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Vincent Auriol (1884 - 1966).
French president from 1947 to 1954.  |
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Posted: December 11 2017 at 03:54 |
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Wim Aantjes (1923-2015)
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Posted: December 11 2017 at 04:24 |
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I'll skip XA, YA and ZA. We have the first round finished, now B's!  |
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Posted: December 11 2017 at 04:58 |
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Big Bill Broonzy (1893-1958)
Lee Conley Bradley, American blues singer  Edited by someone_else - December 11 2017 at 04:59 |
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Posted: December 11 2017 at 10:27 |
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Chico Buarque (born 1944).
Brazilian composer, singer, writer, poet and political activist.  |
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Posted: December 12 2017 at 03:17 |
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Dieuwertje Blok (b. 1957)
Dutch TV presenter and actress  |
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Posted: December 12 2017 at 03:34 |
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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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Posted: December 12 2017 at 03:40 |
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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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Posted: December 12 2017 at 04:53 |
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
English philosopher, statesman etc.  |
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Posted: December 12 2017 at 12:24 |
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Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875).
French romantic era composer: Carmen.  |
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Posted: December 12 2017 at 14:25 |
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Herman Brood (1946-2001)
Dutch musician and painter. Rock 'n roll junkie.  Edited by someone_else - December 13 2017 at 03:12 |
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Posted: December 13 2017 at 00:42 |
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Irving Berlin (1888 – 1989), American composer. One of the icons of 'The Great American Songbook'.
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Posted: December 13 2017 at 06:35 |
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
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Posted: December 13 2017 at 06:42 |
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Karl Benz (1844 - 1929)
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Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982)
Ukrainian leader of the Soviet Union 1964-1982  |
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Posted: December 13 2017 at 09:29 |
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A lot of M.B. people... but I'll go with:
Monica Bellucci (born 1964). Italian actress and fashion model.  Edited by Atkingani - December 13 2017 at 09:32 |
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Posted: December 13 2017 at 19:26 |
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Neil Bartlett
Chemist famous for creating the first noble gas compound.  |
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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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Posted: December 14 2017 at 03:24 |
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Paul Bunyan.
A character of North America folklore.  N.B.: Glad to find a fictional character using the initials.
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Posted: December 14 2017 at 03:38 |
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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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