Born into a moderately rich peasant family in Huaminglou village, Ningxiang county, Hunan province, Liu attended Ningxiang Zhusheng Middle School ( 宁乡 驻省 中学 Nìng-xiāng zhù-shěng zhōng-xué ), and was recommended to attend a class in Shanghai prepared for studying in Russia.

Born into the very wealthy Cavendish family at Handsworth in the county of Yorkshire, William's family had a good relationship with the ruling Stuart monarchy and began to gather prominence after he was invested as a Knight of the Bath and soon inherited his father's Northern England estates.

Born at Great Marlow, in the county of Buckinghamshire, and christened James Robert Hope, he was the third son of Sir Alexander Hope, and grandson of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun.

Born in the county of Yang ( present day Hongdong, Shanxi ) in the late years of the Han Dynasty, Xu worked as a local administrative officer in his youth.

Born in the county of Qiao ( 谯, present day Bozhou, Anhui ), Cao Ren was a younger cousin of Cao Cao.

Born in Söjtör in the county of Zala, in south-western Hungary, Deák belonged to an ancient noble family.

Born in Hezaveh, a county of Arak and murdered in 1852, he is a controversial historical figure.

Born in Skien, in Telemark county, Norway.

Born in India to Scottish parents, Milne was educated at Winchester College in the county town of Winchester in Hampshire, followed by New College at the University of Oxford.

Born in Winchester, Virginia on January 28, 1741, Wood was from Frederick County, Virginia and represented the county in the House of Burgesses from 1766 to 1776.

Born in Elham, Kent in 1905, he was mentored by F A MacKinnon, an ex-county player who lived in the village, and then after leaving Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone by G J V Weigall, the county coach, who encouraged him to learn to wicket keep so that he would have a better chance of playing for the county as an all-rounder.

Born in Bucharest, Topîrceanu began his schooling in the city, and then moved to the hilly countryside of the Argeş county, in the Şuici commune, where he formed his taste for themes taken from nature.

Born at the Derries Upper, Killeshandra, County Cavan, his father was Big John O ' Reilly who played as goalkeeper on the Cavan county team and his mother was Sarah Anne.

Born in 1918 in Anxi, a mountainous county in southeastern Fujian province, China, Lim Goh Tong was the fifth child in his family.

Born near Blossom, Lamar County, Texas, Black attended Blossom's public schools and taught school in Lamar county from 1898 to 1900.

Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Bairstow excelled at school in several sports, and he played football several times for Bradford City, but eventually he settled on cricket, and played his first county match against Gloucestershire in 1970 after taking an A-level at 6am in order to play.

Born in 1947 at Hazlewood Castle in the English county of Yorkshire, Harbin grew up in Swillington Common, before emigrating with his parents to Australia at the age of ten, settling in Queensland.

Born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, Brockwell played his county cricket for the very strong Surrey side of the last years of the 19th century.

Born in Limpsfield, Surrey, Tony Lock had the weighty backing of HDG Leveson Gower and made his first-class debut for Surrey County Cricket Club at just seventeen years old in 1946, but did not play regularly for his county until 1949.

Zhou Dunyi ( Chou Tun-i ) ( 1017 – 1073 ) Born in Yingdao county, Daozhou prefecture, the southern region of Hunan province.

Born in London to Irish parents in 1851, he was prominently involved in the establishment of a GAA county board in London in the 1890s.

Born in the county and province of Ontario, the son of Noble and Sarah ( Lyons ) Lawrence, both of whom were natives of Ireland, he was educated in Zephyr, Ontario and Uxbridge, Ontario.

Born to a prominent Cossack family ( he was a descendant of Ivan Bohun ) in Kryva, Tarascha county, in Kiev Oblast, Honcharenko was the first Ukrainian political émigré to arrive in the United States.

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

Born to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia, Diocletian rose through the ranks of the military to become cavalry commander to the Emperor Carus.

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.

Born at Bourgueil, in the valley of the Changeon in the province of Anjou, his father was a lawyer, and, preparing Moses for his own profession, sent him, on the completion of his study of the humanities at Orléans to the university of Poitiers.

Born at Baflo, in the Dutch province of Groningen, Agricola was originally named Roelof Huusman.

Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica, Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian.

Born and raised in Mbewuleni, what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, Mbeki is one of four children of Epainette and Govan Mbeki.

Born in the town of Xi ' e in Nanyang Commandery ( located north of modern Nanyang City, Henan province ), Zhang Heng came from a distinguished but not very affluent family.

Born in Dardania, the Historia Augusta claimed Constantius was the son of Eutropius, a noble from northern Dardania, in the province of Moesia Superior, and Claudia, a niece of the emperors Claudius II and Quintillus.

Born into a lower-class family in Quảng Trị province, French Indochina as Lê Văn Nhuận ; little is known about Lê's family and childhood.

Born in Jiaocheng, Shanxi province, Hua joined the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) in 1938 as a part of counter-Japanese resistance, after having joined the Long March in 1936.

Born at Epiry, near Autun, he represented a family of distinction in Burgundy, and his father, Léonor de Rabutin, was lieutenant general of the province of Nivernais.

Born in Musashi province, Yoshinaka's father Minamoto no Yoshikata was killed and his domain was seized by Minamoto no Yoshihira in an intrafamily feud while he was still an infant.

Born to a Jewish family in Kraków, Poland, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian province of Galicia, Max Fleischer was the second oldest of six children of an Austrian immigrant tailor, William Fleischer.

Born in Henan province of China in 596 ( or, 602 or 603 ), from boyhood he took to reading religious books, including the Chinese classics and the writings of ancient sages.

Born the son of Abdul Haqhas, a Pashtun and native of the Sarobi district in Kabul province, Ahady holds a Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) and a Ph. D in political science from the post-graduate faculty of Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, north of Chicago.

Born in one of Canada's original provinces, Stewart moved west as part of a vast migration to the prairies, and settled in Alberta the year it became a province.

Born in Maiolati in the province of Ancona, now Maiolati Spontini, he spent most of his career in Paris and Berlin, but returned to his place of birth at the end of his life.

Born and raised in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, Harper's die-hard hockey fandom drove him to serve as a color commentator for Atlanta Flames radio broadcasts.

Born in Attimis, a comune in the province of Udine, Italy.

Born in Treceño in the province of Cantabria, he passed some of his youth at the court of Isabella I of Castile.

Born in Fenyi ( 分宜 ), Jiangsu province, Yan was skilled in poetry and his works are in The Collection at Ling Mountain House ( 鈐山堂集 Lingshantang Ji ).

Born in a small Hakka village in the Fujian province during the final years of Late Imperial China, she attended Yenching University in the capital, then referenced as Peking.