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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Baudelaire, Charles Pierre (French poet & critic)
Baudouin I (Belgian king)
Baum, Lyman Frank (American writer & dramatist)
Baumé, Antoine (French pharmacist)
Bayard, Seigneur de (French military leader)
Bayle, Pierre (French philosopher)
Baylor, Elgin (American basketball player)
Beach, Alfred Ely (American editor and inventor)
Beach, Amy Marcey Cheney (American musician)
Beach, Moses Yale (American writer)
Beach, Sylvia Woodbridge (American bookseller)
Beadle, George Wells (American geneticist)
Bean, Roy (American jurist)
Beard, Charles Austin (American historian)
Beard, Daniel Carter (American artist, writer & reformer)
Beard, James Andrew (American non-fiction writer)
Beard, Mary Ritter (American historian and feminist)
Bearden, Romare Howard (American artist)
Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (English artist & writer)
Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy (English dramatist, photographer, writer & painter)
Beatrix (Dutch queen)
Beauharnais, Alexandre de (French military leader)
Beauharnais, Eugène de (French military leader)
Beauharnais, Josephine de (French empress)
Beaumont, Francis (English dramatist)
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant (American military leader)
Beauvoir, Simone de (French writer)
Beaverbrook, First Baron (English financier, statesman/stateswoman & businessman/businesswoman)
Becket, Thomas à, Saint (English theologian)
Beckmann, Max (German painter)
Becquerel (French physicists)
Bede (English theologian & historian)
Bednorz, J(ohannes) Georg (German physicist)
Beebe, (Charles) William (American explorer, writer & zoologist)
Beecham, Thomas, Sir (English musician)
Beecher, Lyman (American theologian)
Beerbohm, Henry Maximilian, Sir (English writer & artist)
Begin, Menachem (Prime Minister of Israel)
Behan, Brendan Francis (Irish dramatist)
Behrman, S(amuel) N(athaniel) (American dramatist)
Belasco, David (American dramatist)
Belisarius (Byzantine military leader)
Bell, James Thomas (American baseball player)
Bellamy, Edward (American writer)