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--Henry Lewis (Hank) Aaron (b. 1934)
Baseball player and member of Baseball Hall of Fame.

--Edward Abbey (1927—1989)
American author.
_Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness_ [1968]
_Abbey's Road_ [1979]
_A Voice Crying in the Wilderness_ (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) [1989]
_Confessions of a Barbarian_ (ed. by David Petersen)

--Abdelkader (or Abd el-Kader) (1808—1883)
Military and religious leader who founded the Algerian state.

--Kareem Abdul-Jabbar [Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor] (b. 1947)
American professional basketball player.

--Creighton Abrams (1914—1974)
American army general.

--Elliott Abrams (b. 1948)
American lawyer.

--Lucius Accius [also spelled Attius] (170—90 B.C.)
Roman tragic poet.

--Goodman Ace (1899—1982)
American humorist.

--Dean Acheson (1893—1971)
American politician.

--Lord Acton (1834—1902)
British historian.
_The History of Freedom and Other Essays_ [1907]

--Tom Adair (1913—1988)
American lyricist.

--Thomas Adam (1701—1784)
England clergyman and religious writer.

--Abigail Adams (1744—1818)
American first lady [1797—1801], the wife of John Adams, second president of
the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of
the United States.

--Ansel Easton Adams (1902—1984)
American photographer.

--Douglas Adams (1952—2001)
English comic radio dramatist and author.
_The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ [1979]
_Life, the Universe and Everything_ [1982]
_Last Chance to See_ [1990]
_Mostly Harmless_ [1992]

--Franklin Pierce Adams (1881—1960)
American columnist and member of the Algonquin Round Table.
_Nods and Becks_ [1944]

--George Matthew Adams (1878—1962)
American newspaper columnist.

--Henry Brooks Adams (1838—1918)
American historian & man of letters.
_The Law of Civilization and Decay_ [1897]
_The Education of Henry Adams_ [1907]

--Joey Adams (1911—1999)
American comedian.
_Strictly For Laughs_ [1981]

--John Adams (1735—1826)
First VP and second President of the United States.
_Discourses on Davila: A Series of Papers on Political History_ [1790]
Biographies and/or related books about:
David McCollough _John Adams_ [2001]

--John Quincy Adams (1767—1848)
6th President of the United States.
_Memoirs_ [1820]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Walter LaFeber (ed.) _John Quincy Adams and Continental Empire_ [1965]

--Samuel Adams (1722—1803)
American revolutionary leader.

--Scott Adams (b. 1957)
Creator of Dilbert comic strip.

--Thomas Adams (c.1583—1652)
English clergyman.
_The Blacke Devill or the Apostate_ [1615]

--Harold Adamson (1906—1980)
American songwriter.

--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
"The Spectator" [1711—1712 & 1714]
_Cato, a Tragedy_ [1712]

--George Ade (1866—1944)
American playwright and humorist.

--Konrad Adenauer (1876—1967)
German statesman.

--Alfred Adler (1870—1937)
Austrian psychologist.
_Social Interest: A Challenge to Mankind_ [1938]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Phyllis Bottome _Alfred Adler: Apostle of Freedom_ [1939]
_The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler:
A Systematic Presentation in Selections from His Writings_,
ed Heinz L. Ansbacher and Rowena R. Ansbacher [1956]

--Mortimer J. Adler (1902—2001)
American philosopher, educator, and editor.
_How to Read a Book_ [1940]

--Polly Adler (1900—1962)
Russian-born madam and author.
_A House Is Not a Home_ [1953]

--Richard Adler (b. 1921) & Jerry Ross (1926—1955)
American songwriting team whose successes
include "The Pajama Game" and "Damn Yankees."

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--Aelian [Claudius Aelianus] (c. 170—222)
Roman author and teacher of rhetoric.

--Aeschines (c.390—314? B.C.)
Athenian orator.

--Aeschylus (525—456 B.C.)
Greek tragic dramatist.
_Agamemnon_ [458 BC]
_Prometheus Bound_
_The Suppliants_

--Ζsop (c. 620 B.C.—c. 560 B.C.)
(Thought to be a legendary figure.)
_Ζsop Fables_

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--Agapetus I (?—536)
Pope from 535—536.

--Agapetus II (?—955)
Pope from 946—955.

--Herbert Sebastian Agar (1897—1980)
American poet asnd writer.
_A Time for Greatness_ [1942]

--James Agate (1877—1947)
British drama critic and novelist.

--Agathon (c. 448—400 BC)
Athenian tragic poet.

