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by Clifton Fadiman


  Burton, Richard, 2

  De Gaulle, Charles, 2

  Grey, Edward, 2

  Lindemann, Frederick Alexander, 1

  Pétain, Philippe, 2

  Stalin, Joseph, 2, 3

  Wavell, Archibald Percival, 1

  Chwolson, Daniel Abramovich

  Cibber, Colley

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius

  Cimabue, Giovanni

  Giotto, 2

  Cimon

  Cinque, Joseph

  Claire, Ina

  Clairmont, Claire

  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1

  Clark, George Rogers

  Clark, Mark

  Clarke, Sir Caspar Purdon

  Morgan, J. P., Sr., 4

  Claudel, Paul

  Gide, André, 1

  Claudius

  Nero, 1

  Clay, Cassius Marcellus, Sr.

  Clay, Henry

  Clemenceau, Georges

  Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 5

  Clemens, James Ross

  Twain, Mark, 13

  Clement VII

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, 2

  Cleopatra

  Cleveland, Frances Folsom

  Cleveland, Grover

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1

  Clinton, William Jefferson

  Dole, Robert, 4

  Clive, Baron Robert

  Clurman, Harold

  Coates, Robert M.

  Ross, Harold, 8

  Cobb, Irvin S.

  Cobb, Ty

  Rose, Pete, 4

  Cochrane, Sir Alexander

  Jackson, Andrew, 3

  Cocteau, Jean

  Chanel, Coco, 1

  Diaghilev, Sergei, 2, 3

  Coghill, Nevill

  Lewis, C. S., 2

  Cohalan, Daniel F.

  Wilson, Woodrow, 4

  Cohan, George M.

  Cohen, Morris Raphael

  Cohn, Harry

  Mankiewicz, Herman J., 1

  Marx, Groucho, 8

  Cohn, Jack

  Cohn, Harry, 2

  Coke, Sir Edward

  Colavito, Rocky

  Colbert, Claudette

  Coward, Noël, 6

  Lang, George, 1

  Cole, Dr. Harry

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  Lamb, Charles, 6

  Colette

  Collins, Joan

  Collins, Michael

  Collins, Wilkie

  Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1

  Colte, Jane

  More, Thomas, 1

  Coltrane, John

  Davis, Miles, 2

  Columbus, Christopher

  Wilde, Oscar, 3

  Compton, Arthur

  Fermi, Enrico, 1

  Comte, Auguste

  Conant, James B.

  Fermi, Enrico, 1

  Condorcet, Marie Antoine de Caritat de

  Confucius

  Congreve, William

  Conn, Billy

  Louis, Joe, 1, 4

  Connelly, Marc

  Connery, Sean

  Reynolds, Burt, 1

  Connolly, Cyril

  Conrad, Barnaby

  Coward, Noël, 9

  Margaret, Princess, 1

  Constable, John

  Constantine (the Great)

