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--George Dana Boardman, the younger
(1828—1903)
President of the American Baptist Missionary Union.

--David Boaz (1953— )
American lawyer.

--Herman Boerhaave (1668—1738)
Dutch physician, botanist, and and professor of medicine.

--Ivan F. Boesky (1937— )
American businessman.

--Rev. William John Henry Boetcker (1873—1962)
German-born American minister and author.

--Boethius [Anicius Manlius Severinus] (480?—524)
Roman scholar and Christian philosopher.

--Humphrey Bogart (1899—1957)
American actor.

--John B. Bogart (1848—1921)
American journalist.

--Eric Bogle (1944— )
Scottish-born Australian singer and songwriter.

--Henry G. Bohn (1796—1884)
English publisher and bookseller.
Comp., A Hand-Book of Proverbs [1860]

--Niels Bohr (1885—1962)
Danish physicist.

--Nicolas Boileau-Desprιaux (1636—1711)
French critic and poet.
_L'art poιtique_ [1674]

--Anne Boleyn [also spelled Bullen] (1507?—1536)
Second wife of King Henry VIII of England
and mother of Queen Elizabeth I.

--Robert Bolt (1924—1995)
English playwright and screenwriter.
_A Man for All Seasons_ [1960]

--Charles E. Bolton [Charles Earl Bolles, aka Black Bart] (1829—1917?)
American outlaw.

--Erma Bombeck (1927—1996)
American humorist.

--Napoleon Bonaparte (1769—1821) [see Napoleon I]

--Julian Bond (1940— )
American leader of the civil-rights movement.

--Bono (1960— )
Irish rock star.

--Edward de Bono (1933— )
Malta-born psycologist.

--Daniel Boone (1734—1820)
American pioneer who blazed the Wilderness Trail.

--Daniel J. Boorstin (1914—2004)
American historian.
_The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America_ [1961]

--Arnaud de Borchgrave, [Covered Tet as Newsweek's chief foreign
correspondent and had seven tours in Vietnam between 1951 under
the French and 1972].

--James H. Boren (1925— )
American bureaucrat, professional speaker, and humorist.

--Victor Borge [Berge Rosenbaum] (1909—2000)
Danish-born American humorist, entertainer, and pianist.

--Hal Borland [Harold Glen] (1900—1978)
American author.
_Sundial of the Seasons_ [1964]

--George (Henry) Borrow (1803—1881)
English traveler, linguist, and prose writer.
_Lavengro_ [1851]
_The Romany Rye_ [1857]

--Henry G. Bosch (1914—1995)
Religious figure.

--John Collins Bossidy (1860—1928)
American poet.

--James Boswell (1740—1795)
Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author.
_The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_ [1786]
_Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]

--Thomas Boswell (1948— )
American sports journalist and author.

--Phyllis Bottome [pseud. of Phyllis Forbes-Dennis] (1884—1963)
English novelist and short story writer.

--Serge Bouchard (1947— )
Anthropologist and essayist

--Dion Boucicault (1820—1890)
Irish actor and playwright.
_London Assurance_ [1841]

--Alfred Bougeart (1815—1882)
French writer.

--Dominique Bouhours (1632—1702)
French Jesuit grammarian.

--Jim Bouton (1939— )
American baseball pitcher and author.
_Ball Four_

--Jan des Bouvrie (1942— )
Dutch interior designer.

--Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904)
American writer.
_Intuitions and Summaries of Thought_ [1862]

--Elizabeth Bowen (1899—1973)
Irish-born British novelist.

--Lord Bowen (1835—1894)
English judge.

--Claude G[ernade] Bowers (1878—1958)
American jounalist, diplomat, and historian.

--L.M. [Louis Malcolm] Boyd (1927—2007)
American newspaper columnist.

--Robert Boyle (1627—1691)
British natural philosopher and theological writer.

--Sir Rhodes Boyson (1925— )
English author and politician.

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--Peg Bracken (1918—2007)
American humorist.

--Charles Brackett (1892—1969)
American screenwriter.

--Ray Bradbury (1920— )
American science fiction author.
_Fahrenheit 451_ [1953]
_Dandelion Wine_ [1957]

--Bessie Braddock (1899—1970)
British Labor politician.

--Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835—1915)
English novelist.

--John Bradford (1510—1555)
English Protestant martyr.

--Omar Bradley (1893—1981)
American general.

--Sir Donald G. Bradman (1908—2001)
Australian cricketeer, widely considered the sport's greatest player.