--James Agee (1909—1955)
American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic.
_Let Us Now Praise Famous Men_ [1941]
Biographies and/or related books about:
James Harold Flye _Letters of James Agee to Father Flye_ [1962]

--Spiro Agnew (1918—1996)
The 39th Vice President of the U.S..

--Henri-Franηois d' Aguesseau (1668—1751)
French jurist.

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--Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (b. 1956)
President of Iran [2005— ].

--Catherine Aird [Kinn Hamilton McIntosh] (b. 1930)
English detective fiction writer.

--Fouad Ajami (b. 1945)
Lebanese-born American professor and writer.

--Thomas A' Kempis - see Thomas

--Akhenaton (fl. 14th cent. B.C.)
King of Egypt [1353—1336 B.C.].

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--Alain (1868—1951) [pseudonym of Ιmile-Auguste Chartier]
French poet and philosopher.

--Edward Franklin Albee III (b. 1928)
American dramatist and theatrical producer.
[Adopted grandson of Edward Franklin Albee II]

--Edward Franklin Albee II (1857—1930)
American theatrical manager.

--Alberuni (973—1048)
_Kitab-al-Hind_ (Book on India) [1030]

--Mitch Albom (b. 1958)
American sportswriter, novelist and newspaper columnist.
_Tuesdays With Morrie_ [1997]
_The Five People You Meet in Heaven_ [2003]

--Herm Albright (1876—1944)
German-born American painter and lithographer.

--Madeline Albright (b. 1937)
Czech-born American who was the first woman
to become United States Secretary of State [1997—2001].

--[Amos] Bronson Alcott (1799—1888)
American philosopher, teacher, and reformer; father of Louisa May Alcott.
_Concord Days_ [1872]
_Table Talk_ [1877]

--Louisa May Alcott (1832—1888)
American novelist; daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott.
_Little Women_ [1868]

--William Andrus Alcott (1798—1859)
American educator, physician, and author.
_The Young Woman's Guide to Excellence _ [13th ed., 1847]

--Alan Alda (b. 1936)
American actor.

--Richard Aldington (1892—1962)
English poet, novelist, and biographer.
_The Colonel's Daughter_ [1931]

--Henry Aldrich (1647—1710)
English theologian and philosopher.

--Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836—1907)
American poet, short-story writer, and editor.
_The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ [1907]

--Alexander II [Aleksandr Nikolayevich] (1818—1881)
Emperor of Russia [1855—1881].

--Alexander the Great (356—323 BC)
Greek king of Macedon (336–323 BC).

--Cecil Frances Alexander (1818—1895)
English hymnwriter.

--Sir George Alexander (1858—1918)
British actor.

--Grover Cleveland Alexander (1887—1950)
American professional baseball pitcher elected
to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938.

--William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (c. 1576—1640)
Scottish courtier, statesman, and poet.

--William R. Alger (1822—1905)
American minister and writer.

--Nelson Algren (1909—1981)
American novelist.
_A Walk on the Wild Side_ [1956]

--Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay) (b. 1942)
American heavyweight boxer.

--Saul Alinsky (1909—1972)
American community organizer and writer.
_Rules for Radicals_ [1971]

--Charles Livingston Allen (1913—2005)
American minister.
_The Greatest of These is Love_ [1986]

--Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832—1911)
American poet.

--Ethan Allen (1738—1789)
American soldier and frontiersman, leader of the
Green Mountain Boys during the Revolutionary War.

--Fred Allen [John Florence Sullivan] (1894—1956)
American humorist.
_Much Ado About Me_ [1956]

--Frederick Lewis Allen (1890—1954)
American author and editor.
_Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties_ [1931]

--Gracie Allen [Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen] (1895—1964)
American comedienne.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Susan Sackett & Cheryl Blythe _Say Goodnight,
Gracie!: The Story of Burns and Allen_ [1986]

--Hervey Allen (1889—1949)
American novelist.
_Israfel_ [1926]
_Anthony Adverse_ [1933]

--James Lane Allen (1849—1925)
American novelist and short story writer.

--Lewis Allen [Abel Meeropol] (1903—1986)
American songwriter.

--Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) (1921—2000)
American musician, comedian, writer, and first host of the Tonight Show.

--William Allen (1803—1879)
Democratic Representative and Senator from the
U.S. state of Ohio, as well as Governor of Ohio.

--Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (b. 1935)
American actor, screenwriter, and director.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Eric Lax _Woody Allen and His Comedy_ [1975]

--Isabel Allende (b. 1942)
Chilean writer.

--Margery Louise Allingham (1904—1966)
British detective-story novelist.

