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Bill Conti

composerBorn: 4/13/1942Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island An incredibly prolific composer, he first earned critical acclaim for scoring Vittorio de Sica's Oscar-winning The Garden of the Finzi-…

Bille Burke

(Mary William Ethelbert Appleton)actressBorn: 8/7/1885Birthplace: Washington, D.C. The daughter of a singing clown in the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Burke began acting at a young age and starred…

Bill Lewis

Born: Nov. 30, 1868Football college star at Amherst College and then Harvard; first Black player to be selected as an All-American (1892-93); also the first Black man admitted to the American Bar…

Bill Graham

(Wolfgang Grajonca)rock music promoter/managerBorn: 1931Birthplace: Berlin, Germany After fleeing Nazi Germany with his parents and serving in the U.S. Army in Korea, he settled in San Francisco…

Horace Billings PACKER, Congress, PA (1851-1940)

PACKER, Horace Billings, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pa., on October 11, 1851; attended the common schools, the Wellsboro Academy, and Alfred (N.Y.)…

Bill Green LOWREY, Congress, MS (1862-1947)

LOWREY, Bill Green, a Representative from Mississippi; born in Kossuth, Alcorn County, Miss., May 25, 1862; attended the public schools and Blue Mountain Academy, Blue Mountain, Miss.; was…