In 1946, he appeared on Broadway as the young hero in the political drama A Flag is Born, refusing to accept wages above the Actor's Equity rate because of his commitment to the cause of Israeli independence.

In 1946, Brando showed his dedication to the idea of a Jewish homeland by performing in Ben Hecht's Zionist play A Flag is Born.

New York City opening of A Flag is Born ( 1946 )

Also in 1946, he appeared on Broadway in A Flag is Born, also written by Ben Hecht, to help promote the creation of a Jewish state in Israel.

Born Yesterday is a play written by Garson Kanin which premiered on Broadway in 1946, starring Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn.

Born Yesterday opened on February 4, 1946 on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatreand ran there until November 6, 1948 ; the play transferred to Henry Miller's Theatre on November 9, 1948 and closed on December 31, 1949, after a total of 1642 performances.

Born Bingley 2 June 1946

Born in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Butler Senior High School in 1945 and served in the United States Army as an enlisted man from 1946 to 1947, including service in the Occupation of Japan.

Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as " Billie Dawn " led to her being cast in the 1950 film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

In 1946, she returned to Broadway as the scatterbrained Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday.

Born in Toronto, Canada on July 23, 1946, Carty attended Queen's University and Harvard Business School.

Born in Łódź, Poland on May 12, 1946, Libeskind was the second child of Dora and Nachman Libeskind, both Polish Jews and Holocaust survivors.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, on July 5, 1946, Johnson is of French Canadian and Irish descent and is a Roman Catholic.

Born in 1946 in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, Buesa studied law in Madrid and Barcelona and practiced from 1970 to 1986 in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Born in 1946 in the Black Country, Cutler later moved to the Birmingham suburb of Harborne.

Born as Andrei Perlmutter on December 20, 1946 in Sibiu, Romania, he published his first poems in the Romanian language under the pen name Andrei Steiu.

Born in Saint Louis in 1946, Schoemehl received a degree in history from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1972.

Born in Killead, County Antrim, Molyneaux was educated at nearby Aldergrove School before serving in the Royal Air Force between 1941 and 1946.

Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, son of a civil servant, he was educated at the former Hampton Grammar School, a boys ' voluntary aided school, now Hampton School, an independent school, between 1946 and 1948, and thereafter at St Paul's School, a boys ' independent school in Barnes, London and at Magdalen College, Oxford where he graduated with a BA Degree in Law ( 1958 ) and four years later his MS degree in International Law and Regulations ( 1962 ).

Born in 1946 in the Maysan Governorate, Jabr became a Shi ' a activist while studying engineering at Baghdad University in the 1970s.

Born in Paris, France, to Felix and Clemence, Gy graduated in chemical engineering from ESPCI ParisTech in 1946.

Born in Wandsworth, London, Morgan was originally a tennis player who played for Britain in the Wightman Cup in 1946.

Born in Mysore, Karnataka on 20 August 1946, Murthy graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Engineering, University of Mysore in 1967.

Born in Łódź, Poland, in 1946, Libeskind's family had suffered during the Second World War and dozens of his relatives had died in the Holocaust.

* Matt Monro – Singer ( Born Terence Parsons on December 1, 1930 ) Dubbed " The singers singer " and " The British Sinatra ") Famous for singing the James Bond theme " From Russia with Love " and " On Days Like These " from the film " The Italian job ".

Born to yeoman parents, by favour of the local parson John Hayward, Parsons was sent in 1562 to St. Mary's Hall, Oxford.

Born Dorothea Webb Parsons, she was a daughter of Arthur Webb Parsons, a lawyer, and his wife, the former Frances Margaret Graves.

Born in London, Parsons was the youngest son of the famous astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse.

Born in Parsons, Kansas, Bradley was one of many baseball players whose career was interrupted during World War II.

Born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, he was the youngest son of Ebenezer ( Deacon ) Parsons ( 1668-1752 ) and Margaret Marshfield of Springfield.