--William Allingham (1824—1899)
Irish man of letters and poet.
_Blackberries Picked Off Many Bushes_ [1884]

--Charles E. Allison (1847—1908)
American clergyman and author.

--Peter Altenberg (1859—1919)
Austrian poet.

--Lisa Alther (b. 1944)
American author.
_Kinflicks_ [1976]

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--St. Ambrose (c. 339—397)
French-born bishop of Milan.
_De officiis ministrorum_

--Stephen Ambrose (1936—2002)
American historian and author.
_Band of Brothers_ [1992]
_The Victors_ [1998]

--"An American in Paris" [1951 movie]

--Oscar Ameringer (1870—1943)
German-born American socialist.

--Henri Frιdιrick Amiel (1821—1881)
Swiss critic.
_Journal Intime_ [1883]

--Sir Kingsley Amis (1922—1995)
English novelist, poet, critic, and father of Martin Amis.
_Collected Poems, 1944-1979_ [1980]

--Martin Amis (b. 1949)
British novelist and son of Sir Kingsley Amis.

--Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 330—c. 400)
Roman historian.

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--Anacharsis (600 BC)
Scythian prince.

--Greg Anderson (b. 1964)
American basketball player.

--Laurie Anderson (b. 1947)
American performance artist.

--Marian Anderson (1897—1993)
American singer.

--Maxwell Anderson (1888—1959)
American Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright.

--Pamela Anderson (b. 1967)
Canadian-born actress.

--Sherwood Anderson (1876—1941)
American writer of short stories.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Howard Mumford Jones & Walter B. Rideout (eds.)
_Letters of Sherwood Anderson_ [1953]

--Sparky [George Lee] Anderson (1934—2010)
American baseball player (one year) and manager; elected to the Hall of Fame in 2000.

--Terry H. Anderson
American professor of history and author.
_The Sixties_ [2004]

--Walter Anderson (1885—1962)
German folklorist.

--Warner Anderson (1911—1976)
American actor.

--Andrea Del Sarto [Andrea D'Agnolo] (1486—1530)
Italian painter and draftsman.

--Edmund Andros (1637—1714)
Early colonial English governor in North America.

--Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
American author and poet.

--"Animal Crackers" [1930 film]

--Paul Anka (b. 1941)
Canadian singer and composer.

--Noλl Annan (1916—2000)
English historian and writer.

--Jean [Marie-Lucien-Pierre] Anouilh (1910—1987)
French playwright.
_Le voyageur sans bagage_ (The Traveller Without Luggage) [1937]
_La Sauvage_ (The Savage) [1938]

--Christopher Anstey (1724—1805)
English poet.
_The New Bath Guide_ [1766]

--Maj. Anthony (1820—1891)
Present at the Sand Creek Massacre.

--Dr. Robert Anthony (b. 1916)
American writer.
_Think and Win_

--Susan B(rownwell) Anthony (1820—1906)
American crusader for the woman suffrage movement.

--Susan B. Anthony (1916—1991)
American feminist and author.
_The Ghost in My Life _ [1971]

--Antiphanes (fl. early 4th cent. B.C.)
Greek comic poet.

--Antisthenes (c. 445—c. 365 BC)
Greek philosopher.

--Minna Thomas Antrim (1861—1950)
American writer and epigrammist.

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--"The Apartment" [1960 movie]

--St. Thomas Aquinas (1225—1274)
Catholic philosopher and theologian.

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--Yasser Arafat (1929—2004)
Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

--John D. Archbold (1848—1916)
American capitalist.

--Archytas of Tarentum (400—347 B.C.)
Greek scientist, philosopher, and Pythagorean mathematician.

--Elizabeth Arden [Florence Nightingale Graham] (1876—1966)
Canadian-born American businesswoman.

--Hannah Arendt (1906—1975)
German-born American political scientist and philosopher.

--Pietro Aretino (1492—1556)
Italian poet, prose writer, and dramatist.

--Ludovico Ariosto (1474—1533)
Italian poet.
_Orlando furioso_ [1516]

--Aristophanes (c. 450—c. 388 BC)
Greek comic dramatist.
_Peace_ [421 B.C.]
_Lysistrata_ [411 B.C.]

--Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
_Nicomachean Ethics_ [c. 350 B.C.]
_The Art of Rhetoric_ [c. 350 B.C.]

--Harold Arlen [Hyman Arluck] (1905—1986)
American composer.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Edward Jablonski _Harold Arlen: Rhythm, Rainbows, and Blues_ [1998]

--Dr John Armstrong (1709—1779)
Scottish poet.
_The Art of Preserving Health_ [1744]

--Lance Armstrong (b. 1971)
American cyclist, seven time winner of the Tour de France.
_It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life_ [2000]

--Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong (1901—1971)
American jazz musician.

