Born in Brooklyn, Zappalorti moved to Staten Island in 1950, his family settling in the latter borough's Charleston neighborhood.

Born Amabel Ethelreid Normand in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, she grew up in extreme poverty.

Born on Staten Island, Broome studied law with William Livingston, but about 1762 abandoned a legal career to join his brother Samuel in a partnership to import British goods.

Born in Meherrin, Virginia, Clark grew up in Staten Island, New York and lived as a teenager in Washington, D. C. where his father worked at the Washington Navy Yard.

Born Patricia Buckley ( called Pat ) on Staten Island in New York City, she attended Washington Irving High School for the Fine Arts in Manhattan.

Born David Parker and known for his comedic rhymes, Busy Bee originally gained a large following through MC rap battles in Staten Island, Brooklyn, and New Jersey.

Born in New York on June 22, 1888, Seeger moved with his family to Staten Island at the age of one and remained there until the age of 10.

Born c. 370 on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube in present day Romania, Alaric belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Tervingian Goths.

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.

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

Born in New York City, Demme grew up in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York and attended South Side Senior High School.

Born in Nagano, Japan, Kobayashi set his first record at his rookie appearance on July 4, 2001, when he ate 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes at the Nathan's Coney Island hot dog-eating contest, doubling the previous record of 25.

Born in Long Island, New York, she grew up in Queens, then Yonkers, then Scarsdale.

Born on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Ikki Kita ’ s real name was Kita Terujirō ( 北 輝次郎 ).

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Marsden's mother, Linda Marsden, is a former fashion model, and his father, Myles Marsden, is a former Premier danseur of the Yugoslav National Ballet and Founder of the first regional ballet company in New England called State Ballet of Rhode Island .< ref >

Born in Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Hopkins was the second of nine children of William and Ruth ( Wilkinson ) Hopkins.

Born in Rock Island, Illinois, he served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from January 1893 to January 1897 and served as Speaker of the House.

Born in Inverness on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island, MacEachen graduated from St. Francis Xavier University, and lectured in economics for several years at the school.

Born at St. Francis Hospital in Blue Island, Illinois, Bertrand was brought up in the nearby small town of Riverdale.

Born near Hempstead, New York on Long Island, Truxtun had little formal education before joining the crew of the British merchant ship Pitt at the age of twelve.

Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Decatur was a merchant captain before the Revolution.

Born into a Jewish family in New York, Jane Bowles spent her childhood in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island.

Born in Illinois, Fitzgerald graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School, a Catholic boarding school on the shores of Rhode Island, in 1978 and from Dartmouth College in 1982.

Born in New York City, he was educated at the United States Naval Academy in Newport, Rhode Island.

Born: March 9, 1864, Coles Island, New Brunswick, Canada.

Born in Naples, Italy, Capone moved to New York City with his family and grew up in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn.

Born in Rhode Island, McLaughlin earned two master's degrees ( philosophy and English literature ) from Boston College, and a Ph. D. ( philosophy ) from Columbia University.

Born in Yokohama Chinatown, Japan ( though she is of partial Chinese descent ) as Linn Minmei, Minmay moved in with her uncle Shaochin ( 少江 ) and aunt Feichun ( 慧中 ) on South Ataria Island in hopes of finding the path to fulfill her dream of becoming a star.

Born in Central Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, the daughter of Ralph R. Callbeck and Ruth Campbell, she received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mount Allison University in 1960 and a Bachelor of Education degree from Dalhousie University in 1962.

Scavullo also created shots for various movie posters, album covers and Broadway shows, including one for A Star is Born ( featuring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson ), a portrait of Julie Andrews for Blake Edwards ' Victor Victoria., and the cover and in-sleeve photos of Donna Summer for her Once Upon A Time and Live and More double albums.

Born in Los Angeles, Holbrook grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, and began drawing at an early age.

Born to race car driver Ralph Lee Earnhardt, Earnhardt began his career in 1975 when he drove in the 1975 World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of the Winston Cup Series ( later the Sprint Cup Series ).

Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor, appearing in The Jack Benny Program, as well as the 1953 films Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and The Robe.

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 Bunkyō, Tokyo, Miyazaki began his animation career in 1961, when he joined Toei Animation.

Born into poverty in Sora, Lazio ( in either 1901 or 1902-sources are divided ), he began his career as a theatre actor in the early 1920s and joined Tatiana Pavlova's theatre company in 1923.

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

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

In 1989, Jorge Born, president of the company from 1987 ( replacing Mario Hirsch ), began working closely with the government of Carlos Menem.

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 Liévin near Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Carpentier began his career by progressing up through the weight divisions, fighting in every division from welterweight upwards.

Born in Amorium, Michael began his career as a soldier, rising to high ranks due to the favour of his old colleague, Leo V the Armenian ( r. 813 – 820 ).

Born in Alonsotegi, Biscay, Goikoetxea began his playing career as a youth with Arbuyo, before joining Athletic Bilbao in 1974.

Born and raised in New York City, Stanton began his career in 1947 at Irving Klaw's Movie Star News company, gaining employment by boasting he could draw better than any of the artists then working for Klaw.

Born in Los Angeles, California, he graduated from the University of Southern California law school and began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, but honed his skills at the Hal Roach Studios for the rest of that decade.

Born in Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, the daughter of Frank Watkin Hiller, a Manchester cotton manufacturer, and Marie Stone, Hiller began her professional career as an actress in repertory at Manchester in the early 1930s.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Born in Chicago, Silverstein began drawing at age 12 by tracing the works of Al Capp.

Never released as a single in U. S. and generally unknown upon its initial album release, " Rosalita " began to get FM radio airplay when an advance version of " Born to Run " was given out to rock radio stations.

Born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore ( present day Kottayam district, Kerala ), and after a brief stint with journalism and then studying political science at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service in the Nehru administration.

Born to a Kuomintang military family of Hunanese origin, Soong began his political career as a Secretary to Premier Chiang Ching-kuo ( later President ) and rose to prominence as Director-General of the Government Information Office from 1979 to 1984.

Born in Hayward, California, Evans began his career at age 12, appearing in various commercials.

Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.

Born in Upper Manhattan, New York to Dominican parents, Santana's career in show business began with a push from his parents who wanted to keep him off the tough streets of New York.

Born near Alexanderplatz in Berlin to a middle-class Jewish family as Bruno Schlesinger, he began his musical education at the Stern Conservatory at the age of eight, making his first public appearance as a pianist when he was nine.