Weizmann, Chaim, 1
Balmain, Pierre
Balsan, Consuelo
Balzac, Honoré de
Bancroft, Sir Squire
Bankhead, Tallulah
Bankhead, William B.
Bankhead, Talullah, 8
Banks, Sarah Sophia
Barber, Robert
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 1
Barbirolli, Sir John
Barentin, M. de
Louis XVIII, 1
Barham, Richard
Barnes, Dr. Albert
Picasso, Pablo, 3
Barnes, Djuna
Barnum, P. T.
Barr, Stringfellow
Barrie, Sir J. M.
Beerbohm, Max, 1
Thomson, Joseph, 1
Barry, George
Eddy, Mary Baker, 1
Barrow, Isaac
Barrows, Sidney Biddle
Barrymore, Ethel
Barrymore, John
Cowl, Jane, 1
Ruth, “Babe,” 9
Barrymore, Lionel
Barrymore, Maurice, 1
Barrymore, Maurice
Bartók, Béla
Barton, Clara
Baruch, Bernard
Barzun, Jacques
Trilling, Lionel, 1
Basie, [William] “Count”
Basire, James
Blake, William, 2
Baum, L. Frank
Baylis, Lilian
Baylor, Elgin
Bazaine, Achille
Aumale, Henry d’, 3
Beach, Sylvia
Harris, Frank, 2
Bean, Roy
Bean, Russell
Jackson, Andrew, 2
Beaton, Sir Cecil
Elizabeth, Queen Mother, 6
Garbo, Greta, 4
Beatty, David
Beatty, Warren
Carter, Jimmy, 3
Beaumont, Francis
Beaverbrook, Baron William M. A.
Luce, Clare Booth, 1
Becket, Thomas à
Henry II, 1
Beckett, Samuel
Joyce, James, 9
Beckford, William
Bee, Barnard
Jackson, “Stonewall,” 1
Beebe, William
Roosevelt, Theodore, 3
Beecham, Thomas
Beecham, Sir Thomas
Edward VII, 7
Hess, Dame Myra, 1
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1
Beecher, Henry Ward
Beerbohm, Sir Max
Archer, William, 1
Drew, John, 1
Harris, Frank, 3
James, Henry, 1
Pater, Walter, 1
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, 2
Beeston, Hugh
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 7
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 9
Begin, Menachem
Behan, Brendan
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell, Joseph
Belloc, Hilaire
Chesterton, G. K., 5
Bellows, George
Belloy, Dormont de
Voltaire, 15
Belmont, Mrs. August
Marquand, J. P., 1
Bembo, Pietro
Benchley, Marjorie
Benchley, Robert, 12
O’Hara, John, 2
Benchley, Robert
O’Hara, John, 2
Benet, William Rose
Morley, Christopher, 1
Ben-Gurion, David
Bennett, Arnold
Shaw, George Bernard, 13
Bennett, James Gordon
Benny, Jack
Burns, George, 2
Bentley, Richard
Barham, Richard, 2
Pope, Alexander, 2
Benton, Thomas Hart
Jackson, Andrew, 5
Beresford, Charles
Edward VII, 1
Berg, Moe
Bergman, Ingrid
Hitchcock, Alfred, 2
Beria, Lavrenti
Berlioz, Hector
Heine, Heinrich, 3
Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste Jules
Bernard, Tristan
Berners, Baron Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bernoulli, Jacques
Bernoulli, Jean
Newton, Sir Isaac, 7
Bernstein, Henri
Bernstein, Leonard
Bernstein, Robert
Berra, Lawrence “Yogi”
Aaron, Henry, 1
Mantle, Mickey, 4
Stengel, Casey, 8
Betterton, Thomas
Cibber, Colley, 1
Betty, William Henry West
Beuno, St.
