Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.

Born in 1855, Dr Leonard Cockayne ( generally recognised as the greatest botanist who has lived, worked, and died in New Zealand ) worked extensively on native plants throughout New Zealand and wrote many notable botanical texts.

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 in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14.

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 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 December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalie Della ( Garaventa ) and Antonino Martino Sinatra, and was raised Roman Catholic.

Born Allan George See in Mount Kisco, New York, the older of two children, born to Margaret ( née Shea ) See ( 1906-2004 ), who was a middle school dropout, who in turn worked for Reader's Digest.

Born in Santa Rita, New Mexico, Schmitt grew up in nearby Silver City.

Born Jeffry Ross Hyman to parents Charlotte ( née Mandell ) and Noel Hyman, they lived in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, where Jeffry and his future Ramones bandmates attended Forest Hills High School.

Born in Hornell, New York, United States, Freas ( pronounced like " freeze ") was the son of two photographers, and was raised in Canada.

Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Milford grew up in Winnetka, Illinois where he attended New Trier High School.

Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, MacLean concentrated on mathematics and science in high school.

Born in New York City, New York, Conant appeared as " Benji " in the 1971 coming-of-age drama, Summer of ' 42 and the Class of ' 44, appearing in both with Gary Grimes and Jerry Houser as a trio of adolescent boys.

Born in New York City, Falk was the son of Michael Peter Falk, owner of a clothing and dry goods store, and his wife, Madeline ( née Hochhauser ), an accountant and buyer.

Born in Rhode Island, he was taken with the Northups when they migrated to Hoosick, New York in Rensselaer County.

Born into a wealthy family in New York City, Roosevelt was a sickly child who suffered from asthma and stayed at home studying natural history.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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

Born at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, he attended school in Philadelphia with future naval heroes Stephen Decatur and Charles Stewart.

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

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the sixth child and third son of John Stairs and Mary Morrow, he attended school at Fort Massey Academy in Halifax, Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, Student # 52

Born at the Castle of Valentino in Turin he was the eldest surviving son of Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy and his wife Christine Marie of France.

Born Charles Edward Springall in the Elephant and Castle, Southwark, South London, he took his mother's maiden name for the stage and, later, television and film, achieving success as a comedian.

Born at the family home, Highclere Castle, in Hampshire on 26 June 1866, George Herbert was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, succeeding to the Carnarvon title in 1890.

Born at the Castle of Bruille in Hainaut in the Austrian Netherlands, he entered the Austrian army in 1753.

Born Elizabeth Gunning in Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, she was the daughter of John Gunning of Castle Coote, County Roscommon and his wife, Hon.

Born illegitimate and raised as a foster child, he subsequently advanced to the rank of a Dutch captain, a Swedish Field Marshal, and in Scotland became lord general in command of the Covenanters, privy councillor, captain of Edinburgh Castle, Lord Balgonie and Earl of Leven.

Born John Shelley, he was the only son of the second marriage of Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet, of Castle Goring ( see Shelley Baronets for earlier history of the family ) by Elizabeth Jane, daughter of William Perry and Elizabeth, daughter and heir of the Hon.

Born Marie Adrienne Koenig in New York City, New York and raised on the city's Lower East Side, she first began acting on the Broadway stage in 1906 with dancer Vernon Castle.

Born in Tepic, between 1828 – 1832, who on the morning of 13 September 1847, fought to prevent invading U. S. forces from capturing Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City.

Born in the Castle of Le Quesnoy in Hainaut, Jacqueline, from her birth, was referred to as " of Holland ", indicating that she was the heiress of her father's estates.

Born in New Castle County, Delaware, Medill attended the University of Delaware and graduated in 1825.

Born in Dromoland, Newmarket on Fergus, County Clare, he was the second son of Sir Edward O ' Brien, 4th Baronet, of Dromoland Castle.

Born in Dudley Castle, Staffordshire, Henry Dudley was the second son of John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley, and the younger brother of Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley.

Born in the late 19th century to a Prussian noble family who had relocated to Strucker Castle in Bavaria following the Franco-Prussian War, Wolfgang von Strucker became a Heidelberg fencing champion, and was disfigured by facial scars.

Born at Greystoke Castle, near Penrith, Cumberland, Howard was the youngest son of Henry Howard, son of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard, younger brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk.

Born Penelope Devereux at Chartley Castle in Staffordshire, she was the elder daughter of Walter Devereux, 2nd Viscount Hereford, later 1st Earl of Essex and Lettice Knollys, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey, and sister of William Knollys, later 1st Earl of Banbury.

Born in Possenhofen Castle, her father was Karl-Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, head of a cadet branch of the Bavarian royal family, and an ophthalmologist of recognized reputation.

Born in Castle Rock, Colorado, he studied the Japanese language in 1942 at the University of Colorado at Boulder, with colleague Donald Keene.

Born at Castle Hedingham, in Essex, Hilton entered Guy's Hospital in 1824.

Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, but lived for most of his life in Farnham, Surrey, where he regularly appeared on stage at the Castle Theatre.

( Born at Alnwick Castle, seat of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.

Born in Odawara Castle in 1562, Ujinao was the grandson of Hōjō Ujiyasu, and was first named Kuniōmaru.

Born at Leeds Castle in Kent, England — owned by his maternal Culpeper ancestors since the 1630s — Lord Fairfax succeeded to his title in 1709.