
1768-1813 |
Besson, Jacques (French engineer) |
1540-1576 |
Bessus (Ruler of Bactria and Sogdiana) |
d.c.329 BC |
Best, Charles Herbert (American-born Canadian physiologist) |
1899-1978 |
Best, Oswald Herbert (British administrator, writer) |
1894-1980 |
Bester, Alfred (American writer) |
1913-1987 |
Bestia, Lucius Calpurnius (Roman politician) |
2nd cent. BC |
Bestuzhev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (Russian writer, critic) |
1797-1837 |
Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Aleksey Petrovich (Russian diplomat, polit.) |
1693-1766 |
Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Mikhail Petrovich (Russian diplomat) |
1688-1760 |
Betancourt, Romulo (Venezuelan politician; president 1959-64) |
1908-1981 |
Bethe, Hans Albrecht (German-born American physicist) |
1906-2005 |
Bethell, Richard (1st Baron Westbury; English judge) |
1800-1873 |
Bethencourt, Jean de (French navigator) |
c.1360-c.1422 |
Bethlen, Istvan (Hungarian politician) |
1874-1947? |
Bethlen von Iktar, Gabor (or Gabriel; King of Hungary 1620-21) |
1580-1629 |
Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald Theodor Friedrich von (German pol.) |
1856-1921 |
Bethune, Mary née McLeod (American educator) |
1875-1955 |
Bethune, Maximilien de (Duc de Sully; French statesman) |
1560-1641 |
Betjeman, Sir John (British writer, poet laureate 1972-1984) |
1906-1984 |
Bettelheim, Bruno (Austrian-born American psychologist) |
1903-1990 |
Betterton, Thomas (English actor) |
c.1635-1710 |
Betti, Enrico (Italian mathematician) |
1823-1892 |
Betti, Ugo (Italian playwright, magistrate, judge) |
1892-1953 |
Bettinelli, Saverio (Italian writer, critic) |
1718-1808 |
Betto di Biago, Bernardo di "Pinturicchio" (Italian painter) |
c.1454-1513 |
Betty, William Henry West (English actor) |
1791-1874 |
Beuckelson, Jan "John of Leiden" (Dutch Anabaptist leader) |
c.1509-1536 |
Beust, Friedrich Ferdinand von (German politician) |
1809-1886 |
Beuys, Joseph (German painter, sculptor, activist) |
1921-1986 |
Bevan, Aneurin (Welsh-born British politician, orator) |
1897-1960 |
Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah (American politician, historian) |
1862-1927 |
Beveridge, William Henry (English economist) |
1879-1963 |
Beverly, Robert (American historian) |
c.1673-1722 |
Bevin, Ernest (British labor leader, politician) |
1881-1951 |
Bewick, Thomas (English illustrator, wood engraver) |
1753-1828 |
Bey, Hakim (American writer) |
b.1945 |
Beyer, Absalon Pedersson (Norwegian Humanist) |
1528-1575 |
Beyers, Christiaan Frederik (South African soldier, politician) |
1869-1914 |
Beyerstein, Barry L. (Canadian psychologist) |
1947-2007 |
Beyle, Marie-Henri (pseudonym Stendhal; French writer) |
1783-1842 |
Bezborodko, Aleksandr Andreyevich (Russian politician) |
1747-1799 |
Beze, Theodore de (Theodorus Beza; French theologian) |
1519-1605 |
Bezout, Etienne (French mathematician) |
1730-1783 |
Bhabha, Homi Jehangir (Indian physicist) |
1909-1966 |
Bhadrabahu I (Indian religious leader) |
d.298 BC |
Bharata (or Bharata Muni; Indian sage) |
2nd cent. |
Bharati, Subramania C. (Tamil poet, songwriter, essayist) |
1882-1921 |
Bharavi (Indian poet) |
7th cent. |
Bhartrhari (Indian philosopher, poet) |
570?-651? |
Bhasa (Indian dramatist) |
2nd/3rd cent. |
Bhaskara II (aka Bhaskaracarya; Indian mathematician) |
1114-c.1185 |
Bhattacharya, Bhabhani (Indian writer) |
b.1906 |
Bhatti (Sanskrit poet, grammarian; writer of Bhattikavya) |
fl.6th/7th cent. |
Bhavabhuti (Indian dramatist, poet) |
fl. 700 |
Bhely-Quenum, Olympe (Beninese writer, journalist) |
b.1928 |
Bhumibol Adulyadej (American-born Thai king 1946-) |
b.1927 |
Bhumindaraja (aka Phra Chao Thai Sa; King of Siam 1709-1733) |
d.1733 |
Bhutto, Benazir (Pakistani prime minister 1988-1990) |
b.1953 |
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali (Pakistani politician) |
1828-1979 |
Biafra, Jello (born Eric Reed Boucher; American musician) |
b.1958 |
Bialik (or Byalik), Hayyim Nahman (Ukrainian-born Jewish poet) |
1873-1934 |
Bialoszewski, Miron (Polish poet, playwright, writer) |
1922-1983 |
Bianchini, Francesco (Italian astronomer) |
1662-1729 |
Bianciardi, Luciano (Italian writer) |
1922-1971 |
Bianco, Margery née Williams (English writer) |
1881-1944 |
Biandrata, Giorgio (Georgius Blandrata; It. physician, theol.) |
c.1515-1588 |
Bian Zhilin (or Pien Chih-lin; Chinese poet, translator) |
1910-2000 |
Bias of Priene (Greek sage; one of the Seven Sages) |
6th cent. BC |
Bibaud, Michel (French-Canadian historian, poet) |
1782-1857 |
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (German violinist, composer) |
1644-1704 |
Biber, Stanley (American surgeon: sex reassignment surgery) |
1923-2006 |
Bibescu, Barbu Dimitrie (Romanian politician; brother of G.D.) |
1801-1869 |
Bibescu, Gheorghe Dimitrie (Romanian politician) |
1804-1873 |
Bibic, Bratko (Slovenian accordionist, composer) |
b.1957 |
Bibiena (or Bibbiena), Ferdinando Galli da (Italian architect) |
1657-1743 |
Bibulus, Marcus Calpurnius (Roman politician) |
d.48 BC |
Bichat, Marie-Francois-Xavier (French anatomist, physiologist) |
1771-1802 |
Bichel, Peter (Swiss writer, journalist) |
b.1935 |
Bickerdyke, Mary Ann née Ball (American relief worker) |
1817-1901 |
Bickerstaff, Isaac (pseudonym of Jonathan Swift) |
1667-1745 |
Bickerstaff, Isaac (pseudonym of Richard Steele in the Tatler) |
1672-1729 |
Bickerstaffe, Isaac (Irish playwright) |
c.1735-c.1812 |
Bickersteth, Edward (English evangelical clergyman) |
1786-1850 |
Bickersteth, Edward Henry (English prelate; son of Edward) |
1825-1906 |
Bickford, Bruce (American animator) |
b.1947 |
Bidart, Frank (American poet) |
b.1939 |
Bidault, Georges (French statesman) |
1899-1983 |
Biddle, Charlie (American-Canadian musician) |
1926-2003 |
Biddle, Francis (French-born American lawyer) |
1886-1968 |
Biddle, James (American naval officer) |
1783-1848 |
Biddle, John (English theologian) |
1615-1662 |
Biddle, Nicholas (American financier) |
1786-1844 |
Bidlack, Benjamin Alden (American diplomat) |
1804-1849 |
Bidwell, John (American pioneer, politician) |
1819-1900 |
Biederman, Charles Josef (American artist, writer) |
1906-2004 |
Biel, Gabriel (German scholastic philosopher) |
c.1420-1495 |
Biela, Wilhelm von (German astronomer) |
1782-1856 |
Bielski, Joachim (Polish historian; son of Marcin) |
1540-1599 |
Bielski, Marcin (Polish historian, poet) |
1495-1575 |
Biencourt, Charles de (Baron de Saint-Just; French colonizer) |
1591/2-1623/4 |
Bienerth, Richard von (Austrian politician) |
1863-1918 |
Bienville, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne (French col. gov. Louisiana) |
1680-1768 |
Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett (American journalist, writer) |
1842-1914? |
Bierstadt, Albert (German-born American painter) |
1830-1902 |
Bierut, Boleslaw (Polish politician) |
1892-1956 |
Bigelow, Charles A. (Am. type historian, academic, designer) |
b.1945 |
Bigelow, Erastus Brigham (American inventor; a founder of MIT) |
1814-1879 |
Bigelow, Jacob (American physician, botanist) |
1786-1879 |
Bigelow, John (American writer, diplomat; father of Poultney) |
1817-1911 |
Bigelow, Julian Himely (Am. mathematician, electrical engineer) |
1913-2003 |
Bigelow, Poultney (American traveler, journalist, writer) |
1855-1954 |
Biggers, Earl Derr (Am. writer, journalist; cr. Charlie Chan) |
1884-1933 |
Bigordi, Domenico di Tommaso (Florentine artist) |
1449-1494 |
Bigot, Francois (French administrator) |
1703-c.1777 |
Bigot de Morogues, Marie Kiene (French piano teacher, composer) |
1786-1820 |
Bigsby, John Jeremiah (English physician, geologist) |
1792-1881 |
Bigwood, Jeremy Edmund (Ceylon-born British photojournalist) |
b.1951 |
Biko, (Bantu) Stephen (South African revolutionary) |
1946-1977 |
Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore (American politician) |
1877-1947 |
Bild aus Rheinau "Beatus Rhenanus" (Alsatian Humanist) |
1485-1547 |
Bilderdijk, Willem (Dutch poet, scholar, critic) |
1756-1831 |
Bilfinger, Georg Bernhard (German philosopher, mathematician) |
1693-1750 |
Bilge (or Bilge Kagan; Mo-ki-lien; Mongolian ruler) |
d.734 |
Billaud-Varenne, Jean-Nicolas (French revolutionary politician) |
1756-1819 |
Billetdoux, Francois (French playwright) |
1927-1991 |
Billinghurst, Guillermo Enrique (Peruvian politician) |
1851-1915 |
Billings, Frederick (American businessman) |
1823-1890 |
Billings, John Shaw (American physician, librarian) |
1838-1913 |
Billings, William (American composer) |
1746-1800 |
Billingsley, William (British artist) |
1758-1828 |
Billington, Elizabeth née Weichsell (English opera singer) |
1768-1818 |
Billroth, (Christian Albert) Theodor (German surgeon) |
1829-1894 |
Bilney (or Bylney), Thomas (English clergyman, martyr) |
c.1495-1531 |
Bimbisara (Indian ruler) |
c.543-491 BC |
Binchois (or De Binche), Gilles Egidius (Flemish composer) |
c.1400-1460 |
Binchy, Maeve (Irish journalist, writer) |
b.1940 |
Bindusara (aka Amitrochates; King of Magadha c.297-272 BC) |
d.272 BC |
Binet, Alfred (French psychologist) |
1857-1911 |
Binger, Louis-Gustave (French explorer, administrator) |
1856-1936 |
Bingham, Eugene Cook (American chemist) |
1878-1945 |
Bingham, George Caleb (American painter) |
1811-1879 |
Bingham, George Charles (3rd Earl of Lucan; English soldier) |
1800-1888 |
Bingham, Hiram (American missionary) |
1789-1869 |
Bingham, Hiram (American missionary; son of Hiram) |
1831-1908 |
Bingham, Hiram (American explorer, politician; son of Hiram) |
1875-1956 |
Bingham, William (American banker, politician) |
1752-1804 |
Bingo Gazingo (born Murray Wachs; Am. poet, postal worker) |
1924-2010 |
Bing Xin (or Ping Hsin; pseud. of Xie Wanying; Chinese writer) |
1900-1999 |
Binkis, Kazys (Lithuanian poet; leader of Four Winds movement) |
1893-1942 |
bin Laden, Osama bin Mohammad (Saudia Arabian Al-Qaeda leader) |
1957-2011 |
Binney, Horace (American lawyer) |
1780-1875 |
Binney, Thomas (English clergyman) |
1798-1874 |
Binnig, Gerd (German physicist) |
b.1947 |
Binnya Dala (Ruler of Mon kingdom of Lower Burma 1747-1757) |
d.1774 |
Binswanger, Ludwig (Swiss psychiatrist) |
1881-1966 |
Binyon, (Robert) Laurence (English poet, art historian) |
1869-1943 |
Bion (aka Bion of Borysthenes; Greek philosopher) |
325?-255? BC |
Bion (Greek bucolic poet) |
fl. 100 BC |
Biondo, Flavio (Flavius Blondus; Italian Humanist, historian) |
1392-1463 |
Biot, Jean-Baptiste (Fr. mathematician, physicist, astronomer) |
1774-1862 |
Bioy Casares, Adolfo (Argentinean writer, editor) |
1914-1984 |
Biran, Marie-Francois-Pierre Gonthier de (Fr. polit., writer) |
1766-1824 |
Birch, Louis Charles (Australian geneticist, theologian) |
1918-2009 |
Birch, Thomas (English historian, prelate) |
1705-1766 |
Birchall, Edward Patrick "Ho-Ho the Clown" (American clown) |
1923-1988 |
Bird, Cyril Kenneth (pseudonym Fougasse; British cartoonist) |
1887-1965 |
Bird, Phillip Bradley "Brad" (American film director, writer) |
b.1957 |
Bird, Robert Montgomery (American writer, dramatist) |
1806-1854 |
Birdseye, Clarence (American businessman, inventor) |
1886-1956 |
Birdseye, Claude Hale (American topographic engineer) |
1878-1941 |
Birdwood, William Riddell (India-born British soldier) |
1865-1951 |
Birger Jarl (Swedish noble) |
d.1266 |
Birger Magnusson (King of Sweden 1290-1318; son of Magnus I) |
1280-1321 |
Birgitta, Saint (Birgitta Birgersdotter; Swedish writer) |
1303-1373 |
Biringuccio, Vannoccio (Italian metallurgist) |
1480-c.1539 |
Birkbeck, George (English physician, educator) |
1776-1841 |
Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith (English jurist, statesman) |
1872-1930 |
Birkhoff, George David (American mathematician, teacher) |
1884-1944 |
Birney, Alfred Earle (Canadian writer, educator) |
1904-1995 |
Birney, James Gillespie (American anti-slavery leader) |
1792-1857 |
Biron, Ernst Johann née Buhren (German politician in Russia) |
1690-1772 |
Birrell, Augustine (English politician, writer) |
1850-1933 |
Birtwistle, Sir Harrison Paul (English composer) |
b.1934 |
Biruni, Abu ar-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al- (Arab scholar) |
973-1048 |
Bischof, Werner (Swiss photographer) |
1916-1954 |
Bischoff, John (American composer, musician, teacher, activist) |
b.1949 |
Biscop, Simon "Simon Episcopius" (Dutch theologian) |
1583-1643 |
Bishandas (Indian painter) |
17th cent. |
Bishop, Elizabeth (American poet) |
1911-1979 |
Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley (English conductor, composer) |
1786-1855 |
Bishop, Isabella Lucy née Bird (English traveler, lecturer) |
1832-1904 |
Bishop, John Michael (American microbiologist, immunologist) |
b.1936 |
Bishop, John Peale (American poet, writer, critic) |
1892-1944 |
Bishop, William Avery (Canadian aviator) |
1894-1956 |
Bismarck, Otto Eduard Leopold von (Prussian statesman) |
1815-1898 |
Bismarck-Schonhausen, Herbert Nikolaus von (Prussian diplomat) |
1849-1904 |
Bissell, George Henry (American petroleum pioneer) |
1821-1884 |
Bissell, Melville Reuben (Am. inventor; inv. carpet sweeper) |
1843-1889 |
Bissell, Richard Pike (American writer, playwright) |
1913-1977 |
Bisolati-Bergamaschi, Leonida (Italian politician) |
1857-1920 |
Bitov, Andrei Georgievich (Russian writer) |
b.1937 |
Bitter, Karl Theodore Francis (Austrian-born American sculptor) |
1867-1915 |
Bittova, Iva (Moravian musician) |
b.1958 |
Bitzer, George William "G.W." (Am. motion-picture cameraman) |
1874-1944 |
Bitzius, Albert (pseudonym Jeremias Gotthelf; Swiss writer) |
1797-1854 |
Bixby, Horace Ezra (American Mississippi river pilot) |
1826-1912 |
Biyidi, Alexandre (pseudonym Mongo Beti; Cameroonian writer) |
b.1932 |
Bizet, Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold "Georges" (French composer) |
1838-1875 |
Bizzozero, Giulio Cesare (Italian pathologist) |
1846-1901 |
Bjerknes, Jacob Aall Bonnevie (Swedish-born Am. meteorologist) |
1897-1975 |
Bjerknes, Vilhelm Friman Koren (Norwegian physicist) |
1862-1951 |
Bjorkenheim, Raoul (American musician) |
b.1956 |
Bjorneboe, Jens Ingvald (Norw. writer, dramatist,essayist,poet) |
1920-1976 |
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne Martinius (Norw. poet, writer, editor) |
1832-1910 |
Bjornsson, Sveinn (Icelandic politician, diplomat) |
1881-1952 |
Black, Adam (Scottish publisher) |
1784-1874 |
Black, Robert Charles Jr. "Bob" (American anarchist, writer) |
b.1951 |
Black, Davidson (Canadian physician, anthropologist) |
1884-1934 |
Black, George (English theatrical manager) |
1890-1945 |
Black, Greene Vardiman (American dentist) |
1836-1915 |
Black, Hugo LaFayette (Am. politician, Supreme Court justice) |
1886-1971 |
Black, Sir James Whyte (Scottish physician, pharmacologist) |
b.1924 |
Black, Jeremiah Sullivan (American lawyer) |
1810-1883 |
Black, Joseph (Scottish chemist) |
1728-1799 |
Black, William (Scottish journalist, writer) |
1841-1898 |
Blackburn, Gideon (American clergyman) |
1772-1838 |
