Born in Quebec City, Quebec, he was elected as a Liberal candidate in the riding of Verdun in the 1962 federal election.

Born in Coulommiers, he commanded the defense of Verdun against the invading Allied armies of the First Coalition, shortly before they were stopped at the Battle of Valmy.

Born in Autrecourt, near Verdun, he was known principally for developing skepticism to extreme logical conclusions.

Born in Paris, Cesbron attended what is now known as Lycée Condorcet.

Born in Memleben, in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Henry was the son of Otto the Illustrious, Duke of Saxony, and his wife Hedwiga, daughter of Henry of Franconia and Ingeltrude and a great-great-granddaughter of Charlemagne.

Born into a wealthy middle-class family in Trier ( formerly in Prussian Rhineland, now called Rhineland-Palatinate ), Marx studied at both the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians.

Born in Ebingen, Kingdom of Württemberg ( now Baden-Württemberg ), Kiesinger was educated in Berlin and became a lawyer.

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 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 1809 in Liverpool, England, at 62 Rodney Street, William Ewart Gladstone was the fourth son of the merchant Sir John Gladstone from Leith ( now a suburb of Edinburgh ), and his second wife, Anne MacKenzie Robertson, from Dingwall, Ross-shire.

Born in Colombo, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) to British parents, he received his Bachelor's degree in Classics from the University of Oxford ( Merton College ) in 1956.

Born in Kladno, Austria-Hungary ( now in the Czech Republic ), Cermak emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1874.

Born in Edo ( now Tokyo ), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s.

Born in 1932 in Lviv ( now a city in Ukraine, it was part of Poland at the time ).

Born in Homerton in the London Borough of Hackney, London, Robinson attended the independent Woodford Green Preparatory School followed by Wanstead High School in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge.

Born in Saint Boniface ( now part of Winnipeg ), Manitoba, Roy was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy.

DAF sold its passenger car division, along with what is now the NedCar factory in Born, in 1975 to the Swedish company Volvo Cars, leaving DAF to concentrate on its successful line of trucks.

Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old.

Born Ernest Evan Thompson in South Shields, County Durham ( now part of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear ), England of Scottish parents, Seton's family migrated to Canada in 1866.

Born in St. Andrews, Lower Canada ( now Saint-André-d ' Argenteuil, Quebec ) to Rev.

Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home — now known as " Constable Country "— which he invested with an intensity of affection.

Born in South Haven, Michigan, as the third son of farmers Liberty Hyde Bailey Sr. and Sarah Harrison Bailey, Bailey entered the Michigan Agricultural College ( now Michigan State University ) in 1878 and graduated in 1882.

Born in at No. 17 rue de l ' Arbre à Poires ( now rue Sadi-Carnot ) in Cambrai, Louis was the first of five children born to Clémance and Charles Blériot.

Born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, Keeler was brought up by her mother and stepfather in a house made from two converted railway carriages in the Buckinghamshire village of Wraysbury ( now part of Berkshire ).

Born in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle ( née Crane ) and James Allen Whitmore, Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, before graduating from The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Born " somewhere near 1844 " at the Humboldt Lake in what is now western Nevada, Sarah Winnemucca was the daughter of Chief Winnemucca ( Poito ) and Tuboitonie.

Born in Hamburg, son of a police constable, Schmidt moved with his widowed mother to Lauban ( in Lusatia, then Lower Silesia, now Polish ) and attended the secondary school in Görlitz.

* Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ), Nothing Sacred ( 1937 ), A Star is Born ( 1937 ) and Made for Each Other are now in the public domain.

Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.

Born in the Duchy of Prussia's capital Königsberg, part of Brandenburg-Prussia, Goldbach was the son of a pastor.

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 Boston, Massachusetts, Dennett spent part of his childhood in Lebanon, where, during World War II, his father was a covert counter-intelligence agent with the Office of Strategic Services posing as a cultural attaché to the American Embassy in Beirut.

He had a small part in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, playing a ranting inmate during a prison riot ; his part was eventually cut, but can be seen on the Special Edition DVD.

Psychedelic rock was glamorized on screen in Easy Rider ( 1969 ), which used songs including Steppenwolf's " Born to be Wild " as part of its soundtrack.

Born as a result of the railroad being built here instead of at Middleton to the west in 1860, Winona was originally a part of Carroll County and was incorporated as a town on May 2, 1861.

Her main competitor for the prize was Judy Garland's much heralded comeback performance in A Star Is Born ; playing not only the part of an up and coming actress-singer, but also ironically, the wife of an alcoholic movie star.

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 Nancy, France, the son of a baker, he trained as an artilleryman and took part in the battles of the French Revolution where he rose through the ranks.

Born in Lipnik ( Kunzendorf ) near Bielitz, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire ( today a part of Bielsko-Biała, Poland ), Schnabel was the youngest of three children born to Isidor Schnabel, a textile merchant, and his wife Ernestine ( née Labin ).

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 Christopher Henry, probably in Grenada, the son of a slave mother and Christophe, a freeman, he was brought as a slave to the northern part of Saint-Domingue.

Born Lord Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, he assumed in 1876 by Royal license the surname of " Talbot " as part of an unsuccessful attempt to succeed to the estates of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

In December 2005, a recordings of this performance was released as part of double A side single, credited as " G4 feat Robin Gibb " together with G4's cover version of the Johnny Mathis song " When a Child is Born ".

Le Mesurier undertook a number of roles on television in 1951, including in six episodes of the BBC children's programme Whirligig ; the role of Doctor Forrest in The Railway Children ; the role of Sir Alexander Blythe in children's comedy-thriller Show Me a Spy ; the part of the blackmailer Eduardo Lucas in Sherlock Holmes: The Second Stain, opposite Alan Wheatley's Holmes ; and Joseph in the nativity play A Time to be Born.

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 into a traditional Jewish family in Rymanów, Galicia, in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, Rabi came to the United States as a baby and was raised in New York's Lower East Side.

Born and raised in College Park, Georgia, Monica began performing as a child and became part of a traveling gospel choir, by the time she was ten.

Born in Münster in Westphalia, Brüning lost his father when he was one year old and thus his elder brother Hermann Joseph played a major part in his upbringing.