Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and Júlia da Silva Bruhns, he was the elder brother of Thomas Mann.

Born as Ernst Johann Biren (; ) in Kalnciems, Courland, he was the grandson of a groom in the service of Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland, who bestowed upon him a small estate, which Biron's father inherited and where Biron himself was born.

Born in Bochum in Westphalia, of middle-class parents, his original name was Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann.

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 Radis to Marie Henriette and Johann Gottfried Galle, Galle studied at the University of Berlin from 1830 to 1833.

Born in Leipzig in the Electorate of Saxony, he was taught music by his father, and also tutored by his distant cousin Johann Elias Bach.

Born in Weimar within the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Bernard was the eleventh son of Johann, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Dorothea Maria of Anhalt.

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.

Johannes Reidt, a Hessian soldier from Raboldshausen, Germany, Born, January, 06, 1757, Salzberg Hesse Cassel Germany, mother, Anna Elizabeth Reid Her father, Johannes Reidt and mother, Anna Catherine Engel were married August 5, 1764 in Germany and his father, Johann Jacob Helmerich d. May 28, 1845, in Cabarrus County, N. C., served during the American Revolution in Company C ( Col. Friedrich von Porbeck ) of the Garrison Regiment von Wissenbach.

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 Kazan, Russian Empire, son of Joseph Johann Littrow.

Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died.

Born at the end of the European Enlightenment, Maximilian became friends with two of its major figures: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a major comparative anthropologist under whom he studied biological sciences, and Alexander von Humboldt, who served as Maximilian's mentor.

Born in the Austrian village of Spital, Weitra, her father was Johann Baptist Pölzl and her mother was Johanna Hiedler.

Johann Paul Dresser, Jr. ( Born Johann Paul Dreiser, Jr .; April 22, 1857 – January 31, 1906 ) was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Born near Graz, Johann Fischer was trained in the workshop of his father, a provincial artisan, before departing for Rome at the precocious age of 16.

Born Charles Panzram in Minnesota, the son of Prussian immigrants, Johann " John " and Matilda Panzram, he was raised on his family's farm.

Born as Karl Heinrich Johann Eugen Benzler in Niederhemer, Westphalia, the eldest son of Karl Benzler, an innkeeper, and his wife, Klementine ( née Kissing ), he was baptized at SS Peter and Paul Church on 24 October 1853.

Born Aloys Johann Nepomuk Franz Senefelder in Prague, then Imperial city ( Reichsstadt ) of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, where his actor father was appearing on stage.

Born Karl Rudolf Bromme in Anger ( now part of Leipzig ), in the Electorate of Saxony, he was the fifth child of Johann Simon Bromme and his wife, Louise ; he was orphaned while still a child.

Born in Würzburg, he was the second son of Johann Jacob Hergenröther, professor of medicine in the University of Würzburg.

Born to Jewish parents in New York City, New York, he was named after his paternal grandfather, the German-American Anarchist newspaper editor and orator Johann Most .< ref >

* Born: Princess Désirée of Hohenzollern, daughter of Princess Birgitta of Sweden and Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, in Munich, Germany

Born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system, he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly centre of humanism.

Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene.

Born in Vienna into one of Europe's wealthiest families, he gave away his entire inheritance.

Born in the town of Stein, Lower Austria, he studied law in Vienna and graduated with a PhD in 1827.

Born in Vienna, he was a son of his predecessor Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary ( 1503 – 1547 ).

Born Friedrich Stowasser in Vienna, he became one of the best-known contemporary Austrian artists, although controversial, by the end of the 20th century.

Born in Vienna as Otto Rosenfeld, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for 20 years, a prolific writer on psychoanalytic themes, an editor of the two most important analytic journals, managing director of Freud's publishing house and a creative theorist and therapist.

Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra attended the University of Vienna, where he earned his Ph. D. in theoretical physics in 1966.

Born in Poland in 1924 and raised in Vienna, he was interned in detention camps under the Vichy French and fled the Nazi advance by coming to the United States in 1941.

Born in Vienna, he was educated strictly by Prince Dietrich Otto von Salm and became a good linguist.

Born 1891 in Vienna to Jewish parents, Bernays was a double nephew of psychoanalysis pioneer Sigmund Freud.

Born Oskar Josef Bschließmayer on 13 November 1922 in Vienna, Werner spent much of his childhood in the care of his grandmother, who entertained him with stories about the Burgtheater, the Austrian state theatre, where he was accepted at the age of eighteen by Lothar Müthel.

Born in Vienna, Haid trained both as a dancer and singer and became the epitome of the Süßes Wiener Mädel (" Sweet Viennese Girl ") and a popular pin-up throughout the 1920s and 30s.

Born in Vienna, she followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis.

Born in Vienna, Schifter started collecting 78s of the popular music of the interwar years already as a boy.

Born Maria Anna Paula Ferdinandine Gräfin von Wurmbrand-Stuppach in Vienna, Austria, of Greco-Austrian heritage, " Etti ," as she was known, was putatively the elder daughter of Count Ferdinand von Wurmbrand-Stuppach ( 1879 – 1933 ) and his wife May Baltazzi ( 1885 – 1981 ), but more likely was the countess's biological child by Count Josef Gizycki.

Born in Vienna to a working class family — his father worked for the tramway — Klestil went to school in Landstraße where he made friends with Joe Zawinul.

Born in Smyrna, he attended school in Constantinople and studied piano and composition in Vienna.

Born in Ohio to Charles Webster Dewey and Vienna Pomeroy Miller, he graduated from Baldwin University in 1886 and obtained a doctorate in astronomy at Princeton University under Charles A.

Born in Vienna, Schüssel attended that city's Schottengymnasium, a well known Roman Catholic gymnasium for boys, where he took his Matura exams in 1963.

Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Fried left school at the age of 15 and started to work in a bookshop.

Hans Carl Artmann ( Born 12 June 1921 in Vienna, died 4 December 2000 in Vienna ), also known as Ib Hansen, was ( amongst other things ) an Austrian-born poet and writer, most popular for his early poems written in Viennese ( med ana schwoazzn dintn, 1958 ), which however, never after were to be the focus of his oeuvre.

Born in Vienna, Jurmann received a classical education, taking his Matura exams in 1921.