Born in Treviso, Totila was a relative of Theudis, king of the Visigoths.

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 San Martino di Lupari, Carlo Agostini studied at the seminary in Treviso, and was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Andrea Longhin, OFM Cap, on 24 September 1910.

Born at born at Possagno in the Province of Treviso, Cunial was ordained priest in 1929.

Born in the Italian province of Treviso in 1757, he was educated by his grandfather and his artistic talent was quickly noticed, especially by a Senator by the name of Giovanni Falieri who introduced him to the sculptor Torretto, who he would apprentice for two years.

Born in Treviso, he was an important figure of the Italian literature of the first half of the 20th century.

Born in Bozdağan or Manisa, Murad III was the eldest son of sultan Selim II ( 1566 – 74 ), and succeeded his father in 1574.

Born in Brussels the second ( but eldest surviving ) son of Leopold I and, he succeeded his father to the throne on 17 December 1865 and remained king until his death.

Born in Lisbon, the son of King Afonso V of Portugal by his wife, Isabella of Coimbra, princess of Portugal, John II succeeded his father in 1477 when the king retired to a monastery, but only became king in 1481, after the death of his father and predecessor.

Born John Shute, had had assumed by Act of Parliament the surname of Barrington in lieu of his patronymic in 1716, having previously succeeded to the estates of Frances Barrington, married to his cousin.

Born in 1053 or 1054 he succeeded his father Ramon Berenguer I the Old to co-rule with his twin brother Ramon Berenguer, in 1075.

Born in 1024, he succeeded his father, Berenguer Ramon the Crooked in 1035.

Born in Torgau, he succeeded his father as elector in 1486 ; in 1502, he founded the University of Wittenberg, where Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon taught.

Born on 13 September 1734 Thomas Thynne succeeded his father as 3rd Viscount Weymouth in January 1751 and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for a short time during 1765, although he never visited that country.

Born at Raynham Hall, Norfolk, Townshend succeeded to the peerages in December 1687, and was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.

Born in Barcelona, he was ordained as a priest in 1974, became Auxiliary Bishop of Barcelona ( and Titular Bishop of Nona ) in 1993, Coadjutor Bishop of Urgell in 2001 and in 2003 succeeded as Bishop of Urgell.

Born at Bordenau ( now a part of Neustadt am Rübenberge, Lower Saxony ) near Hanover, into a farmer's family, he succeeded in educating himself and in securing admission to the military academy of William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe at the fortress Wilhelmstein.

Born in Motswedi, Mangope worked as a high school teacher until 8 August 1959, when he succeeded his father Lucas as Chief of the Motswedi Ba hurutshe-Boo-Manyane tribe.

Born William Chichester, he succeeded to the estates of his cousin William O ' Neill, 3rd Viscount O ' Neill, in 1855 ( on whose death the viscountcy and barony of O ' Neill became extinct ) and assumed by Royal license the surname of O ' Neill in lieu of Chichester in order to inherit the lands of his cousin, despite not being descended in the male line from an O ' Neill.

Born at Le Fousseret, Haute-Garonne, and educated as a priest, Sicard was made principal of a school for the deaf at Bordeaux in 1786, and in 1789, on the death of the Abbé de l ' Épée, succeeded him at Paris.

Born in Penshurst, Kent, he married Elizabeth Barne and succeeded her father as Lord Mayor of London ( 1573 / 74 ).

Born in Saluzzo, Cuneo, he became commandant of the ( military ) region of Piemonte-Valle d ' Aosta in 1974 and created an anti-terrorism structure in Turin, which succeeded in capturing in September 1974 Red Brigades members Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini, with the help of Silvano Girotto, also known as frate mitra (" Machine Gun Friar "), who infiltrated the organisation.

Born at Haltoun House near Ratho, the eldest son and heir of James Maitland, 7th Earl of Lauderdale, whom he succeeded in 1789, he became a controversial Scottish politician and writer.

Born at the Hôtel de Conti in Paris on 1 September 1734 and baptised in the presence of the king and queen, he succeeded his father Louis François de Bourbon as head of the most junior branch of the House of Bourbon in 1776.

He succeeded Roscoe Born in the role of Jim Thomasen on All My Children in 1997, a role he played until 1998.

Born at the family estate of Saffron Walden, he was the son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, by his second wife Catherine Knyvet of Charlton, and succeeded his father in 1626.