Blackburn, Helen (Irish-born British reformer) |
1842-1903 |
Blackburn, Joseph (English painter) |
c.1730-1774? |
Blackburn, Paul (American poet, translator, teacher) |
1926-1971 |
Blackburn, Robert (American artist, teacher, printmaker) |
1920-2003 |
Blackburn, Thomas (English poet, critic) |
1916-1977 |
Blackburne, Francis (Irish lawyer) |
1782-1867 |
Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart (British physicist) |
1897-1974 |
Black Hawk (Ma-ka-ta-i-me-she-kia-kiak; Am. Indian leader) |
1767-1838 |
Blackie, John Stuart (Scottish scholar, man of letters) |
1809-1895 |
Blackmore, Sir Richard (English physician, writer) |
1654-1729 |
Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (English writer) |
1825-1900 |
Blackmun, Harry Andrew (Am. Supreme Court justice 1970-1994) |
1908-1999 |
Blackmur, Richard Palmer (American critic, poet) |
1904-1965 |
Blackstone, Sir William (English jurist) |
1723-1780 |
Blackton, James Stuart (English-born American film director) |
1875-1941 |
Blackwelder, Eliot (American geologist) |
1880-1969 |
Blackwell, Alice Stone (American woman suffrage advocate) |
1857-1950 |
Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa née Brown (American reformer) |
1825-1921 |
Blackwell, Elizabeth (English-born American physician) |
1821-1910 |
Blackwell, Emily (American physician; sister of Elizabeth) |
1826-1910 |
Blackwell, Henry Brown (Eng.-born Am. editor; father of Alice) |
1825-1909 |
Blackwell, John (pseudonym Alun; Welsh poet, writer) |
1797-1840 |
Blackwell, Unita née Brown (Am. rights activist, politician) |
b.1933 |
Blackwood, Algernon Henry (English writer, traveler) |
1869-1951 |
Blackwood, Caroline Maureen (Northern Irish writer) |
b.1931 |
Blackwood, Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple (British diplomat) |
1826-1902 |
Blackwood, John (Scottish publisher; son of William) |
1818-1879 |
Blackwood, William (Scottish publisher) |
1776-1834 |
Blaeu, Cornelius (Dutch geographic publisher; son of Willem) |
d.1650 |
Blaeu, Jan (Dutch geographic publisher; son of Willem) |
d.1673 |
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (Dutch math., geographer, astronomer) |
1571-1638 |
Blaga, Lucian (Romanian poet, playwright) |
1895-1961 |
Blahoslav, Jan (Czech prelate, writer) |
1523-1571 |
Blaich, Hans Erich (pseud. Dr. Owlglass; Ger. writer, trans.) |
1873-1945 |
Blaine, James Gillespie "the Plumed Knight" (Am. politician) |
1830-1893 |
Blainville, Henri-Marie Ducrotay de (Fr. zoologist, physician) |
1777-1850 |
Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" (Scottish-born Brit. pol.) |
b.1953 |
Blair, Eric Arthur "George Orwell" (India-born English writer) |
1903-1950 |
Blair, Francis Preston (American journalist, politician) |
1791-1876 |
Blair, Francis Preston Jr. (Am. politician; son of Francis) |
1821-1875 |
Blair, Hugh (Scottish Presbyterian clergyman) |
1718-1800 |
Blair, James (Scottish-born American educator) |
1656-1743 |
Blair, John (Am. jurist; member of Constitutional Convention) |
1732-1800 |
Blair, Montgomery (American politician; son of Francis) |
1813-1883 |
Blair, Preston (American animator, text book writer) |
1918-1994 |
Blair, Robert (Scottish clergyman, poet) |
1699-1746 |
Blais, Marie-Claire (French Canadian writer, poet, playwright) |
b.1939 |
Blaise (or Blaize or Blasius), Saint (Armenian prelate, martyr) |
d.c.316 |
Blaize, Immodesty (b. Kelly Fletcher; English burlesque dancer) |
b.1978 |
Blake, Edward (Canadian politician) |
1833-1912 |
Blake, Eugene Carson (American clergyman) |
1906-1985 |
Blake, George (Scottish journalist, writer) |
1893-1961 |
Blake, James Herbert "Eubie" (American pianist, composer) |
1883-1983 |
Blake, Julian W. "Bud" (American cartoonist: Tiger) |
1918-2005 |
Blake, Sir Peter Thomas (English artist) |
b.1932 |
Blake, Ran (American composer, musician) |
b.1935 |
Blake, Robert (English admiral) |
1599-1657 |
Blake, Robert (born Michael Gubitosi; Am. actor; Our Gang) |
b.1933 |
Blake, William (English artist, poet, engraver, mystic) |
1757-1827 |
Blakelock, Ralph Albert (American painter) |
1847-1919 |
Blakey, Arthur "Art" (Abdullah ibn Buhaina; American musician) |
1919-1990 |
Blalock, Alfred (American surgeon) |
1899-1964 |
Blamey, Sir Thomas Albert (Australian soldier) |
1884-1951 |
Blanc, Jean-Joseph-Charles-Louis (French Socialist) |
1811-1882 |
Blanc, Melvin Jerome (American actor, cartoon voice) |
1908-1989 |
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre-Francois (French aeronaut) |
1753-1809 |
Blanchard, Thomas (American inventor) |
1788-1864 |
Blanche of Castile (Queen of France) |
1188-1252 |
Blanche, Jacques-Emile (French painter) |
1861-1942 |
Blanchet, Nicolas (French harpsichord maker; father of F.E.) |
c.1660-1731 |
Blanchet, Francois-Etienne "the Elder" (Fr. harpsichord maker) |
c.1695-1761 |
Blanchot, Maurice (French literary theorist, writer) |
1907-2003 |
Blanco Fombona, Rufino (Venezuelan writer, publisher) |
1874-1944 |
Blanco y Erenas, Ramon (Marques de Pena Plata; Span. soldier) |
1831-1906 |
Bland, James A. (American songwriter) |
1854-1911 |
Bland, Richard Parks (American politician) |
1835-1899 |
Blandiana, Ana (Otilia Valeria Coman Rusan; Romanian poet) |
b.1942 |
Blane, Sir Gilbert (Scottish physician) |
1749-1834 |
Blank, Les (American documentary filmmaker) |
1935-2013 |
Blanqui, Jerome-Adolphe (Fr. economist; brother of Auguste) |
1798-1854 |
Blanqui, Louis-Auguste (French Socialist, revolutionary) |
1805-1881 |
Blaschka, Leopold (Bohemian artist in glass) |
d.1895 |
Blaschka, Rudolph (Bohemian artist in glass; son of Leopold) |
1857-1939 |
Blaschke, Wilhelm Johann Eugen (German mathematician) |
1885-1962 |
Blasco Ibanez, Vicente (Spanish writer, politician) |
1867-1928 |
Blashfield, Edwin Howland (American painter) |
1848-1936 |
Blasis, Carlo (Italian ballet teacher) |
1803-1878 |
Blaskowitz, Johannes (German general) |
1883-1948 |
Blastares, Matthew (Byzantine monk, jurist) |
14th cent. |
Blatch, Harriot Eaton née Stanton (Am. woman suffrage leader) |
1856-1940 |
Blatchford, Samuel (American Supreme Court justice 1882-1893) |
1820-1893 |
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna née Hahn (Rus.-born Am. theosophist) |
1831-1891 |
Blavet, Michel (French musician, flutist, composer) |
1700-1768 |
Blaznavac, Milivoje Petrovic (Serbian soldier, politician) |
1824-1873 |
Blease, Coleman Livingston (American politician) |
1868-1942 |
Blechen, Karl (German painter) |
1798-1840 |
Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel (German philologist) |
1827-1875 |
Blegen, Carl William (American archaeologist) |
1887-1971 |
Blegvad, Peter (Am. musician, singer, songwriter, cartoonist) |
b.1951 |
Blenkinsop, John (English inventor) |
1783-1831 |
Bleriot, Louis (French pioneer aviator) |
1872-1936 |
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner née Power (Irish writer) |
1789-1849 |
Blest Gana, Alberto (Chilean writer, diplomat) |
1830-1920 |
Bleuler, Eugen (Swiss psychiatrist) |
1857-1939 |
Blewett, Duncan Bassett (Canadian research psychologist) |
1920-2007 |
Bley, Carla née Borg (American composer, musician) |
b.1938 |
Bley, Paul (Canadian musician, composer) |
b.1932 |
Blicher, Steen Steensen (Danish poet, writer) |
1782-1848 |
Bligh, William (English naval officer) |
1754-1817 |
Blinn, James F. "Jim" (American? computer scientist) |
b.1949 |
Blish, James Benjamin (American writer) |
1921-1975 |
Bliss, Sir Arthur Edward Drummond (English composer) |
1891-1975 |
Bliss, Nathaniel (English astronomer) |
1700-1764 |
Bliss, Tasker Howard (American army officer) |
1853-1930 |
Blitzstein, Marc (American composer) |
1905-1964 |
Blobel, Gunter (German-born American biologist) |
b.1936 |
Bloch, Ernest (Swiss-born American composer, teacher) |
1880-1959 |
Bloch, Ernst (German philosopher) |
1885-1977 |
Bloch, Felix (Swiss-born American physicist, educator) |
1905-1983 |
Bloch, Jean-Richard (French essayist, writer, playwright) |
1884-1947 |
Bloch, Joseph Samuel (Austrian rabbi, politician) |
1850-1923 |
Bloch, Konrad Emil (German-born American biochemist) |
1912-2000 |
Bloch, Mark "Pan" (American multi-media artist) |
b.1956 |
Block, Herbert Lawrence (American editorial cartoonist) |
1909-2001 |
Blocksidge, Charles William (Australian poet, story writer) |
1883-1942 |
Blodgett, Katherine Burr (American physicist, chemist) |
1898-1979 |
Bloemaert, Abraham (Dutch painter, engraver) |
1564-1651 |
Bloembergen, Nicolaas (Dutch-born American physicist) |
b.1920 |
Bloemen, Jan Frans van (Flemish painter; bro. of Pieter) |
1662-1748? |
Bloemen, Pieter van "Standaert" (Flem. battle & animal painter) |
1657-1719 |
Blois, Francois-Louis de (Flemish religious, mystical writer) |
1506-1566 |
Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (Russian poet, dramatist) |
1880-1921 |
Blom, Frans Ferdinand (Danish archaeologist) |
1893-1963 |
Blomberg, Werner Eduard Fritz von (German army officer) |
1878-1946 |
Blomfield, Sir Arthur William (English architect; son of C.J.) |
1829-1899 |
Blomfield, Charles James (English prelate) |
1786-1857 |
Blomfield, Sir Reginald Theodore (English architect, writer) |
1856-1942 |
Blondel (aka Blondel de Nesle; French trouvere) |
12th cent. |
Blondel, Francois (Sieur des Croisettes; French architect) |
1618-1686 |
Blondel, Georges (French scholar) |
1856-1948 |
Blondel, Jacques-Francois (French architect) |
1705-1774 |
Blondel, Maurice-Edouard (French philosopher) |
1861-1949 |
Blondin, Charles (born J.F. Gravelet; French tightrope walker) |
1824-1897 |
Blonk, Jaap (Dutch composer, voice performer, sound poet) |
b.1953 |
Blood, Thomas (Irish adventurer) |
c.1618-1680 |
Bloom, Allan David (American philosopher, writer) |
1930-1992 |
Bloom, Harold (American literary and cultural critic) |
b.1930 |
Bloomer, Amelia née Jenks (American reformer) |
1818-1894 |
Bloomfield, Leonard (American linguist) |
1887-1949 |
Bloomfield, Maurice (Austrian-born American philologist) |
1855-1928 |
Bloomfield, Robert (English shoemaker, poet) |
1766-1823 |
Bloor, Ella née Reeve "Mother Bloor" (Am. Communist leader) |
1862-1951 |
Blouet, Paul (pseudonym Max O'Rell; French writer) |
1848-1903 |
Blount, Charles (Earl of Devonshire; English soldier) |
c.1562-1606 |
Blount, Charles (English deist, writer) |
1654-1693 |
Blount (or Blunt), Edward (English printer) |
c.1565-1632? |
Blount, Roy Alton Jr. (American humorist, journalist, writer) |
b.1941 |
Blount, Thomas (English antiquarian, lexicographer) |
1618-1679 |
Blount, Sir Walter (English soldier) |
d.1403 |
Blount, William (American politician) |
1749-1800 |
Blow, David Mervyn (Eng. biophysicist: X-ray crystallography) |
1931-2004 |
Blow, John (English composer, organist) |
1649?-1708 |
Blow, Susan Elizabeth (American educator) |
1843-1916 |
Bloy, Leon (French writer, critic, polemicist) |
1846-1917 |
Blucher, Gebhard Leberecht von (Prussian field marshal) |
1742-1819 |
Blucher, Vasily Konstantinovich (pseudonym Galen; Rus. general) |
1889-1938 |
Bluhme, Christian Albrecht (Danish politician) |
1794-1866 |
Bluiett, Hamiet (American musician, composer) |
b.1940 |
Blum, Leon (French politician) |
1872-1950 |
Blum, Manuel (Venezuelan computer scientist, cryptographer) |
b.1938 |
Blum, Robert (German political agitator, writer, orator) |
1807-1848 |
Blumberg, Baruch Samuel (American virologist) |
b.1925 |
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (German zoologist, anthropologist) |
1752-1840 |
Blumenthal, Leonhard von (Prussian general) |
1810-1900 |
Blumenthal, Oskar (German playwright, critic) |
1852-1917 |
Blunden, Edmund Charles (English poet, critic, scholar) |
1896-1974 |
Blunden, Jeraldyne (American choreographer) |
1941?-1999 |
Blunt, Lady Anne Isabella née Noel (Eng. traveler; wife of W.) |
1837-1917 |
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (English poet, traveler) |
1840-1922 |
Bluntschli, Johann Kaspar (Swiss legal scholar) |
1808-1881 |
Bluth, Donald Virgil "Don" (American animator, studio owner) |
b.1937 |
Bly, Robert Elwood (American poet, editor, translator) |
b.1926 |
Blyth, Edward (English naturalist) |
1810-1873 |
Blythe, Arthur (American musician, composer) |
b.1940 |
Boas, Franz (German-born American anthropologist, ethnologist) |
1858-1942 |
Bobadilla, Francisco de (Spanish officer) |
d.1502 |
Bobrikov, Nikolay Ivanovich (Russian general) |
1839-1904 |
Bobrowski, Johannes (German poet, writer) |
1917-1965 |
Bobrzynski, Michal (Polish historian, politician) |
1849-1935 |
Bocage, Manuel Maria Barbosa du (Elmano Sadino; Port. poet) |
1765-1805 |
Boccaccio, Giovanni (French-born Italian writer) |
1313-1375 |
Boccalini, Traiano (Italian satirist) |
1556-1613 |
Boccherini, Ridolfo Luigi (Italian composer, violincellist) |
1743-1805 |
Boccioni, Umberto (Italian painter, sculptor) |
1882-1916 |
Bochart, Samuel (French theologian, philologist) |
1599-1667 |
Bochsa, Robert Nicolas-Charles (French musician, composer) |
1789-1856 |
Bock, Fedor von (German general) |
1880-1945 |
Bock, Hieronymus (H. Tragus; German botanist, physician) |
1498-1554 |
Bockh, August (German classical philologist) |
1785-1867 |
Bocklin, Arnold (Swiss painter) |
1827-1901 |
Bocskay, Istvan (Hung. national leader, prince of Transylvania) |
1557-1606 |
Bodawpaya (aka Mintayagyi Paya; King of Burma 1782-1819) |
d.1819 |
Bode, Johann Elert (German astronomer) |
1747-1826 |
Bode, Wilhelm von (German art critic, museum director) |
1845-1929 |
Bodel, Jehan (or Jean; French trouvere, dramatist) |
c.1167-1210 |
Bodenheim, Maxwell (born Maxwell Bodenheimer; Am. poet, writer) |
1893-1954 |
Bodenstedt, Friedrich Martin von (German poet, writer) |
1819-1892 |
Bodenstein, Andreas Rudolf (German theologian) |
c.1480-1541 |
Bodhidharma (aka Ta-Mo; Daruma; Indian Buddhist monk) |
6th cent. |
Bodichon, Barbara Leigh née Smith (English reformer) |
1827-1891 |
Bodin, Jean (French political philosopher) |
1530-1596 |
Bodley, Sir Thomas (English diplomat, bibliophile) |
1545-1613 |
Bodmer, Johann Jakob (Swiss scholar, critic) |
1698-1783 |
Bodoni, Giambattista (Italian printer, type designer) |
1740-1813 |
Boe, Jacques (pseudonym Jacques Jasmin; French poet, barber) |
1798-1864 |
Boece (or Boethius), Hector (Scottish historian) |
c.1465-c.1536 |
Boehm, Sir Joseph Edgar (Austrian-born British sculptor) |
1834-1890 |
Boeing, William Edward (American aircraft industrialist) |
1881-1956 |
Boerhaave, Hermann (Dutch physician) |
1668-1738 |
Boetcker, William John Henry (German-born American clergyman) |
1873-1962 |
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Roman philosopher) |
c.480-524 |
Boethus (Greek sculptor) |
2nd cent. BC |
Boffrand, Gabriel-Germain (French architect) |
1667-1754 |
Bogan, Louise (American poet, literary critic) |
1897-1970 |
Boganda, Barthelemy (African politician) |
1910-1959 |
Bogardus, James (American inventor) |
1800-1874 |
Bogart, Humphrey De Forest (American actor) |
1899-1957 |
Bogart, John B. (American journalist, news editor) |