Bialik, Chaim Nachman
Billingsley, Sherman
Horne, Lena, 1
Bing, Sir Rudolf
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 10
Nilsson, Birgit Marta, 1, 3
Bion
Birstein, Ann
Auden, W. H., 8
Bismarck, Otto von
Arnim, Harry von, 1
Virchow, Rudolf, 1
Bisson, General
Napoleon I, 13
Blacklock, Thomas
Hume, David, 3
Blackwell, Alexander
Blake, Eubie
Blake, William
Constable, John, 2
Blanchard, Laman
Dickens, Charles, 4
Blech, Leo
Blessington, Marguerite
Blomberg, Ron
Blondel, Luisa
Azeglio, Massimo d’, 1
Blume, Judy
Blumenthal, Oskar
Bogart, Humphrey
Bacall, Lauren, 2, 3
Huston, John, 1
Bogdanovich, Peter
Bohr, Niels H. D.
Einstein, Albert, 6
Thomson, Sir George Paget, 1
Boileau, Nicolas
Boldini
Picasso, Pablo, 18
Boleyn, Anne
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John
Bolt, Thomas
Bonham-Carter, Violet
Asquith, Margot, 3
Boniface VIII
Giotto, 1
Bonnemain, Marguerite de
Boulanger, Georges, 1
Bonner, John
Bonneuil, Countess de
Alexander I, 1
Boone, Daniel
Booth, Junius Brutus
Borges, Jorge Luis
Borghese, Princess Marie Pauline
Borromeo, St. Charles
Bosquet, Pierre François Joseph
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne
Boswell, James
Johnson, Samuel, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 24
Wilkes, John, 1
Botticelli, Sandro
Bottomley, Horatio William
Bougainville, Jean-Pierre
Duclos, Charles Pinot, 1
Bougenel, General
Mathilde, Princess, 2
Bouguereau
Monet, Claude, 2
Bouhours, Dominique
Boulanger, Georges Ernest Jean Marie
Boulanger, Nadia
Boulay de la Meurthe, Comte
Napoleon I, 5
Boult, Sir Adrian
Bourbon, Duchesse de
Franklin, Benjamin, 9
Bourrienne, M.
Napoleon I, 6
Bowen, Elizabeth
Wells, H. G., 3
Bowen, Louise de Koven
Bowles, Paul
Bowles, William Lisle
Bowra, C. Maurice
Bradford, John
Bradlee, Toni
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 9
Bradley, Henry
Brady, William A.
Brager, Bobby
Rickey, Branch, 1
Brahe, Tycho
Brahms, Johannes
Braithwaite, Dame Lilian
Branca, Ralph
Thom
son, Robert, 1
Brancusi, Constantin
Joyce, John, 2
Brandeis, Louis
Brando, Marlon
Graziano, Rocky, 1
Reynolds, Burt, 3
Brandt, Willy
Brantley, John
Washington, George, 4
Braque, Georges
Brendel, Alfred
Briand, Aristide
Bridger, Jim
Bright, John
Disraeli, Benjamin, 8
Bright, R. Goulding
Shaw, George Bernard, 3
Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme
Brin, Admiral
William II, 1
Brisbane, Arthur
Hearst, William Randolph, 3
Britannicus
Nero, 1
Britten, Benjamin
McCullers, Carson, 3
Broccoli, Albert
Reynolds, Burt, 1
Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins
Brodie, Steve
Brodie, William
Bromfield, Louis
Goldwyn, Samuel, 13
Brontë, Charlotte
Brooke, Alan
Montgomery, Bernard Law, 2
Brookfield, Charles Hallam Elton
Brooks, Philip
Brougham, Henry Peter
Cunard, Emerald, 2
Brougham, Lady
Edward VII, 6
Broun, Heywood Campbell
Marx, Chico, 1
Brown, Charles Armitage
Keats, John, 1, 2
Brown, Charles Brockden
Brown, Gates
Brown, John Mason
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert, 3
Browning, Robert
Browning, Elizabeth, 1, 2
Jerrold, Douglas, 1
Bruce, James
Brummell, George Bryan
Brunet, George
Bruno, Giordano
Brutus, Marcus Junius
Caesar, Julius, 9
Bryan, Bear
Namath, Joe, 1
Bryan, William Jennings
Buchanan, James
Buchwald, Art
Reagan, Ronald, 8
Buck, Jack
Berra, Yogi, 5
Buckingham, George Villiers
Buckland, William
Buckley, William F.
