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Webster's American Biographies

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Edited by Charles Van Doren, 1974. Contains 3082 entries.

People in this reference:1894
Those presently living:62
Those deceased:1832
  
White:1770
Black:87
American Aborigine:14
Hispanic:10
Multiracial:8
Asian:3
Asian/Indian:1
Middle Eastern:1
  
United States:1823
England:26
Germany:6
Spain:6
Canada:6
Italy:6
Austria:4
(not specified):2
France:2
Hungary:2
Ireland:2
Iceland:2
Scotland:1
Netherlands:1
Jamaica:1
Greece:1
Monaco:1
Poland:1
Russia:1
      Hank Aaron
      Cleveland Abbe
      Edwin Abbey
      Grace Abbott
      Robert S. Abbott
      Arunah Shepherdson Abell
      Dean Acheson
      Abigail Adams
      Ansel Adams
      Brooks Adams
      Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
      Charles Francis Adams
      Franklin Pierce Adams
      Henry Adams
      Herbert Baxter Adams
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(1864 names omitted for brevity)
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      Elinor Wylie
      Ed Wynn
      Linus Yale, Jr.
      Chen Ning Yang
      Frank Yerby
      Alvin York
      Brigham Young
      Chic Young
      Cy Young
      Cole Younger
      Babe Zaharias
      Darryl F. Zanuck
      Florenz Ziegfeld
      Hans Zinsser
      Vladimir Zworykin



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