Born at Marostica, in the Republic of Venice, in his youth he served for a time in the Milanese army, but in 1574 he went to study medicine at Padua.

Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a wealthy paper merchant in Venice, he studied violin and singing.

Born in Venice, Benedetto Marcello was a member of a noble family and his compositions are frequently referred to as Patrizio Veneto.

Born in Venice, he was the son of the powerful jurist and member of the ducal court, Vitale Dandolo.

Born in Rimini in Romagna to Rolando Pratt and Evelina Genero, Hugo Pratt spent most of his childhood in Venice in a very cosmopolitan family environment.

Born in Venice, Jacopo had been a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano.

Born in Venice, Tiepolo was the youngest of six children born to Orsetta, Tiepolo's mother and his father, Domenico Tiepolo, a sea captain.

Born in Venice as Carlo Ghega in an Albanian family, he studied in Padua, where he took the examination for doctor of mathematics at the age of 18.

Born in Western Australia, he represented Australia in the Venice Biennale of 1991.

Born in Venice, he was the son of a sister of Saint Stephen, the first King of Hungary ; his father was Ottone Orseolo, the Doge of Venice.

Born in Venice, he was steered towards mathematics at an early age by his teachers and his father, who was himself a teacher of mathematics.

Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter.

Born in Venice, Barbara was adopted and baptized into the Strozzi family.

Born in Venice, lived in Koper ( then Capodistria )

Born Beulah Irene Herwick in Venice, California, she began her acting career after being introduced to a casting agent from MGM.

Born in Pesaro, in the Marche, Zacconi became an Augustinian friar at Venice, where he was ordained priest.

Born Margherita Grassini, the daughter of a wealthy Jewish lawyer, she grew up in a palazzo situated at the Canale Grande in Venice and was educated by private tutors.

Born to a Neapolitan middle-class family, Basile was, during his career, a courtier and soldier to various Italian princes, including the doge of Venice.

Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in a consistent manner.

Born in Venice, Longhena studied under the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi and after Scamozzi's death completed his monumental Procuratie Nuove in St. Mark's Square, a complex of imposing residences and offices for officials of the Venetian Republic that gives the square its appearance today.

Born in 1855, Dr Leonard Cockayne ( generally recognised as the greatest botanist who has lived, worked, and died in New Zealand ) worked extensively on native plants throughout New Zealand and wrote many notable botanical texts.

Born into a peasant background in Guang ' an, Sichuan, China, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he was influenced by Marxism-Leninism.

Born Allan George See in Mount Kisco, New York, the older of two children, born to Margaret ( née Shea ) See ( 1906-2004 ), who was a middle school dropout, who in turn worked for Reader's Digest.

Born in Kraków, Banach enrolled in " Henryk Sienkiewicz Gymnasium " and worked on mathematics problems with his friend Witold Wiłkosz.

Born in Geneva, he worked as a tutor, language teacher, journalist and a translator for the Swiss federal Chancellery ( 1869 – 1873 ).

Born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, Stratton arrived in the Colorado Springs, Colorado area in 1868 and worked as a carpenter.

Born in Augsburg, Holbein worked mainly in Basel as a young artist.

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to Neighborhood Playhouse.

Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life.

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

Born in Potsdam, New York, USA, he worked as a carpenter, then moved to St. Louis in 1843 to study law.

Born Hung Kam Po in Hong Kong, both of his parents worked as wardrobe artists in the local film industry and guardianship was thrust upon his grandparents.

Born in Georgetown, Blundon worked as a general contractor in Washington, D. C., before moving to Riverdale Park in 1889.

Born in Schwetzingen, Franz Danzi worked in Mannheim, Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, where he died.

Born in Port Talbot, Wales, he initially worked as a teacher in both London and Cardiff.

Born in Chester, after a very short spell training for the Merchant Navy, he quit and worked as a valet in King's Cross in London.

Born Harold George Bellanfanti, Jr., at Lying-in Hospital in Harlem, New York, Belafonte was the son of Melvine ( née Love ) – a housekeeper of Jamaican descent – and Harold George Bellanfanti, Sr., a Martiniquan who worked as a chef in the National Guard.

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 in New York City, he worked with his brothers on the vaudeville circuit, but left acting when he was drafted into the U. S. Army during World War I, years before his four brothers ( Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, and Zeppo Marx ) began their film career.

Born on a farm near Edinburgh and a farmer in his early years, Adams moved to London where he worked as a journalist.

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

Born in Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt in the Middle Rhein region, it is believed that Memling served his apprenticeship at Mainz or Cologne, and later worked in the Netherlands under Rogier van der Weyden ( c. 1455 – 1460 ).

Born into slavery and having worked under white masters for 30 years, as well as having seen many atrocities by all peoples, Dessalines did not trust the white French people.

Born in Versailles in 1663 and trained at the Paris Academy under Charles Le Brun, he came to England in 1683, where he first worked with Antonio Verrio, and then on his own.