--John Bradshaw (1602—1659)
English lawyer.
He presided at the trial of Charles I.
Buried in Westminster Abbey, his body was
exhumed at the Restoration and hanged in
public, like that of Cromwell.

--Anne Bradstreet (1612—1672)
The first published American woman writer.

--James Brady (1928— )
_The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea_ [2000]

--Berton Braley (1882—1966)
American poet.

--Ernest Bramah [Earnest Bramah Smith]
(1868—1942) British author.

--Anna Hempstead Branch (1875—1937)
American poet.

--Louis Brandeis (1856—1941)
American lawyer and associate justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court [1916—1939].

--Nathaniel Branden (1930— )
Canadian-born psychotherapist and writer.
_The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand_

--Marlon Brando (1924—2004)
Oscar-winning American actor.

--Sebastian Brant (1457—1521)
German satirical poet.
_The Ship of Fools_ (Das Narrenschiff) [1494]

--Wernher von Braun (1912—1977)
German-born American rocket engineer.

--Bertolt Brecht (1898—1956)
German dramatist.
_Die Dreigroschenoper_ (The Threepenny Opera) [1928]
_The Life of Galileo_ [1939]

--Gerald Brenan (1894—1987)
British travel writer and novelist.
_Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany_ [1978]

--William Joseph Brennan, Jr. (1906—1997)
American jurist; associate justice of the U.S..
Supreme Court [1956—1990].

--Bishop Brent (1862—1929)
the first Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.

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--Aristide Briand (1862—1932)
French statesman and winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.

--Fanny Brice [Fania Borach] (1891—1951)
American comedian, singer, and entertainer.

--Morrie Brickman (1917—1994)
American cartoonist.

--Leslie Bricusse (1931— )
English lyricist and composer.

--Rocky Bridges (1927— )
American Major League baseball
player, coach, and manager.

--Ashleigh Brilliant (1933— )
British-born American writer and artist.

--David Brinkley (1920—2003)
American television newscaster.

--Vera Brittain (1893—1970)
English writer.

--John Brockenbrough (1775—1852)
American business man and civic leader.

--St John Brodrick (1856—1942)
British Conservative politician.

--Joseph Brodsky [Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky] (1940—1996)
Russian-born American poet and winner of the 1987
Nobel Prize for Literature.

--Professor D.W. [Dennis William] Brogan (1900—1974)
British historian and political scientist.

--Tom Brokaw (1940— )
American television journalist.

--Bromo Selzer

--Jacob Bronowski (1908—1974)
Polish-born mathematician and humanist.
_The Face of Violence_ [1954]

--Charlotte Brontλ (1816—1855)
British author.
_Jane Eyre_ [1847]

--Rupert Brooke (1887—1915)
English poet.

--Anita Brookner (1928— )
British novelist and art historian.

--Gwendolyn Brooks (1917—2000)
American poet.
{The first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize}
http://www.nathanielturner.com/gwenbrooksbio.htm

--Louise Brooks (1906—1985)
American motion-picture actress.
_Lulu in Hollywood_ [1982]

--Mel Brooks (1926— )
American actor, writer, and director.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Maurice Yacowar, _The Comic Art of Mel Brooks_ [1981]

--Phillips Brooks (1835—1893)
American religious leader.

--Richard Brothers (1757—1824),
British religious leader.

--Lord [Henry Peter] Brougham (1778—1868)
Scottish lawyer and politician.

--Heywood Broun (1888—1939)
American journalist & father of
Heywood Hale Broun.

--Heywood Hale Broun (1918—2001)
American sportswriter and sports commentator.
[son of Heywood Broun]
_Tumultuous Merriment_ [1979]

--Drew "Bundini" Brown (1928—1987)
Muhammad Ali's trainer.

--Edmund G. "Pat" Brown (1905—1996)
American lawyer and politician.
_Reagan: The Political Chameleon_ [1976]

--Frederic Brown (1906—1972)
American science fiction and mystery writer.
_The Lights In the Sky Are Stars_ [1953]
_Angels and Spaceships_ [1955]

--H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940— )
American author.
_Life's Little Instruction Book_ [1991]

--Joe E. Brown (1892—1973)
American actor.

--John Brown (1715—1766)
English clergyman and author.

--John Mason Brown (1900—1969)
American drama critic.

--Willie L. Brown, Jr. (1934— )
American politician.

--Anthony Montague Browne (1923— )
British civil servant.

