Born into a peasant background in Guang ' an, Sichuan, China, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he was influenced by Marxism-Leninism.

Cultural reasons were also a factor in countries like China and Japan, where silents co-existed successfully with sound well into the 1930s, indeed producing what would be some of the most revered classics in those countries, like Wu Yonggang's The Goddess ( China, 1934 ) and Yasujirō Ozu's I Was Born, But ... ( Japan, 1932 ).

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 Jiaocheng, Shanxi province, Hua joined the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) in 1938 as a part of counter-Japanese resistance, after having joined the Long March in 1936.

Born in Huangpi, Wuhan, China, Tien and his family fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War.

Born May 19, 1914 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, southeast China, Go Seigen did not start learning the game of Go until he was nine, a relatively late age for a professional ( Honinbo Dosaku first learned Go at seven and Honinbo Shusaku before he was six ).

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 in Tientsin, China, to missionaries Roscoe and Grace Baird Hersey, John Hersey learned to speak Chinese before he spoke English.

Born as Lin Moniang (; Foochow Romanized: Lìng Mĕk-niòng ) in Fujian around 960 CE, worship of Mazu began around the Ming Dynasty, when many temples dedicated to her were erected all across Mainland China, later spreading to other countries with Southern Chinese inhabitants.

Born 1948 in an impoverished family in Canton, Kwangtung, China with family roots in nearby Shunde, Lai was educated to fifth grade level.

Born on Tanga Islands, New Ireland Province to Chin Pak ( 陳柏 ), a trader from Taishan, China, Julius Chan was educated at Marist College Ashgrove in Australia and first became actively involved in politics in the 1960s.

Born in a small Hakka village in the Fujian province during the final years of Late Imperial China, she attended Yenching University in the capital, then referenced as Peking.

Born in Xuanwei, Qujing, Yunnan, Republic of China, as Pu Qiongying (), the daughter of an industrialist, she became a member of the Communist Party of China in 1938.

Born in Qin ’ an, Gansu and revered as " the Heavenly Khan ," or " Tian kehan " after defeating the Tujue, Li led China to develop into the most prosperous state of civilization seen in the world, which saw extravagant palaces, architecture, music, literature, and fine arts, long before Europe was in the Dark Ages.

Born in China and taking French citizenship in 1973, he was elected to the Académie française in 2002, and was the first person of Asian origin to be a member of the Academy.

Born Zhu Youcheng ( often mispronounced as " Zhu Youtang " since 樘 has two pronunciations, and according to records it is pronounced as " cheng ", meaning " foundation "), he was the son of the Chenghua Emperor and his reign as emperor of China is called the Hongzhi Silver Age.

Born in Beijing, Hao entered the China University of Geosciences in 1999.

Born in the Huayang district of Sichuan, in 1906 he was admitted to the national military academy in Paoting in north China.

Born in Fuzhou, China as the fourth of eleven children, he was raised in Beijing where his father was a justice of the ROC's Supreme Court.

His wife, a China Born National, is the second wife after his divorce with his first wife.

Born at “ Richfields ” ( his father's farm ), near Frederick, Maryland, Schley graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1860, and went as midshipman on board the frigate Niagara to China and Japan.

* Grandson of John Forbes, John Murray Forbes ( 1813 – 1898 ): Born in France, John Murray Forbes was the first of the family to enter the China trade and later invested in railroads and amassed a large fortune.

Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, Far was the daughter of Englishman Edward Eaton, a merchant who met her Chinese mother while on a business trip to Shanghai, China.

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.