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 Florence, the son of Bartolomeo Corsini, Marquis of Casigliano and his wife Isabella Strozzi, sister of the Duke of Bagnuolo, Corsini had been an aristocratic lawyer and financial manager under preceding pontiffs.

Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne ( 1751 – 1818 ) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

Born into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, he was the second son of The 5th Earl of Longford, of the second creation, in the Peerage of Ireland.

Born in Bodenwerder, Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the Baron ( in German: Freiherr ) was an offspring of a highly renowned aristocratic family of the Hanover region whose members owned numerous estates there, being, at the time, subjects and courtiers of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain.

Born in the village of Vayalar, in Alappuzha district, Kerala, Vayalar belonged to an aristocratic family but became a poet of the proletariat inspired by revolutionary ideals.

Born in Saint-Saturnin-des-Ligneries, a hamlet in the commune of Écorches ( Orne ), in Normandy, France, Charlotte Corday was a member of a minor aristocratic family.

Born to an aristocratic family in England, he entered military service, seeing action in the French and Indian War, where he served alongside future opponent George Washington in the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela.

This led to what is probably still his best known role, in To the Manor Born, a show that received audiences of more than 20 million, in which he co-starred with Penelope Keith ( 1979 – 81, 2007 ), playing the apparently aristocratic ( but in fact self-made immigrant ) businessman Richard DeVere.

Born at Mouilleron-en-Pareds ( Vendée ), in the same village of WWI leader Georges Clemenceau, to an aristocratic family, he graduated from officer school in 1911 ( ranked 5th in his class in Saint-Cyr ), fought in World War I and was wounded twice.

Born in Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Henreid was the son of an aristocratic Viennese banker.

Born in Paris, Mathieu de Montomorency was the son of Mathieu Paul Louis de Montmorency, vicomte de Laval ( 1748 – 1809 ), a scion of one of the oldest noble families in France, and his wife, Catherine Jeanne Tavernier de Boullongne ( d. 1838 ), the daughter of an aristocratic French planter in Guadeloupe.

Born in Havana into an aristocratic family with old sugar plantations, he was the 5th child of Dr. José María de Zayas y Jiménez ( 1824 – 1887 ), a noted lawyer and educator, and Lutgarda Alfonso y Espada ( 1831 – 1898 ).

Born into a wealthy, aristocratic Italian family, Braun was destined to become a diplomat, following in his father's footsteps.

Born in Paris as Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, into a wealthy Catholic aristocratic family whose roots were in the Burgundy region.

Born into the prominent aristocratic family of Prince Ioseb Cholokashvili in the family estate at Matani, Kakheti, eastern Georgia ( then part of the Tiflis Governorate, Imperial Russia ).

Born to a wealthy, aristocratic family, Webb studied languages, botany, and geology at Harrow and Oxford.

Born in the Byzantine aristocratic Rangabe-Lambrino family, the daughter of Colonel later General Constantin Lambrino and Euphrosine Alcaz, Joanna Lambrino met the Hohenzollern prince Carol, son of King Ferdinand of Romania and Queen Marie of Romania, in Iaşi, Romania, in 1918, during World War I.

Born and raised in Siena to an aristocratic family, Petrucci was exiled from his home in 1483 for being a member of the city ’ s Noveschi political faction, which had fallen out of favor with the rulers of Siena.

Born in Braunfels an der Lahn into an aristocratic family, Kleist was educated in a German military school and graduated in 1900.

Born in Paris France, a descendant of an aristocratic ( yet obscure ) Picard family, he was educated at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and the Sainte-Croix boarding school at Neuilly-sur-Seine.

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 from an aristocratic family, his father was a Kurdistan governor, and his mother the daughter of an Egyptian aristocrat, Amin finished law school at 17 and was one of thirty seven to receive a government scholarship to study at Frances ’ University de Montepellier.

Born Marguerite Perrinot in Paris, France to an aristocratic father and a former flower girl, she was pushed by her mother into showbusiness.