Buddha, Gautama
Budé, Guillaume
Budge, J. Donald
Buffalmacco, Buonamico
Buffon, Georges
Jefferson, Thomas, 4
Bull, John
Bull, Steve
Nixon, Richard M., 9
Buller, Sir Redvers Henry
Bülow, Hans Guido von
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm
Buñuel, Luis
Burbage, Richard
Shakespeare, William 1
Burdett, Sir Francis
Russell, John, 1
Burdett-Coutts, Baroness
Victoria, 13
Burghley, Lord
Spenser, Edmund, 1
Burke, Edmund
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 9
Burnett, Carol
Burns, George
Burr, Aaron
Burton, Richard
Lawson, Wilfrid, 1
Burton, Sir Richard
Busby, Richard
Busch, Fritz
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George
Butler, Benjamin Franklin
Butler, Henry Montagu
Butler, Samuel
Buzzell, Charles
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1
Byng, John
Byrd, William
Byron, Lord George Gordon
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1
Cabell, James Branch
Cadbury, George
Caen, Herbert Eugene
Caesar, Gaius Julius
Murray, Sir George, 1
Cagliostro, Alessandro
Cagney, James
Caine, Hall
Calhern, Louis
Chase, Ilka, 1
Calhoun, John C.
Clay, Henry, 5
Caligula, Gaius Caesar
Callas, Maria
Bing, Rudolf, 7, 8
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 3
Cambridge, George W. F. C.
Cambronne, Baron Pierre-Jacques de
Cambyses II
Cyrus II, 1
Camden, William
Stubbs, John, 1
Cameron, Julia Margaret
Cameron, Simon
Dana, Richard Henry, 1
Stevens, Thaddeus, 2
Cameron of Lochiel, Sir Ewan
Campaneris, Bert
Martin, Billy, 1
Campbell, Alan
Parker, Dorothy, 4, 14
Woollcott, Alexander, 2
Campbell, Lady Jeanne
Luce, Clare Booth, 1
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick
Campbell, Thomas
Cane, Facino
Canfield, Cass
Balsan, Consuelo, 1
Canfield, Michael
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 4
Caninius Rebilus
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 2
Canning, George
Cannon, Cornelia James
Canova, Antonio
Borghese, Princess Marie Pauline, 1
Canute, King
Capa, Robert
Capone, Al
Capus, Alfred
Caray, Harry
Cardano, Girolamo
Cardozo, Benjamin
Carême, Marie-Antoine
Carillo, Mary
Carleton, Henry Guy
Carlos I
Carlson, Tom
Nash, Ogden, 1
Carlton, Steve
Carlyle, Thomas
Babbage, Charles, 1
Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2
Fuller, Margaret, 1
Carmarthen, Lord
Foote, Samuel, 5
Carnegie, Andrew
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 6
Carol II
Caroline, Duchesse de Berri
Caroline of Ansbach
Caroline of Brunswick
Caroto, Giovanni Francesco
Carpendale, Charles
Boult, Adrian, 1
Carpenter, Ruly
Schmidt, Mike, 1
Carrington, Dora
Strachey, Lytton, 3
Carroll, James
Carroll, Lewis
Carroll, Madeleine
Hitchcock, Alfred, 7
Carson, Johnny
Mountbatten Louis, 1
Carswell, G. Harrold
Hruska, Roman, 1
Carter, Amy
Carter, Jimmy, 5, 7, 8
Carter, Jimmy
Carson, Johnny, 4
Dole, Robert, 1
Ford, Gerald, 4
Reagan, Nancy, 1
Reagan, Ronald, 7, 11
Carter, Rosalynn
Carter, Jimmy, 1, 6
Carteret, Lady
Swift, Jonathan, 5
Cartland, Barbara
Caruso, Enrico
Chaplin, Charlie, 4
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1
Tetrazzini, Luisa, 1
Carvajal, John de
Ferdinand IV, 1
Carvajal, Peter de
Ferdinand IV, 1
Carver, George Washington
Casals, Pablo
Casanova, Giacomo
Voltaire, 10
Case, Frank
Faulkner, William, 3
Cassatt, Alexander J.
