Born on 31 July 1858 to Thomas Oldham, a Fellow of the Royal Society and geologist, Oldham was educated at Rugby School and the Royal School of Mines.

Born in Derker, Oldham, Lancashire, Cribbins served an apprenticeship at the Oldham Repertory Theatre, taking a break during his years of study to undertake national service with the Parachute Regiment in his late teens.

Born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, Wolfenden was a product of the Oldham Athletic youth system, having been with the club since the age of 9, Wolfenden made his first team appearance as a late substitute during a 1 – 0 defeat to Swindon Town in the then Second Division on 15 November 2003, making him the second youngest player to ever play for the Latics at the age of 16 years and 115 days.

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 in Oldham, Lancashire, Karen Elson attended North Chadderton School in Chadderton as a child, with her twin sister, filmmaker Kate Elson.

Born the son of Nicholas Radcliffe ( d. 1599 ) of Overthorpe, West Yorkshire, Radcliffe was educated at Oldham and at University College, Oxford.

Born Frances Kathleen Oldham in Cobble Hill on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Kelsey graduated from high school at age 15, and attended Victoria College, British Columbia ( 1930-1931 ) in Victoria, British Columbia ( now University of Victoria ).

Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Boon joined the Inspiral Carpets in 1986 after previously playing in a band called The Mill.

Born in Oldham, Lancashire, May started his career with Blackburn Rovers as a trainee before graduating to the first team in 1988.

Born in Oldham, Lancashire, he provided the voices for many characters on British television for nearly fifty years, most notably the characters of both Zippy and George on Rainbow, which the actor first joined in the early 1970s and performed on until it was axed in 1992.

Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Maynard was brought up on the island of Anglesey in north Wales where he first joined Glamorgan.

Born into an upper-middle-class family in Blundellsands, Lancashire, Gardner spent much of his childhood abroad in Madeira.

Born in Preston, Lancashire, his father Charles was a doctor who had converted to Roman Catholicism, following his brother Edward Healy Thompson, a friend of Cardinal Manning.

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

Born in Salford, Lancashire, England, his father was a lay Methodist preacher and metalsmith by trade ; his mother's family were of Irish Protestant origin.

1894 Born in Leigh, Lancashire, as John Edward Jones, and educated at Leigh Grammar School where he specialised in classics.

Born into a musical family in Blackburn, Lancashire, Gray was encouraged to pursue a musical career from an early age.

Born in Salford, Lancashire, to Irene Acton ( 1928 – 2000 ; since 1962 Irene Hook ), and John Woodhead.

Born in Middleton, Manchester, Lancashire, he began his career as a stand-up comedian and impressionist, working as a voice artist throughout the 1980s on satirical puppet show Spitting Image.

Born in Newmarket, Ontario, the son of John and Alice ( Dixon ) Townley, both of whom were natives of Lancashire, England, Townley was educated in the public schools of Newmarket and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1882 from the Trinity College, Toronto.

Born Constance Place in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, she comes from a political family: her father, Allen Place, was an activist in the Independent Labour Party, as was his mother, Dinah Place, who was also a suffragette.

Born in Burnley, Lancashire, Salmon studied at University of Warwick and graduated in 1977 with a degree in European literature.

Born in Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire, Maclean was the eldest son of John Maclean, a cordwainer originally of Kilmoluag, in the Inner Hebrides, and his wife Agnes Macmellin.

Born into a working class family in the Langworthy area of Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, Eccleston is the youngest of three sons of Elsie and Ronnie Eccleston.

Born into a lower-middle-class background in Layton, Blackpool, Lancashire, Hoyle was heavily bullied for his homosexuality as a child, leading to a mental breakdown aged fourteen.

Born in Lancashire, England, Burroughs acted in live theatre at Ontario's Stratford Festival.

Born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, he attended Clitheroe Royal Grammar School.

Born in Chadderton, Lancashire, Platt began his career as an apprentice at Manchester United but later moved to Crewe Alexandra where he began building a reputation as a goal scoring midfield player.

Born in Farnworth, Lancashire

Born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, Jeans was educated at Merchant Taylors ' School, Northwood, Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell and Trinity College, Cambridge, he finished Second Wrangler in the university in the Mathematical Tripos of 1898.

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 in Lancaster, Lancashire, he came through the ranks at Blackburn Rovers, eventually signing professionally for them in 1995.

Born in Bahrain, Al Tajir was educated at Preston Grammar School in Lancashire.

Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens.

Following the purchase of of prime pampas wheat fields, Bunge & Born established Centenera, their first food processing plant, in 1899.

Bunge & Born provided the Menem government with its first two economy ministers, and the combination of large rate increases on public services ( around 500 %), a simplified exchange rate and a massive, mandatory wage hike led to a sharp economic turnaround between July and November 1989.

Born in Kowal, Casimir the Great first married Anna, or Aldona Ona, the daughter of the Prince Gediminas of Lithuania.

Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films.

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 Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz ( a customs official ) and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four.

Kid Rock released Born Free on November 16, 2010 and it debuted at No 5 selling 189, 000 copies in its first week.

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 Burlington, Iowa, on May 15, 1874, Mason was the eldest son of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey and Mary Josephine Mason Remey, the daughter of Charles Mason, the first Chief Justice of Iowa.

Her first appearance with Ronald Reagan came in one of the latter, Ford Theatre, during a 1953 episode titled " First Born ".

Born in 1641 in Alençon, France, he became a pastor first at Saint-Agobile Champagne, and then at Charenton, near Paris.

Born in the city of Málaga in the Andalusian region of Spain, he was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco ( 1838 – 1913 ) and María Picasso y López.

The foundations of quantum mechanics were established during the first half of the 20th century by Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Louis de Broglie, Arthur Compton, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Born, John von Neumann, Paul Dirac, Enrico Fermi, Wolfgang Pauli, David Hilbert, Wilhelm Wien, Satyendra Nath Bose, Arnold Sommerfeld and others.

The first appearance of a Vietnam veteran in film seems to be The Born Losers ( 1967 ) featuring Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack.

While temporarily at the University of Copenhagen, German physicist Werner Heisenberg formulated his famous Uncertainty principle, and, with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, accomplished the first complete and correct definition of quantum mechanics, through the invention of Matrix mechanics.

Born at Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, United Kingdom, Lloyd George was a Welsh-speaker and of Welsh descent and upbringing, the first and so far only Welsh politician to hold the office of Prime Minister.

* Thomas Aubert ( Born 1500's ), navigator and one of the first French explorers of the New World

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.

Born in Chelsea, London, to a family descended from Huguenots ( the name was an Anglicisation of " Perthuis "; his full surname being " de Perthuis de Laillevault "), he was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee, who played Chief Warden Hodges in the comedy Dad's Army ( coincidentally, Jon Pertwee was the writers ' first choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army ).

Born in Lavelanet, France, Barthez made his first division debut for Toulouse on 21 September 1991, against Nancy.

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince developed an interest in music at an early age, writing his first song at age seven.

Born in Parma, he worked first under Agostino Carracci in Bologna, then Annibale Carracci, in Rome.

Born in Mogadishu, supermodel Iman ( model ) | Iman was the first Somali people | Somali woman to appear on the cover of Vogue in 1979 and to sign a cosmetics contract.