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Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) - mathematician (1) Baekelmans, Lode (1879-1965) - author, man of letters (1) Bahr, Hermann (1863-1934) - author, critic (2) Bahr-Mildenburg, Anna von (1872-1947) - soprano (2) Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851) - poet, playwright, religious writer (1) Baily, Edward Hodges (1788-1867) - sculptor Baker, Thomas (1809-1864) - painter (1) Ballantine, Robert Michael (1825-1894) - author (1) Ballard, Edward (1820-1897) - physician, sanitarian (1) Ballasko, Viktoria von (1909-1976) - actor (9) Balser, Ewald (1898-1978) - actor, director (2) Baltazzi, Alexander (1850-1914) - sportsman, running rider Baltazzi, Helena, Baroness Vetsera (1847-1925) - nobleman (2) Baluschek, Hans (1870-1935) - painter, graphical artist (1) Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) - writer (1) Bancroft, Anne (1931-2005) - actor (1) Bancroft, Squire (1841-1926) - actor (1) Bandera, Stepan (1909-1959) - rebel leader (1) Barabás, Miklos (1810-1898) - painter (1) Barbirolli, John (1899-1970) - conductor, cellist (2) Barbusse, Henri (1873-1935) - writer (1) Barnay, Ludwig (1842-1924) - theatre manager, actor (2) Bärndorf, Auguste von (1823-1911) - actor (1) Barney, Natalie Clifford (1876-1972) - writer, poet (1) Baron, Charles (1836-1915) - architect (1) Barrie, Wendy (1912-1978) - actor (1) Barrington, Michael (1925-1988) - actor (1) Bartet, Julia (1854-1941) - actor (1) Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste (1834-1904) - sculptor, painter (2) Bartók, Béla (1881-1945) - composer, pianist (1) Barye, Antoine Louis (1795-1875) - sculptor (1) Bashkirtseff, Maria (1858-1884) - painter, diarist (5) Basquiat, Jean Michel (1960-1988) - painter (1) Basté, Charlotte (1867-1928) - actor (1) Batthyány, Lajos, Count (1806-1849) - statesman (1) Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867) - poet, critic (1) Baur, Hans (1897-1993) - pilot (1) Bazaine, François Achille (1811-1888) - marshal (1) Beadnell, Maria (1810-1886) - (1) Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872-1898) - graphical artist (2) Beauharnais, Émilie Louise de (1781-1855) - nobleman (1) Beauharnais, Eugène Rose de, Duke of Leuchtenberg (1781-1824) - nobleman, officer (1) Beauharnais, Hortense de (1783-1837) - nobleman (2) Beauharnais, Joséphine de (1763-1814) - royal consort (7) Bebel, August (1840-1913) - politician (1) (11 May 2013) Becher, Johannes Robert (1891-1958) - essayist, playwright, novelist (1) Becker-Neumann, Christiane (1778-1797) - actor (1) Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) - playwright, poet (1) Beckford, William (1760-1844) - writer, connoisseur, collector (12 May 2013) Beckmann, Wilhelm (1852-1942) - painter (1) Bédoyère, Charles, Comte de la (1786-1815) - general (1) Beecher Stowe, Harriet (1811-1896) - writer Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887) - priest (1) Beerbohm Tree, Herbert (1853-1917) - theatre manager, actor (1) Beers, Jan van (1821-1888) - poet (1) Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) - composer (5) Beethoven, Maria Magdalena (1746-1787) - (1) Behrisch, Ernst Wolfgang (1738-1809) - civil servant (1) Beinhorn, Elly (1907-2007) - pilot (1) Bell, Henry Thomas Mackenzie (1856-1930) - poet, literary critic (1) Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835) - composer (1) Benn, Gottfried (1886-1956) - poet, writer, physician (1) Bennewitz von Loefen, Karl Wilhelm Leopold (1826-1895) - painter (1) Benoit, Peter (1834-1901) - composer (1) Berber, Felix (1871-1930) - violinist (1) (20 May 2013) Berény, Robert (1887-1953) - painter (1) Berg, Alban (1885-1935) - composer (1) Berghaus, Ruth (1927-1996) - musical director, theatre manager, dancer (1) Bergner, Elisabeth (1897-1986) - actor (14) (18 May 2013) Berlau-Lund, Ruth (1906-1974) - writer, actor, photographer (1) Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Henri (1737-1814) - writer, botanist (1) Bernstein, Elsa (1866-1949) - playwright, actor (1) Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990) - composer, conductor, pianist (2) Besant, Walter (1836-1901) - novelist, social reformer (1) Bessel, Ehmi (1904-1988) - actor (1) Bestall, Alfred Edmeades (1892-1986) - author, illustrator (1) Bethmann-Unzelmann, Friederike Auguste (1760-1815) - actor, singer (1) Bettelheim-Gabillon, Helene (1857-1946) - author (1) Bibesco, Anna, Comtesse de Noailles (1876-1933) - poet, novelist (1) Biebl von Klippstein-Sporrer, Elisabeth (1915-1989) - actor, singer (1) Biebrach, Rudolf (1866-1938) - director, actor (1) Bierbaum, Otto Julius (1865-1910) - writer, poet (1) Bildt, Paul (1885-1957) - actor (1) Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte (1799-1868) - actor, playwright (1) Birgel, Willy (1891-1973) - actor (2) Bittins, Alfred (1909-1970) - film producer (1) Bizet, Georges (1838-1875) - composer (1) Blacher, Boris (1903-1975) - composer (1) Black, Clementina (1854-1922) - novelist, suffragette (1) Blaha, Lujza (1850-1926) - actor, opera singer (1) Blechen, Karl (1798-1840) - painter (1) Bleibtreu, Hedwig (1868-1958) - actor (1) Blériot, Louis (1872-1936) - aviation pioneer (1) Blessington, Margaret Gardiner, countess of (1789-1849) - writer, society personality Bligh, William (1754-1817) - seafarer (1) Blind, Karl (1826-1907) - author, political agitator (1) Blish, James Benjamin (1921-1975) - writer (1) Bloch-Bauer, Adele (1881-1925) - salonière (2) Blondin, Charles (1824-1897) - acrobat (1) Blum, Karl Ludwig (1796-1869) - geographer, statistician (1) Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840-1922) - poet Blunt-Lytton, Judith Anne Dorothea, Baroness (1873-1957) - nobleman Böcklin, Arnold (1827-1901) - painter (16) Böcklin, Hans (1863-1943) - painter (1) Bodenmüller, Friedrich (1845-1913) - painter (1) Bohnke, Emil (1888-1928) - composer, conductor (1) Boieldieu, François-Adrien (1775-1834) - composer (1) Boinville, Cornelia (1795-1874) - Boisserée, Sulpice (1783-1854) - art historian (1) Boller, Carlo (1896-1952) - composer, violinist (1) Bonaparte, Jérôme (1784-1860) - monarch (1) Bonaparte, Joseph (1768-1844) - nobleman (3) Bonaparte, Pierre Napoleon (1815-1881) - nobleman (1) Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) - painter (1) Bonnefond, Jean-Claude (1796-1860) - painter (1) Bonnemains, Marguerite, Vicomtesse de (1855-1891) - nobleman (2) Bonvin, François (1817-1887) - painter (1) Borchert, Wolfgang (1921-1947) - writer, poet (1) Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986) - short story writer, poet, critic, essayist (1) Börne, Ludwig (1786-1837) - writer (1) Borst, Max (1869-1946) - pathologist (1) Bossan, Pierre-Marie (1814-1888) - architect (1) Boucicault, Dion (1822-1890) - actor, playwright (2) Bouguereau, William (1825-1905) - painter (1) Boulanger, George Ernest Jean Marie (1837-1891) - officer, statesman (2) Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918) - composer (1) Boulanger, Nadia (1887-1979) - conductor, music teacher (1) Bounine, Ivan Aleksejevitsj (1870-1953) - novelist, poet (1) Bourdelle, Antoine (1861-1929) - sculptor (1) Bourgeois, Louise (1911-2010) - sculptor, painter (1) Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1835-1915) - novelist (1) Brady, Alice (1892-1939) - actor (2) Braekeleer, Henri de (1840-1888) - painter (1) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) - composer, conductor (2) Brancusi, Constantin (1876-1957) - sculptor (1) Brandt, Carl (1828-1881) - stage technician (1) (11 May 2013) Brandt, Marianne (1842-1921) - opera singer, vocal teacher (1) Brassaï (1899-1984) - photographer, journalist (1) Brausewetter, Hans (1899-1945) - actor (1) Brecht, Bertolt (1898-1956) - playwright, theatre director, poet (1) Breton, André (1896-1966) - poet, writer (1) Breval, Lucienne (1869-1935) - opera singer (1) Breyer, Gyula (1893-1921) - chess-player (1) Brieux, Eugène (1858-1932) - playwright, journalist (1) Britting, Georg (1891-1964) - poet (1) Brosig, Egon (1889-1961) - actor, singer (1) Brougham and Vaux, Henry Peter, 1st Baron (1778-1868) - statesman, writer (2) Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Lord (1786-1869) - statesman (1) Browning, Elizabeth (1806-1861) - poet (3) Brugsch-Pascha, Heinrich Karl (1827-1894) - egyptologist (1) Brühl, Heidi (1942-1991) - actor, singer (2) Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859) - shipbuilder, engineer (1) Brunel, Marc Isambard (1769-1849) - engineer (1) Bruno, Adrien François de (1771-1861) - general (1) Bubat, Eva (1914-2002) - actor (1) Buchholz, Erich (1891-1972) - painter (1) Bülow, Daniela von (1860-1940) - costume designer (1) Bülow, Hans von (1830-1894) - pianist, composer, conductor (1) Bülow, Marie von (1857-1941) - actor (1) Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm (1811-1899) - chemist (1) Bunyan, John (1628-1688) - preacher, writer (1) Burg, Hansi (1898-1975) - actor (1) Burgmüller, Norbert (1810-1836) - composer (1) Burne-Jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898) - painter, graphical artist (17) Burton, Decimus (1800-1881) - architect, garden designer (1) Burton, Richard (1821-1890) - researcher, explorer (2) Busken Huet, Conrad (1826-1886) - theologian, literary critic, writer (1) Buys Ballot, Christophorus Henricus Didericus (1817-1890) - chemist, physicist, meteorologist (2) Byk, Maria (1904-1949) - actor (1) Byron, Allegra (1817-1822) - Byron, Augusta Ada, Lady Lovelace (1815-1852) - nobleman, mathematician (1) Byron, Augusta Mary (1784-1851) - nobleman Byron, George Noel Gordon (1788-1824) - poet (17) (173 entries) |