  Conti, Prince Louis-Armand de

  Cook, Thomas

  Cooke, Alistair

  Eden, Anthony, 1

  Stevenson, Adlai, 4

  Coolidge, Calvin

  Hoover, Herbert, 1

  Cooper, Lady Diana

  Coward, Noël, 3

  Lowell, Robert, 1

  Cooper, Gary

  Cooper, Dame Gladys

  Coote, Robert, 1

  Cooper, James Fenimore

  Cooper, Sir William

  Coote, Robert

  Cope, Edward Drinker

  Copland, Aaron

  Coppée, François Edouard Joachim

  Coquelin

  Wilde, Oscar, 4

  Corday, Charlotte

  Corelli, Franco

  Nilsson, Birgit Marta, 1

  Corelli, Marie

  Victoria, 10

  Cornelia

  Cornelius Dolabella

  Cleopatra, 1

  Cornett, Leanza

  Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille

  Corrigan, Douglas

  Cortéz, Hernando

  Charles V, 2

  Cosimo III

  Fagiuoli, Giovanni Battista, 1

  Cotten, Elizabeth

  Cottin, Emile

  Clemenceau, Georges, 9

  Courteline, Georges

  Coward, Sir Noël

  Braithwaite, Dame Lilian, 1

  Churchill, Randolph, 1

  Elizabeth, Queen Mother, 4

  Olivier, Laurence, 2

  Ross, Harold, 12

  Cowell, Henry

  Ruggles, Carl, 1

  Cowl, Jane

  Cox, Channing

  Coolidge, Calvin, 4

  Cox, General

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, 2

  Crabbe, George

  Melbourne, William Lamb, 4

  Cramm, Gottfried von

  Budge, J. Donald, 1

  Crane, Stephen

  Cranmer, Thomas

  Crawford, Cheryl

  Clurman, Harold, 1

  Crawford, Joan

  Crenshaw, Benjamin

  Crescendi, Girolamo

  Grassini, Giuseppina, 1

  Crockett, Davy

  Crockford, William

  Croesus

  Croll, James

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Waller, Edmund, 1

  Cromwell, Thomas

  Henry VIII, 2

  Crosby, Bing

  Crosby, Caresse

  Joyce, James, 2

  Crosby, Harry

  Joyce, John, 2

  Crouse, Russel

  O’Neill, Eugene, 2

  Cuccinello, Tony

  Stengel, Casey, 1

  Cukor, George D.

  Culpeper, Thomas

  Howard, Catherine, 1

  Cumberland, Duke of

  Foote, Samuel, 2

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 11

  Cummings, E. E.

  Barnes, Djuna, 1

  Cunard, Lady Emerald

  Maugham, W. Somerset, 2

  Cunard, Nancy

  Castlerosse, Valentine Browne, 1

  Moore, George Augustus, 3

  Cunninghame Graham, Robert Bontine

  Curchod, Suzanne

  Gibbon, Edward, 1

  Curie, Marie

  Curley, James Michael

  Curran, John Philpot

  Roche, Sir Boyle, 2

  Curtiz, Michael

  Cushman, Charlotte

  Cuvier, Baron Georges Léopold

  Cuzzoni, Francesca

  Handel, George Frideric, 3

  Cyrus II

  Czolgosz, Leon

  McKinley, William B., 2

  Dahlgren, J. H., Mrs.

  Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, 1

  Dahn, Felix

  Dale, Valentine

  Elizabeth I, 4

  Dali, Salvador

  Dalton, John

  Dana, Richard Henry

  Daniel, Clifton

  Lillie, Beatrice, 3

  D’Annunzio, Gabriele

  Dante Alighieri

  Giotto, 3

  Vega Carpio, Lope Félix de, 1

  Danton, Georges Jacques

  Darius I

  Alexander III, 6

  Darrow, Clarence

  Darwin, Charles

  Darwin, Emma

  Darwin, Charles, 1

  Darwin, Erasmus

  Daudet, Alphonse

  Daumier, Honoré

  Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille, 1

  D’Auteroches, M.

  Hay, Lord Charles, 1

  Davenant, Sir William

  Davenport, Guy

  Barnes,
Djuna, 2

  David, Sir Edgeworth

  Davies, Lady Eleanor

  Davies, Marion

  Hearst, William Randolph, 4

  Parker, Dorothy, 3

  Davis, Adele

  Davis, Bette

  Warner, Jack, 3

  Davis, Jefferson

  Lincoln, Abraham, 18

  Davis, Miles

  Davis, Sam

  Duse, Eleanora, 1

  Davy, Sir Humphrey

  Dawson, Lord

  Asquith, Margot, 4

  Day, Dorothy

  Auden, W. H., 7

  Dayan, Moshe

  Dean, “Dizzy”

  Dean, Paul

  Dean, “Dizzy,” 1

  De Beauvoir, Roger

  Dumas, Alexandre (fils), 3

  Debs, Eugene V.

  Debussy, Claude

  Bartók, Béla, 1

  Satie, Erik, 1

  Degas, Edgar

  De Gaulle, Charles

  Churchill, Winston, 20

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 19

  Montgomery, Bernard Law, 1

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 4

  Pétain, Philippe, 2

  Stevenson, Adlai, 6

  De la Mare, Walter

  De Lisio, Mike

  Auden, W. H., 2

  Delon, Alain

  Burton, Richard, 1

  Demetrius the Cynic

  Vespasian, 3

  De Mille, Cecil B.

  De Moivre, Abraham

  Demosthenes

  Dempsey, Jack

  Denbish, Earl of

  Fielding, Henry, 2

  Denham, Sir John

  Denis, Marie-Louise

  Dennis, John

  Dent, Julia

  Grant, Ulysses S., 1

  Depew, Chauncey M.

  Choate, Joseph Hodges, 3

  Dern, Laura

  Ladd, Diane, 1

  Descartes, René

  Deschanel, Paul

  Clemenceau, Georges, 4

  De Seversky, Alexander

  Deslion, Anna

  Napoleon, Joseph Charles Paul, 1

  Detourbey, Jeanne

  De Valera, Eamon

  De Valois, Dame Ninette

  De Vercelles, Mme.

