Born at Iesi, Pergolesi studied music there under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others.

Born in Florence, Italy at the Palazzo Pitti on 26 April 1575, Marie was the sixth daughter of Francesco I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Joanna, Archduchess of Austria, daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.

Born in London, de Lara went to Milan in 1874 to study composition with Alberto Mazzucato and singing with Francesco Lamperti at the Milan Conservatory.

Born at Melfi, Basilicata, Francesco Nitti studied law in Naples and was subsequently active as journalist.

Born in Giessen, he studied with Francesco Lamperti in Milan and with the celebrated baritone Jan Krtitel Pisek in Stuttgart.

Born in Italy, Francesco Ioele ( yo-ay-lee ) and his family arrived in America c. 1901.

Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in a consistent manner.

Born Antonino Leonardo Accardo ( also known as Anthony Joseph Accardo ) on Chicago's Near West Side, the son of Francesco Accardo, a shoemaker, and Maria Tillota Accardo.

Born in Florence to stage stars Isabella Andreini and Francesco Andreini, he had a great success as a comedian in Paris under the name of Leylio.

Born in Taranto, he studied music under Francesco Provenzale at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples between 1693 and 1695.

Born at Todi, the son of Francesco d ' Alviano and Isabella degli Atti, Bartolomeo fought very early in his life in Central Italy, serving in the Papal States and, in 1496, the Orsini family against Pope Alexander VI and the Colonna.

Born in Temesvár, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary ( since 1920 Timişoara, Romania ), Francesco later came to Trieste during World War I as an officer in the army.

Born at Vienna, he was the son of a minor Baroque painter from Trentino, and the elder brother of the more famous Francesco Guardi.

Born in Venice, Tiepolo was the youngest of six children born to Orsetta, Tiepolo's mother and his father, Domenico Tiepolo, a sea captain.

Born in Erfurt near Eisenach ( probably in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Domenico Scarlatti ), Pachelbel studied with his father.

Born in Rome to a little-known painter, Pietro Fetti, Domenico is said to have apprenticed initially under Ludovico Cigoli, or his pupil Andrea Commodi in Rome from circa 1604 – 1613.

Born in Capolago, Ticino ( an Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland ), Maderno began his career in the marble quarries of the far north, before moving to Rome in 1588 with four of his brothers to assist his uncle Domenico Fontana.

Born in Terni in Umbria — a region of Italy at that time part of the Papal States — he studied in Perugia then moved to Rome where he served as secretary of cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, nephew of pope Clement VIII.

Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the dignity of Cardinal-Priest of Sant ' Eusebio, in 1629.

Born to Isabel Ercoli and Giulio Frondizi, Italian Argentine immigrants from the Umbria Region, Arturo had ten brothers, including Silvio, who became a lawyer and was assassinated in 1974 by the Triple A, and Risieri, who became a philosopher and rector of the University of Buenos Aires ( UBA ).

Born to an Italian father and an English mother, Sgambati, who lost his father early, received his early education at Trevi, in Umbria, where he wrote some church music and obtained experience as a singer and conductor.

Born in Usigni in Umbria, as a young man he went to Rome and was soon noticed by Maffeo Barberini, a cleric of the Apostolic Chamber and a fellow Umbrian from nearby Spoleto, soon to become Pope under the name of Urban VIII.

Born in the city of Málaga in the Andalusian region of Spain, he was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco ( 1838 – 1913 ) and María Picasso y López.

Born in Rome in the region of the Via Lata, Valentine was the son of a Roman noble called Leontius.

Born in 1870 in Brünn ( Brno ) in the Moravia region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an ethnically German family, Loos was nine when his father, a stonemason, died.

Born in Colmar, in the Alsace region of France to Jean Charles Bartholdi ( 1791 – 1836 ) and Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi Beysser ( 1801 – 1891 ), Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of only two to survive infancy, along with the oldest brother, Jean-Charles, who became a lawyer and editor.

Born in Bodenwerder, Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the Baron ( in German: Freiherr ) was an offspring of a highly renowned aristocratic family of the Hanover region whose members owned numerous estates there, being, at the time, subjects and courtiers of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain.

Born Gaston Emile Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Haute-Normandie region of France, he came from a prosperous and artistically inclined family.

Born as Natsume Kinnosuke in the town of Babashita in the Edo region of Ushigome ( present Kikui, Shinjuku ), Natsume began his life as an unwanted child, born to his mother late in her life, forty years old and his father then fifty-three.

Born in Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt in the Middle Rhein region, it is believed that Memling served his apprenticeship at Mainz or Cologne, and later worked in the Netherlands under Rogier van der Weyden ( c. 1455 – 1460 ).

Born in Locarno, Switzerland to a German father with Belgian roots from Aachen and an Italian mother from the Calabria region, Neuville started his professional career with Servette FC.

Born in the Kham region of Tibet in February 1939, Chögyam Trungpa was eleventh in the line of Trungpa tülkus, important figures in the Kagyu lineage, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

Born in southwestern Germany, in the region of the Swabian alps, Messerschmidt grew up in the Munich home of his uncle, the sculptor Johann Baptist Straub, who became his first master.

Born in the Lorraine region, Platini is the son of Aldo, also born in Lorraine, of Italian immigrants arrived in France shortly after the end of the first World War.

Born in Kampos Avias located in the Messenian side of the Mani Peninsula, he was the son of Spirìdonas-Galànis Koumoundoùros who was the Bey of the area during the last period of the administration of the region by the Ottoman Empire.

Born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy, the son of an industrial chemist, as a child Giacomo Balla studied music.

Born in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina to a free mother and enslaved father, David Walker witnessed the cruelty of whites oppressing those with darker skin color in his home state.

Born in Hausneindorf, a small village in the region of the Harz Mountains, Julius Reubke was the eldest son of organ and piano builder Adolf Reubke ( 1805-1875 ).

Born to a farmer, Aleksandar Stamboliyski spent his childhood in the Bulgarian village of Slavovitsa, the same village where he would later gather several thousand insurrectionists from the region and advance against the town of Pazardzhik.

Born in Conewango Valley, New York, he made his name driving stock cars in the region.

Born in Offida, in the Marche region, she holds a degree in Foreign Languages with a dissertation on Contemporary American Literature, honed her writing skills as a translator and currently teaches English Language and Literature in the University of Milan, Milan.

Born in Vienna ( at the time, the capital of the Austrian Empire ) as the son of Vincenţiu Babeş, an ethnic Romanian from the Banat region, he studied in Budapest, then in Vienna, where he received his doctorate in Science.

Born in Edinburgh, McLetchie became leader of the Scottish Conservatives upon the creation of the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, and was the MSP for the Lothians electoral region ( 1999-2003 ).

Born in Amos, in the Abitibi region of Quebec, Caouette was converted to the social credit philosophy in 1939.

Born at Le Pin-en-Mauges, in the lands now forming the département of Maine-et-Loire, he became well known in Anjou, a region over which he travelled as a peddler and alleged dealer in contraband goods.

Born in a small Banat region village to a family of settlers from Herzegovina, Vuk was six months old when his mother Stoja died.

Born in Saluzzo, Cuneo, he became commandant of the ( military ) region of Piemonte-Valle d ' Aosta in 1974 and created an anti-terrorism structure in Turin, which succeeded in capturing in September 1974 Red Brigades members Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini, with the help of Silvano Girotto, also known as frate mitra (" Machine Gun Friar "), who infiltrated the organisation.