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Benedict VI
Pope Benedict VI was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 19 January 973 to his death in 974.
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Benedict VII
Pope Benedict VII was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from October 974 to his death on 10 July 983.
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Dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and dictator who led the Kingdom of Italy as a fascist dictatorship from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943.
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Spanish realist novelist (1843–1920)
Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist and politician.
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American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath active as a physicist, philosopher, statesman and inventor who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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President of the United States, 1889-1893 (1833–1901)
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893.
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British Army officer (1887–1976)
Bernard Montgomery
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence, and the Second World War.
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Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090–1153)
Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist., venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian Order.
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Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
Bertha von Suttner
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner was an Austrian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist.
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