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Born Percival Schulberg in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he took the name Benjamin from the boy in front of him when registering for school to avoid mockery for his British name.
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Born in Sevenoaks, Kent, and educated at Sherborne School in Sherborne, Dorset, Percival first became well known in the early 1960s for performing topical calypsos on television shows such as That Was The Week That Was, and made several appearances in British comedy films including the Carry On film, Carry On Cruising ( 1962 ).
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Born Seymour Wilson Schulberg, he was the son of Hollywood film-producer B. P. Schulberg and Adeline Jaffe Schulberg, who founded a talent agency taken over by her brother, agent / film producer Sam Jaffe.
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Born to Stephen and Helen ( née Lang ) Kelly, he was the first of five Chicago Mayors from Bridgeport, the first man to voluntarily relinquish the chairmanship of the Cook County Democratic Committee, and he distinguished himself as mayor by reducing the city's debt by $ 100, 000, 000, leaving it solvent.
Born in Bridgeport to parents who were of medium height, Charles was a relatively large baby, weighing at birth.
Born at Bridgeport, Connecticut, MacKenzie enlisted in the Navy at Springfield, Massachusetts, on December 20, 1902 and had attained the rate of Coxswain before his discharge on July 6, 1907.
Born: July 7, 1886, Bridgeport, Conn.
Born and raised in the Bridgeport community area of Chicago, he is the second-youngest child of Richard J. Daley and Eleanor " Sis " Daley, brother of Richard M. Daley and William M. Daley, husband of Mary Lou Daley née Briatta, father of John R., Michael, and Christine Daley.
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Born in Connecticut in 1799, Alcott had only minimal formal schooling before attempting a career as a traveling salesman.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut of Russian Jewish heritage, Capp was the eldest child of Otto Philip and Matilda ( Davidson ) Caplin.
Born in rural Connecticut, Allen had a frontier upbringing but also received an education that included some philosophical teachings.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Neusner was educated at Harvard University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( where he received rabbinic ordination ), the University of Oxford, and Columbia University.
Born in Cincinnati, she was educated at a private girls ’ school in Farmington, Connecticut.
Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Lieberman is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School.
Born in Connecticut, Marshall had been raised as a Presbyterian.
Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Bradley came to the Western Reserve of Ohio and eventually settled in a small crescent shaped valley with good timber and plenty of springs.
Born in Bethel, Connecticut, Barnum became a small-business owner in his early twenties, and founded a weekly newspaper, before moving to New York City in 1834.
Born in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle ( née Crane ) and James Allen Whitmore, Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, before graduating from The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Henry was the eighth of thirteen children born to Lyman Beecher, a Presbyterian preacher from Boston.
Born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky in New York City, Shaw grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, where, according to his autobiography his natural introversion was deepened by local antisemitism.
He was the second of seven children to Israel Morey ( 1735 – 1809 ) and Martha Palmer ( 1733 – 1810 ) and was Born in Hebron, Connecticut, but moved to Orford, New Hampshire, with his family in 1768.
Born in Windham, Connecticut, Waldo served in the American Revolutionary War and later became a missionary and clergyman.
Born at his parents ' home, Glenmont, in West Orange, New Jersey, he attended the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Bowles attended The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, graduating in 1919, and the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1924.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and growing up in nearby Westport, Martin began modeling at 17, and appeared in the original film version of The Poseidon Adventure ( opposite Gene Hackman ) at the age of 19.
Born in New York City, the son of Swedish immigrants from Göteborg ( father ) and Visby ( mother ), Carlson attended The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1957.
Born in 1831 in Canterbury, Connecticut, the son of a prosperous Connecticut farmer and graduate of a private academy, Austin taught school briefly before studying law.
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Born in New London, Connecticut, he grew up in Enfield, Massachusetts, where he lived with his mother Mary and sister Clara.
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Born into a middle-class family in Etterbeek, Brussels, he took a keen interest in Scouting in early life, something that would prove highly influential on his later work.
" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).
He earned his Ph. D. in Physics from the University of Bristol in 1937, studying under Nevill Mott, and took a DSc at the University of Edinburgh while studying under Max Born.
Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, United States, he as a youth took the name of ' Mance ' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie (" Mance " being short for emancipation ).
Born in 1884 in French Guiana this descendant of African slaves was a key figure together with René Pleven in the organization by the De Gaulle government of the Brazzaville Conference of 1944, which took place between the January 30 and February 8, 1944 and which did set out the new direction of French colonial policies after World War II.
Born in Nancy, France, the son of a baker, he trained as an artilleryman and took part in the battles of the French Revolution where he rose through the ranks.
The baron and troubador, Bertran de Born, who knew him, said that he was "... the best king who ever took up a shield, the most daring and best of all tourneyers.
At the beginning of the 1990s, bands such as Born Against, Rorschach, Burn and Drive Like Jehu took the 1980s styles of hardcore and pushed them into more contemporary sounds.
English indie rock band Cherry Ghost took its name from a lyric from the Wilco song " Theologians " ( from A Ghost Is Born )— lead singer Simon Aldred is a self-proclaimed " massive Wilco fan ".
Born in Tulle, he was educated at his native town and took minor orders.
Born Charles Edward Springall in the Elephant and Castle, Southwark, South London, he took his mother's maiden name for the stage and, later, television and film, achieving success as a comedian.
Born in Santo Domingo to a Dominican father and a Spanish mother ( her mother was an attorney from Asturias, Spain who found herself exiled during the regime of Francisco Franco ), at an early age, her mother took her and her sister to Spain after breaking up with her father.
Born in London, he made his first film appearance in 1944 but did not achieve lasting fame until the 1970s, when he took the starring role of Compo Simmonite in the long-running British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.
Born Wu Zhao, she is not properly known as " Wu Hou " until receiving this title in 655, nor is she properly known as " Wu Zetian ", her regnal name, until 690, when she took the title huangdi.
Born in Launceston, Cornwall, Davey first studied art in Exeter before going to Goldsmiths College in London in 1985 where he took a BA in fine art.
Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker ( then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern ), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845 – 48.
Born in Henan province of China in 596 ( or, 602 or 603 ), from boyhood he took to reading religious books, including the Chinese classics and the writings of ancient sages.
Born Michael Denzil Portillo in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, Portillo took the name Xavier at confirmation.
Born Mildred Elizabeth Sisk in Portland, Maine, she took the surname Gillars in 1911 after her mother remarried.
On the show which aired Friday, January 8, 1954, Carroll took the $ 1, 000 top prize on the strength of her rendition of the Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein song, " Why Was I Born?
Born in Chartres, he was the son of a provincial barrister, who took in charge his education.
Born at Urbino in the Marche, he studied law at Cagli and Urbino, where he took his doctorate at the age of eighteen.
Born in Venice as Carlo Ghega in an Albanian family, he studied in Padua, where he took the examination for doctor of mathematics at the age of 18.
Born in Augsburg, he took his Abitur in 1965, served his military service as a paratrooper in the Bundeswehr, and subsequently studied to become a teacher of German, sports and history at the Pädagogische Hochschule ( teachers ' college ) in Münster from 1966 to 1969.
Born in Edinburgh, he studied at the Royal High School and the Trustees ’ Academy under Alexander Runciman, and, having been apprenticed as an heraldic painter to a coachbuilder, he, at the age of sixteen, attracted the attention of Allan Ramsay, who took the youth with him to London, and employed him upon the subordinate portions of his works.
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