--Francis Fisher Browne (1843—1913)
American writer.

--Sir Thomas Browne (1605—1682)
English writer and physician.

--Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806—1861)
English poet.
_Sonnets from the Portuguese_ [1850]

--Sir Frederick ("Boy") Browning (1896—1965)
British soldier.

--Robert Browning (1812—1889)
English poet.

--Lenny Bruce [Leonard Alfred Schneider] (1925—1966)
American comedian.

--Tammy Bruce
(1962— )
Libertarian author and political commentator.

--Leonardo Bruni {also called Leonardo Aretino} (c.1370—1444)
Italian humanist scholar of the Renaissance.
_Historiarum Florentini populi libri XII_ [1610]
(Twelve Books of Histories of the Florentine People}

--Giordano [Filippo] Bruno (1548—1600)
Italian philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Coulson Turnbull _Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno_ [1913]

--Katharine Brush (1902—1952)
American author.

--William Jennings Bryan (1860—1925)
American Democratic and Populist politician
who ran for the presidency three times
without success.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Genevieve Forbes Herrick & John Origen Herrick _The Life of William Jennings Bryan_ [2005]

--Anita Bryant (1940— )
American singer.

--William Cullen Bryant (1794—1878)
American poet and editor.

--James Bryce (1838—1922)
British politician, diplomat, and historian;
ambassador to the U.S. [1907—1913].
_The American Commonwealth_ [1888]

--Yul Brynner (1920?—1985)
Actor born in Russia.

--Bill Bryson (1951— )
American writer of humorous travel books.
_The Lost Continent_ [1989]
_Neither Here Nor There_ [1991]
_Notes From a Small Island_ [1996]
_In a Sunburned Country_ [2000]
_A Walk in the Woods_

--Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928— )
Polish-American political scientist.
_Power and Principle_ [1983]

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--John Buchan (1875—1940)
Scottish novelist and Govenor-General
of Canada [1935-1940].

--William Buchan (1729—1805)
English doctor.
_Domestic Medicine, or a Treatise on the Presentation and
Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines_ (1797)

--Patrick Buchanan (1938— )
American journalist, author, and candidate for U.S. President.
_The Defeat of the West_ [2002]

--Frank Buchman (1878—1961)
American evangelist.

--Art Buchwald (1925—2007)
American journalist and humorist who won the
1982 Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary.

--Pearl S. Buck (1892—1973)
American author noted for her novels of life in China;
winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature.
_The Good Earth_ [1931]
_The Patriot_ [1939]
_Of Mice and Women_ [1941]
_My Several Worlds_ [1954]
_Children For Adoption_ [1964]
_Pearl Buck's America_ [1971]

--Jamie Buckingham (1932—1992)
American Christian pastor, author, and columnist.

--Christopher Buckley (1952— )
American political satirist.

--William F. Buckley Jr. (1925— )
American author and journalist.
_The Jeweler's Eye_ [1968]

--Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1784—1812)
American Unitarian preacher.

--Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th—4th century B.C.)
Founder of Buddhism.

--Buddy Holly and The Crickets

--Frederick Buechner (1926— )
American Presbyterian minister and author.

--Michael Buerk (1946— )
British broadcaster and journalist.

--Warren Buffett (1930— )
American businessman.
Biographies and/or related books about:
_Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor_, ed. Janet Lowe [1997]

--George Louis Leclerc Buffon, Comte de (1707—1788)
French naturalist.

--Lois McMaster Bujold (1949— )
American science fiction author.
_Memory_ [1996]

--Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888—1938)
Russian Communist leader and theoretician.

--Charles Bukowski (1920—1994)
German-born American poet.

--Arthur Buller (1874—1944)
British botanist and mycologist.

--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist and politician.
_Richelieu_ [1839]
_Caxtoniana_ [1863]

--Ralph Bunche (1904—1971)
American political scientist, diplomat and winner
of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize.

--Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Pshis'cha (1765-1827)
Chassidic leader.

--Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855—1896)
American poet, novelist, and editor.
_One, Two, Three_

--Luis Buρuel (1900—1983)
Spanish director and filmmaker.
_My Last Sigh_ [1983]

--John Bunyan (1628—1688)
English writer and allegorist.
_The Pilgrim's Progress_ [1678]

--Victor Buono (1938—1982)
American actor.

