Born Aikaterini ( Catherine ) Konstantopoulou in Piraeus, Greece, she trained as an opera singer, and appeared in the operatic version of Maeterlinck's " Sister Beatrice ," with a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos, but changed career and joined the Greek Royal Theater in 1929.

The situation changed rapidly in the years 1925 – 1930, when working mathematical foundations were found through the groundbreaking work of Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Pascual Jordan, and the foundational work of John von Neumann, Hermann Weyl and Paul Dirac, and it became possible to unify several different approaches in terms of a fresh set of ideas.

Born into a prosperous ethnic German Jewish family in Arverne, Queens, New York City, Rodgers was the son of Mamie ( Levy ) and Dr. William Abrahams Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Abrahams.

Steven Van Zandt used this time to shine on backing vocals, as his voice changed on performances of the song from the Born To Run Tours to the The River Tour.

However, on October 19, 1984 in the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington, during the Born in the U. S. A. Tour, this suddenly changed ; " Rosalita " was dropped from the show, not to reappear.

Born in 1866, Bloom is the only son of Rudolf Virág ( a Hungarian Jew from Szombathely who emigrated to Ireland, converted from Judaism to Protestantism, changed his name to Rudolph Bloom and later committed suicide ), and of Ellen Higgins, an Irish Protestant.

Born a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Mary was styled Her Highness Princess Mary of York from birth ( this was later changed to Her Royal Highness by Queen Victoria ).

Born Douglas N. Lamy, this actor changed his name to that of his character.

Born in Quasqueton, Iowa and raised in Arkansas, as Larry Blankenburg, he later changed his last name to that of his football idol, Johnny Lujack.

Born John Gerard Smyth, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Smyth, upon joining the Norbertine Roman Catholic religious order in 1945, changed his name to Brendan.

Born Kimberley Tyler Rhodes but called " Happy " since infancy, she legally changed her name to Happy Tyler Rhodes at age 16.

Born in Swabia, Germany as a son of the Wirklicher Hofrat Albrecht Theodor Moll and Johanna Josepha Walpurga Moll née Hefele, he was originally named Johann Albrecht Ulrich Moll, but later changed his name.

Born in Toronto, his name was changed early on from Green to Evans, the name of his stepfather.

On November 25, 1933 Born received a letter from Heisenberg in which he said he had been delayed in writing due to a “ bad conscience ” that he alone had received the Prize “ for work done in Göttingen in collaboration – you, Jordan and I .” Heisenberg went on to say that Born and Jordan ’ s contribution to quantum mechanics cannot be changed by “ a wrong decision from the outside .” In 1954, Heisenberg wrote an article honoring Max Planck for his insight in 1900.

Born on the island he took the name from the actual Historical Society who have since changed their name to Mull Historical and Archaeological Society.

Born as Odenke Abbey to Ghanaian parents, Marcel had his name changed when his mother married the head of the French Consulate in Accra who adopted all the children ( the former professional footballer Seth Adonkor, seven years his elder, was a half-brother of his ).

Born in Los Angeles, California, Gilbert was adopted one day later by actor and comedian Paul Gilbert ( born Ed MacMahon, he changed his name to Paul Gilbert to get a Screen Actors Guild card ) and his wife, dancer and actress Barbara Crane, the daughter of The Honeymooners creator Harry Crane.

Born Jonathan Davis on April 10, 1970 in Harlem, he converted to Islam in the mid-1990s, and changed his name to Kamaal Ibn John Fareed.

Born Ronald Stanley Kashinoff in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his family changed the name to Kass when they moved to California.

Born the son of Captain Martin John Norton RFC and Margery Birnie Norton ( née Hill ), Peter John Norton ( he changed his surname to Hill-Norton in 1931 ) was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Born as Rudolf Maximilian Höll in Selmecbánya, Kingdom of Hungary ( present-day Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia )., but later changed his surname to Hell.

Born as Barbara Berger, but as her surname was so often mispronounced as " burger ", she changed it to " Berjer ", which is how it is pronounced phonetically.

Born Jonas Toresson ( later changed to Alström ) in the town of Alingsås in Västergötland, in 1707 he became a clerk for Stockholm merchant Alberg in London.

Born to Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York, Ross had his last name changed from Rechnitz at the start of the Great Depression, as his father felt the change would help him find work after losing everything.

Born to race car driver Ralph Lee Earnhardt, Earnhardt began his career in 1975 when he drove in the 1975 World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of the Winston Cup Series ( later the Sprint Cup Series ).

Described as the " Maestro's spiritual testament ” by his biographer Tullio Kezich, excerpts culled from the conversations later served as the basis of their feature documentary, Fellini: I'm a Born Liar ( 2002 ) and the book, I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon.

Born in the Bonnevoie neighborhood of Luxembourg City, Gernsback emigrated to the United States in 1905 and later became a naturalized citizen.

Born in Brooklyn, Kushner was educated at Columbia University and later obtained his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary ( JTS ) in 1960.

Born into a middle-class family in Etterbeek, Brussels, he took a keen interest in Scouting in early life, something that would prove highly influential on his later work.

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the only son of Jacob Hackerman and Anna Raffel, immigrants from the Baltic regions of the Russian Empire that later became Estonia and Latvia, respectively.

Born Varius Avitus Bassianus on May 16, 205, known later as M. Aurelius Antonius, he was appointed at an early age to be priest of the sun God, Elagabalus, represented by a phallus, by which name he is known to historians ( his name is sometimes written " Heliogabalus ").

Born in Wales he later went to Australia to hunt aborigines, and eventually came to Mexico, where he used those skills on the Apaches.

It was suggested, in the book Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson, that the Templars went underground among masons in England and later developed into Freemasons.

Born in Chicago, with Jewish origins, he attended schools in New York and later graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge in England.

Oliver Stone, who had seen her in Nuñez's film, cast Judd in Natural Born Killers, but her scenes were later cut from the version of the film released theatrically.

Born in Vipava ( German Wippach ), Slovenia, he was familiar with Slovene, a Slavic language, which became important later on his mission in Russia, when he was able to communicate with ordinary Russians in Russian, another Slavic language.

Born Sándor Fränkel to Baruch Fränkel and Rosa Eibenschütz, both Polish Jews, he later magyarized his surname to Ferenczi.

Born no later than 12 BC and on the basis of his family distinction, Messalina's father could have expected a consulship by 23.

Born Eugene Rubessa () in Christopher, Illinois, he was the only child of Croatian immigrants and graduated from Lindblom Technical High School and later from Knox College.

Born Harold Rubin in New York City, he later claimed to be a Jewish orphan who had been raised in a Catholic boys home.

In 1947, Wise directed the Lawrence Tierney noir classic Born to Kill and two years later directed the boxing movie The Set-Up, where his direction of the real-time setting got him noticed.

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, William Edwards Deming was raised in Polk City, Iowa on his grandfather Henry Coffin Edwards's chicken farm, then later on a farm purchased by his father in Powell, Wyoming.

Born on 28 November 1489, Margaret was baptised two days later on the 30th — St. Andrew's Day — in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.

However, de Born was later highly critical of the Young King, and satirized him in several of his works.

Born in Poissy, to Louis IX ( the later Saint Louis ) and Margaret of Provence, Philip was prior to his accession Count of Orleans.

Born into a cultured bourgeois family, Fassbinder had an unconventional childhood about which he would later express grievances in interviews.

At that time Ron Kovic had recently completed his autobiographical book Born on the Fourth of July which would later become an Oscar-winning motion picture of the same name directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Cruise as Kovic.