Born and generally active in Mantua about 1540 ( Brulliot says 1560 ) and died at Rome in 1623.

Born as Rinaldo di Jenne in Jenne ( now in the Province of Rome ), he was, on his mother's side, a member of the family de ' Conti di Segni, the counts of Segni, like Pope Innocent III and Pope Gregory IX.

Born in Rome in the region of the Via Lata, Valentine was the son of a Roman noble called Leontius.

Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the dignity of Cardinal-Priest of Sant ' Eusebio, in 1629.

Born in Rome, Leone was the son of the cinema pioneer Vincenzo Leone ( known as director Roberto Roberti or Leone Roberto Roberti ) and the silent film actress Edvige Valcarenghi ( Bice Waleran ).

Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven sons of Count Ludovico Pecci and his wife Anna Prosperi Buzzi.

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

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 Ferrara, for 21 years he was professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna, and in 1500 he also lectured in mathematics at Rome.

Born in Versailles, Houdon won the Prix de Rome in 1761 but was not greatly influenced by ancient and Renaissance art in Rome.

Born to a distinguished family in Rome, son of the Defensor Theodore, Nicholas received excellent training.

Born in Rome, he spent his career in the papal court.

Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Gaul, and at Rome ; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon.

Born in Trieste, Mathilde Bonaparte was raised in Florence and Rome.

Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician, Sordi enrolled in Milan's dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent.

Born in Rome, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs.

Born at Chieti, he was carefully educated by his uncle, Monsignor Celestino Galiani, at Naples and Rome with a view to entering the church.

Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from François Devosges, where he learned that a strong, simple contour was an invaluable ingredient in the plastic arts In 1809 he went to Paris from the Dijon school of art, and became a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, obtaining the Grand Prix de Rome in 1812.

Born Attius Clausus, a Sabine ; brought his family and retainers to Rome in 504 BC, and was admitted to the patriciate.

Born in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà was the seventh son of Count Ascanio Savorgnan di Brazzà, a nobleman of Udine with many French connections, and his wife Giacinta Simonetti.

Born in Venice, he worked in Treviso ( 1503 – 1506 ), in the Marche ( 1506 – 1508 ), in Rome ( 1508 – 1510 ), Bergamo ( 1513 – 1525 ), in Venice ( 1525 – 1549 ), Ancona ( 1549 ) and finally as a Franciscan lay brother in Loreto ( 1549 – 1556 ).

Born in Benediktbeuern, he moved to Rome in 1711 to study at the Accademia di San Luca with Carlo Maratta.

Born on June 24, 1835, she was named Elizabeth Peabody Alcott in honor of the teaching assistant at the Temple School.

Born in Orbe, today in Switzerland, she was the daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia.

Born in 1347, she arrived when the black death struck the area ; Siena was badly ravaged.

Born Aikaterini ( Catherine ) Konstantopoulou in Piraeus, Greece, she trained as an opera singer, and appeared in the operatic version of Maeterlinck's " Sister Beatrice ," with a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos, but changed career and joined the Greek Royal Theater in 1929.

Born into a family of varying religious outlooks, she searched for a form of religion that gave an expression of the faith that she had been formally acquainted with, Christianity.

Born in Alexandria in 1935, she learned to play the saw at the age of seven, with Poland-Austrian Anton Stein.

Born Mary Therese Winifred Bourke in Ballina, County Mayo, in 1944, she is the daughter of two medical doctors.

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

" Born Fawn Knutsen, she ran away from the family farm outside Moorhead, Minnesota, and soon found herself making pornographic videos under the name " Bunny La Joya.

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

Born in Virginia, she had studied at Hampton Institute and the Massachusetts State Normal School at Framingham.

Born into an observant Jewish family but an atheist by her teenage years, she was baptized on January 1, 1922 into the Roman Catholic Church.

Born on October 12, 1891, she was a very gifted child who enjoyed learning.

Her career as the primary actress of Fox Studios continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born ( 1937 ).

In 1937, she was again nominated for an Academy Award, this time for her role in A Star Is Born.

Born into a family of British nobility as The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, she became Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon when her father inherited the Scottish Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904.

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.

Born in Uppsala, she first came to public notice in the 1930s, and was one of the main driving forces in the creation of the Swedish welfare state.

Born in Montmorillon, Vienne, she is sometimes called the " High Priestess of French erotic literature.

Born in Italy, she was the twin sister of St. Benedict of Nursia.

Receiving positive notices for Adam's Rib, Holliday was cast in the 1950 film version of Born Yesterday, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Born as Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, she was the only daughter of Dean of Jersey, Rev.

Born in Cincinnati, she was educated at a private girls ’ school in Farmington, Connecticut.