Born in Newbury, Massachusetts, and the son of a clergyman, Parsons was one of the early students at the Dummer Academy ( now The Governor's Academy ) before matriculating to Harvard College from which he graduated in 1769, was a schoolmaster in Falmouth ( now Portland, Maine ) from 1770 – 1773 ; he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1774.

Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record.

Born long before conflicts with Great Britain emerged, he was a leader for many years in Maryland's colonial government.

Born in the village of Triles, then part of the Stoŭbtsy Raion in the USSR's Minsk voblast ( and now in Belarus ), Lebedko emerged in the 1990s as one of the leading critics of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, whom Lebedko, along with other opposition leaders and many western governments, considers a dictator.

Born into a poor Creole family in Sierra Leone, he emerged as a natural leader in school.

Born at Churwell, near Leeds, Yorkshire, Peel emerged in first-class cricket for Yorkshire in 1882, and quickly established himself as a skillful and accurate left-arm spin bowler with the ability to bowl a fast ball that obtained many wickets.

" Born to Make You Happy " was performed for the last time on Dream Within a Dream Tour, where Spears emerged from the middle of a giant musical box on the stage as a ballerina, to perform the song in a medley with " Lucky " and " Sometimes ", right after the performance of " Overprotected ".

Born in L ' Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, de Lucas emerged through the ranks of RCD Espanyol, making his first team debut on 15 May 1998 away against Real Valladolid, in his sole appearance of the season, being immediately promoted to the main squad.

Born William Gomberg in Cleveland, Ohio, Gilbert's proclivity for creating gags emerged as the humor writer for the Glenville High School Torch on which he worked alongside future playwright Jerome Lawrence and the creators of Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Born in Calahorra, La Rioja, Ezquerro emerged through the youth ranks of CA Osasuna, playing two second division seasons with the Navarrese before signing with Atlético Madrid in 1996 – 97.

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Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens.

Born from a noble family of the province of Soule, his father Michel was born in Arrast-Larrebieu and his mother was Irish.

Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.

Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14.

Bunge & Born was founded in 1884 by Ernesto Bunge, a German Argentine whose uncle, Carl Bunge, had been Consul General in Argentina for both the Netherlands and Prussia, and his brother-in-law, Jorge Born, who had recently arrived from Antwerp.

In " A Witch Shall be Born ", Conan fights armed men until he is overwhelmed, captured, and crucified, and goes a night and a day without water, but still possesses the strength to pull the nails from his feet, then to hoist himself into a horse's saddle and ride ten miles.

Born into a working-class family, from an early age Ortega developed a hatred of the ruling President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who was widely recognized as a dictator, and became involved in the underground movement to oppose Somoza's regime.

Born in Lugo di Romagna, he was chief designer and technical director of Ducati from 1954 until 1989.

Born in Johannesburg to Johannes " Jan " de Klerk and Hendrina Cornelia Coetzer-" her forefather was a Kutzer who stems from Austria ".

Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, graduating in 1953, and he received a Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics ( Computer Science ) from Harvard University in 1956.

Described as the " Maestro's spiritual testament ” by his biographer Tullio Kezich, excerpts culled from the conversations later served as the basis of their feature documentary, Fellini: I'm a Born Liar ( 2002 ) and the book, I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon.

Born in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Bailey played junior hockey with the Edmonton Oil Kings from 1964 to 1967.

Born in Bloemfontein, Cronje matriculated in 1987 from Johannesburg based school Hyde Park.

Born in Brooklyn, Kushner was educated at Columbia University and later obtained his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary ( JTS ) in 1960.

Born in Canton, China and raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the gardens at Suzhou.

Born in Madrid, Gris studied mechanical drawing at the Escuela de Artes y Manufacturas in Madrid from 1902 to 1904, during which time he contributed drawings to local periodicals.

Born Georg Henri Anton Ivens into a wealthy family, Ivens went to work in one of his father's photo supply shops and from there developed an interest in film.

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 ).

Heisenberg's matrix mechanics formulation was based on algebras of infinite matrices, a very radical formulation in light of the mathematics of classical physics, although he started from the index-terminology of the experimentalists of that time, not even aware that his " index-schemes " were matrices, as Born soon pointed out to him.