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.

Born to a distinguished family of Versailles, he received his artistic training at the Académie Julian from the impressionists Alfred Roll and Henri Gervex.

Born in Versailles, Jules was the younger son of Jules, 1st Duke of Polignac, and Gabrielle de Polastron, a confidante and favourite of Queen Marie-Antoinette.

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Born in Versailles in 1683, Elise is immortal due to her DNA, and the story traces her experiences with various lovers and husbands through the centuries.

Born in Versailles at the beginning of the French revolution, Stéphanie was a great-granddaughter to Claude de Beauharnais ( 1680 – 1738 ) and Renée Hardouineau ( 1696 – 1744 ) who were married in La Rochelle during 1713.

Born in Versailles, France, Bromhead was the youngest son of Major Sir Edmund de Gonville Bromhead, 3rd Baronet of Thurlby Hall, Lincolnshire, a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, by his wife Judith, daughter of James Wood of Woodville, Co. Sligo.

Born in Sault, Vaucluse, Goma started his football career playing for Paris-suburb team RC Versailles, joining AJ Auxerre's famed youth academy in 1988, aged 15.

Born at Versailles, he was keeping a butcher's shop in Saint Germain, Paris, by 1789.

Born at the Château de Clagny in Versailles, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon was the third son and youngest child of Louis XIV born out-of-wedlock with Madame de Montespan.

Born into a family of musicians, Boëly received his first music lessons from his father, Jean François, who was a countertenor at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and a composer and harp teacher at the court of Versailles.

Born at the Palace of Versailles, Charles was the youngest son of Louis, Dauphin of France, " le Grand Dauphin ", and of Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria.

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

Receiving positive notices for Adam's Rib, Holliday was cast in the 1950 film version of Born Yesterday, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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 in Delft, Osendarp won two bronze medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the 100 and 200 m sprint events.

Born in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Droz studied in Paris and won acclaim with his fine pattern piece known as the Écu de Calonne after the French finance minister.

Born in Oklahoma City, Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Plainfield Congregational Church

Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as " Billie Dawn " led to her being cast in the 1950 film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

He received awards for his work, including five Academy Awards ; two for Born Free, and one each for The Lion in Winter ( for which he also won a BAFTA Award ), Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa ( both of which also won him Grammy Awards ).

Born in Växjö, Sweden, Wilander first came to the tennis world's attention when he won the French Open junior title, the European under-16 and under-18 championships, and the Orange Bowl under-16 event in Miami.

Born in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Clark is the only person to have won both the Olympic high jump and long jump.

Born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, Whitehouse won a scholarship to Chester City Grammar School.

Born in Paris, he was educated at the Louis-le-Grand and Bourbon colleges in his native city, and won high honours at his public examination.

Van Dam and Dreamer faced each other in a hardcore match at Born to Be Wired, won by Van Dam after he performed a leg drop on Dreamer with a trashcan.

He has won one Academy Award for best song ( Evergreen ) from A Star Is Born ( co-written by the artist who performed it, Barbra Streisand ) and has been nominated for several others.

Born and raised in Hastings, Tom Osborne was a star athlete at Hastings High School in football and basketball, and won the state discus throw in track.

Bernstein also notes that when Born won the Prize in 1954, Jordan was still alive, and the Prize was awarded for the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics, attributable alone to Born.

Born in Belišće, Osijek-Baranja, Ljubek competed in four Summer Olympics where he won four medals.

Born in Poznań, Poland, he won his first tournament in 1976, and between then and 1982 won 15 singles titles and 52 doubles titles.

Born in Arusha, Tanzania, his greatest moment was arguably the 1500 m final at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, when he won the gold medal ahead of New Zealand runner John Walker and Kenyan Ben Jipcho.

Born in Whitbourne, Newfoundland, Peckford first won election to the House of Assembly in 1972 as a Progressive Conservative.

Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from François Devosges, where he learned that a strong, simple contour was an invaluable ingredient in the plastic arts In 1809 he went to Paris from the Dijon school of art, and became a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, obtaining the Grand Prix de Rome in 1812.

Born in Milan, Ascari was the son of Antonio Ascari, a talented Grand Prix motor racing star in the 1920s, racing Alfa Romeos.

Born in Frugarolo, she participated in 17 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 20 July 1974.

God Was Born in Exile ( French: Dieu est né en exil ) is a novel by Romanian author Vintilă Horia, for which he was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1960, though he was never handed the prize following allegations that surfaced after his nomination that he had once been a member of the Iron Guard.

Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts atelier of Louis-Jules André, with his studies interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, and was awarded the annual Prix de Rome in 1878.

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Born in Paris, she studied at the Conservatoire there with Joseph Morpain and Lazare Lévy, taking a Premier Prix in 1927.

Born and raised in Madrid, Corella trained with Karemia Moreno and Víctor Ullate and began winning dance awards at a young age, including the First Prize in the National Ballet Competition of Spain in 1991 and three years later, the Grand Prix and Gold Medal at the Concours International de Danse de Paris.

Marco Greco ( Born December 1, 1963 in São Paulo ) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and race car driver who competed in the Indy Racing League from 1996 to 1999.