Born in Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for drug infusion pump AutoSyringe.

Born in New York City, Demme grew up in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York and attended South Side Senior High School.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Born in Jiaocheng, Shanxi province, Hua joined the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) in 1938 as a part of counter-Japanese resistance, after having joined the Long March in 1936.

Born in Long Prairie, but raised in North Minneapolis, Minnesota

* 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 Long Beach, California, to Donna and James M. Clarkson, Lana Clarkson was raised in the hills of Napa Valley, California.

Born in Long Island, New York, she grew up in Queens, then Yonkers, then Scarsdale.

Born in Bristol, England ; Long studied at the University of the West of England's College of Art during the years of 1962-5, then to St Martin ’ s School of Art and Design, London during 1966-68.

Born to English father Leslie Norman Clark and Welsh mother Doris ( née Phillips ), both nurses at Long Grove Hospital, in Epsom, Surrey, England, she was christened Petula Sally Olwen Clark.

Born in Long Beach in Harrison County on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Boggs was educated at Tulane University where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1934 and a law degree in 1937.

Born in Bristol, Tennessee, to Clarence Thomas Ford and Maud Long, Ford began his radio career as an announcer at WOPI-AM in Bristol, Tennessee.

" Born on the Fourth of July: The Long Journey Home ", AlterNet, posted June 13, 2005.

Born near Hempstead, New York on Long Island, Truxtun had little formal education before joining the crew of the British merchant ship Pitt at the age of twelve.

Born into a Jewish family in New York, Jane Bowles spent her childhood in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island.

Eric Dwayne Collins ( born June 20, 1968 ) better known by his stage name RBX ( standing for " Reality Born Unknown "), is a former rapper and R & B singer from Long Beach, California.

Born in Levittown, New York, his family soon moved to Long Beach, California.

Born in Glasgow as Anne Catherine Long, she was educated at the city's Our Lady and St Francis Secondary School ( became part of St Mungo's Academy in 1988 ) on Charlotte Street and the University of Glasgow where she was awarded a MA in politics with history .< ref >

Born Dorothy Mae Buffum in 1901 in La Fayette, Illinois, she moved to Long Beach, California, in 1904 with her family.

Born Richard Long, the son of Richard Penruddocke Long, he had assumed by Royal license the surname of Chaloner in lieu of Long in 1881, as a condition of inheriting the Guisborough estate and Gisborough Hall from his maternal great-uncle, Admiral Thomas Chaloner.

Born in Cooperstown, New York, but considered the Lakewood area of east Long Beach, California, to be his hometown.

Born in San Bernardino, California, Lemon's father, Earl Lemon, ran an ice business and later moved the family to Long Beach, California.

The miniseries Born by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson further examines Castle's roots, tracing them back to his third tour of the Vietnam War, where he undergoes a psychological and possibly supernatural transformation into the Punisher to survive a massive assault on his fortification by the combined forces of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army.

Born and raised in New York City, Gartel had the opportunity to teach Andy Warhol how to use the Amiga Computer, went to School of Visual Arts, with fellow art student, graffiti artist Keith Haring, where he earned his BFA degree majoring in Graphics, and started his electronic career working side by side with Nam June Paik at Media Study / Buffalo in upstate New York.

Born in Nam Hoi, Lei was ordained priest on 6 July 1955 and Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Hong Kong 3 July 1971, appointed Titular Bishop of Octaba 8 September 1971.

Born in Los Angeles, Holbrook grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, and began drawing at an early age.

Born to race car driver Ralph Lee Earnhardt, Earnhardt began his career in 1975 when he drove in the 1975 World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of the Winston Cup Series ( later the Sprint Cup Series ).

Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor, appearing in The Jack Benny Program, as well as the 1953 films Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and The Robe.

Born in Bakos ( باكوس ), Alexandria, Egypt, as the eldest son of an Egyptian primary school teacher, Fayed's first entrepreneurial venture began at school where he sold homemade lemonade.

Born in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Miyazaki began his animation career in 1961, when he joined Toei Animation.

Born into poverty in Sora, Lazio ( in either 1901 or 1902-sources are divided ), he began his career as a theatre actor in the early 1920s and joined Tatiana Pavlova's theatre company in 1923.

Born September 26, 1962 in Berkeley, California, she began her career as a child actress.

Born in Watertown, New York, he began his show business career playing the organ and acting in radio dramas at station WWNY.

In 1989, Jorge Born, president of the company from 1987 ( replacing Mario Hirsch ), began working closely with the government of Carlos Menem.

Born at Pitigliano, in southern Tuscany, Zuccarelli began his apprenticeship in Rome in c. 1713-14 with the portrait painters Giovanni Maria Morandi ( 1622-1717 ) and his pupil Pietro Nelli ( 1672-1740 ), under whose tutelage he learned the elements of design while absorbing the lessons of Roman classicism.

Born in Liévin near Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Carpentier began his career by progressing up through the weight divisions, fighting in every division from welterweight upwards.

Born in Amorium, Michael began his career as a soldier, rising to high ranks due to the favour of his old colleague, Leo V the Armenian ( r. 813 – 820 ).

Born in Alonsotegi, Biscay, Goikoetxea began his playing career as a youth with Arbuyo, before joining Athletic Bilbao in 1974.

Born and raised in New York City, Stanton began his career in 1947 at Irving Klaw's Movie Star News company, gaining employment by boasting he could draw better than any of the artists then working for Klaw.

Born in Los Angeles, California, he graduated from the University of Southern California law school and began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, but honed his skills at the Hal Roach Studios for the rest of that decade.

Born in Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, the daughter of Frank Watkin Hiller, a Manchester cotton manufacturer, and Marie Stone, Hiller began her professional career as an actress in repertory at Manchester in the early 1930s.

Born in Chicago, Silverstein began drawing at age 12 by tracing the works of Al Capp.

Never released as a single in U. S. and generally unknown upon its initial album release, " Rosalita " began to get FM radio airplay when an advance version of " Born to Run " was given out to rock radio stations.

Born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore ( present day Kottayam district, Kerala ), and after a brief stint with journalism and then studying political science at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service in the Nehru administration.

Born to a Kuomintang military family of Hunanese origin, Soong began his political career as a Secretary to Premier Chiang Ching-kuo ( later President ) and rose to prominence as Director-General of the Government Information Office from 1979 to 1984.

Born in Hayward, California, Evans began his career at age 12, appearing in various commercials.

Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.

Born in Upper Manhattan, New York to Dominican parents, Santana's career in show business began with a push from his parents who wanted to keep him off the tough streets of New York.

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.