Born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of German immigrants, at a young age Wiedoeft started playing with his family orchestra, first on violin, then on clarinet.

) is a former NASA astronaut, who flew on the Space Shuttle and Space Station Mir Born and raised in Eastpointe, Linenger graduated from East Detroit High School in 1973.

Born John Henry Kendricks in Detroit, Michigan, Ballard along with his brother, Dove Ballard, grew up and attended school in Bessemer, Alabama after the death of their father.

Born George Stenius in South Bend, Indiana, Seaton moved to Detroit after graduating from college to work as an actor on radio station WXYZ.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Wynne began his musical career as a gospel singer.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 16, 1927, Ray Johnson grew up in a working-class neighborhood and attended an occupational high school where he was enrolled in the advertising art program.

Born to a French Canadian and Shawnee mother in Detroit.

Among the more unusual recipients are Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ( Detroit, 1980 ), Sam Born, for inventing a machine that mechanically inserted sticks into lollipops ( San Francisco, 1916 ), and " Scarlett's Magic " ( Corona, 2010 ), a cat listed in the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records as World's Tallest Cat.

Born the oldest of four children in Detroit, Michigan, his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he began his education attending public schools.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Mosed moved to Lackawanna as a child when his father's automotive job with Ford Motor Company was relocated to the Buffalo plant.

Born in Detroit, Michigan on May 19, 1941, Hoffa attended Cooley High School.

Born of Croatian immigrants, in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of eleven he was signed by Warner Brothers Pictures, to be groomed as a child star, and he also performed on the radio on Station KFWB in Los Angeles, California.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Okrent graduated from Cass Technical High School in Detroit in 1965 and from the University of Michigan where he worked on The Michigan Daily.

Born January 16, 1955, and raised in Eastpointe, Michigan, Linenger graduated from East Detroit High School 1973.

Born in Detroit, Ruwart holds an undergraduate degree in biochemistry ( B. S., 1970 ), and a graduate degree in biophysics ( Ph. D., 1974 ) from Michigan State University.

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architect in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J. Selznick, and films for Fox Film Corporation such as New Movietone Follies of 1930.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Frank Rosolino studied the guitar with his father from the age of 9.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Nastasi played Gramps the animal expert on Wixie Wonderland before he took over Clyde Adler's role on Lunch with Soupy, playing characters like White Fang, Black Tooth, Pookie, and Hippy.

Born in Detroit in 1936, Levi Stubbs began his professional singing career with friends Abdul " Duke " Fakir, Renaldo " Obie " Benson, and Lawrence Payton, forming a singing group called The Four Aims in 1954.

Born in Danville, Indiana, Thompson entered the National League in with the Detroit Wolverines and played his first full season in.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, and growing up in Nebraska City, Nebraska, he was the younger brother of Joy Morton, founder of Morton Salt, and the son of Julius Sterling Morton, who had served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Grover Cleveland.

Born into a working-class family in Detroit, Michigan, Herlihy is known for his novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down and his play Blue Denim, all of which were adapted for cinema.

Born Carolyn Jean Cheeks in Detroit, Michigan, she graduated from the Detroit High School of Commerce.

Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

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 in Itri, he was a devout monk and learned casuist, trained at Avignon.

Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.

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.

Born in Hadleigh, Suffolk, Woolner trained with the sculptor William Behnes, exhibiting work at the Royal Academy from 1843.

Born in Dayton, Ohio, Cartwright moved to Hollywood in 1978 and trained alongside voice actor Daws Butler.

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 in Plainfield, New Jersey, Evans was classically trained, and studied at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Born at Rappoltsweiler in Alsace, France on 13 January 1635, trained by a devout godmother who used books of devotion like Arndt's True Christianity, Spener was convinced of the necessity of a moral and religious reformation within German Lutheranism.

Born in Walthamstow, London, and raised in Slough, Bell moved to North Yorkshire with his family in 1968, where he trained as an artist at the Teesside College of Art.

Born in Versailles in 1663 and trained at the Paris Academy under Charles Le Brun, he came to England in 1683, where he first worked with Antonio Verrio, and then on his own.

Born in Harwich, Essex, he trained at Colchester School of Art in Colchester and Central St Martins College in London.

Born in Vienna, Haid trained both as a dancer and singer and became the epitome of the Süßes Wiener Mädel (" Sweet Viennese Girl ") and a popular pin-up throughout the 1920s and 30s.

Born Filippo Lippi in Prato ( Tuscany ), the illegitimate son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti, Filippino first trained under his father.

Born in Heidelberg as the son of a tailor, he himself was trained as a saddle-maker.

Born in Greenville, Texas, Locklear was brought up in Fort Worth, and trained as a carpenter.

Born in Ireland, Burke had trained as a lawyer before abandoning this field and turning to writing.

Born in Dundee, Scotland, he was educated at the High School of Dundee, after which he trained as a lawyer and a cartoonist, working his way up through the profession as an assistant to a variety of nobles.

Born at Centelles, Catalonia, he originally trained as a civil engineer ( Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, in spanish ).

Born in Samrong Young, Cambodia, Ngor trained as a surgeon and gynecologist.

Born into a large and well to do family ( with 6 sisters and 5 brothers ) in Dubrovnik, Držić was trained and ordained as a priest — a calling very unsuitable for his rebel temperament.

Born to a ceramic potter and a bank director in Geldern, Germany, Struth trained at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1973 until 1980 where he initially studied painting under Peter Kleemann and, from 1974, Gerhard Richter.

Born in Ponor, Alba County, Ciorbea trained as a jurist ( graduating from the University of Cluj-Napoca in 1979 ), and worked for the municipal tribunal in Bucharest, as well as lecturing in Law at the University of Bucharest.