Born in a log cabin near Delaware, Ohio, Fairbanks's ancestry traced back to Puritan followers of Oliver Cromwell, with Jonathan Fayerbankes the first family member to reach America in 1632.

Born of English parents in Ireland, Jonathan Swift was working as Sir William Temple's secretary at the time he composed A Tale of a Tub ( 1694 – 1697 ).

Born in Lebanon, Connecticut, the second son of Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. ( the eventual Governor of Connecticut ) and his wife Faith Robinson, daughter of Rev.

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.

In the United Kingdom, he has appeared on Channel 4 music programme Born Sloppy, Bo Selecta and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.

Born Jonathan Henry Drewland in Dublin, Ireland, to Thomas L. Drew and Louise Kanten, he was the fifth of six children.

Jonathan Baldwin Turner Jonathan Baldwin Turner ( December 7, 1805 – January 10, 1899 ) Born in Templeton, Massachusetts, Turner was a classical scholar, botanist, dedicated Christian, and political activist.

Born in Keene, New Hampshire, Jonathan Myrick Daniels was the child of Phillip Brock Daniels ( 14 July 1904-December 1959 ), a Congregationalist physician, and Constance Weaver ( 20 August 1905-9 January 1984 ).

He was the subject of the film Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas, by Jonathan Robinson, which featured a soundtrack by Kip Hanrahan.

Born in Dublin, he wrote mostly plays, but also works of literary criticism, a book-length biographical essay of Jonathan Swift, a memoir and an eccentric work of philosophy.

Born Jonathan Turner in Birmingham, he adopted the double-barrelled stage name of John Nathan-Turner to distinguish himself from an actor of the same name.

Born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, the son of Dr. Jonathan Borden and Maria Frances Brown.

Born in Dublin in 1969, Jonathan Philbin Bowman, the son of the historian and broadcaster John Bowman, was educated at Sandford Park School and at Newpark Comprehensive School in Dublin.

Ritchie's 50th anniversary album was Mountain Born ( 1995 ), which features her two sons, Peter and Jonathan Pickow.

Born in Cheshire, Connecticut as the son of Matthew Bellamy and his wife Sarah Wood, he graduated from Yale in 1735 and studied theology for a time under Jonathan Edwards in Northampton, Massachusetts.

* Born: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, American TV actor, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

* Born: Jonathan Brown, Australian rules football player ( Brisbane Lions, in Colac, Victoria ; and Amanda Beard, American swimmer ( Olympic gold medalist 1996 and 2004 ), in Newport Beach, California

Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan moved with his family to the United States when he was 11 years old.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Edith Adelson Lerner and Joseph Jay Lerner, whose brother, Samuel Alexander Lerner, was founder and owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

Born in Poitiers, France, Joseph Bouzage came to the Gulf Coast circa 1760, married Catherine Louise Baudreau ( Boudreau ) on June 5, 1762, and was the father of seven children, including one son, Jean Baptiste.

Born in Blue Ridge, Pennsylvania, the son of Joseph von Blickensderfer and Catherine von Neiswanger, married Phebe Elenor Dunning ( November 18, 1840-?

Born in Penn Township in 1836, Joseph Pyle opened a general store in 1860 in the brick building that is currently empty but housed a Rite Aid Pharmacy, Eckerd Pharmacy, and West Grove Pharmacy in the past.

Born in Schwetzingen and raised in Mannheim, Danzi studied with his father and with Georg Joseph Vogler before he joined the superlative orchestra of the Elector Karl Theodor in 1778 as a teenager.

Born in Des Moines, Iowa, she was the daughter of Joseph Hyman and Sabina Neumann.

Born on her sister Rebbie's 6th birthday on May 29, 1956, in Gary, Indiana, La Toya Jackson is the fifth of nine children born to Joseph Jackson and Katherine Jackson and the middle female child between Rebbie and Janet.

Born Her Royal Highness Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie on 24 December 1837 in Munich, Bavaria, she was the fourth child of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria.

Le Mesurier undertook a number of roles on television in 1951, including in six episodes of the BBC children's programme Whirligig ; the role of Doctor Forrest in The Railway Children ; the role of Sir Alexander Blythe in children's comedy-thriller Show Me a Spy ; the part of the blackmailer Eduardo Lucas in Sherlock Holmes: The Second Stain, opposite Alan Wheatley's Holmes ; and Joseph in the nativity play A Time to be Born.

Born in Strasbourg, he was the son of Count Palatine Maximilian Joseph of Zweibrücken ( later Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria ) by his first wife Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Born at Hamstead Bridge, Staffordshire, England on August 20 or 21, 1745 to Elizabeth and Joseph Asbury.

Born in Broomall, Pennsylvania, Bonaduce is the son of veteran TV writer / producer Joseph Bonaduce ( The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mayberry RFD, One Day At A Time, Good Times, The Waltons ).

Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney, Australia in 1911, and ultimately to London ( 1919 ), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times.

Born Irene Marie Dunn in Louisville, Kentucky, to Joseph Dunn, a steamboat inspector for the United States government, and Adelaide Henry, a concert pianist / music teacher from Newport, Kentucky, Irene Dunn would later write " No triumph of either my stage or screen career has ever rivalled the excitement of trips down the Mississippi on the river boats with my father.

Born in Molsheim ( Bas-Rhin ), François Joseph Westermann entered a cavalry regiment at an early age but soon left the service and went to Paris.

Born in 2332 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Benjamin is the son of Joseph Sisko, the chef and owner of the restaurant " Sisko's Creole Kitchen ," " Sisko's " for short.

Born in Münster in Westphalia, Brüning lost his father when he was one year old and thus his elder brother Hermann Joseph played a major part in his upbringing.

Born in Vincennes, Indiana, Richard Skelton was the fourth son of Ida Mae ( née Fields ) and Joseph E. Skelton ( 1878 – 1913 ).

Born in Smith Square, London, to Joseph and Susan Cotton, Cotton was a choirboy and started his musical career as a drummer.

Born to a political family in Boston, Massachusetts, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. was educated at Boston Latin School and Harvard University, and embarked on a career in finance, making a large fortune as a stock market and commodity investor and by investing in real estate and a wide range of industries.

* Born: Chris Candido, American professional wrestler, in Spring Lake, NJ ( d. 2005 )