1848-1921 |
Bogart, Leo (Polish-born American sociologist, writer) |
1921-2005 |
Bogdanovich, Ippolit Fyodorovich (Russian poet) |
1744-1803 |
Bogdanovich, Peter (Am. film historian, director, writer) |
b.1939 |
Bogoraz, Vladimir Germanovich (Russian ethnographer) |
1865-1936 |
Boguslawski, Wojciech (Polish actor, playwright) |
1757-1829 |
Bohlau, Helene (German writer) |
1859-1940 |
Bohlen, Charles Eustis (American diplomat) |
1904-1974 |
Bohlen, Jim (American engineer; co-founded Greenpeace) |
1926-2010 |
Bohl de Faber, Cecilia (pseud. Fernan Caballero; Span. writer) |
1796-1877 |
Bohl von Faber, Johann Nikolaus (German merchant, critic) |
1770-1836 |
Bohm, David Joseph (American physicist, educator) |
1917-1992 |
Bohm, Georg (German organist, composer) |
1661-1733 |
Bohm, Karl (Austrian conductor) |
1894-1981 |
Bohm, Theobald (German flutist, composer) |
1794-1881 |
Bohm-Bawerk, Eugen (Austrian economist, politician) |
1851-1914 |
Bohme, Jakob (German mystic) |
1575-1624 |
Bohmer, Johann Friedrich (German historian) |
1795-1863 |
Bohm-Ermolli, Eduard von (Austrian general) |
1856-1941 |
Bohn, Henry George (English publisher) |
1796-1884 |
Bohomolec, Franciszek (Polish writer, scholar) |
1720-1784 |
Bohr, Aage Niels (Danish physicist; son of Niels) |
b.1922 |
Bohr, Harald August (Danish mathematician; brother of Niels) |
1887-1951 |
Bohr, Niels Henrik David (Danish physicist) |
1885-1962 |
Bohtlingk, Otto von (German scholar) |
1815-1904 |
Boiardo, Matteo Maria (Conte di Scandiano; Italian poet) |
1441?-1494 |
Boie, Heinrich Christian (German poet, editor) |
1744-1806 |
Boieldieu, Francois-Adrien (French composer) |
1775-1834 |
Boiffard, Jacques-Andre (French photographer, radiologist) |
1902-1961 |
Boileau, Nicolas "Boileau-Despreaux" (French critic, poet) |
1636-1711 |
Boilly, Louis-Leopold (French painter, lithographer) |
1761-1845 |
Boisguillebert, Pierre Le Pesant de (French economist) |
1646-1714 |
Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de (French composer) |
1689-1755 |
Boisrobert, Francois Le Metel de (French dramatist, poet) |
1589-1662 |
Boissy d'Anglas, Francois-Antoine de (French politician) |
1756-1826 |
Boito, Arrigo (born E.G. Giovanni; It. composer, librettist) |
1842-1918 |
Bojer, Johan (Norwegian writer) |
1872-1959 |
Bojo Guksa (Chi-nui; Korean Buddhist leader) |
1158-1210 |
Bo Juyi (or Po Chu-i; Chinese poet) |
772-846 |
Bok, Bart Jan (Dutch-born Am. astronomer; asteroid, crater) |
1906-1983 |
Bok, Edward William (Dutch-born American editor) |
1863-1930 |
Bokenam (or Bokenham), Osbern (English poet) |
1392?-1447? |
Boland, Eavan Aisling (Irish poet, literary critic) |
b.1944 |
Boland, Francois "Francy" (Belgian musician, composer) |
1929-2005 |
Bolcom, William Elden (American composer, pianist) |
b.1938 |
Bolden, Charles Joseph "Buddy" (American musician) |
1877-1931 |
Boldini, Giovanni (Italian painter) |
1845-1931 |
Boleslavsky, Richard (Polish-born Am. film & theatrical dir.) |
1889-1937 |
Boleslaw I "Chrobry" (Polish king 1000-1025) |
966/7-1025 |
Boleslaw II "the Bold", "the Generous" (Polish king 1058-1081) |
1039-1081 |
Boleslaw III "Krzywousty" (Polish prince 1102-1138) |
1085-1138 |
Boleslaw IV "Kedzierzawy" (Polish ruler) |
d.1173 |
Boleyn, Anne (Queen consort of Henry VIII; mother of Eliz. I) |
c.1507-1536 |
Bolin, Bert Rickard Johannes (Swedish meteorologist) |
1925-2007 |
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John (English politician, writer) |
1678-1751 |
Bolivar, Simon (South American soldier, statesman, rev. leader) |
1783-1830 |
Bolkestein, Frederik "Frits" (Dutch politician) |
b.1933 |
Boll, Heinrich Theodor (German writer) |
1917-1985 |
Bolland, Jean de (Bollandus; Flemish Jesuit hagiologist) |
1596-1665 |
Bolotowsky, Ilya (Russian-born Am. painter, sculptor, teacher) |
1907-1981 |
Bolt, Robert Oxton (English screenwriter, playwright) |
1924-1995 |
Bolton (or Boulton), Edmund (English poet, antiquarian) |
1575?-1633 |
Bolton, Guy Reginald (English playwright, librettist) |
1884-1979 |
Bolton, Herbert Eugene (American historian) |
1870-1953 |
Bolton, John Gatenby (English-born Australian radio astronomer) |
1922-1993 |
Bolton, John Robert (American diplomat) |
b.1948 |
Bolton, Reginald Ernest (English clown, teacher, actor, writer) |
1945-2006 |
Boltwood, Bertram Borden (American scientist) |
1870-1927 |
Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard (Austrian physicist) |
1844-1906 |
Bolyai, Farkas Wolfgang (Hungarian mathematician) |
1775-1856 |
Bolyai, Janos (Hungarian mathematician; son of Farkas) |
1802-1860 |
Bolzano, Bernhard (Austrian theologian, philosopher, math.) |
1781-1848 |
Bomball, Maria Luisa (Chilean writer) |
1910-1980 |
Bombast von Hohenheim, Philippus (German alchemist, physician) |
1493-1541 |
Bomberg, Daniel (Dutch printer) |
1470/80-1550? |
Bombieri, Enrico (Italian mathematician, teacher) |
b.1940 |
Bomtempo, Joao Domingos (Port. pianist, composer, pedagogue) |
1775-1842 |
Bonaccorsi, Pietro "Perino del Vaga" (Italian painter) |
1501-1547 |
Bonald, Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise de (Fr. publicist, philosopher) |
1754-1840 |
Bonaparte, Carlo (Corsican lawyer; father of Napoleon I) |
1746-1785 |
Bonaparte, Charles Joseph (American lawyer) |
1851-1921 |
Bonaparte, Elizabeth née Patterson (American socialite) |
1785-1879 |
Bonar, Horatius (Scottish clergyman) |
1808-1889 |
Bonard, Louis-Adolphe (French admiral) |
1805-1867 |
Bonaventura, Saint (orig. name Giovanni; Italian philosopher) |
c.1217-1274 |
Boncompagni di Mombello, Carlo (Italian jurist, politician) |
1804-1880 |
Boncompagno da Signa (Italian rhetorician) |
c.1165-c.1240 |
Bond, Carrie née Jacobs (American songwriter) |
1862-1946 |
Bond, Edward (English playwright) |
b.1934 |
Bond, George Phillips (Am. astronomer; son of William Cranch) |
1825-1865 |
Bond, Maya (Japanese-born American singer, songwriter) |
b.2000 |
Bond, Sir Robert (Canadian politician) |
1857-1927 |
Bond, Thomas (American physician) |
1712-1784 |
Bond, Thomas Ross (Am. actor, director; Little Rascal: Butch) |
1926-2005 |
Bond, Tommy (American actor; Our Gang: "Tommy": "Butch") |
b.1927 |
Bond, William Bennett (English-born Canadian prelate) |
1815-1906 |
Bond, William Cranch (American astronomer) |
1789-1859 |
Bonde, Gustaf (Swedish politician) |
1620-1667 |
Bondfield, Margaret Grace (English trade unionist, politician) |
1873-1953 |
Bone, Henry (English artist) |
1755-1834 |
Bone, Henry Pierce (English enamel painter; son of Henry) |
1779-1855 |
Bone, Sir Muirhead (Scottish etcher, painter) |
1876-1953 |
Boner, Ulrich (aka Bonerius; Swiss writer) |
fl. 1324-1349 |
Bonfils, Frederick Gilmer (American newspaper publisher) |
1860-1933 |
Bong, Richard Ira (American army officer, aviator) |
1920-1945 |
Bongars, Jacques (French diplomat, scholar) |
1554-1612 |
Bonghi, Ruggiero (or Ruggero; It. scholar, writer, politician) |
1826-1895 |
Bonham, John Henry (English musician) |
1948-1980 |
Bonheur, Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" (French painter) |
1822-1899 |
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (German theologian) |
1906-1945 |
Boni, Albert (American publisher) |
1892-1981 |
Boniface, Saint (orig. Wynfrid; Eng. Benedictine missionary) |
c.675-754 |
Boniface (Margrave of Canossa; Italian ruler) |
d.1052 |
Boniface of Savoy (Archbishop of Canterbury) |
d.1270 |
Bonifacio, Andres (Filipino insurrectionist) |
1863-1897 |
Bonifacius (Roman general) |
d.432 |
Bonin, Eduard von (Prussian general) |
1793-1865 |
Bonington, Richard Parkes (English painter) |
1801-1828 |
Bonini, Severo (Italian composer, organist, writer on music) |
1582-1663 |
Bonivard, Francois (Swiss religious, patriot) |
1494?-1570 |
Bonnard, Abel (French writer) |
1883-1968 |
Bonnard, Pierre (French painter; leading member of Nabis group) |
1867-1947 |
Bonnassieux, Jean-Marie (French sculptor) |
1810-1892 |
Bonnat, Leon-Joseph-Florentin (French painter) |
1833-1922 |
Bonne, Francois de (Duc de Lesdiguires; French soldier) |
1543-1626 |
Bonnefoy, Yves (French poet, critic) |
b.1923 |
Bonner (or Boner), Edmund (English prelate) |
c.1500-1569 |
Bonner, Robert (Irish-born American newspaper publisher) |
1824-1899 |
Bonner, Yelena (b. Lusik Georgievna Alikhanova; Sov. activist) |
1923-2011 |
Bonnet, Charles (Swiss naturalist, philosopher) |
1720-1793 |
Bonnet, Georges-Etienne (French politician, diplomat) |
1889-1973 |
Bonneval, Claude-Alexandre de (French soldier) |
1675-1747 |
Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de (American army officer) |
1796-1878 |
Bonneville, Nicolas de (French writer) |
1760-1828 |
Bonney, William (born Henry) "Billy the Kid" (American outlaw) |
1859?-1881 |
Bonnier, Gaston (French botanist) |
1853-1922 |
Bono, Salvatore "Sonny" (American singer, politician) |
b.1935 |
Bonomi, Ivanoe (Italian politician) |
1873-1951 |
Bononcini, Antonio Maria (It. composer; son of Giovanni Maria) |
1677-1726 |
Bononcini, Giovanni (Italian composer; son of Giovanni Maria) |
1670-1747 |
Bononcini, Giovanni Maria (Italian musical theorist, composer) |
1642-1678 |
Bonpland, Aime-Jacques-Alexandre (French naturalist) |
1773-1858 |
Bonporti, Francesco Antonio (Italian composer) |
1672-1749 |
Bonstetten, Charles Victor de (Swiss writer) |
1745-1832 |
Bontempelli, Massimo (Italian poet, writer, dramatist, critic) |
1878-1960 |
Bontemps, Arna Wendell (American writer, poet, librarian) |
1902-1973 |
Bonvesin da la Riva (Italian poet, teacher, moralist) |
c.1240-c.1315 |
Bonvicino (or Buonvicino), Alessandro "Moretto" (It. painter) |
c.1498-1554 |
Bookbinder, Roy (American musician) |
b.1943 |
Bookchin, Murray (American social ecologist, writer) |
1921-2006 |
Boole, George (English mathematician, logician) |
1815-1864 |
Boone, Daniel (American pioneer) |
c.1734-1820 |
Boone, Pat (Charles Edward Boone; American musician) |
b.1934 |
Boone, Richard Bently (American musician, singer) |
1930-1999 |
Boorde (or Borde), Andrew (English physician, writer) |
c.1490-1549 |
Boorstin, Daniel Joseph (American historian) |
1914-2004 |
Boos, Martin (German clergyman) |
1762-1825 |
Booth, Agnes née Marian Rookes (Australian-born Am. actor) |
1846-1910 |
Booth, Ballington (American Salvation Army commander) |
1857-1940 |
Booth, Barton (English tragic actor) |
1681-1733 |
Booth, Charles (English ship owner, sociological writer) |
1840-1916 |
Booth, Edwin Thomas (American actor; son of Junius) |
1833-1893 |
Booth, Eugene Theodore (American physicist, educator) |
1912-2004 |
Booth, Evangeline Cory (English Salvation Army commander) |
1865-1950 |
Booth, Florence Eleanor Soper (Eng. Salvation Army worker) |
1861-1957 |
Booth, Sir Felix (English distiller) |
1775-1850 |
Booth, George (English political & military leader) |
1622-1684 |
Booth, John Wilkes (Am. actor; Lincoln assassin; son of J.B.) |
1838-1965 |
Booth, Junius Brutus (English-born American actor) |
1796-1852 |
Booth, Junius Brutus (American actor; son of Junius) |
1821-1883 |
Booth, Maud Elizabeth Charlesworth (Am. Salvation Army worker) |
1865-1948 |
Booth, Wayne Clayson (American critic, teacher) |
b.1921 |
Booth, William (Eng. religious leader, fdr. of Salvation Army) |
1829-1912 |
Booth, (William) Bramwell (English Salvation Army general) |
1856-1929 |
Booth-Tucker, Emma Moss (English Salvation Army worker) |
1860-1903 |
Booth-Tucker, Frederick St. George de Lautour (S. Army worker) |
1853-1929 |
Bopp, Franz (German philologist) |
1791-1867 |
Bora, Katharina von (German religious) |
1499-1552 |
Borah, William Edgar (American politician) |
1865-1940 |
Borchard, Edwin (American lawyer) |
1884-1951 |
Borchardt, Carl Wilhelm (German mathematician) |
1817-1880 |
Borchardt, Ludwig (German Egyptologist) |
1863-1938 |
Borcherds, Richard Ewen (S. African-born British mathematician) |
b.1959 |
Borchert, Wolfgang (German dramatist, writer) |
1921-1947 |
Borchgrevink, Carsten Egeberg (Norwegian naturalist, explorer) |
1864-1934 |
Borda, Jean-Charles de (Fr. mathematician, nautical astronomer) |
1733-1799 |
Bordeaux, Henry (French writer) |
1870-1963 |
Borden, David (American composer, pianist, educator) |
b.1938 |
Borden, Sir Frederick William (Canadian politician) |
1847-1917 |
Borden, Gail (American inventor) |
1801-1874 |
Borden, Lizzie Andrew (American accused murderess) |
1860-1927 |
Borden, Sir Robert Laird (Canadian politician) |
1854-1937 |
Bordet, Jules-Jean-Baptiste-Vincent (Belgian bacteriologist) |
1870-1961 |
Bordone, Paris (Venetian painter) |
1500-1571 |
Bore, Jean Etienne (American planter) |
1741-1820 |
Borel, Felix Edouard Justin Emile (French math., politician) |
1871-1956 |
Borel, Jacques (French writer, translator, critic) |
b.1925 |
Borel, Joseph-Pierre (pseudonym Lycanthrope; French writer) |
1809-1859 |
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso (Italian physicist, physiologist) |
1608-1679 |
Borenius, Tancred (Russian-born Finnish art historian) |
1885-1948 |
Borg, Anita (born Anita Borg Naffz; Am. computer scientist) |
1949-2003 |
Borg, Marcus Joel (American theologian, scholar) |
1942-2015 |
Borgen, Johan Collet Muller (Norwegian writer, dramatist) |
1902-1979 |
Borges, Jorge Luis (Argentinean poet, essayist, writer) |
1899-1986 |
Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio (Italian playwright, writer, critic) |
1882-1952 |
Borgia, Cesare (Italian cardinal, military leader) |
1475-1507 |
Borgia, Saint Francis (Spanish noble, prelate) |
1510-1572 |
Borglum, John Gutzon de la Mothe (American sculptor) |
1867-1941 |
Borgongini-Duca, Francesco (Italian prelate) |
1884-1954 |
Boril (Czar of Bulgarian Empire 1207-1218) |
13th cent. |
Boring, Edwin Garrigues (American psychologist) |
1886-1968 |
Borja y Aragon, Francisco de (Spanish colonial, poet) |
c.1577-1658 |
Borlaug, Norman Ernest (American agronomist, humanist) |
1914-2009 |
Bormann, Martin Ludwig (German Nazi leader) |
1900-1945? |
Born, Ignaz von (Austrian mineralogist, metallurgist) |
1742-1791 |
Born, Max (German physicist, mathematician) |
1882-1970 |
Borne, Ludwig (born Lob Baruch; German pol. writer, satirist) |
1786-1837 |
Borno, Louis-Eustache-Antoine-Francois-Joseph (Haitian polit.) |
1865-1942 |
Borodin, Aleksandr Porfiryevich (Russian composer, chemist) |
1833-1887 |
Borodin, Mikhail Markovich (Russian diplomat) |
1884-1951 |
Boroevic von Bojna, Svetozar (Austrian general) |
1856-1920 |
Borough (or Burrough, Burrowe), Stephen (English navigator) |
1525-1584 |
Borough (or Burrough, Burrowe), William (English naval officer) |
1536-1599 |
Borowczyk, Walerian (Polish film director, animator, writer) |
1923-2006 |
Borowski, Tadeusz (Polish writer, poet) |
1922-1951 |
Borrelly, Alphonse Louis Nicolas (French asteroid; asteroid) |
1842-1926 |
Borromeo, Saint Carlo (Italian prelate) |
1538-1584 |
Borromeo, Federigo (Italian prelate; cousin of Carlo) |
1564-1631 |
Borromini, Francesco (Italian architect, sculptor) |
1599-1667 |
Borron (or Boron), Robert de (French poet) |
12th-13th cent. |