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1

  De Vere, Edward

  Elizabeth I, 3

  Devonshire, Duke Spencer

  Dewey, Thomas E.

  Dewey, Mrs. Thomas E., 1

  Gallup, George Horace, 1

  Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 2

  Dewey, Mrs. Thomas E.

  Dewey, Thomas, 1

  De Wolfe, Elsie

  Astor, Mary, 1

  Diaghilev, Sergei

  Bakst, Léon, 1

  Diana, Princess

  Cartland, Barbara, 1

  DiCaprio, Leonardo

  Dickens, Charles

  Andersen, Hans Christian, 2

  Wilde, Oscar, 10

  Dickinson, Angie

  Carson, Johnny, 2

  Dickinson, Charles

  Jackson, Andrew, 1

  Dickinson, Emily

  Coolidge, Calvin, 7

  Diderot, Denis

  Dietrich, Marlene

  Eisenhower, Dwight David, 2

  Di Frasso, Countess

  Cooper, Gary, 2

  Dietz, Howard

  Diller, Barry

  Altman, Robert, 1

  Dillingham, Charles

  Houdini, Harry, 2

  DiMaggio, Joe

  Monroe, Marilyn, 5

  Stengel, Casey, 8

  Diogenes

  Anthisthenes, 2

  Plato, 3

  Dionysius II

  Aristippus, 1, 2

  Dirichlet, Peter

  Disney, Walt

  Disraeli, Benjamin

  Bismarck, Otto von, 7

  Devonshire, Spencer, 1

  Mill, John Stuart, 1

  Divine, Father

  Dix, Dorothea

  Doane, Dr.

  Twain, Mark, 15

  Dodds, E. R.

  Yeats, William Butler, 1

  Doherty, John

  Dole, Elizabeth

  Dole, Robert, 2, 6

  Dole, Robert

  Kennedy, Edward M., 3

  Donat, Robert

  Hitchcock, Alfred, 7

  Donatello

  Donne, John

  Dorset, Earl of

  Dryden, John, 3

  Dos Passos, John

  Faulkner, William, 4

  Doubleday, F. Nelson

  Carnegie, Andrew, 4

  Douglas, Alfred

  Wilde, Oscar, 14

  Douglas, Stephen A.

  Lincoln, Abraham, 9, 10, 12

  Seward, William Henry, 1

  Douglas-Home, William

  Morley, Robert, 1

  Douglass, Frederick

  Douro, Lord

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 13

  Dowson, Ernest

  Wilde, Oscar, 17

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

  Drake, Sir Francis

  Drake, John

  Gates, John Warne, 1

  Dreiser, Theodore

  Drew, John

  Dreyschock, Alexander

  Drigheda, Countess of

  Wycherley, William, 1

  Dryden, John

  Du Barry, Comtesse Marie

  Duchatel, Comte

  Rachel, 4

  Duclos, Charles Pinot

  Du Deffand, Marquise Marie Anne

  Dudley, Earl John W. W.

  Dudley, Lord John

  Metternich, Klemens von, 1

  Rogers, Samuel, 3

  Duff Cooper, Lady Diana

  Lowell, Robert, 1

  Duff Gordon, Lady

  Tennyson, Alfred, 8

  Duke, Vernon

  Dulles, John Foster

  Dumas, Alexandre (père)

  Dumas, Alexandre (fils)

  Bernhardt, Sarah, 7

  Dumas, Alexandre (père), 1

  Dumphries, Countess of

  Taylor, John, 1

  Duncan, David Douglas

  Picasso, Pablo, 16

  Duncan, Isadora

  Shaw, George Bernard, 8

  Dunsany, Baron Edward J. M. D. P.

  Duperre, Admiral

  Mathilde, Princess, 2

  Du Pont, Thomas C.

