Born into an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Plebeian Octavii family, Augustus was adopted posthumously by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC following Caesar's assassination.

Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram ( 1872 – 1918 ), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.

The company was converted into the Bermuda-registered Bunge International in 1994, retaining the Bunge y Born name only in Argentina.

In " A Witch Shall be Born ", Conan fights armed men until he is overwhelmed, captured, and crucified, and goes a night and a day without water, but still possesses the strength to pull the nails from his feet, then to hoist himself into a horse's saddle and ride ten miles.

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 into a working-class family, from an early age Ortega developed a hatred of the ruling President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who was widely recognized as a dictator, and became involved in the underground movement to oppose Somoza's regime.

Born into a family of relatively low status, his parents sent him to be educated by the monks of Fulda-one of the most impressive centres of learning in the Frank lands-perhaps due to his small stature ( Einhard referred to himself as a " tiny manlet ") which restricted his riding and sword-fighting ability, Einhard concentrated his energies towards scholarship and especially to the mastering of Latin.

Cultural reasons were also a factor in countries like China and Japan, where silents co-existed successfully with sound well into the 1930s, indeed producing what would be some of the most revered classics in those countries, like Wu Yonggang's The Goddess ( China, 1934 ) and Yasujirō Ozu's I Was Born, But ... ( Japan, 1932 ).

Born into a family of tradesmen, the Imam's family were of Persian origin.

Born into a very wealthy landowning family in the north of Mexico, he was the proto-type of the respectable upper-class politician ; a background which supplied the centre around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz could coalesce.

Born into an upper-middle-class family in Blundellsands, Lancashire, Gardner spent much of his childhood abroad in Madeira.

Born into a middle-class family in Etterbeek, Brussels, he took a keen interest in Scouting in early life, something that would prove highly influential on his later work.

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

Born into a large family in Dudley, England, Whale early discovered his artistic talent and studied art.

Born Georg Henri Anton Ivens into a wealthy family, Ivens went to work in one of his father's photo supply shops and from there developed an interest in film.

Born in Southampton into a seafaring family, Jellicoe joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1872 and was posted to HMS Britannia.

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 Vienna into one of Europe's wealthiest families, he gave away his entire inheritance.

Born into poverty, he was elected emir upon the abdication of his predecessor, and would rule under Ottoman suzerainty, being appointed wali or governor of Mt Lebanon, the Biqa valley and Jabal Amil.

Born into a life of luxury, he was raised next door to the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

Born into a family of varying religious outlooks, she searched for a form of religion that gave an expression of the faith that she had been formally acquainted with, Christianity.

Born into a family of doctors and professors of medicine in Würzburg ( then in the Bishopric of Würzburg ), von Siebold initially studied medicine at University of Würzburg from November 1815, where he became a member of the Corps Moenania Würzburg.

" Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called ...

Born into a noble Roman family in the year 669, Gregory was the son of Marcellus and Honesta.

Born into a French aristocratic family, he became an academic and studied a broad range of topics, most notably education and history.

Born in the town of Piteşti, north-west of the capital Bucharest, Antonescu was the scion of an upper-middle class Romanian Orthodox family with some military tradition.

Born in Motal, near Pinsk, Belarus ( then Russian empire ), he studied at the Orthodox Yeshivot of Malch and Slobodka.

Born in Korop, Chernigov Governorate ( present Ukraine ), 1853 Kibalchich was the son of an Orthodox parish priest.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1906 to an Orthodox Jewish family from Russia, Levant moved to New York in 1922, following the death of his father, Max.

Born in Odessa in the Russian Empire ( now Ukraine ) his Orthodox Jewish family fled Russian pogroms to New York when he was an infant.

Born in Deir al Qamar in a Lebanese Orthodox Christian family, he served in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Born in Damascus to a middle class Greek Orthodox Christian family, Aflaq was first educated in the westernized schools of the French Mandate of Syria.

Born in Vilna, he grew up poor and first worked braiding lace in Kovno, where he was first associated with the devout, moralistic Musar movement of Rabbi Israel Salanter, but later drawn to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, and adopted a more modern Orthodox Judaism that renounced superstition.

Born in the fortress of Asso at the region of Erisso ( pertinenza di Erisso ) on northern Cephalonia ( the then under Venetian rule Ionian island of Kefalonia ) by Greek Orthodox parents.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Orthodox Jewish parents, Louis and Pearl Rubin ( née Ruchwarger ), Wiseman grew up in New York.

Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, the son of Roy E. Feldman and Penny Hollander Feldman, Noah Feldman married Jeannie Suk, also a professor of law at Harvard Law School, and they have two children and live in Cambridge, Mass.

Born into the Orthodox religion, it is possible that she was raised as a Catholic in Rome.

Born in the Sub-Balkan town of Karlovo to middle class parents, Levski became an Orthodox monk before emigrating to join the two Bulgarian Legions in Serbia and other Bulgarian revolutionary groups.

Born in Topliţa to Gheorghe and Domniţa Cristea, a peasant family, he studied at the Saxon Evangelical Gymnasium of Bistriţa ( 1879 – 1883 ), at the Greek-Catholic Lyceum of Năsăud ( 1883 – 1887 ), at the Orthodox Seminary of Sibiu ( 1887 – 1890 ), after which he became a teacher and principal at the Romanian Orthodox school of Orăştie ( 1890 – 1891 ).

Born in Suceava, he attended the school of the " Trei Ierarhi " Monastery of Iaşi and then at the Orthodox Brotherhood school in Lviv, where he studied humanities and learned several languages.

Born in Ljubotinj village ( part of Cetinje ), Kingdom of Montenegro, his father Jovan was an Orthodox deacon and his brother was Vlado Dapčević.

Born and christened at the Apostolos Andreas Monastery on the Karpas Peninsula of Cyprus, she dies in a tragic manner at 32 in Piraeus, Greece, after two marriages-one with a Muslim Turkish Cypriot, the other with an Orthodox Greek – and five children.

Born in Nakel, Prussia, of Orthodox Jewish background, he studied at the Berlin School of Fine Art.

Born in 1350 or 1351, Ivan Shishman was the eldest son of emperor Ivan Alexander ( r. 1331-1371 ) and his second wife Sarah – Theodora, a Jewess converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Born Abraham Silver in Naumiestis, Lithuania, son and grandson of Orthodox rabbis, he was brought to the US at the age of nine.