Born in Payette, Idaho, Harmon Killebrew was youngest of four children to Harmon Clayton, Sr. and Katherine Pearl ( May ) Killebrew.

Born in Olean, New York, Tomarken was the middle son of Barnett and Pearl Tomarken, who owned Dee ’ s Jewelry store in Olean.

Born in Dallas, Texas, as one of four children ( excluding her mother's two children from an earlier marriage ), to postal clerk Calvin Roy Darnell and the former Pearl Brown.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Orthodox Jewish parents, Louis and Pearl Rubin ( née Ruchwarger ), Wiseman grew up in New York.

Born in the ' court of The Pearl ', a no longer existent building that was locating on the street Úrsulo Galván of Xalapa's center, with graduate and master degrees for the Faculty of Music of the Universidad Veracruzana, to which he entered from 1985 after taking particular classes with several teachers, Rey Alejandro ( called this way by his father and because he was born on January 6 ) took classes of violin with Stanislaw Kawalla, with " the Rabbit " Jiménez, Agnieszka Maklakiewicz and with Míkhail Medvid.

Born in Clinton, Ontario, the son of Thornton and Pearl ( Macdonald ) Mustard, Mustard graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1937.

Born into a family affiliated with the Antioch Church of God in Christ in Enid, Oklahoma, his father, Reverend Dr. Hulon Mitchell Sr. was the minister and his mother, Dr. Pearl Mitchell was the pianist.

Born of upper-middle class parents in New England, Pearl excelled at school and went on to Dartmouth College where he gained his B. A.

Born during the national call-to-arms immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Marine Fighting Squadron 311 ( VMF-311 ) was first commissioned on 1 December 1942, assigned to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and headquartered at MCAS Cherry Point.

Born on June 24, 1835, she was named Elizabeth Peabody Alcott in honor of the teaching assistant at the Temple School.

Born in Orbe, today in Switzerland, she was the daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia.

Born in 1347, she arrived when the black death struck the area ; Siena was badly ravaged.

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.

Born into a family of varying religious outlooks, she searched for a form of religion that gave an expression of the faith that she had been formally acquainted with, Christianity.

Born in Alexandria in 1935, she learned to play the saw at the age of seven, with Poland-Austrian Anton Stein.

Born Mary Therese Winifred Bourke in Ballina, County Mayo, in 1944, she is the daughter of two medical doctors.

Born Anne de Lenclos in Paris, she was nicknamed " Ninon " by her father at an early age.

" Born Fawn Knutsen, she ran away from the family farm outside Moorhead, Minnesota, and soon found herself making pornographic videos under the name " Bunny La Joya.

Born September 26, 1962 in Berkeley, California, she began her career as a child actress.

Born in Virginia, she had studied at Hampton Institute and the Massachusetts State Normal School at Framingham.

Born into an observant Jewish family but an atheist by her teenage years, she was baptized on January 1, 1922 into the Roman Catholic Church.

Born on October 12, 1891, she was a very gifted child who enjoyed learning.

Her career as the primary actress of Fox Studios continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born ( 1937 ).

In 1937, she was again nominated for an Academy Award, this time for her role in A Star Is Born.

Born into a family of British nobility as The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, she became Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon when her father inherited the Scottish Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904.

Born in New Jersey, Solanas said that she was the victim of sexual abuse by her father ; and, after her parents ' divorce, she had a volatile relationship with her mother and stepfather as a teenager with her unruly behavior.

Born in Uppsala, she first came to public notice in the 1930s, and was one of the main driving forces in the creation of the Swedish welfare state.

Born in Montmorillon, Vienne, she is sometimes called the " High Priestess of French erotic literature.

Born in Italy, she was the twin sister of St. Benedict of Nursia.

Receiving positive notices for Adam's Rib, Holliday was cast in the 1950 film version of Born Yesterday, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Born as Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, she was the only daughter of Dean of Jersey, Rev.

Born in Cincinnati, she was educated at a private girls ’ school in Farmington, Connecticut.

Born into an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Plebeian Octavii family, Augustus was adopted posthumously by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC following Caesar's assassination.

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 the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist outlook in early life, particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919.

Born Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, Alexander was adopted as heir apparent by his slightly older and very unpopular cousin, the Emperor Elagabalus at the urging of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa — who was grandmother of both cousins and who'd arranged for the emperor's acclamation by the Third Legion.

Born Tommy Ray Bentley in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, and adopted by Ray and Lorene " Pete " Parker Franks, Tommy Franks graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texas one year ahead of First Lady Laura Bush.

Born and raised in the United States from immigrant parents – a Hispanic / Mexican father, Francisco Estévez from Salceda de Caselas in Galicia ( Spain ) and a first-generation Irish mother, Mary-Anne Phelan from Borrisokane in County Tipperary – he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts.

Born to Turkish parents in Merzifon, he was adopted into the powerful Köprülü family at a young age and served as a messenger to Damascus for his brother-in-law, the grand vizier Ahmed Köprülü.

Born after his father's death ( hence the name ), he was adopted by the emperor Augustus.

In 1991, the company adopted its current advertising slogan, " Maybe She's Born With It.

Born in Nashville, McIlwaine was adopted by missionaries and raised in Kobe, Japan, giving her exposure to multiple languages and cultures.

Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, around 1512, he was educated at the University of St Andrews and on the continent, where he adopted Protestant views.

Born Robert Sanders in Kansas City, Missouri on January 14, 1933, Brakhage was adopted and renamed three weeks after his birth by Ludwig and Clara Brakhage.

Born Jules Hardouin in Paris, he studied under his renowned great-uncle François Mansart, one of the originators of the classical tradition in French architecture ; Hardouin inherited Mansart's collection of plans and drawings and adopted his well-regarded name.

Born in Los Angeles, California, MacArthur was adopted as an infant by playwright Charles MacArthur and actress Helen Hayes ( He was actually the biological child of Charles MacArthur, the product of his affair with another woman ).

Born as Gaius Octavius, he was adopted by his great-uncle Julius Caesar and acquired the name of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ( hence his common name of Octavian ).

Born into an upper-middle class family, Gómez de la Serna refused to follow his father into law or politics and soon adopted the marginal lifestyle of a bohemian bourgeois artist, finding his literary feet in the journal Prometeo, which, funded by his indulgent father between 1908 and 1912, introduced into Spain a whiff of scandal from the likes of Oscar Wilde, Remy de Gourmont and Marinetti.

Born James Alfred Orage in Dacre, near Harrogate, in the West Riding of Yorkshire into a nonconformist religious family, he was generally known as Dickie and he dropped the name James altogether and adopted the middle name Richard.

Born in Venice, Barbara was adopted and baptized into the Strozzi family.

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 Mary Tomlinson in Acton, Indiana, Main attended Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, and adopted a stage name to avoid embarrassing her father, Samuel J. Tomlinson ( married to Jennie L. McGaughey ), who was a minister.

Born to an Osaka prostitute and an unknown father, Ueda was adopted in his fourth year by a wealthy merchant who reared him in comfort and provided him with a good education.

Born in Hampstead, London to Irish parents, Margaret Nolan adopted the name Vicky Kennedy while working in the ' glamour ' scene during the early 1960s.

Born in Vilna, he grew up poor and first worked braiding lace in Kovno, where he was first associated with the devout, moralistic Musar movement of Rabbi Israel Salanter, but later drawn to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, and adopted a more modern Orthodox Judaism that renounced superstition.

Born to Lorel and Bosandjo at Yerkes field station at Emory University and moved to the Language Research Center at Georgia State University, Kanzi was stolen and adopted shortly after birth by a more dominant female, Matata.