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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

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Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848), English novelist and poet best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847).
 
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Duane Barry, the episode title character in The X Files (the fifth episode of the second season). A violent patient in a mental institution, once abducted by aliens.
 
  (Others I thought of: David Bowie, Donald Barthelme, David Brin)
PS. Oops, another DB posting while I was working on mine... But I have a nice EB already on my mind, just a second.


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Dieuwertje Blok (b. 1957)

Dutch TV presenter and actress
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Chico Buarque (born 1944).
Brazilian composer, singer, writer, poet and political activist.
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Big Bill Broonzy (1893-1958)

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I'll skip XA, YA and ZA. We have the first round finished, now B's! 
 
Arthur Brown (1942 - ), English rock singer. Had a smash hit 'Fire' in 1968.
 
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Wim Aantjes (1923-2015)

Dutch politician
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Vincent Auriol (1884 - 1966).
French president from 1947 to 1954.
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Urbanus van Anus (b. 1949)

Urbain Servranckx, Belgian comedian, singer and comic book writer.
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Theodor Adorno (1903 – 1969), German philosopher, sociologist and composer.
 
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Salvador Allende (1908 - 1973).
Chilean politician. President 1970-1973.

 
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Internet knew this, not me. I just wrote Quentin A on the google search: Quentin Alexander, young American singer who came to attention from American Idol in 2015. (But that's cheating! Next!)
Roger Ackroyd, the title character in Agatha Christie's mystery novel starring Hercule Poirot (1926).
        (As a young reader I was fascinated by this Finnish cover.)
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Pedro Almodóvar (b. 1949).
Spanish film director and producer.
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Outi Alanen (b. 1967), Finnish actor (films, TV-serials, theatre, voice acting).
 
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Neil Armstrong (1930 - 2012).
First man on Moon.
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Marian Anderson (1897 – 1993), African-American contralto, one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century.
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Laura Antonelli (1941 - 2015).
Italian actress.
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Yes it was!    Yet another prog musician:
Kevin Ayers (1944 – 2013), English singer-songwriter associated to the Canterbury scene, one of the founders of Soft Machine. 
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And his one might be even easier to guess:
 
Jon Anderson (b. 1944)
 
English singer and songwriter: former lead vocalist of Yes and one of the archetypical vocalists of progressive rock
 
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