Born in Edo ( now Tokyo ), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s.

Born in Awa, Tokushima, Miki graduated from Meiji University in Tokyo.

Born in Tokyo, Fontaine is the younger daughter of Walter Augustus de Havilland, a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and Lillian Augusta Ruse, a British actress known by her stage name of Lillian Fontaine.

Born Hasegawa Tatsunosuke ( 長谷川 辰之助 ) in Edo ( now Tokyo ), Futabatei's works are in the realist style popular in the mid-to late-19th century.

Born in Tokyo, Yagi attended the Kanagawa Prefectural Normal School in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture, where he converted to Methodism and became attracted to the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore.

Born in the village of Iizasa in Shimosa Province he moved when young to the vicinity of the famous Katori Shrine, a venerable Shinto institution northeast of Tokyo in what is today's Chiba Prefecture.

Makoto Yamaguchi ( 山口 真 Yamaguchi Makoto ; Born in Tokyo in 1944 ) has taken an active part in origami as a professional creator after working with the Nippon Origami Association.

Born in Yokohama to parents originally from Fukui, Kakuzo attended Tokyo Imperial University, where he first met and studied under Ernest Fenollosa.

Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1963, Kojima moved to western Japan at the age of three.

Born in Tsukiji, Tokyo, he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University.

Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980.

Born in Tokyo when Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT were exiled to Japan by the Beiyang Government, Chiang Wei-kuo has long been speculated to be an offspring of Tai Chi-tao and a Japanese woman,.

Born in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period to a prominent doctor's family in rural Taiwan, Peng received his primary education in Taiwan before going to Tokyo for secondary education, graduating from Kwansei Gakuin Middle School in 1939 and the Third Higher School in 1942.

Born in Tokyo as the son of a shinpa actor, Inagaki appeared on stage in his childhood before joining the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1922.

Born in Tokyo, he has the spirit of an Edokko.

Born in 1964 in Tokyo, Tae is the second daughter of Jun Ashida.

Born in Tokyo, Sato graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1956 with a degree in French literature.

1936 Born in Tokyo, in the family of a military doctor.

Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1939, Iijima graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1963 from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo.

Born in Tokyo, he graduated from the Tokyo Imperial University in 1935, having majored in aeronautical engineering.

Born in Tokyo, he was a long-time member of director Akira Kurosawa's stock company, making his first appearance in a Kurosawa film alongside Takashi Shimura in 1952's Ikiru.

* Hakuei: ( vocals ) Born December 16, 1970 in Miyazaki Prefecture, Kushima City.

Born in Miyakonojo, Hyūga province ( currently Miyazaki prefecture, Uehara's father was a samurai of the Satsuma domain.

Born in Los Angeles, Holbrook grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, and began drawing at an early age.

Born to race car driver Ralph Lee Earnhardt, Earnhardt began his career in 1975 when he drove in the 1975 World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of the Winston Cup Series ( later the Sprint Cup Series ).

Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor, appearing in The Jack Benny Program, as well as the 1953 films Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and The Robe.

Born in Bakos ( باكوس ), Alexandria, Egypt, as the eldest son of an Egyptian primary school teacher, Fayed's first entrepreneurial venture began at school where he sold homemade lemonade.

Born into poverty in Sora, Lazio ( in either 1901 or 1902-sources are divided ), he began his career as a theatre actor in the early 1920s and joined Tatiana Pavlova's theatre company in 1923.

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

Born in Watertown, New York, he began his show business career playing the organ and acting in radio dramas at station WWNY.

In 1989, Jorge Born, president of the company from 1987 ( replacing Mario Hirsch ), began working closely with the government of Carlos Menem.

Born at Pitigliano, in southern Tuscany, Zuccarelli began his apprenticeship in Rome in c. 1713-14 with the portrait painters Giovanni Maria Morandi ( 1622-1717 ) and his pupil Pietro Nelli ( 1672-1740 ), under whose tutelage he learned the elements of design while absorbing the lessons of Roman classicism.

Born in Liévin near Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Carpentier began his career by progressing up through the weight divisions, fighting in every division from welterweight upwards.

Born in Amorium, Michael began his career as a soldier, rising to high ranks due to the favour of his old colleague, Leo V the Armenian ( r. 813 – 820 ).

Born in Alonsotegi, Biscay, Goikoetxea began his playing career as a youth with Arbuyo, before joining Athletic Bilbao in 1974.

Born and raised in New York City, Stanton began his career in 1947 at Irving Klaw's Movie Star News company, gaining employment by boasting he could draw better than any of the artists then working for Klaw.

Born in Los Angeles, California, he graduated from the University of Southern California law school and began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, but honed his skills at the Hal Roach Studios for the rest of that decade.

Born in Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, the daughter of Frank Watkin Hiller, a Manchester cotton manufacturer, and Marie Stone, Hiller began her professional career as an actress in repertory at Manchester in the early 1930s.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Born in Chicago, Silverstein began drawing at age 12 by tracing the works of Al Capp.

Never released as a single in U. S. and generally unknown upon its initial album release, " Rosalita " began to get FM radio airplay when an advance version of " Born to Run " was given out to rock radio stations.

Born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore ( present day Kottayam district, Kerala ), and after a brief stint with journalism and then studying political science at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service in the Nehru administration.

Born to a Kuomintang military family of Hunanese origin, Soong began his political career as a Secretary to Premier Chiang Ching-kuo ( later President ) and rose to prominence as Director-General of the Government Information Office from 1979 to 1984.

Born in Hayward, California, Evans began his career at age 12, appearing in various commercials.

Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.

Born in Upper Manhattan, New York to Dominican parents, Santana's career in show business began with a push from his parents who wanted to keep him off the tough streets of New York.

Born near Alexanderplatz in Berlin to a middle-class Jewish family as Bruno Schlesinger, he began his musical education at the Stern Conservatory at the age of eight, making his first public appearance as a pianist when he was nine.