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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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