Born in Edinburgh on 28 January 1784, he was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo, son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen.

* 1973 – " Lord of Light " / " Born to Go " ( 7 " single )

Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne ( 1751 – 1818 ) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

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 London, Hogg was the son of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, who was Lord Chancellor under Stanley Baldwin, and grandson of another Quintin Hogg, a merchant, philanthropist, and educational reformer.

Born in London and descended from an old Norfolk family, Gresham was one of two sons and two daughters of Sir Richard Gresham, a leading London merchant, who for some time held the office of Lord Mayor, and who for his services as agent of Henry VIII in negotiating loans with foreign merchants received the honour of knighthood.

* Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ), Nothing Sacred ( 1937 ), A Star is Born ( 1937 ) and Made for Each Other are now in the public domain.

Born in Scania during the reign of Eric of Pomerania, as the son of Axel Pedersen Thott, Lord of Herlev and Lilloe, and his second wife Ingeborg Ivarsdotter of a noble Sudermannian family.

Born at Leeds, Yorkshire, he was educated at Harrow School, where he had for contemporaries Lord Byron and Robert Peel.

Born illegitimate and raised as a foster child, he subsequently advanced to the rank of a Dutch captain, a Swedish Field Marshal, and in Scotland became lord general in command of the Covenanters, privy councillor, captain of Edinburgh Castle, Lord Balgonie and Earl of Leven.

Born at Longworth, Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ), the eldest son of Samuel Fell, who would himself be installed as Dean of Christ Church in 1638, and his wife Margaret née Wylde, he received his early education at Lord Williams's School at Thame in Oxfordshire.

Born Lord George Sackville, he was the third son of Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant-General Walter Philip Colyear.

Excerpts from Galás ' " I Put a Spell On You ", " Vena Cava ", " The Lord is My Shepherd ", and " Judgement Day " can be heard in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lord was the son of Irish-American parents.

Born on 13 September 1734 Thomas Thynne succeeded his father as 3rd Viscount Weymouth in January 1751 and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for a short time during 1765, although he never visited that country.

Born Lord William Douglas, he was the son of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas and his second wife Lady Mary Gordon, a daughter of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly.

Born in Cambridge, England, he was the eldest son of Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor, by his first wife, Catherine Freman.

Born at Sydney Lodge, near Southampton, Hardwicke was the eldest son of Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, second son of Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor, by his second wife, Agneta Johnson.

Born at Grosvenor Square, London, Carnarvon was the eldest son of Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, by his wife Henrietta Anna, daughter of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard.

Born Wenman Roberts, he was the son of Philip Roberts and Anne, sister of Lord Leicester, and assumed the surname of Coke in lieu of Roberts.

Born George John Charles Mercer Nairne, he assumed by Decree of the Lord Lyon the additional surnames of Petty-Fitzmaurice in 1947.

Born Edward Turnour Garth, Lord Winterton was the son of Joseph Garth and his wife Sarah ( died 1744 ), daughter of Francis Gee and his wife Sarah, daughter of Sir Edward Turnor, Member of Parliament for Orford, elder son of Sir Edward Turnour, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1661 to 1671.

Born the son of John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll and Mary Bellenden, the daughter of John Bellenden, 2nd Lord Bellenden of Broughton, Campbell was commissioned into the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1744.

Born in Wales, he was appointed by George Calvert ( later, Lord Baltimore ) to establish the colony, and in August 1621, he landed at Ferryland with 12 men.

Born in London, Blunden was the eldest of the nine children of Charles Edmund Blunden ( 1871 – 1951 ) and his wife, Georgina Margaret née Tyler, who were joint-headteachers of a London school.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Atwood is the second of three children of Margaret Dorothy ( née Killam ), a former dietitian and nutritionist, and Carl Edmund Atwood, an entomologist.

Born the son of Edmund Haselden Bramall and Katherine Bridget Bramall ( née Westby ), and educated at Eton College, Bramall was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 22 May 1943.

Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, he was the son of Presbyterian minister Edmund Melville Wylie and the former Edna Edwards, a novelist, who died when Philip was five years old.

Born Edmund John Kellaway in Wandsworth, London and educated at St. Olave's School and later at King's College London, Gwenn began his acting career in the theatre in 1895.

In " Born to be King ", it is implied that Edmund may be illegitimate, and therefore not the son of Richard, meaning he could lose his claim to the throne.

Born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, the grandson of the Premier of Quebec Edmund James Flynn, he graduated in law from Université Laval in and was called to the Quebec Bar both in 1939.