Borrow, George Henry (English writer, linguist) |
1803-1881 |
Borst, Lyle Benjamin (American physicist) |
1912-2002 |
Bortniansky, Dmitry Stepanovich (b.Dmytro; Ukrainian composer) |
1751-1825 |
Borwein, David (Lithuania-born Canadian mathematician) |
b.1924 |
Borwein, Jonathan Michael (Scotish-born Canadian mathematician) |
b.1951 |
Borwein, Peter Benjamin (Scotish-born Canadian mathematician) |
b.1953 |
Bosanquet, Bernard (English philosopher) |
1848-1923 |
Bosboom, Johannes (Dutch church & architectural painter) |
1817-1891 |
Bosboom-Toussaint, Anna Louisa Geertruida (Dutch writer) |
1812-1886 |
Boscan Almogaver, Juan (Spanish poet) |
c.1490-1542 |
Boscawen, Edward "Old Dreadnaught" (English naval officer) |
1711-1761 |
Bosch, Carl (German industrial chemist, amateur astronomer) |
1874-1940 |
Bosch, Hieronymus (aka Jeroen van Aeken; Dutch painter) |
1450-1516 |
Bosch, Johannes van den (Dutch colonialist) |
1780-1844 |
Bosch, Robert August (German engineer, industrialist) |
1861-1942 |
Bosco, Saint Giovanni Melchior (Italian priest) |
1815-1888 |
Bosco, Henri Ferdinand Joseph Marius (French writer) |
1888-1976 |
Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe (Croatian math., astronomer) |
1711-1787 |
Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra (Indian physicist, plant physiol.) |
1858-1937 |
Bose, Satyendra Nath (Indian mathematician, physicist) |
1894-1974 |
Bose, Subhas Chandra (Indian politician) |
1897-1945 |
Boselli, Paolo (Italian politician; premier 1916-1917) |
1838-1932 |
Bosendorfer, Ignaz (Austrian piano maker) |
1796-1859 |
Boshier, Derek (English painter, collagist, photographer) |
b.1937 |
Bosio, Francois-Joseph (French sculptor) |
1768-1845 |
Bosman, Herman Charles (South African writer) |
1905-1951 |
Bosquet, Pierre-Jean-Francois (French army officer) |
1810-1861 |
Boss, Lewis (American astronomer) |
1846-1912 |
Bosse, Abraham (French painter, engraver, architect) |
1602-1676 |
Bossert, Helmuth Theodor (German philologist, archaeologist) |
1889-1961 |
Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne (French prelate) |
1627-1704 |
Boston, John "John Boston of Bury" (English bibliographer) |
15th cent. |
Boston, Lucy (born Lucy Maria Wood; English writer) |
1892-1990 |
Boston, Richard (English journalist, film-maker) |
1938-2006 |
Boston, Thomas (Scottish clergyman) |
1676-1732 |
Boswell, Sir Alexander (Scottish antiquary, poet; son of James) |
1775-1822 |
Boswell, James (Scottish lawyer, biographer, diarist) |
1740-1795 |
Boswell, James (Scottish lawyer; son of James) |
1778-1822 |
Bosworth, Joseph (English clergyman, philologist) |
1789-1876 |
Botev, Khristo (Bulgarian poet, patriot) |
1848-1876 |
Both, Jan (Dutch painter) |
c.1618-1652 |
Both, Pieter (Dutch colonialist) |
c.1550-1615 |
Botha, Louis (South African soldier, politician) |
1862-1919 |
Botha, Pieter Willem (South African president 1978-1989) |
1916-2006 |
Bothe, Walther Wilhelm Georg Franz (German physicist, math.) |
1891-1957 |
Botsaris, Markos (aka Marco Bozzari; Greek patriot) |
c.1788-1823 |
Bott, Raoul (Hungarian-born American mathematician) |
1923-2005 |
Botta, Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo (Italian physician, historian) |
1766-1837 |
Botta, Paul-Emile (French archaeologist; son of Carlo) |
1802-1870 |
Bottesini, Giovanni (Italian musician, composer) |
1821-1889 |
Bottger (or Bottiger), Johann Friedrich (German ceramist) |
1682-1719 |
Botticelli, Sandro Alessandro di Mariano (Italian painter) |
1445-1510 |
Bottome, Phyllis (English writer) |
1884-1963 |
Bottomley, Gordon (English poet, dramatist) |
1874-1948 |
Bottomley, Horatio William (English journalist, financier) |
1860-1933 |
Bouchardon, Edme (French sculptor) |
1698-1762 |
Boucher, Auguste-Gaspard-Louis (French engraver) |
1779-1857 |
Boucher, Francois (French painter) |
1703-1770 |
Boucher, Jonathan (English clergyman) |
1738-1804 |
Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes, Jacques (Fr. archaeologist) |
1788-1868 |
Bouchor, Maurice (French poet, playwright) |
1855-1929 |
Boucicault, Dion (Irish-born American actor, playwright) |
1820/2-1890 |
Boudicca (aka Boadicea; British queen; wife of Prasutagus) |
d.60 |
Boudin, Eugene-Louis (French painter) |
1824-1898 |
Boudinot, Elias (American Revolutionary politician) |
1740-1821 |
Boudjedra, Rachid (Algerian writer) |
b.1941 |
Boue, Amedee "Ami" (Austrian geologist) |
1794-1881 |
Boufflers, Louis-Francois de (French soldier) |
1644-1711 |
Boufflers, Stanislas-Jean de (French soldier, poet, courtier) |
1738-1815 |
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de (French navigator) |
1729-1811 |
Boughton, George Henry (English painter) |
1833-1905 |
Boughton, Rutland (English composer) |
1878-1960 |
Bouguer, Pierre (French hydrographer, mathematician) |
1698-1758 |
Bouguereau, Adolphe-William (French painter) |
1825-1905 |
Bouilhet, Louis-Hyacinthe (French poet, playwright) |
1822-1869 |
Bouille, Francois-Claude-Amour de (French general) |
1739-1800 |
Boulainvilliers, Henri de (French historian) |
1658-1722 |
Boulanger, Georges-Ernest-Jean-Marie (Fr. general, politician) |
1837-1891 |
Boulanger, Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence (French painter) |
1824-1888 |
Boulanger, Louis (French painter) |
1806-1867 |
Boulanger, Nadia Juliette (French composer, conductor, teacher) |
1887-1979 |
Boule, Pierre-Marcellin (French paleontologist) |
1861-1942 |
Boulez, Pierre (French composer, conductor, writer) |
b.1925 |
Boulle (or Boule, Buhl), Andre-Charles (French cabinetmaker) |
1642-1732 |
Boulle, Pierre-Francois-Marie-Louis (French writer) |
1912-1994 |
Boullee, Etienne-Louis (French architect) |
1728-1799 |
Boullongne, Bon "l'Aine" (French artist; son of Louis) |
1649-1717 |
Boullongne, Genevieve (French painter; daughter of Louis) |
1645-1710 |
Boullongne, Louis "le Pere" (French artist) |
1609-1674 |
Boullongne, Louis "le Jeune" (French painter; son of Louis) |
1654-1733 |
Boullongne, Madeleine (French painter; daughter of Louis) |
1646-1709 |
Boulsover, Thomas (English cutler) |
1706-1788 |
Boulter, Hugh (English prelate) |
1672-1742 |
Boulton, Matthew (English manufacturer, engineer) |
1728-1809 |
Boumedienne, Houari (Algerian soldier, politician) |
1927-1978 |
Bouquet, Henry (Swiss-born British officer in America) |
1719-1765 |
Bouquet, Martin "Dom Martin" (French religious) |
1685-1754 |
Bouraoui, Hedi Andre (Tunisian poet, scholar) |
b.1932 |
Bourassa, Joseph-Napoleon-Henri (French-Canadian journ., pol.) |
1868-1952 |
Bourbaki, Charles-Denis-Sauter (French general) |
1816-1897 |
Bourbon, Charles de (French general, constable of France) |
1490-1527 |
Bourboune, Mourad (Algerian writer) |
b.1938 |
Bourcet, Pierre-Joseph de (French general) |
1700-1780 |
Bourchier, John (2nd Baron Berners; English writer, soldier) |
c.1469-1533 |
Bourchier, Thomas (English prelate; archbishop of Canterbury) |
c.1412-1486 |
Bourdaloue, Louis (French cleric) |
1632-1704 |
Bourdeille, Pierre de (French soldier, chronicler) |
c.1540-1614 |
Bourdelle, Emile-Antoine (French sculptor) |
1861-1929 |
Bourdet, Edouard (French dramatist) |
1887-1945 |
Bourdon, Eugene (French inventor, steam engine industrialist) |
1808-1884 |
Bourdon, Sebastien (French painter) |
1616-1671 |
Bourgain, Jean (Belgian mathematician, educator) |
b.1954 |
Bourgault-Ducoudray, Louis-Albert (Fr. composer, musicologist) |
1840-1910 |
Bourgelat, Claude (French veterinarian) |
1712-1779 |
Bourgeois, Leon-Victor-Auguste (French politician) |
1851-1925 |
Bourgeois, Louis (or Loys; French composer) |
c.1510-1561? |
Bourgeois, Louise (French-born American painter, sculptor) |
1911-2010 |
Bourget, Paul-Charles-Joseph (French critic, poet, writer) |
1852-1935 |
Bourguiba, Habib ibn Ali (Tunisian president 1957-1987) |
1903-2000 |
Bourguignon, Louis-Dominique "Cartouche" (French criminal) |
1693-1721 |
Bourignon, Antoinette (Flemish religious) |
1616-1680 |
Bourjaily, Vance Nye (American writer) |
b.1922 |
Bourke, Sir Richard (Irish-born British soldier, colonialist) |
1777-1855 |
Bourke, Richard Southwell (Irish-born Brit. pol., colonialist) |
1822-1872 |
Bourke-White, Margaret (orig. surname White; Am. photographer) |
1906-1971 |
Bourmont, Louis-Auguste-Victor de Ghaisnes de (Fr. politician) |
1773-1846 |
Bourne, Francis Alphonsus (English prelate) |
1861-1935 |
Bourne, Hugh (English preacher) |
1772-1852 |
Bourne, Randolph Silliman (American essayist, critic) |
1886-1918 |
Bournonville, Auguste (Danish dancer, choreographer) |
1805-1879 |
Bourrienne, Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de (French diplomat) |
1769-1834 |
Boursault, Edme (French playwright) |
1638-1701 |
Bousono, Carlos (Spanish poet, literary critic) |
b.1923 |
Bousquet, Joe (French poet, writer) |
1897-1950 |
Bousset, Wilhelm (German scholar, theologian) |
1865-1920 |
Boussinesq, Joseph Valentin (French physicist) |
1842-1929 |
Boussingault, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph-Dieudonne (Fr. ag. chemist) |
1802-1887 |
Boutens, Pieter Cornelis (Dutch poet, mystic, scholar) |
1870-1943 |
Bouterwek, Friedrich (German philosopher, critic) |
1766-1828 |
Bouton, Noel (Comte de Chamilly; French soldier) |
1636-1715 |
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros (Egyptian diplomat) |
b.1922 |
Boutroux, Etienne-Emile-Marie (French philosopher) |
1845-1921 |
Bouts, Dirck (or Dierick, Dirk, Thierry; Dutch painter) |
c.1400-1475 |
Boutwell, George Sewall (American politician) |
1818-1905 |
Bouvard (or Bouvart), Alexis (French astronomer) |
1767-1843 |
Bouvier, John (Italy-born, of French parents, American lawyer) |
1787-1851 |
Bovee, Christian Nestell (American writer, lawyer) |
1820-1904 |
Boveri, Theodor Heinrich (German zoologist) |
1862-1915 |
Bovet, Danielle (Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist) |
1907-1992 |
Bow, Clara (American actor) |
1905-1965 |
Bowden, Mwata (American musician, teacher) |
b.1947 |
Bowdich, Thomas Edward (English traveler) |
1791-1824 |
Bowditch, Henry Pickering (American physiologist) |
1840-1911 |
Bowditch, Nathaniel (American mathematician, astronomer) |
1773-1838 |
Bowdler, Thomas (English physician, editor, philanthropist) |
1754-1825 |
Bowdoin, James (American politician) |
1726-1790 |
Bowell, Sir Mackenzie (English-born Canadian politician) |
1823-1917 |
Bowen, Catherine Shober née Drinker (Am. historical biographer) |
1897-1973 |
Bowen, Charles Synge Christopher (English jurist) |
1835-1894 |
Bowen, Edward George (Australian radio astronomer) |
1911-1991 |
Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (Irish writer) |
1899-1973 |
Bowen, Sir George Ferguson (English colonialist) |
1821-1899 |
Bowen, Imogene (American Upper Skagit Tribe leader) |
1935-2007 |
Bowen, Ira Sprague (American astronomer) |
1898-1973 |
Bowen, John Griffith (India-born British playwright, writer) |
b.1924 |
Bowen, Norman Levi (Canadian-born Am. petrologist, chemist) |
1887-1956 |
Bower, Frederick Orpen (English botanist) |
1855-1948 |
Bower (or Bowmaker), Walter (Scottish chronicler) |
1385-1449 |
Bowerbank, James Scott (English naturalist, paleontologist) |
1797-1877 |
Bowering, George (Canadian poet, writer) |
b.1935 |
Bowers, Graham (English musician, composer, designer, artist) |
b.1943 |
Bowers, Samuel Holloway (American Ku Klux Klan leader) |
1924-2006 |
Bowie, David (born David Robert Jones; English musician) |
b.1947 |
Bowie, James (American soldier; invented Bowie knife) |
1796-1836 |
Bowie, Lester (American musician, composer) |
1941-1999 |
Bowie, William (American geologist) |
1872-1940 |
Bowie, William Lester (American musician) |
1941-1999 |
Bowker, Richard Rogers (American editor, writer) |
1848-1933 |
Bowles, Chester (American economist, diplomat) |
1901-1986 |
Bowles, Jane Sydney née Auer (American writer, playwright) |
1917-1973 |
Bowles, Paul Frederic (American writer, composer) |
1910-1999 |
Bowles, Samuel (American newspaper editor) |
1797-1851 |
Bowles, Samuel (American newspaperman; son of Samuel) |
1826-1878 |
Bowles, Samuel (American newspaperman; son of Samuel) |
1851-1915 |
Bowles, William Lisle (English clergyman, poet, critic) |
1762-1850 |
Bowley, Sir Arthur Lyon (English statistician) |
1869-1957 |
Bowman, Isaiah (Canadian-born American geographer, educator) |
1878-1950 |
Bowman, Dr. Karl Murdock (American psychiatrist, researcher) |
1888-1973 |
Bowman, Sir William (English histologist, surgeon) |
1816-1892 |
Bowring, Sir John (English diplomat, writer, linguist) |
1792-1872 |
Bowyer, William "the Younger" (English printer) |
1699-1777 |
Boyce, William (English composer, organist) |
1711-1779 |
Boycott, Charles Cunningham (English estate manager) |
1832-1897 |
Boyd, James (American writer) |
1888-1944 |
Boyd, Linn (American politician) |
1800-1859 |
Boyd, Louis Malcolm "Mal" (American newspaper columnist) |
1927-2007 |
Boyd, Martin a Beckett (Swiss-born Australian writer) |
1893-1972 |
Boyd, William (American actor: Hopalong Cassidy) |
1898-1972 |
Boyd, Zachary (Scottish minister) |
1585?-1653 |
Boyden, Seth (American inventor) |
1788-1870 |
Boyd Orr, John (Scottish teacher, nutritionist, politician) |
1880-1971 |
Boye, Karin Maria (Swedish poet, writer) |
1900-1941 |
Boyen, Hermann von (Prussian general) |
1771-1848 |
Boyer, Alexis (French surgeon) |
1757-1833 |
Boyer, Jean-Baptiste de (Marquis d'Argens; French writer) |
1703-1771 |
Boyer, Jean-Pierre (Haitian politician) |
1776-1850 |
Boyer, Paul Delos (American biochemist) |
b.1918 |
Boy George (George Alan O'Dowd; English singer) |
b.1961 |
Bo Yibo (Chinese politician; one of Eight Immortals) |
1908-2007 |
Boyle, Kay (American writer, poet, essayist) |
1902-1992 |
Boyle, Robert (Irish-born British physicist, chemist) |
1627-1691 |
Boyle, Willard Sterling (Canadian physicist; co-invented CCD) |
1924-2011 |
Boylston, Zabdiel (American physician) |
1679-1766 |
Boys, Sir Charles Vernon (English physicist, inventor) |
1855-1944 |
Bozeman, John M. (American pioneer; opened Powder River road) |
1835-1867 |
Braak, Menno ter (Dutch critic) |
1902-1940 |
Braaten, Oskar (Norwegian writer, dramatist) |
1881-1939 |
Brabazon, John Theodore Cuthbert Moore- (British aviator) |
1884-1964 |
Brabazon, Reginald (12th Earl of Meath; British philanthropist) |
1841-1929 |
Braccio da Montone (Italian condottiere) |
1368-1424 |
Bracciolini, Francesco (Italian ecclesiastic, poet) |
1566-1645 |
Bracco, Roberto (Italian playwright) |
1862-1943 |
Brace, Charles Loring (American social-service worker) |
1826-1890 |
Bracegirdle, Anne (English actor) |
c.1663/73-1748 |
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry (Scottish-born American writer) |
1748-1816 |
Bracquemond, Felix-Joseph-Auguste (French painter, etcher) |
1833-1914 |
Bracton (or Bratton), Henry de (English ecclesiastic, judge) |
d.1268 |
Bradbury, John Swanwick (English treasury official) |
1872-1950 |
Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley (British writer, critic) |
1932-2000 |
