) She has since turned to Bellini, whose opera `` Beatrice Di Tenda '' in a concert version with the American Opera Society introduced her to New York last season.

* 1914 – Beatrice Straight, American actress ( d. 2001 )

* 2001 – Beatrice Straight, American actress ( b. 1914 )

** Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist ( b. 1893 )

** Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist ( d. 1998 )

While most of the artistic community gathered here were struggling to eke out an existence, well-heeled American socialites such as Peggy Guggenheim, and Edith Wharton from New York City, Harry Crosby from Boston and Beatrice Wood from San Francisco were caught in the fever of creativity.

Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop ( August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984 ) was an American dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome.

Beatrice Wood ( March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998 ) was an American artist and studio potter, who late in life was dubbed the " Mama of Dada ," and served as a partial inspiration for the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's 1997 film, Titanic.

Among the other roles she essayed on this and six subsequent American tours with Irving were Jeanette, Ophelia, Beatrice, Viola, and her most famous role, Portia.

* Directions in Gender Research in American Indian Societies: Two Spirits and Other Categories by Beatrice Medicine

Beatrice " Bebe " Neuwirth (; born December 31, 1958 ) is an American actress, musician and dancer.

* 12 March – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist ( b. 1893 )

** Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist ( d. 1998 )

In 1996, Wolszczan was awarded the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize by the American Astronomical Society, and in 2002, he was pictured on a Polish postage stamp.

* Beatrice Gormley, American children's writer

* Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize of the American Astronomical Society ( 1987 ).

* David Joyce ( 1825 – 1904 ), American lumber baron and industrialist whose daughter, Beatrice Joyce Kean, established the Joyce Foundation

Jessica Fletcher ( born Jessica Beatrice MacGill, and writes under the initialed J. B. Fletcher ) is a fictional character portrayed by veteran Tony-winning actress Angela Lansbury on the American television series Murder, She Wrote.

The Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize is awarded every other year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of an outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics of an exceptionally creative or innovative character.

In 1986 the American Astronomical Society established the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize, which recognizes " an outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics, of an exceptionally creative or innovative character.

It moved heavily into the frozen food business and the packaged meat industry, and then picked up a selection of other brands from firms like RJR Nabisco and Beatrice Foods among others, as the leveraged buyouts of the 1980s resulted in the divestiture or breakup of many major American consumer product firms.

* Béatrice Launer, a New York – born, Jewish – American violinist ( aka Beatrice Launer-Dassin ; 1913 – 2005 ), a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music.

Beatrice " Bea " Benaderet ( April 4, 1906 – October 13, 1968 ) was an American actress born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California.

* Beatrice Prentice ( 20th century ), American stage actress

* 2005 – Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and educator ( b. 1923 )

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

* 1972 – Matthew Wood, American voice actor and sound editor

* Wood, S. " Diva Drusilla Panthea and the Sisters of Caligula American Journal of Archaeology, Vol.

* 1825 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American Politician ( d. 1891 )

* 1978 – Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker ( b. 1924 )

Dolores Agnes Fuller ( born Dolores Eble ; March 10, 1923 – May 9, 2011 ) was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster.

* 1891 – Grant Wood, American painter ( d. 1942 )

* 1892 – Peggy Wood, American actress ( d. 1978 )

* 1963 – David Wood, American lawyer and environmentalist ( d. 2006 )

* 1941 – Brenton Wood, American singer-songwriter

* 1977 – Kerry Wood, American baseball player

* 1909 – Evelyn Wood, American educator ( d. 1995 )

* 1966 – Andrew Wood, American singer ( Mother Love Bone and Malfunkshun ) ( d. 1990 )

* 1946 – Lana Wood, American actress

* 1916 – John H. Wood, Jr., American jurist ( d. 1979 )

* 1889 – Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher ( d. 1985 )

* 1981 – Jon Wood, American NASCAR driver

* 1924 – Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker ( d. 1978 )

American Impressionist painters noted for this style during this era included, Guy Rose, Robert William Wood, Mary Denil Morgan, John Gamble, and Arthur Hill Gilbert.

Bernard Bailyn and Gordon Wood pioneered the argument that the American founding fathers were more influenced by republicanism than they were by liberalism.

* Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787.

* Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution.

* 1987 – Evan Rachel Wood, American actress