Born in Geneva, he worked as a tutor, language teacher, journalist and a translator for the Swiss federal Chancellery ( 1869 – 1873 ).

Born in Geneva, Pradier left for Paris in 1807 to work with his elder brother, an engraver.

Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the second daughter of Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence ( 1198 – 1245 ) and Beatrice of Savoy ( 1205 – 1267 ), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his second wife Margaret of Geneva.

Born in Morges on Lake Geneva, he worked as a professor of medicine at the University of Lausanne.

Born in Geneva in present-day Switzerland, Gallatin immigrated to America in the 1780s, ultimately settling in Pennsylvania.

Born in Boone, Iowa and named, in part, after the popular song Lovely Lake Geneva, Mamie Geneva Doud was the second child born to John Sheldon Doud, a meatpacking executive, and his wife, the former Elivera Mathilde Carlson.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 13, 1936, Prince Karim was declared healthy despite being born prematurely.

Born in Geneva, du Simitiere's original name was Pierre-Eugène Ducimetière or Pierre-Eugène du Cimetière.

Born in Geneva, he was twenty-one years old when he began to attend the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and from 1837 to 1839 studied at the Ecole des Mines.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, his father was an artist and in 1805 moved the family to Russia to find work.

Born at Geneva, Agasse studied in the public art school of that city.

Born in Geneva, New York, to educator, William Kirkland and author, Caroline Mathilda ( Stansbury ) Kirkland, he was a businessman in Chicago, then served in the Union Army during the Civil War, reaching the rank of major.

Born to a Czech father and a Spanish mother and raised in the Canary Islands ( Spain ), Blahnik graduated from the University of Geneva in 1965 and studied art in Paris.

Born in Vienna, Austria, Neumann received degrees from the University of Rennes, the Consular Academy of Austria, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland ( formerly Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales, HEI ) and the University of Michigan.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 1942, Louis Schweitzer has a degree in law and is a graduate of France's elite Institut d ' études politiques de Paris ( Sciences Po ) and École nationale d ' administration.

Born in Ohio, Chardavoyne lived for six years in Geneva, Switzerland where he attended the International School of Geneva.

Born in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Williams was informally acquainted with many of the people who developed and influenced the original Dungeons & Dragons game, going to school with Gary Gygax's son Ernie and participating in a gaming group that Gary used to playtest some of the AD & D rules.

Born in Geneva, he studied at the Conservatoire there, and later with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.

Born at Geneva, he was elder son of Captain Frederick Franks, R. N., and of Frederica Anne, daughter of Sir John Saunders Sebright.

Born in Geneva, at 25, he was designated honorary professor of ethics and the law of nature at the university of Geneva.

Francis Walker was the son of John Walker of Arnos Grove a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Linnean Society and the Royal Horticultural Society. Born into a wealthy and highly educated family Francis spent the years 1816 ( when he was seven years old ) to 1820 ( when he was eleven ) in Switzerland at Geneva, Lucerne and Vevey where the family party was joined by Madame de Staël, the poet Lord Byron and some Swiss naturalists gathered around Nicolas Théodore de Saussure.

Born in Snow Hill on December 22, 1821.

Born in Bolton and educated in Rochdale after the death of his father, he was apprenticed from 1814 to 1821 to a merchant in Liverpool.

Born in Newmilns in 1821, Joseph Hood became a major player in the lace industry.

Born in 1805 at Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg, Virginia, Preston entered Hampden-Sydney College in 1821, where he was active in literary and forensic activities.

Born in Lübeck, his ancestors for three generations had been Protestant pastors ; his father Christian Adolph Overbeck ( 1755 – 1821 ) was doctor of law, poet, mystic pietist and burgomaster of Lübeck.

Born at Orléans, he studied the classics at the Collège de France, and in 1821 was appointed assistant professor of Greek.

Born in Abbey, County Galway, Ireland, on September 22, 1821, Conness was the youngest of fourteen children.

Born in Warsaw, Lelewel was educated at the Imperial University of Vilna, where in 1814 he became a lecturer in history, with a brief sojourn at Warsaw, 1818 – 1821, where he joined the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning.

Born on 10 September 1821 in Cowes in the Isle of Wight, the son of Sir William and Elizabeth Jervois, a military family of Huguenot descent.

His children, in order of birth, were: 1 ) John ... Born 1818 ; 2 ) Robert ... Born 1820 ; 3 ) Alexander ... Born 1821 ; 4 ) Charles ... Born 1824 ; 5 ) Euphemia ... Born 1826 ; 6 ) Agnes ... Born 1828 ; 7 ) James Edward ... Born 1830 ; and 8 ) Helen Amelia ... Born 1833.

Born in Victoria, British Columbia, she was the daughter of Teresa Jane Grautoff and Joseph Despard Pemberton ( 1821 – 93 ).

Born at Annapolis, Maryland, Kilty was appointed midshipman on July 4, 1821.

* Born Torquay, Devon, 1 August 1821

Born at Morges in Switzerland, she was the daughter of Johann Nikolaus Böhl von Faber, a Hamburg merchant, who lived long in Spain, married a native of Cádiz, and is creditably known to students of Spanish literature as the editor of the Floresta de rimas antiguas castellanas ( 1821 – 1825 ), and the Teatro español anterior a Lope de Vega ( 1832 ).

Born in Fife, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada in 1821 and established himself in Montreal, Quebec as a successful Scots-Quebecer merchant.

Born in Salisbury, he was the son of Dr John Keynes ( 1805 – 1878 ) and his wife Anna Maynard Neville ( 1821 – 1907 ).

Sir Walter Elliot ( 1803 – 1887 ), Born in Edinburgh, studied at the East India College in Haileybury and joined the Indian Civil Service at Madras in 1821 and worked on till 1860.

Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan moved with his family to the United States when he was 11 years old.

Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.

Max Born suggested that the electron's position needed to be described by a probability distribution which was connected with finding the electron at some point in the wave-function which described its associated wave packet.

Born into an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Plebeian Octavii family, Augustus was adopted posthumously by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC following Caesar's assassination.

Born on June 24, 1835, she was named Elizabeth Peabody Alcott in honor of the teaching assistant at the Temple School.

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 at Medina del Campo, he was the son of Ferdinand I of Aragon ( known as Ferdinand of Antequera ) and Eleanor of Alburquerque.

Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens.

Born at Poissy, Alphonse was a son of Louis VIII, King of France and Blanche of Castile.

Born in Munich, Drexler was a machine-fitter before becoming a railway locksmith in Berlin in 1902.

Born in Orbe, today in Switzerland, she was the daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia.

Born from a noble family of the province of Soule, his father Michel was born in Arrast-Larrebieu and his mother was Irish.

Born near Damascus in Syria, Abd al-Rahman, grandson of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, was the son of the Umayyad prince Mu ' awiyah ibn Hisham and a Berber mother.

Born at the Eyüp Palace, Constantinople ( Constantinople ), on 9 / 18 February 1830, Abdülaziz received an Ottoman education but was nevertheless an ardent admirer of the material progress that was made in the West.

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 York City, he was the son of Edith Adelson Lerner and Joseph Jay Lerner, whose brother, Samuel Alexander Lerner, was founder and owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops.

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

Born with the given name of ` Abbás, he was named after his grandfather Mírzá ` Abbás Núrí, a prominent and powerful nobleman.

Born in Saudi Arabia, Nami had served as a muezzin and was a college student.

Bunge y Born was a multinational corporation based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose diverse interests included food processing and international trade in grains and oilseeds.