Bradbury, Norris Edwin (American physicist, administrator) |
1909-1997 |
Bradbury, Ray Douglas (American writer) |
1920-2012 |
Braddock, Edward (British soldier) |
1695-1755 |
Braddock, James Joseph (American boxer) |
1905-1974 |
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (English writer) |
1837-1915 |
Brade, William (English composer, musician) |
1560-1630 |
Bradford, Andrew (American printer; son of William 1663-1752) |
1686-1742 |
Bradford, Gamaliel (American biographer) |
1863-1932 |
Bradford, John (English Protestant martyr) |
1510?-1555 |
Bradford, Roark Whitney Wickliffe (American writer) |
1896-1948 |
Bradford, William (English-born Am. religious & col. leader) |
1590-1657 |
Bradford, William (English-born American printer) |
1663-1752 |
Bradford, William (American printer; nephew of Andrew) |
1722-1719 |
Bradlaugh, Charles (English freethinker, reformer) |
1833-1891 |
Bradley, Andrew Cecil "A.C." (English literary critic, scholar) |
1851-1935 |
Bradley, Edward (pseud. Cuthbert Bede; Eng. clergyman, writer) |
1827-1889 |
Bradley, Francis Herbert (English philosopher; bro. of Andrew) |
1846-1924 |
Bradley, George Granville Bradley (English clergyman, scholar) |
1821-1903 |
Bradley, Henry (English philologist, lexicographer) |
1845-1923 |
Bradley, James (English astronomer) |
1693-1762 |
Bradley, Joseph P. (American Supreme Court justice 1870-1892) |
1813-1892 |
Bradley, Milton (American game publisher, manufacturer) |
1836-1911 |
Bradley, Omar Nelson (American general) |
1893-1981 |
Bradner, Hugh (American physicist; invented neoprene wetsuit) |
1915-2008 |
Bradshaw, George (English printer) |
1801-1853 |
Bradshaw, John (English judge, regicide) |
1602-1659 |
Bradstreet, Anne née Dudley (Eng.-born Am. poet; wife of Simon) |
c.1612-1672 |
Bradstreet, Simon (English colonial governor of Massachusetts) |
1603-1697 |
Bradwardine, Thomas "the Profound Doctor" (Eng. cleric, math.) |
c.1290-1349 |
Brady, Alice (American actor; daughter of William) |
1892-1939 |
Brady, Grace George (American actor; wife of William) |
1879-1961 |
Brady, James Buchanan "Diamond Jim" (American financier) |
1856-1917 |
Brady, Matthew B. (American photographer) |
1823?-1896 |
Brady, Nicolas (Irish Anglican clergyman) |
1659-1726 |
Brady, William Aloysius (American theatrical producer, manager) |
1863-1950 |
Braga, Antonio (Italian composer, teacher) |
b.1929 |
Braga, Joaquim Teofilo Fernandes (Portuguese scholar, writer) |
1843-1924 |
Braga, Rubem (Brazilian journalist, writer) |
1913-1990 |
Bragg, Braxton (American army officer) |
1817-1876 |
Bragg, Melvyn (English writer) |
b.1939 |
Bragg, Sir William Henry (English physicist, chemist) |
1862-1942 |
Bragg, Sir William Lawrence (English physicist) |
1890-1971 |
Braguinha (b.Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga; Brazilian composer) |
1907-2006 |
Brahe, Per "the Younger" (Swedish soldier, statesman) |
1602-1680 |
Brahe, Tycho (Tyge Ottesen Brahe; Danish astronomer; asteroid) |
1546-1601 |
Brahm, Otto (German critic, theatrical director) |
1856-1912 |
Brahmagupta (Indian astronomer) |
598-c.665 |
Brahms, Johannes (German composer, pianist) |
1833-1897 |
Braid, James (Scottish-born British surgeon) |
1795-1860 |
Braid, James (Scottish-born British golfer) |
1870-1950 |
Braidwood, Thomas (Scottish teacher) |
1715-1806 |
Braille, Louis (French blind teacher of the blind) |
1809-1852 |
Braine, John Gerhard (English writer; angry young man) |
1922-1987 |
Brainerd, David (American missionary) |
1718-1747 |
Braithwaite, John (English engineer) |
1797-1870 |
Braithwaite, William Stanley Beaumont (American writer, poet) |
1878-1962 |
Brakhage, James Stanley "Stan" (b.Robert Sanders; Am. filmmaker) |
1933-2003 |
Bramah, Joseph (English engineer) |
1748-1814 |
Bramante, Donato (born Donato d'Agnolo; Italian architect) |
1444-1514 |
Bramhall, John (English prelate) |
1594-1663 |
Bramlette, Milton Nunn (American geologist) |
1896-1977 |
Branca, Glenn (American composer, musician) |
b.1948 |
Brancati, Vitaliano (Italian writer, essayist, playwright) |
1907-1954 |
Branch, Taylor (American social historian) |
b.1947 |
Brancoveanu (or Brincoveanu), Constantin (Walachian ruler) |
1654-1714 |
Brancusi, Constantin (Romanian sculptor) |
1876-1957 |
Brand, Sir (Christopher Joseph) Quintin (British aviator) |
1893-1968 |
Brand (aka Brandt), Hennig (German alchemist) |
d.c.1692 |
Brand, Sir Johannes Henricus (South African politician) |
1823-1888 |
Brand, John (English clergyman, antiquary) |
1744-1806 |
Brand, Stewart (American publisher, editor) |
b.1938 |
Brande, William Thomas (English chemist) |
1788-1866 |
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz (Am. Supreme Court justice 1916-1939) |
1856-1941 |
Brandes, Carl Edvard (Danish writer, polit.; brother of Georg) |
1847-1931 |
Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen (Danish literary critic, historian) |
1842-1927 |
Brando, Marlon Jr. (American film, stage actor) |
b.1924 |
Brandon, Charles (1st Duke of Suffolk; English soldier) |
c.1484-1545 |
Brandon, Richard (English executioner) |
d.1649 |
Brandt, Alfred (German tunnel engineer) |
1846-1899 |
Brandt, Georg (Swedish chemist) |
1694-1768 |
Brandt, Willy (born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; West Germ. pol.) |
1913-1992 |
Brandys, Kazimierz (Polist writer, essayist) |
1916-2000 |
Brangwyn, Sir Frank (British painter, decorator) |
1867-1956 |
Branicki (or Branecki), Ksawery Franciszek (Polish soldier) |
c.1730-1819 |
Branly, Edouard-Eugene (French physicist) |
1844-1940 |
Brann, William Cowper (American writer, lecturer, editor) |
1855-1898 |
Brannan, Samuel (American pioneer) |
1819-1889 |
Branner, Hans Christian (Danish writer) |
1903-1966 |
Bransfield, Edward (English naval officer) |
c.1795-1852 |
Brant, Henry (Canada-born American composer) |
1913-2008 |
Brant, Joseph (born Thayendanegea; Mohawk Indian chief) |
1772-1807 |
Brant (or Brandt), Sebastian (German Humanist, poet) |
1458?-1521 |
Branting, Karl Hjalmar (Swedish journalist, politician) |
1860-1925 |
Brantome, Pierre de (French soldier, chronicler) |
c.1540-1614 |
Braque, Georges (French painter) |
1882-1963 |
Brasch, Charles Orwell (New Zealand poet, editor) |
1909-1973 |
Brasidas (Spartan general) |
d.422 BC |
Brassart, Johannes (aka Jean Brassart; Burgundian composer) |
c.1400-1455 |
Brasseur, Pierre (born Pierre-Albert Espinasse; French actor) |
1905-1972 |
Brassey, Thomas (English railway contractor) |
1805-1870 |
Brathwaite, Lawson Edward "Kamau" (Barbadian poet, critic) |
b.1930 |
Brathwaite (or Brathwait, Brathwayte), Richard (English poet) |
1588-1673 |
Bratianu, Constantin "Dinu" (Romanian politician; son of Ion) |
1866-1952? |
Bratianu, Ion Constantin (Romanian politician) |
1821-1891 |
Bratianu, Ionel "Ion I.C." (Romanian politician; son of Ion) |
1864-1927 |
Bratianu, Vintila (Romanian politician; son of Ion) |
1867-1930 |
Brattain, Walter Houser (Am. physicist; co-invented transistor) |
1902-1987 |
Brattle, Thomas (American merchant) |
1658-1713 |
Brauchitsch, Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von (German gen.) |
1881-1948 |
Braudel, Fernand (French historian, man of letters) |
1902-1985 |
Braun, Alexander Carl Heinrich (German botanist) |
1805-1877 |
Braun, Eva (German woman; mistress, wife of Adolf Hitler) |
1912-1945 |
Braun, Karl Ferdinand (German physicist, inventor) |
1850-1918 |
Braun, Lily née Kretschman (German reformer, writer) |
1865-1916 |
Braun, Otto (German politician) |
1872-1955 |
Braun, Volker (German playwright, writer, poet) |
b.1939 |
Braun, Wernher von (German-born Am. engineer, rocket scientist) |
1912-1977 |
Brauner, Victor (Romanian painter) |
1903-1966 |
Braunhut, Harold von (Am. advertiser; Sea-Monkeys, X-Ray spec) |
1926-2003 |
Brautigan, Richard Gary (American writer, poet) |
1933-1984 |
Bravais, Auguste (French physicist) |
1811-1863 |
Bravo, Nicolas (Mexican general, politician) |
c.1786-1854 |
Bravo Murillo, Juan Gonzalez (Spanish politician) |
1803-1873 |
Braxton, Anthony (American composer, musician, philosopher) |
b.1945 |
Braxton, Carter (American Revolutionary leader) |
1736-1797 |
Bray, Thomas (English clergyman) |
1656-1730 |
Brayley, Edward Wedlake (English topographer, archaeologist) |
1773-1854 |
Bray-Steinburg, Otto Camillus Hugo von (German politician) |
1807-1899 |
Brazdzionis, Bernardas (Lithuanian poet, editor, critic) |
1907-2002 |
Braz Pereira Gomes, Wenceslau (Braz. politician; pres. 1914-18) |
1868-1966 |
Brazza, Pierre-Paul-Francois-Camille Savorgnan de (Fr. expl.) |
1852-1905 |
Breasted, James Henry (Am. Orientalist, archaeologist, hist.) |
1865-1935 |
Breaute, Falkes de (Norman soldier) |
d.1226 |
Brebeuf, Saint Jean de (French missionary) |
1593-1649 |
Brecher, Edward Moritz (Am. researcher, writer, journalist) |
1911-1989 |
Brecht, Arnold (German civil servant, political scientist) |
1884-1977 |
Brecht, Bertolt (born Eugen Friedrich; German playwright, poet) |
1898-1956 |
Brecht, George (born George MacDiarmid; Am. artist, composer) |
b.1924 |
Breckinridge, John (American politician; grandfather of J.C.) |
1760-1806 |
Breckinridge, John Cabell (Am. politician, vice pres. 1857-61) |
1821-1875 |
Bredero, Gerbrand Adriaenszoon (Dutch playwright, poet) |
1585-1618 |
Brederode, Hendrick van (Dutch nobleman) |
1531-1568 |
Brefeld, (Julius) Oscar (German botanist) |
1839-1925 |
Bregendahl, Marie (Danish writer) |
1867-1940 |
Breguet, Abraham-Louis (French mechanician, watchmaker) |
1747-1823 |
Breguet, Antoine (French electrical engineer, industrialist) |
1851-1882 |
Breguet, Louis-Charles (French airplane manufacturer) |
1880-1955 |
Breguet, Louis-Francois-Clement (French physicist, watchmaker) |
1804-1883 |
Brehm, Alfred Edmund (German zoologist) |
1829-1884 |
Breit, Gregory (Russian-born American physicist, educator) |
1899-1981 |
Breitinger, Johann Jakob (Swiss-German scholar, critic) |
1701-1776 |
Breitkopf, Bernhard Christoph (German printer, publisher) |
1695-1777 |
Breitkopf, Christoph Gottlob (German printer, publisher) |
1750-1800 |
Breitkopf, Johann Gottlob Immanuel (German printer, publisher) |
1719-1794 |
Bremer, Fredrika (Finnish-born Swedish writer, reformer) |
1801-1865 |
Bremond, Henri (French literary critic, historian) |
1855-1933 |
Bremser, Ray (American poet) |
1934-1998 |
Brendan (or Brenainn), Saint (Irish religious, traveler) |
c.484/6-578 |
Brennan, Christopher John (Australian poet, scholar) |
1870-1932 |
Brennan, William Joseph Jr. (Am. Supreme Court justice 1956-90) |
1906-1997 |
Brenner, Sydney (South African-born British biologist) |
b.1927 |
Brenner, Victor David (Russian-born American sculptor) |
1871-1924 |
Brenner, Yosef Haim (Ukrainian-born Hebrew writer) |
1881-1921 |
Brennus (Gallic chieftain) |
4th cent. BC |
Brennus (Gallic chieftain) |
d.279 BC |
Brent, Margaret (English-born American colonial) |
1600?-1671? |
Brentano, Clemens Maria (German dramatist, writer, poet) |
1778-1842 |
Brentano, Franz (German philosopher; nephew of Clemens) |
1838-1917 |
Brentano, Heinrich von (German politician) |
1904-1964 |
Brentano, Lujo (German economist; brother of Franz) |
1844-1931 |
Brentano von Arnim, Bettina (Ger. writer, publisher, composer) |
1785-1859 |
Brenz, Johannes (German reformer) |
1499-1570 |
Brequigny, Louis-Georges-Oudart Feudrix de (French scholar) |
1714-1794 |
Brereton, Lewis Hyde (American army officer) |
1890-1967 |
Bresdin, Rodolphe (French etcher, lithographer) |
1825-1885 |
Bresslau, Harry (German historian, paleographer) |
1848-1926 |
Bresson, Robert (French film director, scriptwriter) |
1901-1999 |
Bretislav I (Prince of Bohemia 1034-1055) |
1005?-1055 |
Breton, Andre (French poet, essayist, critic; Dadaist) |
1896-1966 |
Breton (or Britton, Brittaine), Nicholas (English poet) |
1553?-1625? |
Breton de los Herreros, Manuel (Spanish dramatist, poet) |
1796-1873 |
Bretonneau, Pierre-Fidele (French physician) |
1778-1862 |
Bretscher, Egon (Swiss organic chemist) |
1901-1973 |
Bretschneider, Carl Gottlieb (German Protestant theologian) |
1776-1848 |
Brett, John Watkins (English pioneer in submarine telegraphy) |
1805-1863 |
Brett, Reginald Baliol (English military reformer) |
1852-1930 |
Breuer, Josef (Austrian physician) |
1842-1925 |
Breuer, Marcel Lajos (Hungarian-born American architect) |
1902-1981 |
Breuil, Henri-Edouard-Prosper (French archaeologist) |
1877-1961 |
Breuker, Willem (Dutch musician, composer, bandleader) |
b.1944 |
Breval, Jean-Baptiste Sebastien (French cellist, composer) |
1753-1823 |
Brewer, David Josiah (American Supreme Court justice 1889-1910) |
1837-1910 |
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham (English clergyman, schoolmaster) |
1810-1897 |
Brewer, Kenneth Wayne "Ken" (American poet, teacher) |
1941-2006 |
Brewer, Leo (American physical chemist, educator, teacher) |
1919-2005 |
Brewster, Sir David (Scottish physicist) |
1781-1868 |
Brewster, Lee Greer (American businessman, transvestite) |
1943-2000 |
Brewster, William (English-born American colonial) |
1567-1644 |
Breyer, Stephen Gerald (Am. Supreme Court justice 1994-) |
b.1938 |
Breytenbach, Breyten (pseudonym Jan Blom; South African writer) |
b.1939 |
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich (Russian Soviet politician) |
1906-1982 |
Brialmont, Henri-Alexis (Belgian military engineer) |
1821-1903 |
Brialy, Jean-Claude (French Algeria-born Fr. actor, director) |
1933-2007 |
Brian Boru (Irish king 1002-1014) |
941-1014 |
Brian, William Havergal (born William Brian; English composer) |
1876-1972 |
Brianchon, Charles-Julien (French mathematician) |
1783-1864 |
Briand, Aristide (French statesman) |
1862-1932 |
Brice, Fanny (born Fania Borach; American singer, comedian) |
1891-1951 |
Brickhill, Paul Chester Jerome (Australian writer) |
1916-1991 |
Briconnet, Guillaume (French prelate) |
c.1472-1534 |
Bridel, Philippe-Sirice (Swiss clergyman, man of letters) |
1757-1845 |
Bridge, Frank (English composer, conductor) |
1879-1941 |
Bridger, James "Jim" (American pioneer, scout) |
1804-1881 |
Bridges, Alfred Renton "Harry" (Austral.-born Am. union leader) |
1901-1990 |
Bridges, Calvin Blackman (American geneticist) |
1889-1938 |
Bridges, Robert Seymour (English poet, poet laureate 1913-1930) |
1844-1930 |
Bridges, Henry Styles (American politician) |
1898-1961 |
Bridget (or Brigid, Birgit), Saint (Swedish religious, mystic) |
c.1303-1373 |
Bridgman, Laura Dewey (American blind deaf-mute) |
1829-1889 |
Bridgman, Percy Williams (American physicist) |
1882-1961 |
Bridie, James Osborne Henry Mavor (Scottish playwright) |
1888-1951 |
Briegel, Wolfgang Carl (German organist, composer) |
1626-1712 |
Brieux, Eugene (French dramatist) |
1858-1932 |
Briggs, Charles Augustus (American clergyman, biblical scholar) |
1841-1913 |
Briggs, Clare (American cartoonist) |
1875-1930 |
Briggs, Henry (English mathematician) |
1561-1630 |
Briggs, John Raleigh (Am. physician; peyote report 20-Jun-1886) |
1851-1907 |
