Bjorn Borg Bjorn Borg (1956 ), Swedish tennis player. He won the French Open Championship in 1974, 1975, 1978, and 1979 and is the only man to have won the …
William Booth William Booth (1829-1912), British founder of the Salvation Army. The son of a Nottingham builder, he underwent a religious conversion at 15, first becoming a Methodist and …
Simon Bolivar Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), South American soldier and statesman, who liberated six South American republics from Spain. A descendant of wealthy Spanish colonists in Venezuela, he returned from …
Niels Bohr Niels Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist. Bohr studied in Copenhagen, where he later became professor of physics and director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics. While working in …
Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Bogart full name Humphrey De Forest Bogart (1899-1957), US actor. He is famous for his portrayal of the tough guy in such films as San Quentin …
Boadicea Boadicea, Latin name of Boudicca (61 AD), Queen of the Iceni, a British tribe of East Anglia. Her husband King Prasutagus had allied himself with the Roman invaders, …
Louis Bleriot Louis Bleriot (1872-1936), French aviator, the first man to fly across the English Channel. He conducted experiments with gliders and biplanes and subsequently developed his own powered …
William Blake William Blake (1757-1827), British engraver, painter, and poet. He trained and worked as an engraver, writing poetry in his spare time at first. He later published books …