--Julie Burchill (1959— )
English journalist.
_Damaged Goods_ [1986]

--Jacob Burckhardt (1818—1897)
Swiss historian of art and culture.
_Judgments on History_ [1865—85]

--Robert Jones Burdette (1844—1914)
American humorist and lecturer.

--Anthony Burgess [John Burgess Wilson] (1917—1993)
English novelist and critic.

--Gelett Burgess (1866—1951)
American writer, poet, and humorist.

--James Burgh (1714—1775)
Scottish author.

--Billie Burke (Mary William Appleton Burke) (1885—1970)
American actress.

--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.
_A Vindication of Natural Society_ [1753]
_A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the
Sublime and the Beautiful_ [1756]
_Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents_ [1770]
_Observation on a late Publication on the Present State of the Nation_ [2nd ed. 1769]
_Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790]

--Johnny Burke (1908—1964)
American lyricist.

--Thomas Burke (1886—1945)
British author.

--Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911—1993)
British surgeon and medical researcher.

--Jacob Burnap (1748—1821)
American clergyman.

--Gilbert Burnet (1643—1715)
English bishop and historian.

--Carol Burnett (1934— )
American television actress.

--Fanny Burney (1752—1840)
English novelist and diarist.
_Camilla_ [1796]

--George Burns [Nathan Birnbaum] (1896—1996)
American comedian.

--John Burns (1858—1943)
British Liberal politician.

--Robert Burns (1759—1796)
Scottish poet and songwriter.

--Burnum Burnum [Harry Penrith] (1936—1997)
Australian political activist.

--Elihu Burritt (1810—1879)
American philanthropist.

--Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875—1950)
American novelist.
_Tarzan of the Apes_ [1914]

--John Burroughs (1837—1921)
American naturalist and writer.
_The Light of Day_ [1900]
_Literary Values and Other Papers_ [1902]
Biographies and/or related books about:
_The Heart of Burroughs's Journals_ [1928], ed. Clara Barrus

--William S. Burroughs (1914—1997)
American author associated with the Beat Generation.
_The Naked Lunch_ [1959]

--Ellen Burstyn [Edna Rae Gillooly] (1932— )
American film actress.

--Benjamin H Burt (1880—1950)

--Nat Burton [1941 song]

--Richard Burton [Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.] (1925—1984)
Welsh stage and motion-picture actor.

--Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821—1890)
English scholar-explorer and Orientalist.
_The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi_. or. “Lay of the Higher Law” [1880]

--Robert Burton (1577—1640)
English scholar, cleric, and author.
_The Anatomy of Melacholy_ [1621-1651]

--J. B. [John Bagnell] Bury (1861—1927)
American historian, classical scholar, and philologist.

--Leo [Felice Leonardo] Buscaglia (1925—1998)
American professor and author of inspirational books.

--Barbara Bush (1925— )
Wife of American the 41st U.S.president, George H.W. Bush
and mother of the 43rd president, Geowge W. Bush.

--George H. W. Bush (1924— )
American Republican statesman and President [1989-1993].

--George W. Bush (1946— )
The 43rd President of the United States
and a former Governor of Texas.

--Laura Bush (1946— )
Wife of the forty-third President of the United States George W. Bush.

--Vannevar Bush (1890—1974) [1971 letter]
American electrical engineer and administrator
who oversaw government mobilization of
scientific research during World War II.

--Horace Bushnell (1802—1876)
American theologian.

--Henry Busse (1894—1955)
German-borm lyricist and bandleader.

--Roger Bussy-Rabutin (1618—1693)
French soldier and poet.

--Nicholas Murray Butler (1862—1947)
President of Columbia University.

--Samuel Butler (1612—1680)
English poet and satirist.
"Hudibras" [1663]

--Samuel Butler (1835—1902)
English novelist, essayist, and critic.
_Erewhon, Or: Over the Range_ [1872]
_The Way of All Flesh_ [1903]
_The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_, ed. Henry Festing Jones [1907]

--William Butler (1535—1618)
_Dyet's Dry Dinner_ [1599]

--William Allen Butler (1825—1902)
Lawyer and author.

--Herbert Butterfield (1900—1979)
British historian and religious thinker.
_Christianity, Diplomacy and War_ [1953]

--Charles Buxton (1823—1871)
English author.

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--Robert Byrd (1917— )
American politician.

--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_ [1812—1818]
_Don Juan_ [1818—1824]
_Sardanapalus_ [1821]
_Detached Thoughts_ [1821—1822]
_Werner_ [1822]
_The Deformed Transformed_ [1824]


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