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 Lille, France, Perrin attended the École Normale Supérieure, the elite grande école in Paris.

Born to an aristocrat Ottoman Turkish father, Amin lived a sheltered life among Egypt ’ s political and wealthy elite.

Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Olsen grew up playing for FC Delco, an elite club program near Philadelphia.

Born in New York and educated at The Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, he volunteered for the elite paratroopers in 1943 before having a chance to finish his studies as an English literature major at Harvard University.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 1942, Louis Schweitzer has a degree in law and is a graduate of France's elite Institut d ' études politiques de Paris ( Sciences Po ) and École nationale d ' administration.

On one side is the ruling elite made exclusively of Born.

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge was a member of the political active and social elite Desha family and Breckinridge family.

Later that year, Hawks remade his earlier film Ball of Fire as A Song Is Born, this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.

Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Monroe was of the planter class and fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Born in Virginia, she had studied at Hampton Institute and the Massachusetts State Normal School at Framingham.

Born 1734 Virginia, died 1799 Louisville, Kentucky

* Barry J. Ratcliffe, actor was born in Rocky Mount VA March 6, 1962, Born and raised on a farm in the mountains of Virginia, Barry Ratcliffe was the youngest of 7 among 5 boys and 2 girls.

Born in Virginia in 1763, she and her husband, Thomas Crawford, moved to Green County, Kentucky, in 1805.

Born in New York City, Richard Southgate came to Newport from Richmond, Virginia in 1795.

Born Ruth Alston Weston in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, she attended I. C. Norcom High School, which was then legally segregated.

Born in Manassa, Colorado, with the name of William Harrison Dempsey, he grew up in Colorado, West Virginia and Utah, in a poor family of mixed ancestry.

Born Hazel Reid in Newport News, Virginia, to Dr. Russell E. and Dr. Hazel Palleman Reid.

Introduced by Virginia Bruce in the film Born to Dance.

* " I Was Born In Virginia " w. m.

Born in Staunton, Virginia, Breckinridge attended William and Mary College ( now the College of William and Mary ) where he was taught by George Wythe.

In 1948, the plot was recycled for a musical film, A Song Is Born, this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.

Born in Arlington, Virginia, Landrieu was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Born in Kensington, London, he was the son of James Stephen, the brother of author and critic Sir Leslie Stephen, and the uncle of author Virginia Woolf.

Born in York County, Pennsylvania, Holmes and his family moved to Virginia when he was a child.

Born in Gibson County, Tennessee, Stone was the son of Asher and Judith Stone, natives of Virginia.

Born in Augusta County, Virginia, George Caleb Bingham was the second of seven children of Mary Amend and Henry Vest Bingham.

Born in Stafford County, Virginia, he was the second son of Bailey Washington and Catherine ( née Storke ) Washington ( primary source evidence, including correspondence between George Washington and William, establishes the fact that they were second cousins ).

Born in Roanoke, Virginia, he earned a law degree from the University of Virginia.

* Born Free-1966 – 95 minutes ; Starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna-George Adamson was the technical advisor.

The 1966 film Born Free, starring husband-and-wife actors Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, and filmed in the bush over the course of many months, was a worldwide hit.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dos Passos was the illegitimate son of John Randolph Dos Passos ( 1844 – 1917 ), a distinguished lawyer of Madeiran Portuguese descent, and Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison of Petersburg, Virginia.