  Duquesnel, Félix

  Bernhardt, Sarah, 2

  Durocher, Leo

  Duse, Eleanora

  Duval, Claude

  Duveen, Henry

  Morgan, J. P., Sr., 1

  Duveen, Joseph

  Morgan, J. P., Sr., 1

  Dyson, Sir Cyril

  Eakins, Thomas

  Eastwood, Clint

  Eaton, John

  Jackson, Andrew, 4

  Eaton, Peggy

  Jackson, Andrew, 4

  Ebbets, Charles

  Herman, Floyd, 1

  Eckermann, Johann Peter

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 3

  Eddy, Mary Baker

  Eden, Sir Anthony

  Eden, Sir William

  Edison, Charles

  Edison, Thomas Alva, 1

  Edison, Thomas Alva

  Edman, Irwin

  Edward I

  Robert the Bruce, 1

  Edward III

  Edward I, 1

  Edward VI

  Cardano, Girolamo, 1

  Edward VII

  Alexandra, 1

  Carlos I, 1

  George V, 4

  Langtry, Lillie, 1

  Ross, Harold, 12

  Sargent, John Singer, 1

  Victoria, 9

  Edward VIII

  Woollcott, Alexander, 6

  Edwards, Blake

  Sellers, Peter, 2

  Einstein, Albert

  Chaplin, Charlie, 1

  Schweitzer, Albert, 5

  Einstein, Elsa

  Einstein, Albert, 17

  Eisenhower, Dwight Da
vid

  MacArthur, Douglas, 3

  Patton, George S., 2

  Stevenson, Adlai, 2, 4

  Wilson, Charles Erwin, 1

  Eisenhower, Ida

  Eisenhower, Dwight David, 3

  Eisenhower, Jennie

  Nixon, Richard M., 12

  Eldon, Lord

  George III, 3

  Eleanor of Aquitaine

  Hepburn, Katharine, 2

  Eliot, Charles W.

  Eliot, John

  Eliot, T. S.

  Barnes, Djuna, 3

  Elizabeth I

  Bacon, Francis, 2, 3

  Bull, John, 1

  Dale, Valentine, 1

  Drake, Francis, 1

  Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1, 6

  Shakespeare, William, 2

  Spenser, Edmund, 1

  Stubbs, John, 1

  Elizabeth II

  Elizabeth, Queen Mother, 2

  Philip, Prince, 1

  Elizabeth, Queen Mother

  Ellenborough, Baron Edward Law

  Elliot, Hugh

  Ellis, Thomas Flower

  Macauley, Thomas Babington, 5

  Elliston, Robert W.

  Elman, Mischa

  Godowsky, Leopold, 1

  Kreisler, Fritz, 3

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Carlyle, Thomas, 5

  Thoreau, Henry David, 4

  Empedocles

  Enesco, Georges

  Engels, Friedrich

  Enghien, Duc d’

  Napoleon I, 5

  Englund, George

  Collins, Joan, 1

  Epstein, Sir Jacob

  Erasmus, Desiderius

  Eric the Red

  Erne, Lord

  Norbury, John Toler, 3

  Erskine, Baron Thomas

  Erving, Julius

  Esher, Lord

  Alexandra, 1

  Esparbés, Mme. d’

  Louis XV, 1

  Este, Alfonso d’

  Alexander VI, 1

  Este, Borso d’

  Esterházy, Prince

  Haydn, Franz Joseph, 2

  Euclid

  Eugénie, Empress

  Castiglione, Nicchia di, 1

  Euler, Leonhard

  Diderot, Denis, 1

  Euripides

  Evans, Arise

  Charles II, 2

  Evans, Sir Arthur

  Evans, Dame Edith

  Gielgud, John, 1

  Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 3

  Evarts, William M.

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 1

  Everett, Edward

  Ewell, General

  Jackson, “Stonewall,” 3

  Fabian

  Shaw, George Bernard, 22

  Fadiman, Clifton

  Rubinstein, Artur, 1

  Fagiuoli, Giovanni Battista

  Fairbanks, Douglas

  Fallières, Armand

  Faraday, Michael

  Farouk I

  Farquhar, Sir Walter

  Farr, Heather

  Farragut, David G.

  Faulkner, William

  Hemingway, Ernest, 6

  Fauré, Gabriel

  Favras, Marquis Thomas de Mahay

  Fawkes, Guy

  Fehr, Don

  Quisenberry, Dan, 2

  Feller, Bob

  Ferber, Edna

  Coward, Noël, 2

  Ferdinand I (emperor of Austria)

  Ferdinand I (king of Bulgaria)

  Ferdinand IV

  Ferguson, Sarah

  Fergusson, George

  Fermat, Pierre de

  Fermi, Enrico

  Szilard, Leo, 1

  Festing, Michael

  Arne, Thomas, 1

  Fétis, François-Joseph

  Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio, 2

  Feydeau, Georges

  Feynman, Richard

  Field, John

 

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