Briggs, Lyman James (Am. engineer, physicist, administrator) |
1874-1963 |
Brighouse, Harold (English dramatist) |
1882-1958 |
Bright, Sir Charles Tilston (English telegraph engineer) |
1832-1888 |
Bright, John (English politician, orator) |
1811-1889 |
Bright, Richard (English physician) |
1789-1858 |
Bright, Timothy (English clergyman, inventor) |
1551?-1615 |
Bright, William Rohl "Bill" (American evangelist, writer) |
1921-2003 |
Brightman, Edgar Sheffield (American philosopher) |
1884-1953 |
Brigit of Kildare (or of Ireland), Saint (Irish religious) |
d.c.524-528 |
Bril (or Brill), Matthaus (Flemish painter; brother of Paul) |
1550-1583 |
Bril (or Brill), Paul (or Paulus; Flemish painter) |
1554-1626 |
Brill, Fran (American actor, voice actor, puppeteer) |
b.1946 |
Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme (Fr. politician, writer, gastronome) |
1755-1826 |
Brillouin, Leon-Nicolas (French physicist; son of Marcel) |
1889-1969 |
Brillouin, Marcel-Louis (French physicist) |
1854-1948 |
Brin, David (American writer, astrophysicist) |
b.1950 |
Brin, Sergey (Russian-born Am. entrepreneur; co-fd. Google) |
b.1973 |
Brindley, James (English canal engineer) |
1716-1772 |
Brinell, Johan August (Swedish metallurgist) |
1849-1925 |
Brines, Francesco (Spanish poet) |
b.1932 |
Brink, Andre Philippus (South African writer; Sestiger) |
b.1935 |
Brink, Bernhard ten (Dutch philologist) |
1841-1892 |
Brinkman, Johannes Andreas (Dutch architect) |
1902-1949 |
Brinnin, John Malcolm (Can.-born Am. poet, social historian) |
1916-1998 |
Brinon, Fernand de (French journalist, politician) |
1885-1947 |
Brinster, Ralph Lawrence (American geneticist) |
b.1932 |
Brinton, Daniel Garrison (American anthropologist) |
1837-1899 |
Brinvilliers, Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite de (French poisoner) |
c.1630-1676 |
Brion, Luis (Colombian naval commander) |
1782-1821 |
Brioschi, Francesco (Italian mathematician) |
1824-1897 |
Briot, Nicolas (French engraver, medallist) |
1579/80-1646 |
Brisbane, Albert (American reformer) |
1809-1890 |
Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall (Scottish soldier, astronomer) |
1773-1860 |
Brisseau-Mirbel, Charles (French botanist) |
1776-1854 |
Brisson, Eugene-Henri (French politician) |
1835-1912 |
Brissot de Warville, Jacques-Pierre (Fr. journ., Rev. leader) |
1754-1793 |
Bristol, Mark Lambert (American naval officer) |
1868-1939 |
Bristow, Benjamin Helm (American lawyer) |
1832-1896 |
Britannicus (born Claudius Tiberius Germanicus; Roman noble) |
41-55 |
Brittain, Vera Mary (English writer) |
1896?-1970 |
Britten, Edward Benjamin (English composer, conductor) |
1913-1976 |
Britton, Elizabeth Knight (American botanist) |
1858-1934 |
Britton, John (English antiquary) |
1771-1857 |
Britton, Nathaniel Lord (American botanist) |
1859-1934 |
Britton, Sherry (born Edith Zack; American burlesque performer) |
1918-2008 |
Britton, Thomas (English coal dealer) |
1644-1714 |
Brizeux, Julien-Auguste-Pelage (French poet) |
1803-1858 |
Broad, Charlie Dunbar (English philosopher) |
1887-1971 |
Broadwood, James (British piano manufacturer; son of John) |
1772-1851 |
Broadwood, John (Scottish-born British piano manufacturer) |
1732-1812 |
Broadwood, Henry Fowler (British piano manu.; grandson of John) |
1811-1893 |
Broca, Pierre-Paul (French surgeon, anthropologist) |
1824-1880 |
Brocard, Pierre-Rene-Jean-Baptiste-Henri (French mathematician) |
1845-1922 |
Broch, Hermann (Austrian writer) |
1886-1951 |
Brock, Sir Isaac (British soldier) |
1769-1812 |
Brock, Sir Thomas (English sculptor) |
1847-1922 |
Brockdorff-Rantzau, Ulrich von (German politician, diplomat) |
1869-1928 |
Brockes, Barthold Heinrich (German poet, magistrate) |
1680-1747 |
Brockhaus, Friedrich (Ger. publisher; son of Friedrich Arnold) |
1800-1865 |
Brockhaus, Friedrich Arnold (German publisher) |
1772-1823 |
Brockhaus, Heinrich (German publisher; son of Friedrich Arnold) |
1804-1874 |
Brockhaus, Hermann (Ger. Orientalist; son of Friedrich Arnold) |
1806-1877 |
Brockhouse, Bertram Neville (Canadian physicist) |
1918-2003 |
Brockway, Howard (American composer) |
1870-1951 |
Brod, Max (Czech-born Austrian writer, essayist) |
1884-1968 |
Brodber, Erna (Jamaican writer) |
b.1940 |
Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins (English surgeon) |
1783-1862 |
Brodkey, Harold Roy (b. Harold Roy Weintraub; American writer) |
1930-1996 |
Brodsky, Joseph Aleksandrovich (Russian poet, essayist) |
1940-1996 |
Brodzinski, Kazimierz (Polish poet, scholar) |
1791-1835 |
Brofeldt, Johannes (pseudonym Juhani Aho; Finnish writer) |
1861-1921 |
Brogan, Sir Denis William (British political scientist) |
1900-1974 |
Brogger, Waldemar Christofer (Norw. geologist, mineralogist) |
1851-1940 |
Broglie, Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond de (French physicist) |
1892-1987 |
Broke (or Brooke), Arthur (English poet, translator) |
d.1563 |
Broke, Sir Philip Bowes Vere (English naval officer) |
1776-1841 |
Brome, Alexander (English poet, song writer) |
1620-1666 |
Brome, Richard (English dramatist) |
d.c.1652 |
Bromfield, Louis (American writer, essayist) |
1896-1956 |
Bromley, Sir Thomas (English judge) |
1530-1587 |
'Bromston (Tibetan Buddhist leader) |
1008-1064 |
Bronck, Jonas (Danish pioneer in America; eponym of Bronx) |
d.1643? |
Bronfman, Andrea Brett née Morrison "Andy" (Am. philanthropist) |
1945-2006 |
Brongniart, Adolphe-Theodore (Fr. botanist; son of Alexandre) |
1801-1876 |
Brongniart, Alexandre (French mineralogist, geologist) |
1770-1847 |
Broniewski, Wladyslaw (Polish poet) |
1897-1962 |
Bronk, Detlev Wulf (American physiologist, educator) |
1897-1975 |
Bronn, Heinrich Georg (German zoologist, paleontologist) |
1800-1862 |
Bronner, David (American biologist, businessman) |
b.1973 |
Bronowski, Jacob (English scientist, philosopher) |
1908-1974 |
Bronsart von Schellendorf, Paul (German soldier, politician) |
1832-1891 |
Bronsart von Schellendorf, Walter (German army commander) |
1833-1914 |
Bronsted, Johannes Nicolaus (Danish chemist) |
1879-1947 |
Bronte, Anne (English poet, writer; daughter of Patrick) |
1820-1849 |
Bronte, Charlotte (English writer; daughter of Patrick) |
1816-1855 |
Bronte, Emily Jane (English writer; daughter of Patrick) |
1818-1848 |
Bronte, Patrick (Irish Anglican clergyman) |
1777-1861 |
Bronte, Patrick Branwell (Irish painter; son of Patrick) |
1817-1848 |
Bronzit, Konstantin Eduardovich (Russian animator, director) |
b.1965 |
Brooke, Sir Alan Francis (British soldier) |
1883-1963 |
Brooke, Basil Stanlake (Irish politician) |
1888-1973 |
Brooke, Sir Charles Anthony Johnson (English raja of Sarawak) |
1829-1917 |
Brooke, Sir Charles Vyner (Eng. raja of Sarawak; son of James) |
1874-1963 |
Brooke, Edward William (American politician) |
b.1919 |
Brooke, Frances Moore (English-born Canadian writer) |
1724-1789 |
Brooke, Henry (Irish poet, writer) |
c.1703-1783 |
Brooke, Sir James (India-born English soldier, raja of Sarawak) |
1803-1868 |
Brooke, John Rutter (American army officer) |
1838-1926 |
Brooke, Rupert Chawner (English poet) |
1887-1915 |
Brookes, Sir Norman Everard (Australian tennis champion) |
1877-1968 |
Brookings, Robert Somers (American merchant, philanthropist) |
1850-1932 |
Brookner, Anita (British writer, art historian) |
b.1928 |
Brooks, Alfred Hulse (American geologist) |
1871-1924 |
Brooks, Charles William Shirley (English journalist, writer) |
1816-1874 |
Brooks, Cleanth (American literary critic, educator) |
1906-1994 |
Brooks, Frederick Phillips Jr. (American computer engineer) |
b.1931 |
Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth (American poet) |
1917-2000 |
Brooks, Maris née Abigail Gowen (Maria del Occidente; Am. poet) |
1794?-1845 |
Brooks, Phillips (American clergyman) |
1835-1893 |
Brooks, Van Wyck (Am. critic, biographer, literary historian) |
1886-1963 |
Brooks, William Keith (American zoologist) |
1848-1908 |
Broom, Robert (Scottish-born South African paleontologist) |
1866-1951 |
Broome, William (English scholar, poet) |
1689-1745 |
Broonzy, William Lee Conley "Big Bill" (American singer) |
1893-1958 |
Brophy, Brigid Antonia (English writer, critic, dramatist) |
b.1929 |
Broqueville, Charles de (Belgian politician) |
1860-1940 |
Brorson, Hans Adolf (Danish clergyman, hymnist) |
1694-1764 |
Broschi, Carlo (aka Farinelli; Italian soprano castrato) |
1705-1782 |
Brosio, Manlio (Italian diplomat) |
1897-1980 |
Brosse, Salomon de (French architect) |
1571-1624/6 |
Brosses, Charles de (French scholar) |
1709-1777 |
Brossolette, Pierre (French journalist) |
1902-1944? |
Brostrom, Axel Ludvig (Swedish ship owner) |
1838-1905 |
Brothers, Joyce Diane née Bauer (American psychologist) |
1928-2013 |
Brothers, Richard (Canadian-born British religious leader) |
1757-1824 |
Brough, Peter (English radio ventriloquist, businessman) |
1916-1999 |
Brougham, Henry Peter (Scottish-born Brit. jurist, politician) |
1778-1868 |
Brougham, John (Irish-born Am. playwright, theater manager) |
1814-1880 |
Broughton, John "Jack" (English boxer) |
c.1704-1789 |
Broughton, Rhoda (English writer) |
1840-1920 |
Broun, Matthew Heywood Campbell (American journalist) |
1888-1939 |
Brouncker, William (Irish mathematician) |
1620-1684 |
Broussais, Francois-Joseph-Victor (French physician) |
1772-1838 |
Brout, Robert (American-born Belgian physicist) |
b.1928 |
Brouwer (or Brauwer), Adriaen (Flemish painter) |
1605/6-1638 |
Brouwer, Dirk (Dutch-born American astronomer) |
1902-1966 |
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan (Dutch mathematician) |
1881-1966 |
Browder, Earl Russell (American Communist politician) |
1891-1973 |
Brower, David Ross (American environmentalist, writer) |
1912-2000 |
Brower, Ken (Am. environmentalist, writer; son of David) |
b.1944 |
Brown, Alexander Crum (Scottish chemist) |
1838-1922 |
Brown, Alice (American writer) |
1856-1948 |
Brown, Anthony Cave (English journalist) |
1929-2006 |
Brown, Sir Arthur Whitten (Scottish-born British aviator) |
1886-1948 |
Brown, A. Whitney (American comedian) |
b.1952 |
Brown, Benjamin Gratz (American lawyer) |
1826-1885 |
Brown, Charles Brockden (American writer) |
1771-1810 |
Brown, Chris (American composer, pianist, electronic musician) |
b.1953 |
Brown, Claude (American writer) |
b.1937 |
Brown, Dee Alexander (American writer, historian) |
1908-2002 |
Brown, Earle (American composer) |
1926-2002 |
Brown, Edmund Gerald Jr. "Jerry" (American politician) |
b.1938 |
Brown, Edward Michael (American artist, designer) |
1921-1978 |
Brown, Ernest William (English-born American mathematician) |
1866-1938 |
Brown, Ford Madox (English painter; grandson of John 1735-1788) |
1821-1893 |
Brown, George (Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician) |
1818-1880 |
Brown, George Douglas (pseudonym George Douglas; Scot. writer) |
1869-1902 |
Brown, George Mackay (Scottish poet, playwright, writer) |
b.1921 |
Brown, Helen Gurley (American magazine editor) |
b.1922 |
Brown, Henry Billings (Am. Supreme Court justice 1890-1906) |
1836-1913 |
Brown, Henry Kirke (American sculptor) |
1814-1886 |
Brown, Herbert Charles (English-born American organic chemist) |
1912-2004 |
Brown, Jacob Jennings (American army officer) |
1775-1828 |
Brown, James (American publisher: Little, Brown & Company) |
1800-1855 |
Brown, James Joseph (American musician) |
1933-2006 |
Brown, James Joe Jr. (American musician) |
b.1936 |
Brown, Jesse (American administrator) |
b.1944 |
Brown, John (English clergyman) |
1715-1766 |
Brown, John (Scot. physician; fd. Bounonian system of medicine) |
1735?-1788 |
Brown, John (American slavery abolitionist, rebel) |
1800-1859 |
Brown, John (Scottish physician, essayist) |
1810-1882 |
Brown, Sir John (English steel manufacturer) |
1816-1896 |
Brown, John Carter (American librarian; grandson of Nicholas) |
1797-1874 |
Brown, John Mason (American literary critic) |
1900-1969 |
Brown, Judith Ann née Limbourne "Judie" (American activist) |
b.1944 |
Brown, Lancelot "Capability Brown" (English landscape gardener) |
1715-1783 |
Brown, Lester Russell (American environmental analyst) |
b.1934 |
Brown, Peter Robert Lamont (Irish historian) |
b.1935 |
Brown, Trisha (American choreographer, dancer) |
b.1936 |
Brown, William Larry (American writer) |
1951-2004 |
Brown, Martha née McClellan (American temperance organizer) |
1838-1916 |
Brown, Michael Stuart (American physiologist) |
b.1941 |
Brown, Nicholas (American businessman) |
1729-1791 |
Brown, Olympia (American minister, suffragist) |
1835-1926 |
Brown, Richard Hart "Doc" (Am. biomedical engineer) |
1941-2005 |
Brown, Rita Mae (American writer, poet, screenwriter) |
b.1944 |
Brown, Robert (Scottish botanist) |
1773-1858 |
Brown, Ronald Harmon (American administrator) |
b.1941 |
Brown, Roy Thomas (American puppeteer, clown, artist) |
1932-2001 |
Brown, Sterling Allen (Am. poet, folklorist, editor, critic) |
1901-1989 |
Brown, Theodore David "Ted" (American radio disc jockey) |
d.2005 |
Brown, Thomas (English writer) |
1663-1704 |
Brown, Thomas (Scottish metaphysician) |
1778-1820 |
Brown, Thomas Edward (English poet) |
1830-1897 |
Brown, William Hill (American writer, dramatist) |
1765-1793 |
Brown, William Wells (American writer, lecturer, historian) |
1814?-1884 |
Browne, Charles Farrar (pseudonym Artemus Ward; Am. humorist) |
1834-1867 |
Browne, Edward Granville (English philologist) |
1862-1926 |
Browne, Edward Harold (English theologian, prelate) |
1811-1891 |
Browne, Elliott Martin (British theatrical director, producer) |
1900-1980 |
Browne, Hablot Knight (pseudonym Phiz; English illustrator) |
1815-1882 |
Browne, Harry (Am. writer, investment adviser, Libertarian) |
1933-2006 |
Browne, Isaac Hawkins (English poet) |
1705-1760 |
Browne, Maximillian Ulysses von (Austrian field marshal) |
1705-1757 |
Browne, Robert (English clergyman) |
c.1550-1633 |
Browne, Sir Samuel James (India-born British army officer) |
1824-1901 |
Browne, Sir Thomas (English physician, writer) |
1605-1682 |
Browne, Thomas Alexander "Rolf Boldrewood" (Australian writer) |
1826-1915 |
Browne, William (English poet) |
1591?-1645? |
Browne, William George (English traveler) |
1768-1813 |
Brownell, William Crary (American journalist, literary critic) |
1851-1928 |
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett née Elizabeth Moulton (Eng. poet) |
1806-1861 |
Browning, John Moses (American firearm inventor) |
1855-1926 |
Browning, Robert (English poet) |
1812-1889 |
Brownlee, John Edward (Canadian politician) |
1884-1961 |
Brownlow, William Gannaway (American political leader) |
1805-1877 |
Brownrigg, Sir Robert (British soldier) |
1759-1833 |
Brown-Sequard, Charles-Edouard (French physiologist) |
1817-1894 |
Brownson, Orestes Augustus (American clergyman, writer) |
1803-1876 |
Bru, Hedin (born Hans Jakob Jacobsen; Faroese writer) |
1901-1987 |
Brubeck, David Warren "Dave" (American musician, bandleader) |
1920-2012 |
Bruce, Blanche Kelso (American politician) |