Born in Brussels, he succeeded his father as ruler of Württemberg at the age of 9, but the real power was in the hands of Administrators Carl Rudolf, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt ( 1737 – 1738 ) and Carl Frederick von Württemberg-Oels ( 1738 – 1746 ).

Born to Richard Mór Burke by a daughter of Madden of Portumna, Ulick succeeded to the headship of his clan, and held vast estates in County Galway.

Born in Naples to Ferdinand I and his first wife, Isabella of Taranto, the daughter of Tristan, Count of Copertino and Caterina Orsini, he succeeded his childless nephew Ferdinand II after the latter's early death in 1496, at the age of 28.

Born in Paris, the son of a successful Jewish banker, he was associated with and afterwards succeeded his father in the management of the business.

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 Siena, a member of the illustrious banking family of Chigi and a great-nephew of Pope Paul V ( 1605 – 1621 ), he was privately tutored and eventually received doctorates of philosophy, law, and theology from the University of Siena.

Born the son of a priest, he was ordained as a deacon by Pope Nicholas I.

Born in Milan, Goffredo or Godfrey is often referred to as son of a sister of Pope Urban III, but this claim is without foundation.

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 1468 at Canino, Latium ( then part of the Papal States ), Alessandro Farnese was the oldest son of Pier Luigi I Farnese, Signore di Montalto ( 1435 – 1487 ) and his wife Giovanna Caetani, a member of the Caetani family which had also produced Pope Boniface VIII.

Born in Florence, he was the son of a da Andrea Carnesecchi, a merchant who under the patronage of the Medici, and especially of Giulio de ' Medici as Pope Clement VII, rapidly rose to high office at the papal court.

Born in Valentano, he was the second son of Pierluigi Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, grandson of Pope Paul III, and brother to Cardinal Ranuccio Farnese.

Born in Florence, Piero di Lorenzo de ' Medici was the oldest son of Lorenzo de ' Medici ( Lorenzo the Magnificent ) and Clarice Orsini, and older brother of the future Pope Leo X.

Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi ( Born at Castiglione di Sicilia-Provincia di Catania, Sicily on 14 January 1914 – Died at his native town on 3 July 2003 ) of the Roman Catholic Church was a senior papal diplomat and former Personal Secretary to Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini ( later Pope Paul VI ).

Born in Tivoli in an unknown year, he was ordained as a Benedictine priest by Pope Formosus.

Born and raised in Great Harwood, the only son of Sam and Sheila Pope.

Born Effie Brooks Pope in Salem, Ohio, she was the only child of industrialist and art collector Alfred Atmore Pope and his wife Ada Lunette Brooks.

Born at Cremona, Vida joined the court of Pope Leo X and was given a prior at Frascati.

Before Artemisia, between the end of the 1500 and the beginning of 1600 other female painters had successful careers, including Sofonisba Anguissola ( Born in Cremona around 1530 – Palermo around 1625 ), was called into Spain by King Philip II and Lavinia Fontana ( Bologna, 1552 – Rome 1614 ) departed for Rome by invitation of Pope Clement VIII.

Born in Rome, Pier Luigi was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese ( who later became Pope Paul III ).

Born to a distinguished noble family ( see below ) at Carpi near Modena, where his uncle Alberto ( c. 1475-1531 ) was lord of Carpi, Rodolfo was sent to study at the University of Padua and at Rome, where he took up a church career under Pope Clement VII, who made him bishop of Faenza in 1528.

Born in Phenix, Rhode Island, Pope graduated from Worcester Academy in 1899 and Brown University in 1904.

Born at Todi, the son of Francesco d ' Alviano and Isabella degli Atti, Bartolomeo fought very early in his life in Central Italy, serving in the Papal States and, in 1496, the Orsini family against Pope Alexander VI and the Colonna.

Born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, Pope was appointed midshipman from Maine 30 May 1816.

Born in Usigni in Umbria, as a young man he went to Rome and was soon noticed by Maffeo Barberini, a cleric of the Apostolic Chamber and a fellow Umbrian from nearby Spoleto, soon to become Pope under the name of Urban VIII.

Born in Milan, Anselm was a nephew of Anselm of Lucca the Elder, who became Pope Alexander II in 1061 and who designated Anselm to succeed him in his former position as Bishop of Lucca ( 1071 ) and sent him to Germany advising him to take investiture from Emperor Henry IV.