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 New Haven, Connecticut of Russian Jewish heritage, Capp was the eldest child of Otto Philip and Matilda ( Davidson ) Caplin.

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 Berlin, Germany to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in January 1936, emigrating with his family to the United States.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Neusner was educated at Harvard University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( where he received rabbinic ordination ), the University of Oxford, and Columbia University.

Born in Lyon to a Jewish family, the son of the professor of ancient history Gustave Bloch, Marc studied at the École Normale Supérieure and Fondation Thiers in Paris, then at Berlin and Leipzig.

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.

Born Paul Bernard into a Jewish family in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France, he was the son of an architect.

Born in Chicago, with Jewish origins, he attended schools in New York and later graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge in England.

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 to a poor Jewish family in Dessau and originally destined for a rabbinical career, Mendelssohn educated himself in German thought and literature and from his writings on philosophy and religion came to be regarded as a leading cultural figure of his time by both Germans and Jews.

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 into a prosperous ethnic German Jewish family in Arverne, Queens, New York City, Rodgers was the son of Mamie ( Levy ) and Dr. William Abrahams Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Abrahams.

Born Harold Rubin in New York City, he later claimed to be a Jewish orphan who had been raised in a Catholic boys home.

Born David Selznick to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was the son of silent movie distributor Lewis J. Selznick and Florence A.

Born in Marseilles to a Jewish family from Aix-en-Provence, Milhaud studied in Paris at the Paris Conservatory where he met his fellow group members Arthur Honegger and Germaine Tailleferre.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, Shahak was the youngest child of a cultured, religious, pro-Zionist, Ashkenazi Jewish family.

Born in London, son of John Abraham ( Jack ) Finzi ( of Italian Jewish descent ) and Eliza Emma ( Lizzie ) Leverson ( daughter of Montague Leverson, of German Jewish descent ), Finzi nevertheless became one of the most characteristically " English " composers of his generation.

Born in London to a Lutheran Saxon merchant and his Jewish wife, when he was three his family relocated to

Born to Jewish parents in San Francisco, his family was financially ruined by the 1906 earthquake.

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.

Born in Budapest of Jewish descent, Gábor was the third and last daughter of Vilmos Gábor ( 1884 – 1962 ), a soldier, and Jolie Gábor ( 1894 – 1997 ), a jeweler.

Born into a middle-class Jewish family, Einhorn studied at the University of Pennsylvania.

Born in the town of Piteşti, north-west of the capital Bucharest, Antonescu was the scion of an upper-middle class Romanian Orthodox family with some military tradition.

Born in Bucharest, he was the son of Romanian Land Forces officer Gheorghe Eliade ( whose original surname was Ieremia ) and Jeana née Vasilescu.

Born in Romania, Tristan Tzara, a poet and essayist, is the main founder of Dada, a nihilistic revolutionary movement in the arts, and may have been responsible for its name ( Romanian for " Yes yes ").

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 Bucharest the son of a Jewish tailor, he spoke Yiddish, Romanian, German, and French.

Petre " Freakadadisk " Urda, who had collaborated with the group on their 1996 album, Născut şi crescut în Pantelimon ( Born and raised in Pantelimon ), had been a full-time member of Morometzii before joining Romanian hip hop pioneers Parazitii in 1998 and DJ Dox was also working with R. A. C. L. A.

Born into a Jewish family, Korner was a member of the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) in 1932-1933.

Born on June 19, 1915, Julius Schwartz, grew up on 817 Caldwell Avenue in The Bronx, to his Romanian immigrant parents, who emigrated from a small town outside Bucharest, Romania.

Born in Vienna ( at the time, the capital of the Austrian Empire ) as the son of Vincenţiu Babeş, an ethnic Romanian from the Banat region, he studied in Budapest, then in Vienna, where he received his doctorate in Science.

Born in Răşinari, near Sibiu, he was an active member in the Romanian nationalistic movement in Transylvania and of its leading group, the Romanian National Party ( PNR ) in Austria-Hungary.

Born Leo Jacob in New York City to a Jewish family of Russian and Romanian extraction.

Born in Dortmund, Germany in 1946 to a Romanian father ( Romulus Gaiţă ) and a German mother ( Christine Anna Dörr ), he arrived in Australia in 1950 at the age of four.

(" How Was the Romanian People Born?

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920, to Jewish immigrant parents, as the son of a Romanian mother and Russian father.

Born in Markovka in the province of Kharkov in Ukraine to a peasant family, Yeryomenko was drafted into the Imperial Army in 1913, serving on the Southwest and Romanian Fronts during World War I.

Born Princess Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan in Paris, she was a descendant of the Bibescu and Craioveşti families of Romanian boyars.

Born to a Jewish family of Romanian descent, and raised in Los Angeles, California, he graduated cum laude from UCLA.

Born in Comăneşti, Bacău County, and a miner from age 12, he joined the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) in 1945.

Born in Topliţa to Gheorghe and Domniţa Cristea, a peasant family, he studied at the Saxon Evangelical Gymnasium of Bistriţa ( 1879 – 1883 ), at the Greek-Catholic Lyceum of Năsăud ( 1883 – 1887 ), at the Orthodox Seminary of Sibiu ( 1887 – 1890 ), after which he became a teacher and principal at the Romanian Orthodox school of Orăştie ( 1890 – 1891 ).

Born in Izmail ( in Bessarabia, now part of Ukraine ), he rose through the ranks of the Romanian Army and, during the World War I Battle of Mărăşti, he commanded the Second Corps.

Born in Caracal, he was advanced to a leadership position in the Romanian Army during World War I, and served as Minister of Defense in the second Miron Cristea cabinet ( March-October 1938 ).

God Was Born in Exile ( French: Dieu est né en exil ) is a novel by Romanian author Vintilă Horia, for which he was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1960, though he was never handed the prize following allegations that surfaced after his nomination that he had once been a member of the Iron Guard.

Born in Bucharest, Wallachia, he made his stage debut in 1835 and, in 1838, organized a theatre company in Iaşi, Moldavia, which became part of the first Romanian National Theatre.