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 to the empress Eudokia Ingerina, Leo was either the illegitimate son of Emperor Michael III or the second son of his successor, Basil I the Macedonian.

Born at Sebaste in Armenia, he early embraced a monastic life, and received his education from some Macedonian monks near that place.

Born in Windsor, Ontario, he is of Macedonian descent.

* Born: Alicia Keys, American pop singer, as Alicia Cook in New York ; and Tose Proeski, Macedonian pop singer, in Prilep, Yugoslavia ( killed in car crash, 2007 )

Born c. 370 on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube in present day Romania, Alaric belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Tervingian Goths.

Born in 1826, Francisco Solano López became the second and final ruler of the López dynasty.

Born in Phan Rang-Tháp Chàm, Thiệu was a descendent of the Tran Dinh dynasty of Annamese nobles.

Born twenty-three years into his parents ' marriage, Giovanni had two much older brothers, both of whom outlived him: Count Galeotto I ( 1442 – 1499 ) continued the dynasty, while Antonio ( 1444 – 1501 ) became a general in the Imperial army.

Born in Gabès, Tunisia on 4 August 1958 to a family that traced its roots to the Sephardic Beit Shalom dynasty, Shalom's family made aliyah to the city of Beersheba, in Israel's Negev in 1959.

Born in Limerick, O ' Malley was raised in a local political dynasty that had a strong association with Fianna Fáil.

Thutmose II ( sometimes read as Thutmosis, or Tuthmosis II and meaning Born of Thoth, probably pronounced during his lifetime as Djhutymose ) was the fourth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.

Thutmose IV ( sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis IV and meaning Thoth is Born ) was the 8th Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt, who ruled in approximately the 14th century BC.

Born in New York City's Lower East Side, Adler was a member of the Jewish-American Adler acting dynasty, the youngest daughter of Sara and Jacob P. Adler, the sister of Luther and Jay Adler, and half-sister of Charles Adler ; in fact all her five siblings were actors.

Born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, he was a member of the Hiester Family political dynasty.

Born at Vienna, he was the third son of King Albert I of Germany and Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol, a scion of the Meinhardiner dynasty.

Born in Sangzhi, Hunan province, he was the son of a minor military officer who was a member of the Gelaohui ( Elder Brother Society ), a secret society dating back to the early Qing dynasty.

Born in Tehran to Habibollah Hoveida ( Ayn al-Molk ), a seasoned diplomat, most prominent during the latter years of the Qajar dynasty, and Afsar al-Moluk, a descendent of the very royal family the senior Hoveida would serve for much of his adult life.

Born in Arcachon in 1954, Balsan was part of France's upper class as a member of the Wendel family, an industrial dynasty.

Born in Northern France, about 850, his name reveals that he could have been closely related to the Carolingian dynasty ( he was a familiar of Charles the Bald's court, to whom he dedicated poetical works and luxurious manuscripts ).