Born near Damascus in Syria, Abd al-Rahman, grandson of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, was the son of the Umayyad prince Mu ' awiyah ibn Hisham and a Berber mother.

Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).

Born Farrokh Bomi Bulsara to Indian parents in Zanzibar, he was raised in Panchgani near Mumbai.

Born in Madison County, Kentucky, near the city of Richmond, in 1809, Carson moved at the age of one year with his parents and siblings to a rural area near Franklin, Missouri.

Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was an eighth-generation descendant of Hugh Capet, and thus a member of the House of Capet, and the son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile.

Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, United States, he as a youth took the name of ' Mance ' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie (" Mance " being short for emancipation ).

Born in 1641 in Alençon, France, he became a pastor first at Saint-Agobile Champagne, and then at Charenton, near Paris.

Born in Palmi near Reggio di Calabria, Cilea gave early indication of an aptitude for music when at the age of four he heard a performance of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma and was greatly affected by it.

Born near Lexington, Kentucky to Carter Henry Harrison II and Caroline Russell, he was only a few months old when his father died.

Born and raised in Damascus, he died at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem.

Born at Luzzara, near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, on 20 September 1902,

Born at Wipfeld, near Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia under his original name Konrad Bickel, Celtes pursued his studies at Cologne and the Heidelberg.

Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven sons of Count Ludovico Pecci and his wife Anna Prosperi Buzzi.

Born in Liévin near Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Carpentier began his career by progressing up through the weight divisions, fighting in every division from welterweight upwards.

Born in Lipnik ( Kunzendorf ) near Bielitz, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire ( today a part of Bielsko-Biała, Poland ), Schnabel was the youngest of three children born to Isidor Schnabel, a textile merchant, and his wife Ernestine ( née Labin ).

Born in Iesi, near Ancona, Italy, Frederick was the son of the emperor Henry VI.

Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsi near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe.

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 Edinburgh, but raised in his mother, Nora Dalyell's family home, The Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian ; his father ( Percy ) Gordon Loch, C. I. E., was an Empire civil servant ( Political Agent ) and a scion of the Loch family.

Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child.

Born in Normanby Township near Hanover, Ontario, Brusso's family lived in several locations around Ontario's Grey and Bruce Counties before moving to Galt, Ontario.

Born near Lancaster, educated at LRGS, specilised in water quality and analysis, and originated the concept of valence.

Born Margaret MacDonald, at Tipton, near Wolverhampton, her father was a colliery manager and engineer.

Born in a log cabin near Delaware, Ohio, Fairbanks's ancestry traced back to Puritan followers of Oliver Cromwell, with Jonathan Fayerbankes the first family member to reach America in 1632.

* Donald " Bumpy " Bray ( Born 1942 ; native, Covert Street ), Member of West End Engine Company No. 5 and Hempstead Flukes Drill Team Member.

Born in Hemel Hempstead, the son of an accountant and stock-broker, he was educated at Berkhamsted School, New College, Oxford and the London School of Economics, where he gained a Diploma in Social Administration.

Born and brought up in Hemel Hempstead, Skinner, the youngest daughter of a shopkeeper and an Irish-born secretary, was shy as a child.

Born in New London, Connecticut, Hempstead was the delegate in the U. S. House for the Missouri Territory from 1812 to 1814.

Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.

Born in 1855, Dr Leonard Cockayne ( generally recognised as the greatest botanist who has lived, worked, and died in New Zealand ) worked extensively on native plants throughout New Zealand and wrote many notable botanical texts.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Edith Adelson Lerner and Joseph Jay Lerner, whose brother, Samuel Alexander Lerner, was founder and owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut of Russian Jewish heritage, Capp was the eldest child of Otto Philip and Matilda ( Davidson ) Caplin.

Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14.

Born in Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for drug infusion pump AutoSyringe.

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

Born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalie Della ( Garaventa ) and Antonino Martino Sinatra, and was raised Roman Catholic.

Born Allan George See in Mount Kisco, New York, the older of two children, born to Margaret ( née Shea ) See ( 1906-2004 ), who was a middle school dropout, who in turn worked for Reader's Digest.

Born in Santa Rita, New Mexico, Schmitt grew up in nearby Silver City.

Born Jeffry Ross Hyman to parents Charlotte ( née Mandell ) and Noel Hyman, they lived in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, where Jeffry and his future Ramones bandmates attended Forest Hills High School.

Born in Hornell, New York, United States, Freas ( pronounced like " freeze ") was the son of two photographers, and was raised in Canada.

Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Milford grew up in Winnetka, Illinois where he attended New Trier High School.

Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, MacLean concentrated on mathematics and science in high school.

Born in New York City, New York, Conant appeared as " Benji " in the 1971 coming-of-age drama, Summer of ' 42 and the Class of ' 44, appearing in both with Gary Grimes and Jerry Houser as a trio of adolescent boys.

Born in New York City, Falk was the son of Michael Peter Falk, owner of a clothing and dry goods store, and his wife, Madeline ( née Hochhauser ), an accountant and buyer.

Born in Rhode Island, he was taken with the Northups when they migrated to Hoosick, New York in Rensselaer County.

Born into a wealthy family in New York City, Roosevelt was a sickly child who suffered from asthma and stayed at home studying natural history.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Born in Chicago, with Jewish origins, he attended schools in New York and later graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge in England.

Born at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, he attended school in Philadelphia with future naval heroes Stephen Decatur and Charles Stewart.

Born in Watertown, New York, he began his show business career playing the organ and acting in radio dramas at station WWNY.