1841-1898 |
Bruce, Sir David (British physician, bacteriologist) |
1855-1931 |
Bruce, David Kirkpatrick Este (American diplomat) |
1898-1977 |
Bruce, Everend Lester (Canadian geologist) |
1884-1949 |
Bruce, Henry Austin (1st Baron Aberdare; English politician) |
1815-1895 |
Bruce, James (Scottish explorer) |
1730-1794 |
Bruce, John Symon Asher "Jack" (Scottish musician) |
1943-2014 |
Bruce, Lenny (Leonard Alfred Schneider; Am. social critic) |
1925-1966 |
Bruce, Michael (Scottish poet, schoolmaster) |
1746-1767 |
Bruce, Stanley Melbourne (Australian politician) |
1883-1967 |
Bruce, William Speirs (Scottish explorer, naturalist) |
1867-1921 |
Bruch, Max Karl August (German composer, conductor) |
1838-1920 |
Brucioli, Antonio (Italian Humanist) |
d.1566 |
Bruck, Karl Ludwig von (Austrian politician) |
1798-1860 |
Brucke, Ernst Wilhelm von (German physician, physiologist) |
1819-1892 |
Brucker, Johann Jakob (German philosopher) |
1696-1770 |
Bruckner, Eduard (German geographer, meteorologist) |
1862-1927 |
Bruckner, Josef Anton (Austrian composer, organist) |
1824-1896 |
Brudenell, James Thomas (7th Earl of Cardigan; English general) |
1797-1868 |
Brueghel, Abraham (Flemish painter; son of Jan the Younger) |
1631-1690? |
Brueghel, Ambrose (Flemish painter; son of Jan) |
1617-1675 |
Brueghel, Jan Baptist (Flemish painter; great-grandson of Jan) |
1670-1719 |
Brueghel, Jan the Elder "Velvet Brueghel" (Flemish painter) |
1568-1625 |
Brueghel, Jan the Younger (Flemish painter; son of Jan) |
1601-1678 |
Brueghel, Pieter (Flemish painter; father of Jan & Pieter) |
c.1525/30-1569 |
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger "Hell Brueghel" (Flemish painter) |
1564-1638 |
Brueys, David-Augustin de (French writer) |
1640-1723 |
Bruggen, Jochem van (South African writer) |
1881-1957 |
Brugiere, Amable-Guillaume-Prosper (Fr. politician, historian) |
1782-1866 |
Brugmann, Friedrich Karl (German philologist) |
1849-1919 |
Brugmans, Anton (Dutch physicist) |
1732-1789 |
Brugnon, Jacques "Toto" (French tennis player; "musketeer") |
1895-1978 |
Brugsch, Heinrich Karl (German Egyptologist) |
1827-1894 |
Bruhl, Heinrich von (Saxon politician) |
1700-1763 |
Bruins, Theo (Dutch pianist, composer, teacher) |
1929-1993 |
Brule, Etienne (French adventurer in America) |
1592?-1633 |
Brum, Baltasar (Uruguayan jurist, politician) |
1883-1933 |
Brumel, Antoine (French composer) |
c.1460-c.1515 |
Brumidi, Constantino (Italian-born American painter) |
1805-1880 |
Brummell, George Bryan "Beau Brummell" (English dandy) |
1778-1840 |
Brun, Johan Nordahl (Norwegian prelate, poet, dramatist) |
1745-1816 |
Brun, Rudolf (Swiss politician) |
c.1300-1360 |
Bruna, Pablo (Spanish composer, organist, choirmaster) |
1611-1679 |
Brundage, Avery (American businessman, sports leader) |
1887-1975 |
Brune, Guillaume-Marie-Anne (French army officer) |
1763-1815 |
Bruneau, Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred (French composer) |
1857-1934 |
Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard (Fr.-born Brit. inventor, engineer) |
1769-1849 |
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (British engineer; son of Marc) |
1806-1859 |
Brunel, Oliver (Flemish merchant, explorer) |
c.1540-1585 |
Brunelleschi (or Brunellesco), Filippo (Florentine architect) |
1377-1446 |
Brunet, Jean (French poet; co-founder of Felibrige, 1854) |
1823-1894 |
Brunet, Jacques-Charles (French bibliographer) |
1781-1867 |
Brunet, Marta (Chilean writer) |
1897-1967 |
Brunetiere, Vincent de Paul-Marie-Ferdinand (French critic) |
1849-1906 |
Brunfels, Otto (German physician, botanist) |
c.1488-1534 |
Brunhilde (Frankish queen; daughter of Athanagild) |
d.613 |
Brunhoff, Jean de (French children's writer) |
1899-1937 |
Bruni, Antoine-Raymond-Joseph de (French navigator) |
1737-1793 |
Bruni (or Bruno), Leonardo (Leonardo Aretino; It. Humanist) |
c.1370-1444 |
Bruning, Heinrich (German politician; chancellor 1930-1932) |
1885-1970 |
Brunn, Francis (German-born American? juggler) |
1923-2004 |
Brunner, Heinrich (German jurist, historian) |
1840-1915 |
Brunner, Heinrich Emil (Swiss theologian) |
1889-1966 |
Brunner, Johann Conrad (Swiss anatomist) |
1653-1727 |
Brunnow, Franz Friedrich Ernst (German astronomer) |
1821-1891 |
Bruno I (or Brun), Saint (German prelate) |
925-965 |
Bruno of Cologne, Saint (German religious) |
c.1030-1101 |
Bruno (or Brun) of Querfurt, Saint (German prelate, missionary) |
c.974-1009 |
Bruno, Giordano (Italian heliocentrist, philosopher, martyr) |
1548-1600 |
Brunschvicg, Leon (French philosopher) |
1869-1944 |
Brunton, Sir Thomas Lauder (1st baronet; Scottish physician) |
1844-1916 |
Brusewitz, Axel Karl Adolf (Swedish political scientist, hist.) |
1881-1950 |
Brush, Charles Francis (American electrical lighting inventor) |
1849-1929 |
Brush, George de Forest (American painter) |
1855-1941 |
Brusilov, Aleksey Alekseyevich (Russian soldier) |
1853-1926 |
Brustolon, Andrea (Italian woodcarver) |
1662-1732 |
Brutus, Decimus Junius (surnamed Albinus; Roman general) |
d.43 BC |
Brutus, Dennis Vincent (Rhodesian poet, activist) |
b.1924 |
Brutus, Lucius Junius (Roman consul 509 BC) |
6th cent. BC |
Brutus, Marcus Junius (Roman politician, conspirator) |
85-42 BC |
Bryan, Charles Wayland (American politician; brother of W.J.) |
1867-1945 |
Bryan, Kirk (American geologist) |
1888-1950 |
Bryan, William Jennings (American lawyer, politician) |
1860-1925 |
Bryant, Anita Jane (American singer) |
b.1940 |
Bryant, Diadorius Boudleaux (American songwriter) |
1920-1987 |
Bryant, Felice (American poet, songwriter) |
1925-2003 |
Bryant, William Cullen (American poet, editor) |
1794-1878 |
Bryars, Richard Gavin (English composer, musician) |
b.1943 |
Bryaxis (Greek sculptor) |
4th cent. BC |
Bryce Echenique, Alfredo (Peruvian writer) |
b.1939 |
Bryce, James (British jurist, historian, diplomat) |
1838-1922 |
Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (English writer, genealogist) |
1762-1837 |
Bryennios, Philotheos (Greek prelate) |
1833-1914 |
Bryennius, Nicephorus (Byzantine soldier, historian) |
1062-1137 |
Bryggman, Erik (Finnish architect) |
1891-1955 |
Bryher (byname of Annie Winifred Ellerman; Eng. writer, poet) |
1894-1983 |
Brynner, Yul (Taidje Khan Jr.; Japanese-born American actor) |
1920-1985 |
Bryson, John Bryan (American photojournalist, actor) |
1924-2005 |
Bryson, Lewis M. III "Lew" (Am. editor, whisky and beer writer) |
b.1959 |
Bryson, Reid (American atmospheric scientist, geologist) |
1920-2008 |
Bryusov, Valery Yakovlevich (Russian poet, playwright, writer) |
1873-1924 |
Brzozowski, Stanislaw Leopold (Polish critic, writer) |
1878-1911 |
Brzozowski, Tadeusz (Polish religious) |
1749-1820 |
Buache, Philippe (French geographer, cartographer) |
1700-1773 |
Buade, Louis de (French soldier, colonialist) |
1622-1698 |
Buarque Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti (Brazilian economist) |
b.1944 |
Bubb Dodington, George (orig. surname Bubb; English politician) |
1691-1762 |
Bubenberg, Adrian von (Swiss soldier) |
1431?-1479 |
Buber, Martin (German Jewish scholar, philosopher, writer) |
1878-1965 |
Bubna von Littitz, Ferdinand von (Austrian soldier) |
1768-1825 |
Bucareli y Ursua, Antonio Maria (Span. general, administrator) |
1717-1779 |
Bucer (or Butzer), Martin (German Protestant reformer) |
1491-1551 |
Buch, Christian Leopold von (Ger. geologist, paleontologist) |
1774-1853 |
Buchan, Alexander (Scottish meteorologist) |
1829-1907 |
Buchan, Elspeth née Simpson (Scottish religious) |
1738-1791 |
Buchan, Sir John (Scottish writer, administrator) |
1875-1940 |
Buchan, William (Scottish physician) |
1729-1805 |
Buchanan, Franklin (American naval officer) |
1800-1874 |
Buchanan, George (Scottish humanist, writer, educator) |
1506-1582 |
Buchanan, James (Am. politician, 15th U.S. president, 1857-61) |
1791-1868 |
Buchanan, James McGill Jr. (American economist) |
b.1919 |
Buchanan, Larry (Am. director, producer, screenwriter, editor) |
1924-2004 |
Buchanan, Robert Williams (British poet, writer, playwright) |
1841-1901 |
Bucher, Adolf Lothar (German publicist, diplomat) |
1817-1892 |
Bucher, Walter Herman (American geologist) |
1888-1965 |
Buchheim, Lothar-Guenther (Ger. writer, painter, art collector) |
1918-2007 |
Buchman, Frank Nathan Daniel (American evangelist) |
1878-1961 |
Buchner, Eduard (German chemist, zymologist) |
1860-1917 |
Buchner, F.K.C. Ludwig (German physician, philosopher) |
1824-1899 |
Buchner, Georg (German dramatist) |
1813-1837 |
Buchner, Hans (German bacteriologist; brother of Eduard) |
1850-1902 |
Buchwald, Arthur "Art" (American writer, humorist) |
1925-2007 |
Buck, Frank (American hunter) |
1884-1950 |
Buck, Linda née Brown (American biologist) |
b.1947 |
Buck, Pearl Comfort née Sydenstricker (American writer) |
1892-1973 |
Buck, Sir Peter Henry (New Zealand anthropologist, politician) |
1880-1951 |
Buckland, William (English clergyman, geologist) |
1784-1856 |
Buckle, George Earle (English journalist) |
1854-1935 |
Buckle, Henry Thomas (English historian) |
1821-1862 |
Buckley, Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" (American singer, songwriter) |
1966-1997 |
Buckley, Timothy Charles III (Am. singer, songwriter, musician) |
1947-1975 |
Buckley, William Frank Jr. (American writer, editor) |
1925-2008 |
Buckner, Simon Bolivar (American army officer) |
1823-1914 |
Buckner, Simon Bolivar Jr. (American army officer) |
1886-1945 |
Buckstone, John Baldwin (English comedian, playwright) |
1802-1879 |
Bucy, Paul (American neuropathologist) |
1904-1992 |
Budd, William (English physician) |
1811-1880 |
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama; Indian philosopher) |
c.563-c.483 BC |
Buddhaghosa (Indian Buddhist scholar) |
5th cent. |
Buddhapalita (Indian Buddhist; founded Prasangika school) |
5th cent. |
Bude, Guillaume (Guglielmus Budaeus; French scholar) |
1467-1540 |
Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich (Russian soldier) |
1883-1973 |
Budes, Jean-Baptiste (Comte de Guebriant; French soldier) |
1602-1643 |
Budge, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (Eng. archaeologist) |
1857-1934 |
Budgell, Eustace (English writer; cousin of Joseph Addison) |
1686-1737 |
Bueil, Honorat du (Seigneur de Racan; French poet) |
1589-1670 |
Buell, Abel (American metalworker, inventor) |
1742-1822 |
Buell, Don Carlos (American army officer) |
1818-1898 |
Buero Vallejo, Antonio (Spanish playwright) |
1916-2000 |
Buescher, Julianne (American voice actor, puppeteer) |
b.1965 |
Buff, Charlotte (German woman; friend of Goethe) |
1753-1828 |
Buffardin, Pierre-Gabriel (French flutist, composer) |
1690-1768 |
Buffier, Claude (French philosopher) |
1661-1737 |
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (French naturalist) |
1707-1788 |
Buga, Kazimieras (Lithuanian linguist) |
1879-1924 |
Bugaev, Boris Nikolayevich (pseudonym Andrey Bely; Rus. poet) |
1880-1934 |
Bugati, Ettore Arco Isidoro (Italian automobile builder) |
1881-1947 |
Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, Thomas-Robert (French soldier) |
1784-1849 |
Bugenhagen, Johannes "Pomeranus" (German Protestant reformer) |
1485-1558 |
Bugge, Elseus Sophus (Norwegian philologist) |
1833-1907 |
Buhl, Vilhelm (Danish politician) |
1881-1954 |
Buhle, Mari Jo (American historian) |
b.1943 |
Buhturi, al- (Muslim compiler, scholar of Hadith) |
810-870 |
Buhturi, al- (Muslim poet) |
821-897 |
Buick, David Dunbar (Scottish-born Am. automobile manufacturer) |
1854-1929 |
Buil, Bernardo (Spanish Benedictine monk) |
c.1450-1520 |
Buisson, Ferdinand-Edouard (French academic, politician) |
1841-1932 |
Bukhari, al- (Musim scholar) |
810-870 |
Bukharin, Nikolay Ivanovich (Russian Communist leader, editor) |
1888-1938 |
Bukka I (Hindu king 1355-1377) |
d.1377 |
Bukoff, Allen (American? Fluxus artist, social psychologist) |
b.1951 |
Bukowski, Charles (German-born American writer, poet) |
1920-1994 |
Bulfinch, Charles (American architect) |
1763-1844 |
Bulfinch, Thomas (American mythologist; son of Charles) |
1796-1867 |
Bulgakov, Macarius (born Mikhail Petrovich; Russian prelate) |
1816-1882 |
Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasyevich (Russian writer, playwright) |
1891-1940 |
Bulgakov, Sergey Nikolayevich (Russian economist, theologian) |
1871-1944 |
Bulganin, Nikolay Aleksandrovich (Russian politician, marshal) |
1895-1975 |
Bulgarin, Faddei Venediktovich (Russian journalist, writer) |
1789-1859 |
Bulgaris, Eugenius (Greek theologian) |
1716-1806 |
Bulgarus (Italian jurist; first of "Four Doctors of Bologna) |
d.1166/7 |
Bulkeley (or Bulkley), Peter (English-born American clergyman) |
1583-1659 |
Bulkeley, Richard (Irish-born Canadian soldier, politician) |
1717-1800 |
Bull, Ephraim Wales (American horticulturist) |
1806-1895 |
Bull, John (English organist, composer, organ builder) |
c.1562-1628 |
Bull, Olaf Jacob Martin Luther (Norwegian poet) |
1883-1933 |
Bull, Ole Bornemann (Norwegian violinist) |
1810-1880 |
Bullant, Jean (French architect) |
1520?-1578 |
Bullard, Sir Edward Crisp (English geophysicist) |
1907-1980 |
Buller, Sir Redvers Henry (British general) |
1839-1908 |
Bullett, Gerald William (English writer) |
1893-1958 |
Bullinger, Heinrich (Swiss reformer; disciple of Zwingli) |
1504-1575 |
Bullins, Ed (American playwright, writer, poet, journalist) |
b.1935 |
Bullitt, William Christian (American diplomat) |
1891-1967 |
Bullokar, John (English lexicographer) |
1580?-1641? |
Bullrich, Silvina (Argentinean writer) |
1915-1992 |
Bulnes, Manuel (Chilean soldier, politician) |
1799-1866 |
Bulow, Adam Heinrich Dietrich von (Prussian soldier) |
1757-1808 |
Bulow, Bernhard Heinrich Martin Karl (Prussian politician) |
1849-1929 |
Bulow, Friedrich Wilhelm von (Prussian general; bro. of Adam) |
1755-1816 |
Bulow, Hans Guido von (German pianist, conductor) |
1830-1894 |
Bulow, Karl Wilhelm Paul von (German general; bro. of Bernhard) |
1846-1921 |
Buloz, Charles (French journalist; son of Francois) |
1843-1905 |
Buloz, Francois (French journalist) |
1804-1877 |
Bultmann, Rudolf Karl (German theologian) |
1884-1976 |
Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle (English diplomat) |
1801-1872 |
Bunau-Varilla, Philippe-Jean (French engineer) |
1859-1940 |
Bunche, Ralph Johnson (American political scientist, diplomat) |
1904-1971 |
Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich (Russian poet, writer, translator) |
1870-1953 |
Bunker, Edward (American criminal, writer, actor) |
1933-2005 |
Bunker, Ellsworth (American diplomat) |
1894-1984 |
Bunnag, Chuang "Chao Phraya Si Suriyawongse" (Siamese polit.) |
1809-1883 |
Bunner, Henry Cuyler (American poet, writer, editor) |
1855-1896 |
Bunsei (Japanese artist) |
15th cent. |
Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias von (Prus. diplomat, theologian) |
1791-1860 |
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm (German chemist; perf. Bunsen burner) |
1811-1899 |
