Born in Leicester to Ada and William Snow ( a church organist and choirmaster ), Charles was the second of four boys ( his brothers being Harold, Eric and Philip Snow ).

Born in Leicester, Atkins was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys.

Born in Hanover, West Germany, to Bajan parents, he lived in Leicester, England and attended Rushey Mead School, before moving to Miami, Florida.

Born in West Runton in 1952, Sugden initially studied pharmacy at Leicester Polytechnic before starting a PhD at the University of East Anglia.

Born in Leicester, Heskey started his career with Leicester City after progressing through their youth system, making his first team debut in 1995.

Born in Blaby, Leicestershire, he was educated at Alderman Newton ’ s Grammar School Leicester and the College of Law Guildford, qualifying as a solicitor in 1973.

Born Wenman Roberts, he was the son of Philip Roberts and Anne, sister of Lord Leicester, and assumed the surname of Coke in lieu of Roberts.

Born in Maidstone, Kent, Edwards took a degree in Politics at the University of Leicester.

Born in Bishop Auckland, Soulsby attended the Minchenden School ( a grammar school, which merged with Arnos School in 1984 to become Broomfield School although the former building is now used by Southgate College ) on High Street in Southgate London, and then he studied at the City of Leicester College of Education in Scraptoft ( part of Scraptoft Hall, which later was to become the Scraptoft Campus of De Montfort University until its closure in 2003 ) where he gained a BEd.

Born in Leicester, he was 41 years old, and a temporary captain in the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War when he was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 30 November 1917 at Masnières and Les Rues Vertes, France:

Born in Cardiff, Wales, Bowden was a councillor on Leicester City Council 1938 – 45 and president of Leicester Labour Party in 1938.

Born in Lancashire, he spent three years in the army before making his first steps in the far right with the Racial Preservation Society in Leicester in the late 1960s.

Born in Leicester, England, into a working-class family, Allen was the elder of two brothers.

* Born: Kate Winslet, British film actress ( Titanic ), in Reading, Berkshire ; Parminder Nagra, British film actress ( Bend It Like Beckham ), in Leicester ; and Gao Yuanyuan, Chinese television actress, in Beijing

Born in Glasgow and brought up in the Gorbals, McLintock started his career in the Scottish Juniors with Shawfield, before moving to Leicester City in 1957 as a wing half, making his debut for them in 1959.

Born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, Richard Armitage attended Huncote Community Primary School in Huncote, Blaby District, Leicestershire.

Born Matilda Fitzroy, her maternal grandparents were Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth of Vermandois.

Born in 1800 in Leicester, Massachusetts, Washburn attended Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.

Born in Preston, Lancashire, Walsh won the 1984-85 Freight Rover Trophy with Wigan before following Bryan Hamilton to Leicester for £ 100, 000, where he soon established himself as a non-nonsense central defender.

Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

Born in Exeter, England, and raised on cricket, Chadwick was one of the prime movers in the rise of baseball to its unprecedented popularity at the turn of the 20th century.

Born into a large family in Dudley, England, Whale early discovered his artistic talent and studied art.

Born in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, the twelfth and last child of Thomas Wedgwood and Margret Wedgwood ( née Stringer ; d. 1766 ), Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters.

Born in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England, he attended Bristol Grammar School.

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 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 Wellington, Shropshire, England, he attended Edinburgh Medical School from 1762 to 1766.

Paley was Born in Peterborough, England, and was educated at Giggleswick School, of which his father was headmaster, and at Christ's College, Cambridge.

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.

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.

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

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

Born into a Welsh family living in Wallasey, England, in 1893, Lewis was studying English and French at Liverpool University when the First World War broke out.

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.

Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to a Welsh father, Brinley (" Bryn ") Newton-John, and a Berlin-born mother, Irene Helene ( Born ), the eldest child of the Nobel prize-winning atomic physicist Max Born.

Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England.

Born the son of Jeffrey Amherst ( d. 1750 ), a Kentish lawyer, and Elizabeth Amherst ( née Kerrill ), Jeffery Amherst was born in Sevenoaks, England, on 29 January 1717.

Born Emmeline Goulden and raised in Moss Side, Manchester, England by politically active parents, Pankhurst was introduced at the age of 8 to the women's suffrage movement.

Other songs have different names in different places, for instance in England there is an old ballad known as A Brisk Young Sailor Courted Me, however exactly the same song in North American Bluegrass is known as " I Wish My Baby Was Born ".

Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II during 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada.

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 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.