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.

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 as Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg to English parents, Edgar Philip Rathbone, a mining engineer and scion of the Liverpool Rathbone family, and Anna Barbara ( née George ), a violinist, he had two older half-brothers, Harold and Horace, as well as two younger siblings, Beatrice and John.

Born in Ballybane, County Galway, Ireland, although some sources claim Liverpool, he emigrated to England and worked as a ship radio operator at the age of 14.

Born in Liverpool, McDonnell's family moved to the south of England when he was very young ; his father became a bus driver and was a branch secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union.

Born in Liverpool, Johnson moved to Ireland in the 1890s when he became involved in trade union and labour politics.

Born in Merseyside, he was educated at the local Huyton Secondary School, the Kirkby College of Further Education, and the Liverpool John Moores University.

Born Mary Jane Blair in 1843, Liverpool, to an Irish Catholic family, Mary's family had been in show business for some years, and she grew up to be a theatrical " Jane of All Trades "-stagehand, usherette, bit-part actress.

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 Birkenhead, Cheshire ) ( now part of Merseyside ), Taaffe first joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, before joining the Labour Party where he was attracted to the radical element in the Liverpool Labour Party.

Born on Rodney Street in Liverpool, Monsarrat was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Born in Liverpool, United Kingdom, the son of a Ford, Austin and Morris dealer, Booth has always had a passion for cars and the automotive industry.

Born in England in 1931 of Irish immigrant parents and raised in Liverpool, Professor has vivid memories of the World War II wartime Blitz there and, while his elementary school was closed because of the bombing, of being homeschooled by his mother whose own education in a tiny village on the edge of Connemare had ended at the age of 14.

Born in Liverpool, Merseyside, Lee rose through the ranks at Liverpool after joining on an apprenticeship in September 1975, making his first team debut on 8 April 1978, as a 6th minute substitute for David Johnson.

Born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England, Rodney Robert Porter received his Bachelors of Sciences degree from the University of Liverpool in 1939 for Biochemistry.

Born Christopher Crummy in Oldham, Lancashire in 1941, Curtis came to Liverpool when he was four and went to primary school where he met Mike Prendergast.

Born in Almeley, Herefordshire, Harris married Emily Dickinson, a widow, in Liverpool in 1848.

Born to Adolf's half-brother, Alois Hitler, Jr., and his first wife, Bridget Dowling in Liverpool, William later moved to Germany and subsequently escaped, eventually going to the United States where he enlisted to fight in World War II.

Born in Walton, Liverpool, she is the daughter of a butcher who had a shop in Toxteth.

Born in Rothwell, Leeds, West Yorkshire, Smith started his career with Leeds and scored in his first team debut against Liverpool, aged 18.

Born on 15 May 1863 in Liverpool, England, Hornby was the son of John Oswald Hornby, a provision merchant and his wife Martha Hornby ( née Thomlinson ).

Born in Liverpool, Roberts was educated at St Mary's College, Crosby and the University of Oxford ( Keble College, now Honorary Fellow ), graduating with a degree in Modern Languages in 1968 and proceeded to take his MA in 1972.

Born in Liverpool in 1950, Quilliam gained her Psychology degree at the University of Liverpool followed by a PGCE.

Born in Cölln on the Spree, George William was the son of John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg and Anna of Prussia.

The brief biography of Malory goes thus: Born on 6 December 1425 at Morton Court, Shropshire, he was the eldest son of Sir William Malory, representative of Parliament to Cambridgeshire.

Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox at Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Wetherby, Yorkshire, he was the son of William Lane-Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, a sister of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton.

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 William Hitchcock, he and his brother Henry had followed the lead of their father, Walter Henry Hitchcock, in assuming their mother's maiden name of Degacher in 1874.

* A Star Is Born ( 1937 film ), starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, directed by William A. Wellman

Born to another naval Rivers, Lt. William Rivers, R. N., then stationed at Deptford, Henry Rivers followed many family traditions in being educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and entering the church.

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, William Edwards Deming was raised in Polk City, Iowa on his grandfather Henry Coffin Edwards's chicken farm, then later on a farm purchased by his father in Powell, Wyoming.

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

Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of William Ritchie Sorley.

Born in 1719 in Ulster, Ireland, William and his brother Thomas were able to leave Ireland before oppression and depression reached its peak.

Born in Marion, Indiana, Davis grew up on a small farm in Fairmount, Indiana, with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine ( Carter ) Davis, brother Dave and 25 cats.

Born in Manassa, Colorado, with the name of William Harrison Dempsey, he grew up in Colorado, West Virginia and Utah, in a poor family of mixed ancestry.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gere is a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims Francis Eaton, John Billington, George Soule, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, William Brewster, and Francis Cooke.

Born Sibyl Mary Collings, daughter of William Frederick Collings, she inherited the title when her father died on 14 June 1927.

Born at Chester about 1524, he was son of William Whittingham, by his wife, a daughter of Haughton of Hoghton Tower, Lancashire.

Born in Staunton, Virginia, Breckinridge attended William and Mary College ( now the College of William and Mary ) where he was taught by George Wythe.

Born in Cle Elum, Washington to Francis William Scobee and Edlynn ( Miller ) Scobee, Scobee attended Auburn Senior High School, Cascade Middle School, and Washington Elementary in Auburn, Washington.

Born to a Jewish family in Kraków, Poland, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian province of Galicia, Max Fleischer was the second oldest of six children of an Austrian immigrant tailor, William Fleischer.

Born in London, Cusins entered the Chapel Royal in his tenth year and studied music in Brussels under François-Joseph Fétis and later at the Royal Academy of Music ( RAM ) in London, under Cipriani Potter, William Sterndale Bennett, Charles Lucas and Prosper Sainton.