Bunting, Basil (English poet) |
1900-1985 |
Bunuel Portoles, Luis (Spanish-born Mexican film director) |
1900-1983 |
Bunyan, John (English preacher, writer) |
1628-1688 |
Buol-Schauenstein, Karl Ferdinand von (Austrian politician) |
1797-1865 |
Buonamente, Giovanni Battista (Italian composer, violinist) |
c.1595-1642 |
Buonarotti, Philippe (Italian-born French revolutionary) |
1761-1837 |
Buontalenti, Bernardo (Florentine theatrical architect) |
1536?-1608 |
Burali-Forti, Cesare (Italian mathematician) |
1861-1931 |
Burbage, James (English actor) |
1531-1597 |
Burbage, Richard "Roscius" (English actor) |
c.1567-1619 |
Burbank, Luther (American horticulturist) |
1849-1926 |
Burchard, Samuel Dickinson (American clergyman) |
1812-1891 |
Burchfield, Charles Ephraim (American painter) |
1893-1967 |
Burchill, Julie (British journalist, writer) |
b.1960 |
Burckhardt, Georg "Georg Spalatin" (German Humanist) |
1484-1584 |
Burckhardt, Jakob Christopher (Swiss hist. of art & culture) |
1818-1897 |
Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig (Swiss traveler) |
1784-1817 |
Burdach, Karl Friedrich (German physiologist) |
1776-1847 |
Burd'ana, Jacob (aka Jacob Baradai; Syrian prelate) |
d.578 |
Burdett, Sir Francis (5th baronet; English politician) |
1770-1844 |
Burdett, Osbert (English biographer, critic) |
1885-1936 |
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina (English philanthropist) |
1814-1906 |
Burebistas (or Burebista; King of Dacia c.60-c.44 BC) |
d.c.44 BC |
Buren, Abigail Van (born P.E. Friedman; Am. advice columnist) |
b.1918 |
Burger, Gottfried August (German poet, translator) |
1747-1794 |
Burger, Warren Earl (American Supreme Court justice 1969-1986) |
1907-1994 |
Burgers, Thomas Francois (South African theologian, politician) |
1834-1881 |
Burges, William (English architect) |
1827-1881 |
Burgess, Anthony (John Anthony Burgess Wilson; British writer) |
1917-1993 |
Burgess, Edward (American yacht designer) |
1848-1891 |
Burgess, Frank Gelett (American humorist, illustrator) |
1866-1951 |
Burgess, Hugh (English-born American inventor) |
c.1825-1892 |
Burgess, Thornton Waldo (American writer) |
1874-1965 |
Burgi, Joost (or Jobst; Justus Byrgius; Swiss mathematician) |
1552-1632 |
Burgkmair, Hans (German painter, wood engraver) |
1473-c.1531 |
Burgos, Jose (Filipino clergyman, patriot) |
1837-1872 |
Burgoyne, John (British army officer, playwright) |
1722-1792 |
Burgoyne, Sir John Fox (British military engineer; son of John) |
1782-1871 |
Burhoe, Ralph Wendell (America publisher; founded Zygon) |
1911-1997 |
Burian von Rajecz, Stephan von (Austro-Hungarian politician) |
1851-1922 |
Buridan, Jean (Joannes Buridanus; Fr. scholastic philosopher) |
1300-1358 |
Burk (or Burke), Martha Jane née Cannary (Am. frontierswoman) |
1852?-1903 |
Burke, Billie (American actor) |
1886-1970 |
Burke, Edmund (Irish-born British statesman, orator) |
1729-1797 |
Burke, John (Irish genealogist; father of Sir John) |
1787-1848 |
Burke, Sir John Bernard (Irish genealogist, heraldry expert) |
1814-1892 |
Burke, Kenneth Duva (American critic, philosopher, translator) |
1897-1993 |
Burke, Robert O'Hara (Irish explorer) |
1820-1861 |
Burke, Thomas (English writer) |
1886-1945 |
Burke, William (Irish criminal; grave-robber, murderer) |
1792-1829 |
Burks, Arthur Walter (American mathematician) |
1915-2008 |
Burleigh, Harry Thacker (American singer, composer) |
1866-1949 |
Burlingame, Anson (American diplomat) |
1820-1870 |
Burnaby, Frederick Gustavus (English soldier, traveler) |
1842-1885 |
Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley (Eng. playwright; editor of Punch) |
1836-1917 |
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley (English painter, designer) |
1833-1898 |
Burnell, Robert (English bishop) |
d.1292 |
Burnes, Sir Alexander (Scottish-born Brit. traveler, diplomat) |
1805-1941 |
Burnet, Sir Frank Macfarlane (Australian physician) |
1899-1985 |
Burnet, Gilbert (Scottish-born British prelate, historian) |
1643-1715 |
Burnet, Thomas (English clergyman) |
c.1635-1715 |
Burnett, Charles (American filmmaker) |
b.1944 |
Burnett, Frances Eliza née Hodgson (English-born Am. writer) |
1849-1924 |
Burnett, James (Lord Monboddo; Scottish jurist, anthropologist) |
1714-1799 |
Burnett, Leo (American advertiser; created Marlboro Man) |
1891-1971 |
Burnett, Whit (American editor) |
1899-1973 |
Burnett, Sir William (Scottish physician) |
1779-1861 |
Burney, Charles (English organist, composer, musical historian) |
1726-1814 |
Burney, Charles (English classical scholar; son of Charles) |
1757-1817 |
Burney, Fanny (born Frances; aka Madame d'Arblay; Eng. writer) |
1752-1840 |
Burney, James (English naval officer; son of Charles) |
1750-1821 |
Burnham, Daniel Hudson (American architect) |
1846-1912 |
Burnham, Frederick Russell (American explorer) |
1861-1947 |
Burnham, Robert Jr. "Bob" (Am. astronomer, writer; asteroid) |
1931-1993 |
Burnham, Sherburne Wesley (American astronomer; asteroid) |
1838-1921 |
Burnouf, Emile-Louis (French Orientalist; son of Jean-Louis) |
1821-1907 |
Burnouf, Eugene (French Orientalist; son of Jean-Louis) |
1801-1852 |
Burnouf, Jean-Louis (French philologist) |
1775-1844 |
Burns, Anthony (American slave) |
1834-1862 |
Burns, Sir George (Scottish ship owner) |
1795-1890 |
Burns, George (born Nathan Birnbaum; American actor, comedian) |
1896-1996 |
Burns, Sir John (Scottish ship owner; son of Sir George) |
1829-1901 |
Burns, John Elliot (English labor leader) |
1858-1943 |
Burns, Robert (Scottish national poet) |
1759-1796 |
Burns, Tommy (born Noah Brusso; Canadian boxer) |
1881-1955 |
Burns, William John (American detective) |
1861-1932 |
Burnside, Ambrose Everett (American army officer) |
1824-1881 |
Burnside, Robert Lee "R.L." (American musician) |
1926-2005 |
Burpee, Washington Atlee (Canadian-born American seedsman) |
1858-1915 |
Burr, Aaron (American politician; 3rd vice president 1801-05) |
1756-1836 |
Burrell, Kenneth Earl "Kenny" (American musician, singer) |
b.1931 |
Burritt, Elihu "the Learned Blacksmith" (American pacifist) |
1810-1879 |
Burroughs, Edgar Rice (American writer; created Tarzan) |
1875-1950 |
Burroughs, Joan née Adams nee Vollmer (American Beat) |
1924-1951 |
Burroughs, John (American naturalist, essayist) |
1837-1921 |
Burroughs, William Seward (American inventor) |
1855-1898 |
Burroughs, William Seward (American writer) |
1914-1997 |
Burroughs, William Seward Jr. "Billy" (American writer) |
1947-1981 |
Burrows, Ronald Montagu (English archaeologist) |
1867-1920 |
Burrus, Sextus Afranius (Roman general) |
d.62 |
Burt, Sir Cyril Lodowic (English psychologist) |
1883-1971 |
Burt, Maxwell Struthers (American writer, poet) |
1882-1954 |
Burt, William Austin (American surveyor, inventor) |
1792-1858 |
Burton, Gary (American vibraphonist, radio host) |
b.1943 |
Burton, Harold Hitz (American Supreme Court justice 1945-1958) |
1888-1964 |
Burton, John Hill (Scottish historian) |
1809-1881 |
Burton, Richard (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; Welsh actor) |
1925-1984 |
Burton, Sir Richard Francis (British explorer, Orientalist) |
1821-1890 |
Burton, Robert "Democritus Junior" (English clergyman, writer) |
1577-1640 |
Burton, Timothy William "Tim" (American film director, writer) |
b.1958 |
Burton, William Meriam (American chemist) |
1865-1954 |
Bury, John Bagnell (Irish-born British historian) |
1861-1927 |
Busbecq (or Busbeck, Bousbecq), Ghislain de (Flemish diplomat) |
1522-1592 |
Busby, Richard (English clergyman, schoolmaster) |
1606-1695 |
Buscemi, Steven Vincent "Steve" (American actor, film director) |
b.1957 |
Busch, Adolphus (German-born Am. businessman, philanthropist) |
1839-1913 |
Busch, Frederick Matthew (American critic, editor, writer) |
b.1941 |
Busch, Wilhelm (German illustrator, poet) |
1832-1908 |
Busche, Hermann von dem "Pasiphilus" (German scholar, Humanist) |
1468-1534 |
Busching, Anton Friedrich (German geographer) |
1724-1793 |
Buschmann, Johann Karl Eduard (German philologist) |
1805-1880 |
Busenbaum (or Busembaum), Hermann (German Jesuit theologian) |
1600-1668 |
Bush, Barbara née Pierce (American first lady, 1989-1993) |
b.1925 |
Bush, George Herbert Walker (41st U.S. president, 1989-1993) |
b.1924 |
Bush, George Walker (American politician; president 2001-) |
b.1946 |
Bush, John Ellis "Jeb" (American politician) |
b.1953 |
Bush, Laura Lane née Welch (American first lady 2001-) |
b.1946 |
Bush, Neil Mallou (American banker, businessman) |
b.1955 |
Bush, Prescott Sheldon (American businessman, politician) |
1895-1972 |
Bush, Vannevar (American electrical engineer, administrator) |
1890-1974 |
Bush-Brown, Henry Kirke (orig. surname Bush; American sculptor) |
1857-1935 |
Bushman, Francis Xavier (American actor) |
1883-1966 |
Bushmiller, Ernest "Ernie" (American cartoonist: "Nancy") |
1905-1982 |
Bushnell, David (American submarine inventor) |
1742?-1824 |
Bushnell, David Pearsall (American businessman: binoculars) |
1913-2005 |
Bushnell, Horace (American clergyman) |
1802-1876 |
Busiri, al- (Arab poet) |
c.1212-c.1295 |
Busken Huet, Conrad (Dutch literary critic, writer) |
1826-1886 |
Busnois, Antoine (French composer, poet; Burgundian School) |
c.1430-1492 |
Buson (Taniguchi Buson; Yosa Buson; Japanese poet, painter) |
1716-1783 |
Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto (Italian pianist, composer) |
1866-1924 |
Buss, Leo William (American? evolutionary biologist) |
b.1953/54 |
Busse, Hermann Eris (German writer) |
1891-1947 |
Bussone, Francesco "Carmagnola" (Italian condottiere) |
c.1385-1432 |
Bussy, Antoine-Alexandre-Brutus (French chemist) |
1794-1882 |
Bussy-d'Amboise, Louis de Clermont de (French nobleman) |
c.1549-1579 |
Bussy-Rabutin, Roger de (French libertine) |
1618-1693 |
Bustamante, Anastasio (Mexican general, politician) |
1780-1853 |
Bustamante y Sirven, Antonio Sanchez de (Cuban jurist) |
1865-1951 |
Bustani, Butrus al- (Arabic scholar) |
1819-1883 |
Bustelli, Franz Anton (Swiss sculptor) |
1723-1763 |
Butades of Sicyon (Greek sculptor) |
fl. 600? BC |
Butcher, Clyde Edman (American photographer) |
b.1942 |
Butcher, John (English musician, improviser, composer) |
b.1954 |
Butcher, Samuel Henry (British scholar) |
1850-1910 |
Butenandt, Adolph Friedrich Johann (German biochemist) |
1903-1995 |
Butler, Alban (English clergyman, hagiographer) |
1710-1773 |
Butler, Arthur Gray (English rugby master, educator) |
1831-1909 |
Butler, Benjamin Franklin (American army officer, politician) |
1818-1893 |
Butler, Elizabeth Southerden née Thompson (English painter) |
1850-1933 |
Butler, Ellis Parker (American humorist) |
1869-1937 |
Butler, Frederick Guy (South African poet, playwright) |
1918-2001 |
Butler, George (English clergyman, educator) |
1774-1853 |
Butler, Henry Montague (English educator; son of George) |
1833-1918 |
Butler, John (American Loyalist) |
1728-1796 |
Butler, Joseph (English theologian) |
1692-1752 |
Butler, Josephine Elizabeth née Gray (English reformer) |
1828-1906 |
Butler, Nicholas Murray (Am. philosopher, diplomat, educator) |
1862-1947 |
Butler, Octavia Estelle "Junie" (American writer) |
1947-2006 |
Butler, Pierce (Am. jurist; Supreme Court justice 1922-1939) |
1866-1939 |
Butler, Ralph Starr (American advertising executive, teacher) |
1882-1971 |
Butler, Richard Girnt (Am. engineer, bigot; fd. Aryan Nation) |
1918-2004 |
Butler, Samuel (English poet, satirist) |
1612-1680 |
Butler, Samuel (English writer, essayist, critic) |
1835-1902 |
Butler, Smedley Darlington (American marine officer) |
1881-1940 |
Butler, Walter N. (American soldier; son of John) |
d.1781 |
Butler, Sir William Francis (Irish-born British army officer) |
1838-1910 |
Butlerov, Aleksandr Mikhaylovich (Russian chemist) |
1828-1886 |
Butor, Michel-Marie-Francois (French writer, essayist) |
b.1926 |
Butschli, Otto (German zoologist) |
1848-1920 |
Butt, Dame Clara Ellen (English contralto) |
1872-1936 |
Butt, Isaac (Irish lawyer, nationalist leader) |
1813-1879 |
Butterfield, John (American businessman: American Express Co.) |
1801-1869 |
Butterfield, William (English architect) |
1814-1900 |
Butterick, Ebenezer (American tailor, inventor) |
1826-1903 |
Butterworth, George Sainton Kaye (Eng. composer, folk dancer) |
1885-1916 |
Button, Stephen Decatur (American architect) |
1803-1897 |
Button, Sir Thomas (English navigator) |
d.1634 |
Buxtehude, Dietrich (Danish organist, lutenist, composer) |
1637-1707 |
Buxton, Charles (English politician; son of Sir Thomas) |
1823-1871 |
Buxton, Sydney Charles (English administrator; son of Charles) |
1853-1934 |
Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell (English philanthropist) |
1786-1845 |
Buxtorf, Johann "the Elder" (German Hebraist) |
1564-1629 |
Buxtorf, Johann "the Younger" (German Hebraist) |
1599-1664 |
Buyantu (Chi Yen-tsung; Mongol emperor 1311-1320) |
14th cent. |
Buyrette, Pierre-Laurent (pseud. Dormont de Belloy; Fr. dram.) |
1727-1775 |
Buys, Paulus (Dutch politician) |
1531-1594 |
Buys Ballot, Christoph Hendrik Diederik (Dutch meteorologist) |
1817-1890 |
Buysse, Cyriel (Flemish writer, playwright) |
1859-1932 |
Buzzati, Dino (Italian journalist, dramatist, writer) |
1906-1972 |
By, John (English engineer) |
1781-1836 |
Byard, John "Jaki" (American musician, composer) |
1922-1999 |
Byatt, Antonia Susan née Drabble (English scholar, writer) |
b.1936 |
Byers, Clark (American sign-painter: "See Rock City") |
1915-2004 |
Bykov, Vasily Vladimirovich (Belorussian writer) |
b.1924 |
Byng, George (1st Viscount Torrington; British admiral) |
1663-1733 |
Byng, John (British naval officer) |
1704-1757 |
Byng, Julian Hedworth George (British field marshal) |
1862-1935 |
Bynkershoek, Cornelis van (Dutch jurist) |
1673-1743 |
Bynum, Caroline née Walker (American Medieval scholar, teacher) |
b.1941 |
Byrd of Westover, William (American planter, satirist, diarist) |
1674-1744 |
Byrd, Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture II (American musician) |
1932-2013 |
Byrd, Harry (American politician; brother of Richard) |
1887-1966 |
Byrd, Joseph Hunter (American composer, arranger, producer) |
b.1937 |
Byrd, Richard Evelyn (American naval officer, polar explorer) |
1888-1957 |
Byrd, William (English organist, composer) |
1543-1623 |
Byrd, William "William Byrd of Westover" (American planter) |
1674-1744 |
Byrne, David (Scottish-born American musician) |
b.1952 |
Byrne, Francis Barry (American architect) |
1883-1967 |
Byrne, John Keyes (pseudonym Hugh Leonard; Irish playwright) |
b.1926 |
Byrne, Robert Eugene (American editor, writer) |
b.1930 |
Byrne, William Matthew Jr. (Am. judge; Pentagon Papers judge) |
1930-2006 |
Byrnes, James Francis (American politician, jurist) |
1879-1972 |
Byrns, Joseph Wellington (American politician) |
1869-1936 |
Byrom, John (English poet) |
1692-1763 |
Byron, George Gordon Noel "Lord Byron" (English poet) |
1788-1824 |
Byron, John "Foul-weather Jack" (English navigator) |
1723-1786 |