Born in 1075, Magnus was the son of Erlend Thorfinnsson, Earl of Orkney, and he first served Magnus III of Norway as skutilsvein ( approx.

Born in Drammen, Norway he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life.

In 1987 Bente Blehr refused anonymity when an interview with her was published in " Born Guilty ", a collection of 12 interviews with children whose parent ( s ) collaborated with German forces in occupied Norway.

* Born of a Norwegian Mother and a German Father in Norway During WW II

Born in Skien, in Telemark county, Norway.

Born in Trondheim in Norway, he was the tenth child of alderman Jan Wessel, and the brother of later Rear-Admiral Caspar von Wessel.

Born in Christiania ( now Oslo ), Norway, he lived most his life in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Born in Essex, at Great Dunmow in 1742, Lionel Lukin became credited with the invention of the Lifeboat after some experimentation along the French lines in 1784 with his own conversion of a Norway ‘ yawl ’ which he tested out on the river Thames, and in 1785 having received the personal encouragement of the Prince Regent, Lukin took out a patent.

Born in Elverum, Norway, Dæhlie later moved to Nannestad, where he settled down.

Born in Tromsø, Norway, he immigrated to the United States at the age of seven.

Born in Frederikstad, Norway in 1869, Waldemar Ager grew up nearby in Gressvik -- just across the river Glomma.

Born in Molde, Norway, Ødegård made his poetic debut in 1967.

Born in Lyngdal in present-day Vest-Agder, he was Prime Minister of Norway from 1923 to 1924.

Born: Boto, Norway.

Born in Oakland, California, Ralston and his family moved to Norway, Michigan when he was eight years old.

Jørgen Larsson ( Born April 4, 1972 ) is a musician, sound artist and curator from Bergen, Norway.

Born in 1971 in Tromsø, Norway, Torske became involved with producing music and local radio before moving to Bergen, Norway.

Born in Stavanger, Norway, Slåttebrekk is acclaimed for his recordings of works by Maurice Ravel and Robert Schumann.

Born in Oslo, Norway, the son of Jens Essendrop Rude, a Norwegian engineer, and Amy Geraldine Elliot, an English woman educated in Germany, Rudé spent his early years in Norway.

Born in Oslo, Norway, she became a United States citizen in 1960.

Born in Rendalen parish in Norway, his father, Johannes Henrik Reinhardt, was a priest, and his mother, Johanne Elisabeth Mommesen, was from Holmestrand ( Norway ).

Born in 1918 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry, Freeman is best remembered for initiating the Food Stamp Program for under-resourced people which is still in use today.

Born in Munich, Germany as the child of a Norwegian U. S. Army chaplain, Mydland

Born in Park River, North Dakota, USA the son of an Icelandic father and a Norwegian mother, but grew up in Canada in Selkirk, Manitoba.

Born in Blädinge, Alvesta Municipality, Kronoberg County as the son of a farmer, Vennberg studied at Lund University and in Stockholm and worked as a teacher of Norwegian in a Stockholm folk high school.

* Born: Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer, 2007 LPGA Champion, in Oslo

Born to a wealthy family in Paris, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier inherited a large fortune at the age of five with the passing of his mother.

Born from a noble family of the province of Soule, his father Michel was born in Arrast-Larrebieu and his mother was Irish.

Born near Damascus in Syria, Abd al-Rahman, grandson of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, was the son of the Umayyad prince Mu ' awiyah ibn Hisham and a Berber mother.

Born in Germany before WWII of a German mother and an American father, Christopher joins the CIA after the war and becomes one of its most effective spies.

Born Shannon Elizabeth Fadal, Elizabeth's father is of Lebanese and Syrian Arab descent and her mother is of English, Irish, German, and Cherokee ancestry.

Born in ` Akká in March 1897, Shoghi Effendi was related to the Báb through his father, Mírzá Hádí Shírází, and to Bahá ' u ' lláh through his mother, Ḍíyá ' íyyih Khánum, the eldest daughter of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings.

Born in New Jersey, Solanas said that she was the victim of sexual abuse by her father ; and, after her parents ' divorce, she had a volatile relationship with her mother and stepfather as a teenager with her unruly behavior.

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 Los Angeles, Weaver was given the nickname Doodlebug by his mother when he was a child.

Born and raised in the United States from immigrant parents – a Hispanic / Mexican father, Francisco Estévez from Salceda de Caselas in Galicia ( Spain ) and a first-generation Irish mother, Mary-Anne Phelan from Borrisokane in County Tipperary – he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts.

Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsi near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe.

Born in Edinburgh, but raised in his mother, Nora Dalyell's family home, The Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian ; his father ( Percy ) Gordon Loch, C. I. E., was an Empire civil servant ( Political Agent ) and a scion of the Loch family.

Born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Cole — the third of six children of a dry goods-store owner and amateur-entertainer father and a former elementary school-teacher mother — was untrained in art except for the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course.

Born to American parents who lived in Paris, de Branges moved to the U. S. in 1941 with his mother and sisters.

Born in Antioch, and named Daoud, Cadfael's son never knew his father, but his mother Mariam always described Cadfael in loving terms.

Born Enes Bilalović in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to a Slovakian mother and a Bosniak father who had been Josip Broz Tito's tailor, he moved to Paris at the age of 9.

Born in London, she moved to the United States with her mother and U. S. Air Force stepfather at an early age.

Born to a chemist mother and a physicist father, Voevodsky attended Moscow State University and received his Ph. D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992, advised by David Kazhdan.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950, Hazel grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey because his mother, Grace Cook, wanted her son to grow up in an environment without the pressures of drugs and crime that she felt pervaded New York City.

Born in the United States, Hayden provides various voices of The Simpsons including Bart's unlucky best friend Milhouse Van Houten, teenage thug Jimbo Jones ( with Nancy Cartwright as Kearney and Tress MacNeille as Dolph ), Ned Flanders ' first-born son Rod Flanders ( Nancy Cartwright voices Todd Flanders ), Chief Wiggum's wife and Ralph Wiggum's mother Sarah, Lois Pennycandy ( Krusty the Clown's personal assistant who is infatuated with him, despite his bitter, cruel treatment of everyone who works for him.

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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 Leamington Spa, to a black father who had emigrated from Guyana and a white British mother, he started like his brother Dick to be trained in the art of boxing at Leamington Boys ' Club.