* " Born to Rock " guitar exhibit at Harrods, London, February 2007, featuring the 1931 Rickenbacker " Frying Pan ".

Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age ; he attended school in London and Margate.

Born in Milk Street in London on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of Sir John More, a successful lawyer, and his wife Agnes ( née Graunger ).

Born in London England, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was privately educated.

Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne ( 1751 – 1818 ) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

Born in London, Blunden was the eldest of the nine children of Charles Edmund Blunden ( 1871 – 1951 ) and his wife, Georgina Margaret née Tyler, who were joint-headteachers of a London school.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of London where he achieved an MA degree in 1912.

Born in Chelsea, London, to a family descended from Huguenots ( the name was an Anglicisation of " Perthuis "; his full surname being " de Perthuis de Laillevault "), he was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee, who played Chief Warden Hodges in the comedy Dad's Army ( coincidentally, Jon Pertwee was the writers ' first choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army ).

Born in London, Niven attended Heatherdown and Stowe before gaining a place at Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

Born in Kensington, London as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, Tree was the second son and second child of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm ( 1810 – 1892 ), of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant.

Born into a working-class family in Ponders End, Middlesex, Tebbit went to Edmonton County School, an academically selective state school in north London.

Born in Maida Vale, London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweller and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor Sir Israel Gollancz ; after being educated at St Paul's School, London and taking a degree in classics at New College, Oxford, he became a schoolteacher.

Born in London on 14 April 1889, Arnold J. Toynbee was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford.

Born in London, Anthony attended Harrow School as a free day pupil for three years from the age of seven because his father's farm, acquired for that reason, lay in that neighbourhood.

Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, London, he was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford.

Born in London, Hogg was the son of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, who was Lord Chancellor under Stanley Baldwin, and grandson of another Quintin Hogg, a merchant, philanthropist, and educational reformer.

Born in London to a headmistress and a travelling salesman, she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927, at the age of 18.

Born in London, Chamberlain made his career in Birmingham, first as a manufacturer of screws and then as a notable Mayor of the city.

* Bruce Springsteen ( born 1949 ), born in Long Branch and raised in Freehold Borough, New Jersey, wrote Born to Run in a cottage here.

Born in Lowestoft, he attended Fen Park School and then Lowestoft Grammar School, and afterwards Borough Road College where he studied Mathematics and Psychology.

Born in the London Borough of Hackney to a family of St Lucian heritage, Nelson attended Central Foundation Boys ' Grammar School ( now known as Central Foundation Boys ' School ) in Cowper St, Islington, London EC2 and Westminster Kingsway College.

Born in Romford, London Borough of Havering in 1984, he attended Billericay's Mayflower County High School.

Born in Hackney, Benn was the second son of Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet.

Born in Hackney, east London, to an English father and Welsh mother in 1961, Collins and her older sister were brought up by their mother.

Born in Stoke Newington, North London, to devout Jewish immigrant parents of modest means, Levy was educated at Grocers, later known as Hackney Downs Grammar School.

Born in Hackney, London, England, Berger was educated at St Edward's School, an independent school for boys in Oxford.

Marion Akin, aka Miss Whiplash in her prime. Born in Hackney, London, Lindi St Clair's real name was Marian June Akin.

It was suggested, in the book Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson, that the Templars went underground among masons in England and later developed into Freemasons.

* John J. Robinson ( 1990 ), Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry, ISBN 0-87131-602-1 ; Chapters 1 – 5 concern the Peasants ' Revolt.

Born in Riverdale, Illinois, Robinson ran her first 100 meter race on March 30, aged 16.

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Born in Crosby, Robinson is of Irish descent.

Born in Lebanon, Connecticut, the second son of Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. ( the eventual Governor of Connecticut ) and his wife Faith Robinson, daughter of Rev.

Born in Taunton, Somerset, Robinson made his England debut against Australia on 12 June 1988, and gained eight caps, playing his last match on 18 November 1995 against South Africa.

Born in Lonoke, Arkansas, Robinson attended the University of Arkansas and studied law at the University of Virginia.

* John J. Robinson, historian and author of Born in Blood

Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Oakland, California, Flood played in the same outfield in West Oakland's McClymonds High School as Vada Pinson and Frank Robinson.

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas to Brooks Calbert and Ethel Mae ( née Denker ) Robinson.

* Holton D. Robinson ( 1886 ), Born in Massena, NY he invented stronger suspension bridge cable, and built such famous spans as the Manhattan Bridge and the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

Born Thomas Robinson, his surname was Weddell from 1803 and de Grey from 1833.

Born in National City, California, Robinson was the youngest of four children of a lawyer and a teacher.

Born in London, Hart was educated at Desborough School, Maidenhead, Robinson College, Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

The initial lineup also included the " Nick at Nite Movie ," which aired nightly and included such classic films as The Red House with Edward G. Robinson and A Star is Born with Janet Gaynor and Frederic March.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day in 1937, he was the first actor to portray the character of Gordon Robinson on the long-running PBS children's TV program Sesame Street.

Born Matthew Thomas Robinson Jr., to Matthew Robinson Sr. and Marie Robinson on January 1, 1937.

He was the subject of the film Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas, by Jonathan Robinson, which featured a soundtrack by Kip Hanrahan.

Born in Farmington, Utah Territory to George F. Richards and Alice Almira Robinson, his father served many years in the Quorum of the Twelve.

Born in Castleford, Yorkshire or Armley, Leeds, Robinson emigrated to Canada to continue his studies after completing his first degree at the University of Leeds.

* Max Robinson, AO, QPM: Born 21 February 1929.