--Neil Armstrong (b. 1930)
American astronaut.

--Peter Arno [Curtis Arnoux Peters] (1904—1968)
American cartoonist.

--Matthew Arnold (1822—1888)
English Victorian poet and literary and social critic.
_New Poems_ [1867]
_Cuture and Anarchy_ [1869]
_God and the Bible: A Review of Objections ..._ [1875]
_A Word About America_ [1882]

--Oren Arnold (1900—1980)
American novelist, journalist, and humorist.

--Thomas Arnold (1795—1842)
English educator and father of Matthew Arnold.

--Antonin Artaud (1896—1948)
French playwright, actor, and director.

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--George Asaf [George H. Powell] (1880—1951)
British songwriter.

--Roger Ascham (1515—1568)
English scholar, writer, and courtier.
_The Schoolmaster_ [1570]

--Nelson Ascher (b. 1958)
Brazilian poet.

--Mary Kay Ash (1918—2001)
American businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.

--Arthur Ashe (1943—1993)
American tennis player and the first black winner of a major men's single championship.
_Days of Grace_ [1993]

--Peter Asher (b. 1944)
English singer (Peter & Gordon) and record producer.

--Isaac Asimov (1920—1992)
Russian-born American author.

--H(erbert) H(enry) Asquith (1852—1928)
Liberal prime minister of Great Britain [1908—1916].

--Margot Asquith [Emma Alice Margaret Tennant] (1864—1945)
British society figure.

--Fred Astaire (1899—1987)
American actor and dancer.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Bob Thomas _Astaire_ [1985]

--Brooke Astor (1902—2007)
American philanthropist and socialite.

--Lady Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor (1879—1964)
American-born, first woman to take a seat in the British House of Commons.

--Mustafa Kemal Atatόrk (1881—1938)
Soldier, statesman, and reformer who was the founder and
first president [1923—1938] of the Republic of Turkey.

--Gertrude Franklin Atherton [nθe Horn] (1857—1948)
American novelist.
_Senator North_ [1900]

--Brooks Atkinson (1894—1984)
American journalist and critic.
_Henry Thoreau, The Cosmic Yankee_ [1927]
_Once Around the Sun_ [1951]

--Rowan Atkinson (b. 1955)
British comedian and actor.

--Jacques Attali (b. 1943)
French economist and writer.
_Millenium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order_ [1991]

--Clement Attlee (1883—1967)
British prime minister [1945—1951].

--Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
Canadian novelist and poet.

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--John Aubrey (1626—1697)
English antiquarian and writer.
_Brief Lives_ [1690]
_Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects_ [1696]

--W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973)
English-born poet and man of letters.
_The Dyer's Hand_ [1962]
_Forewords and Afterwords_ [1973]

--Arnold "Red" Auerbach (1917—2006)
American basketball coach.

--Berthold Auerbach (1812—1882)
German novelist.
_On the Heights_ [1868]

--Anton Alexander Auersperg [pseu. Anastasius Grόn] (1806—1876)
Austrian poet.

--John H. Aughey (1828—1911)
American clergyman.
_Spiritual Gems of The Ages_ [1886]

--Augustine, St. of Hippo (354—430)
Christian theologian and bishop of Hippo in Roman Africa [396—430].
_Confessiones_ (The Confessions) [c. 400]
_Soliloquiorum libri duo_ (Soliloquies) [c. 410]

--Augustus [Gaius Octavius] (63 B.C.—14 A.D.)
The first Roman emperor.

--Aung San Suu Kyi (b. 1945)
Burmese political leader.

--Jane Austen (1775—1817)
English writer.
_Sense and Sensibility_ [1811]
_Pride and Prejudice_ [1813]
_Mansfield Park_ [1814]
_Emma_ [1816]
_Northanger Abbey_ [1818]

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--Tex Avery (1907—1980)
American cartoon animator.

--Berton Averre (b. 1953)
American guitarist in the rock group "The Knack."

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--Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939)
English dramatist.

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--Josι Marνa Alfredo Aznar Lσpez (b. 1953)
Spanish politician who served as Spanish prime minister [1996—2004].

--Charles Aznavour (b. 1924)
French singer and songwriter.

--Gomes Eannes de Azurara (c. 1410—1474)
Portuguese chronicler.
_The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea_ [1453]

--Rabbi Simon Ben Azzai
Jewish scholar of the second century.


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