Westinghouse, George, 1
Cassatt, Mary
Casson, Sir Lewis
Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 2
Castel, Jean
Jones, James, 4
Castiglione, Countess Nicchia di
Castlerosse, Lord Valentine Browne
Castracani, Castruccio
Castro, Fidel
Catesby, Robert
Fawkes, Guy, 1
Cather, Willa
Faulkner, William, 4
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine II (the Great)
Alexander I, 1
Diderot, Denis, 1
Cato
Cavalieri, Lina
Chaloner, John, 1
Cavell, Edith Louisa
Cavendish, Henry
Herschel, William, 1
Cazals, F. A.
Verlaine, Paul, 1
Cecil, William
Cerf, Bennett
Dreiser, Theodore, 2
Faulkner, William, 6
O’Hara, John, 4
Stein, Gertrude, 1
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Cetewayo
Cézanne, Paul
Kazan, Elia, 1
Chaffee, Nancy
Kines, Ralph, 1
Chagall, Marc
Korda, Sir Alexander, 5
Chaliapin, Feodor Ivanovich
Chalmers, Thomas
Aubigné, Henri d’, 1
Chaloner, John Armstrong
Chamberlain, Sir Austen
Chamberlain, Joseph
Chamberlain, Wilt
Champmêlé, Marie
Racine, Jean, 1
Chandler, Raymond
Chanel, Coco
Channing, Carol
Gielgud, John, 3
Channon, Henry
Cunard, Emerald, 1
Chapin, Charles
Cobb, Irvin S., 1
Chaplin, Charlie
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1
Chapman, John
Chapman, John Jay
Charlemagne
Charles, Prince
Charles I
Cromwell, Oliver, 4
Denham, John, 1
Jonson, Ben, 1
Milton, John, 2
Charles II
Buckingham, George Villiers, 1
Busby, Richard, 1
Gwyn, Nell, 1, 2
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2
Waller, Edmund, 1
Charles V
Charles X
Charles Francis Joseph
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Charolais, Comte de
Louis XV, 2
Charondas
Chase, Ilka
Chase, Salmon P.
Chastellux, Marquis de
Necker, Suzanne, 1
Chateaubriand, Viscount François Réne de
Chatterton, Thomas
Chauvelin, M. de
Louis XV, 3
Chegodieff, Prince
Yusupov, Feliks, 1
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Cherubini, Maria Luigi
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope
Heidegger, John James, 1
Chesterton, G. K.
Chevalier, Maurice
Susann, Jacqueline, 2
Chiang Kai-shek, Madame
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 2
Chigi, Agostino
Chigi, Fabio
Marie de Médicis, 1
Chilly, Charles-Marie de
Bernhardt, Sarah, 2
Choate, Joseph Hodges
Reed, Thomas Brackett, 1
Cholmondley, Lord
Bottomley, Horatio, 1
Chopin, Frédéric
Christian X
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 3
Christina, Queen
Descartes, René, 1
Churchill, Clementine De
Gaulle, Charles, 1
Churchill, Randolph F. E. S.
Churchill, Winston, 28
Churchill, Lord Randolph H. S.
Churchill, Sir Winston
Acheson, Dean, 2
Astor, Nancy, 1, 6
Ben-Gurion, David, 1
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