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Vincent Auriol (1884 - 1966).
French president from 1947 to 1954.

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Wim Aantjes (1923-2015)

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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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Big Bill Broonzy (1893-1958)

Lee Conley Bradley, American blues singer




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Chico Buarque (born 1944).
Brazilian composer, singer, writer, poet and political activist.

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Dieuwertje Blok (b. 1957)

Dutch TV presenter and actress


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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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Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848), English novelist and poet best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847).
 
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

English philosopher, statesman etc.


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Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875).
French romantic era composer: Carmen.

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Herman Brood (1946-2001)
 
Dutch musician and painter. Rock 'n roll junkie.
 


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Irving Berlin (1888 – 1989), American composer. One of the icons of 'The Great American Songbook'.
 
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

German composer


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Karl Benz (1844 - 1929)
German engineer: Mercedes-Benz.

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Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982)

Ukrainian leader of the Soviet Union 1964-1982


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A lot of M.B. people... but I'll go with:

Monica Bellucci (born 1964).
Italian actress and fashion model.





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Neil Bartlett 

Chemist famous for creating the first noble gas compound.


when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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[O.B. was a tough one... but then I saw this book on a library shelf.]
Olivier Bourdeaut (1980 - ), French writer who debuted with a novel En attendant Bojangles (2016).
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Paul Bunyan.
A character of North America folklore.



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Sir Quentin Blake (1932 - ), English illustrator and children's author, perhaps best known for illustrating books by Roald Dahl.
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