Born in Versailles, France, Bromhead was the youngest son of Major Sir Edmund de Gonville Bromhead, 3rd Baronet of Thurlby Hall, Lincolnshire, a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, by his wife Judith, daughter of James Wood of Woodville, Co. Sligo.

Born in Elderslie, he was educated at Paisley Grammar School, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Born in Aarhus, Denmark, Schytte studied with Niels Gade and Edmund Neupert.

Born in Lymington, Hampshire, Lyons was the elder son of Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons ( 1790 – 1858 ), naval officer and diplomat, and his wife, Augusta Louisa, née Rogers ( 1791 – 1852 ).

Born on April 6, 1810, the youngest of three sons of Joseph and Lucy ( Smith ) Sears, Edmund grew up on a farm within sight of the Berkshire Hills, in Sandisfield, Massachusetts.

At the University of Göttingen, he studied mathematics under David Hilbert, Edmund Landau, Hermann Weyl, and Felix Klein ; physics under Voigt and Max Born ; and philosophy under Leonard Nelson.

Born in London, was the daughter of Edmund Mersey-Wigley, of Shakenhurst, Worcestershire, and in 1840 was married to Rev.

Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Ellas McDaniel.

Born in Spain he became a Legionary commander in Britain, assembled a Celtic army and assumed the title of Emperor of the Western Roman Empire in AD 383.

Born John Shute, had had assumed by Act of Parliament the surname of Barrington in lieu of his patronymic in 1716, having previously succeeded to the estates of Frances Barrington, married to his cousin.

The murder was a blow to the movement, but according to the direct orders of Clarence before his death, some of his earliest disciples, a group of nine men who were called the First Nine Born carried on the teachings, and an acting leadership role was assumed by his friend Justice.

Born in London, as Henry Bayly ( his father assumed the name Paget in 1770 ), he was the eldest son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, by his wife Jane, daughter of the Very Reverend Arthur Champagné, Dean of Clonmacnoise, Ireland.

Born to a Jewish family in Palestine, he moved to Britain in 1947 and assumed the pen name Tony Cliff.

Born Thomas Tyrwhitt, he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Jones in 1790.

Born Richard Colley, he inherited the Dangan and Mornington estates in County Meath on the death of his first cousin Garret Wesley in 1728 and assumed the same year by Royal license the surname of Wesley in lieu of his patronymic ( see below for earlier history of the family ).

Born William Wesley, he assumed by Royal license in 1781 the additional surname of Pole on succeeding to the estates of his cousin, William Pole.

Born William Luckyn, he was the great-nephew of Sir Samuel Grimston, 3rd Baronet, of Bradfield ( a title which became extinct upon his death in 1700 ), whose surname he assumed on succeeding to his estates.

Born William Chichester, he succeeded to the estates of his cousin William O ' Neill, 3rd Viscount O ' Neill, in 1855 ( on whose death the viscountcy and barony of O ' Neill became extinct ) and assumed by Royal license the surname of O ' Neill in lieu of Chichester in order to inherit the lands of his cousin, despite not being descended in the male line from an O ' Neill.

* The Born – Oppenheimer approximation is inherently assumed.

Born William Morden, he had assumed the surname of Harbord in 1742 in compliance with the will of a maternal relative.

Born Cecil Forester, he assumed the additional surname of Weld by Royal license in 1811.

Born Edward Walhouse, he assumed in 1812 by Royal license the surname of Littleton in lieu of his patronymic on succeeding to the estates of his great-uncle Sir Edward Littleton, 4th and last Baronet, of Teddesley Hall.

Born John Somerset Russell, he had assumed by Royal license the surname of Pakington in lieu of Russell in 1830 on inherited the estates of his maternal uncle Sir John Pakington, 8th and last Baronet, of Ailesbury.

Born Richard Long, the son of Richard Penruddocke Long, he had assumed by Royal license the surname of Chaloner in lieu of Long in 1881, as a condition of inheriting the Guisborough estate and Gisborough Hall from his maternal great-uncle, Admiral Thomas Chaloner.

Born Albert Denison Conyngham, he assumed by Royal license the surname of Denison in lieu of Conyngham in 1849 on inheriting the vast fortune of his maternal uncle William Joseph Denison ( 1770 – 1849 ).

Born Walter James Head, he assumed by Act of Parliament the surname of James only in 1778.

Born James Kay, he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Shuttleworth on his marriage in 1842 to Janet Shuttleworth, only child and heiress of Robert Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe Hall.

Born William Watson, he had assumed the additional surname of Armstrong by Royal license in 1889.