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 in Paris, Eugene grew up around the French court of King Louis XIV.

Born in Paris, Cesbron attended what is now known as Lycée Condorcet.

Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was an eighth-generation descendant of Hugh Capet, and thus a member of the House of Capet, and the son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile.

Born in Lyon to a Jewish family, the son of the professor of ancient history Gustave Bloch, Marc studied at the École Normale Supérieure and Fondation Thiers in Paris, then at Berlin and Leipzig.

Born Anne de Lenclos in Paris, she was nicknamed " Ninon " by her father at an early age.

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

Born in Paris, the son of a lace designer Nicolas Boucher, François Boucher was perhaps the most celebrated decorative artist of the 18th century, with most of his work reflecting the Rococo style.

Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football.

Born in Paris, d ' Alembert was the illegitimate child of the writer Claudine Guérin de Tencin and the chevalier Louis-Camus Destouches, an artillery officer.

Born in Paris, Labrouste entered Collège Sainte-Barbe as a student in 1809.

Born in Paris, he was the third and last son, and would become Emperor Napoleon III of France ( 1852 – 70 ).

Born in Paris, he studied under Jacques-François Blondel, Germain Boffrand and Jean-Laurent Le Geay, from whom he learned the mainstream French Classical architecture in the 17th and 18th century and the Neoclassicism that evolved after the mid century.

Born in Paris, he made his name as a star of musical comedy, appearing in public as a singer and dancer at an early age before working in four menial jobs as a teenager.

Born in Paris, at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, he accompanied his father to the front and first came under fire at Saarbrücken.

Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there.

Born in Paris, Charles was the fifth son of Charles VI of France and Isabella of Bavaria-Ingolstadt.

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

Born in Paris, Armand du Plessis was the fourth of five children and the last of three sons: he was delicate from childhood, and suffered frequent bouts of ill-health throughout his life.

Born in Marseilles to a Jewish family from Aix-en-Provence, Milhaud studied in Paris at the Paris Conservatory where he met his fellow group members Arthur Honegger and Germaine Tailleferre.

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 La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Droz studied in Paris and won acclaim with his fine pattern piece known as the Écu de Calonne after the French finance minister.

Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger ( the first name was never used ) in Le Havre, France, he initially studied harmony and violin in Paris, and after a brief period in Zurich, returned there to study with Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d ' Indy.

Born in Paris, Bailly was the son of Jacques Bailly, an artist and supervisor of the Louvre, and was the grandson of Nicholas Bailly, also an artist and a court painter.

Born at the Eyüp Palace, Constantinople ( Constantinople ), on 9 / 18 February 1830, Abdülaziz received an Ottoman education but was nevertheless an ardent admirer of the material progress that was made in the West.

Born in Ashington, Northumberland, Charlton made his debut for the Manchester United first-team in 1956, and over the next two seasons gained a regular place in the team, during which time he survived the Munich air disaster of 1958 after being rescued by Harry Gregg.

The Born brothers were kept in a known Argentine State Intelligence safehouse for nine months until their June 1975 release, something made possible without public suspicion of outside involvement by the agency's numerous contacts inside the Montoneros ( including the leader, Mario Firmenich ).

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.

Robert Wise ( Born to Kill, The Set-Up ) and Anthony Mann ( T-Men, Raw Deal ) each made a series of impressive intermediates, many of them noirs, before graduating to steady work on big-budget productions.

He also made his album Born Free available to military members to download for free.

Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made more than thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

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

Born in Christchurch, Hadlee made his first class debut for Canterbury in 1971 / 72 and his test match debut in 1973-on both occasions, his first delivery was dispatched to the boundary.

Born in Bielefeld, Murnau had inspirations of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakesphere, and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and made friends with director Max Reinhardt.

Born in London to a headmistress and a travelling salesman, she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927, at the age of 18.

Born in London, Chamberlain made his career in Birmingham, first as a manufacturer of screws and then as a notable Mayor of the city.

Once Born to Run made Springsteen a major rock figure, " Sandy " received additional airplay on progressive and album oriented rock formats.

* exotic plastics – the " Milk ," by manufacturer Born Crucial ; the " Silk ," by manufacturer Alchemy ; and the " Gung Fu ," by manufacturer Death by Yo Yo, are made almost entirely from the low-friction plastic Delrin.

Giovanni Turini, a sculptor from Italy, who was born in 1841 and died in 1899, made the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a man he served in the fighting surrounding the unification of Italy, in Washington Square, and also the bust of Giuseppe Mazzini in Central Park ; Actress Anne Bancroft ( Brooks ) ( Born: September 17, 1931 – Died: June 6, 2005 ).

Born in Alba Pompeia in Italy, the son of freedman Helvius Successus, originally Pertinax made his way as a grammaticus ( teacher of grammar ), but he eventually decided to find a more rewarding line of work and through the help of patronage he was commissioned an officer in a cohort.

Born into a cricketing family — his grandfather and brother also captained Australia — Chappell made a hesitant start to international cricket playing as a right-hand middle-order batsman and spin bowler.

Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U. S. A. is designated as the first CD ever made in the United States.

Born in London, he made his first film appearance in 1944 but did not achieve lasting fame until the 1970s, when he took the starring role of Compo Simmonite in the long-running British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.

Born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, Keeler was brought up by her mother and stepfather in a house made from two converted railway carriages in the Buckinghamshire village of Wraysbury ( now part of Berkshire ).

Born in Le-Locheur ( near Caen, Normandie ), his family was of some position, though it seems not to have been able to establish to the satisfaction of heralds the claims which it made to nobility older than the 16th century.

Born in a small road named Kentons Lane in Windsor, Osgood was signed by Chelsea as a junior and made his debut as a 17 year-old in the League Cup, scoring both goals in a 2 – 0 win against Workington AFC on 16 December 1964.

Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney, Australia in 1911, and ultimately to London ( 1919 ), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times.

Born Alfred Ernest Christie, in London, Ontario, Canada, he was one of a number of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood who made their way to Hollywood, California, attracted by the newly developing motion picture business.