Born on 4 October 1887 in Colombo, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), Horsfall was educated at S. Thomas ' College, Mount Lavinia in Ceylon and at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School, Marlow in England.

Born in Potenza, Basilicata on 11 April 1920, Colombo entered politics as a member of the Christian Democratic Party.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Franzese is the son of reputed Colombo Underboss John " Sonny " Franzese.

Born in Kollupitiya in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where his father was principal of a teacher-training college, Bradby was educated at Rugby School in Rugby, England, where " he developed a passion for directing plays, taking over the production of light comedy from his English master ".

Born in Colombo ( in what is now Sri Lanka ) to English parents, Butler moved back to Britain as a child.

Born in Chilaw, Ceylon, he was the son of Dr. James Alfred Ernest Corea and Letitia Grace Alice Seneviratne.

Born in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) to a Burgher family of Dutch and Indian origin, Ondaatje went to Blundell's School in the United Kingdom.

Born in Ceylon ( Now known as Sri Lanka ) in 1907 where his father, a tea planter, died before he was three years old.

Born in Paris, Cesbron attended what is now known as Lycée Condorcet.

Born in Memleben, in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Henry was the son of Otto the Illustrious, Duke of Saxony, and his wife Hedwiga, daughter of Henry of Franconia and Ingeltrude and a great-great-granddaughter of Charlemagne.

Born into a wealthy middle-class family in Trier ( formerly in Prussian Rhineland, now called Rhineland-Palatinate ), Marx studied at both the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians.

Born in Ebingen, Kingdom of Württemberg ( now Baden-Württemberg ), Kiesinger was educated in Berlin and became a lawyer.

Born as Rinaldo di Jenne in Jenne ( now in the Province of Rome ), he was, on his mother's side, a member of the family de ' Conti di Segni, the counts of Segni, like Pope Innocent III and Pope Gregory IX.

Born and raised in Mbewuleni, what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, Mbeki is one of four children of Epainette and Govan Mbeki.

Born in 1809 in Liverpool, England, at 62 Rodney Street, William Ewart Gladstone was the fourth son of the merchant Sir John Gladstone from Leith ( now a suburb of Edinburgh ), and his second wife, Anne MacKenzie Robertson, from Dingwall, Ross-shire.

Born in Kladno, Austria-Hungary ( now in the Czech Republic ), Cermak emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1874.

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 1932 in Lviv ( now a city in Ukraine, it was part of Poland at the time ).

Born in Homerton in the London Borough of Hackney, London, Robinson attended the independent Woodford Green Preparatory School followed by Wanstead High School in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge.

Born in Saint Boniface ( now part of Winnipeg ), Manitoba, Roy was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy.

DAF sold its passenger car division, along with what is now the NedCar factory in Born, in 1975 to the Swedish company Volvo Cars, leaving DAF to concentrate on its successful line of trucks.

Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old.

Born Ernest Evan Thompson in South Shields, County Durham ( now part of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear ), England of Scottish parents, Seton's family migrated to Canada in 1866.

Born in St. Andrews, Lower Canada ( now Saint-André-d ' Argenteuil, Quebec ) to Rev.

Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home — now known as " Constable Country "— which he invested with an intensity of affection.

Born in South Haven, Michigan, as the third son of farmers Liberty Hyde Bailey Sr. and Sarah Harrison Bailey, Bailey entered the Michigan Agricultural College ( now Michigan State University ) in 1878 and graduated in 1882.

Born in at No. 17 rue de l ' Arbre à Poires ( now rue Sadi-Carnot ) in Cambrai, Louis was the first of five children born to Clémance and Charles Blériot.

Born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, Keeler was brought up by her mother and stepfather in a house made from two converted railway carriages in the Buckinghamshire village of Wraysbury ( now part of Berkshire ).

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 " somewhere near 1844 " at the Humboldt Lake in what is now western Nevada, Sarah Winnemucca was the daughter of Chief Winnemucca ( Poito ) and Tuboitonie.

Born in Hamburg, son of a police constable, Schmidt moved with his widowed mother to Lauban ( in Lusatia, then Lower Silesia, now Polish ) and attended the secondary school in Görlitz.

* Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ), Nothing Sacred ( 1937 ), A Star is Born ( 1937 ) and Made for Each Other are now in the public domain.

Born as son of Ashutosh Chakravarthy in 1872 in Kolkata, Sudhirchandra Chakravarthy joined the Alambazar monastery of the Sri Ramakrishna Math in 1897.

Born as the son of Trailokyanath Bose and Nishadkalidevi on 10 June 1873, Virajananda was the first person to join the Ramakrishna Order after the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna.

Born in Malaysia to Tamil Hindu parents, Kamahl is of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage.

Born and educated in Sri Lanka, he currently lives in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Born Martin Garmage in the village of Kirinde in Matara, Sri Lanka, Dhammananda spent most of his life and career in Malaysia.

Born and raised in London, England, of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry.

Born in Sri Lanka.

" Born in Matara in southern Sri Lanka, De Silva is now resident in Great Britain and has performed to packed concert halls across the world.

In other fictional television works, a January 1971 episode " By the Pricking of My Thumbs ..." of the British science fiction TV series Doomwatch featured a 16-year-old XYY boy expelled from school because of his genetic condition, a November 1993 episode " Born Bad " of the American police procedural TV series Law & Order portrayed a 14-year-old XYY sociopathic murderer, and the May 2007 season finale episode " Born To Kill " of the American police procedural TV series CSI: Miami depicted a 34-year-old XYY serial killer.

Born in Hammersmith, Gary Anthony James Webb was the son of a British Airways bus driver based at Heathrow Airport.

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.

* 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 ".

* " Cavendish Foods ", a fictional supermarket chain appearing on the British sitcom To the Manor Born

Born in Leamington Spa, to a black father who had emigrated from Guyana and a white British mother, he started like his brother Dick to be trained in the art of boxing at Leamington Boys ' Club.

Born Lynn Ridgway in Collingwood, Ontario, she was raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

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.

* Joe Sumner ( Born 1991 ), British Gangster

Born in Valletta on July 10, 1887, he is a son of a British sailor from Cornwall and a gypsy Andalusian witch and prostitute known as " La Niña de Gibraltar ".

* Georgina Born ( born 1955 ), British anthropologist and musician

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 Mansfield George Smith on 1 April 1859 in British India, the youngest in the family of five sons and eight daughters of Colonel John Thomas Smith ( 1805 – 1882 ) of the Royal Engineers, of Föelallt House, Cardigan Kent, and his wife, Maria Sarah Tyser.

Born in the East End, he became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, then photographer for John Cole's Studio Five before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine in 1960.

Born in Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine, to Jewish parents from Hungary and Austria, Geller is the son of Itzhaak Geller ( Gellér Izsák ), a retired army sergeant major, and Manzy Freud ( Freud Manci ).

Born in Toronto, Canada, Guggisberg joined the British army in 1889.

To the Manor Born is a British sitcom that first aired on BBC1 from 1979 to 1981.

Born and raised in Selukwe ( now Shurugwi ), a small rural town in the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, Smith served in the Southern Rhodesian Air Force and British Royal Air Force during the Second World War and, after graduating from Rhodes University in South Africa, bought a farm in his home town in 1948.

Born a British subject in the West Indies, he moved to the United States with his parents and became a citizen.

Born in the colony of New Brunswick ( now in Canada ), he is the only British Prime Minister to have been born outside the British Isles.