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 on June 24, 1835, she was named Elizabeth Peabody Alcott in honor of the teaching assistant at the Temple School.

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 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 at the Eyüp Palace, Constantinople ( Constantinople ), on 9 / 18 February 1830, Abdülaziz received an Ottoman education but was nevertheless an ardent admirer of the material progress that was made in the West.

Bunge & Born provided the Menem government with its first two economy ministers, and the combination of large rate increases on public services ( around 500 %), a simplified exchange rate and a massive, mandatory wage hike led to a sharp economic turnaround between July and November 1989.

Among the most notable of these was the 1944 novella " No Woman Born ", which went on to be included in over ten different science fiction anthologies, including The Best of C. L. Moore.

Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films.

Born at 194 Renfrew Street, Glasgow on 21 August 1937 to mature parents, Dewar was an only child.

He had a small part in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, playing a ranting inmate during a prison riot ; his part was eventually cut, but can be seen on the Special Edition DVD.

Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley penned the inscription, which reads: " On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of This Spot, Was Born on April Fifth 1649 Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras, Whose Permanent Memorial in His Native Land is the College That Bears His Name.

ELO had reached the peak of their stardom, selling millions of albums and singles, and even inspiring a parody / tribute song on the Randy Newman album Born Again, titled " The Story of a Rock and Roll Band ".

Robert Wise ( Born to Kill, The Set-Up ) and Anthony Mann ( T-Men, Raw Deal ) each made a series of impressive intermediates, many of them noirs, before graduating to steady work on big-budget productions.

* Born on the island: 30, 364

* Born on another Canary Island: 13, 175

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

Born in Cölln on the Spree, George William was the son of John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg and Anna of Prussia.

Born in Edinburgh on 28 January 1784, he was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo, son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen.

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.

Born in Exeter, England, and raised on cricket, Chadwick was one of the prime movers in the rise of baseball to its unprecedented popularity at the turn of the 20th century.

Born in Berlin, Germany, on 22 June 1910, he moved with his family in 1912 to Braunsberg, East Prussia, where his father was a postal clerk.

However, Professor Max Born intervened on Fuchs ' behalf.

The songs included originals and four covers: John Lennon's " Happy Xmas ( War Is Over )", Mike Batt's " A Winter's Tale ", " When A Child is Born " and Bing Crosby's " White Christmas ".

* Born a King, a Christmas cantata for Soloists, Chorus and Organ

Also in 1993, the Xmas 93 EP featured Tim Burgess from The Charlatans on the lead track " I Was Born on Christmas Day.

Geoffrey Ainger ( born 1925 ), who wrote the Christmas carols " Born in the Night ", " Mary's Child ", " Do Shepherds Stand " and several other hymns, was Methodist minister of Loughton 1958 – 63.

Born in Mickley, Northumberland, the son of a miner, Stokoe began his footballing career at Newcastle United, signing for them in 1947 and playing the first of 287 games, usually as centre-half, on Christmas Day 1950 against Middlesbrough, a game in which he also scored.

* 1976 – Baroque Christmas songs: " Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem " (" A Child Born in Bethlehem ", KKB ( private label ))

Born in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, Wilcox's first national performance came on a Rita MacNeil Christmas television special when he was nine years old.

Born Natalina Cavalieri, on Christmas Day at Viterbo, some eighty kilometers ( 50 miles ) north of Rome, she lost her parents at the age of fifteen and became a ward of the state, sent to live in a Roman Catholic orphanage.

* A Babe is Born ( Choral piece ) on " Hodie: An English Christmas Collection ".

Three of the ten CDs were Midnight Syndicate discs ( Born of the Night No. 8, Realm of Shadows No. 4, and Vampyre No. 3 ), ranking behind Danny Elfman's The Nightmare Before Christmas and John Carpenter's Halloween soundtrack.

Burgess also featured on Saint Etienne's 1993 Christmas single I Was Born on Christmas Day after agreeing to sing on the track because he apparently loved Christmas so much.

Born on Christmas Day 1728 at Anjengo, Travancore State, India, he was the second son of Alexander Orme, a physician and surgeon in the service of the East India Company.

The band has released two EP's ( Born to Pieces and Pure as the Blood Covered Snow ) and a full-length CD titled Tophet, and their songs have appeared on 2 compilations titled A Brutal Christmas and A Treasury of Sorrows.

Born in Harlow, England, Murphy began playing snooker at the age of 8 after his parents bought him a snooker table for Christmas.

Some of UMPG's most classic and popular song titles include: " I Will Survive " by Perren / Fekaris ; " You're Still the One " and " That Don't Impress Me Much " by Shania Twain ; " Beautiful Day ", " Pride ( In the Name of Love )", and " Desire ", by U2 ; " Magic Carpet Ride " by Moreve / Kay ; " Shake Your Groove Thing " by Perren / Fekaris ; " Born to Be Wild " by Mars Bonfire ; " Can't Help Lovin ' Dat Man " by Kern / Hammerstein, " Blue Christmas " by Hayes / Johnson ; " Strangers in the Night " by Kaempfert / Snyder / Singleton, " The Way You Look Tonight " by Kern / Fields ; " Lady Sings The Blues " by Nichols / Holiday, " Candle In the Wind ", " Your Song " and " Crocodile Rock " by Elton John / Bernie Taupin ; " Girl From Ipanema " by Jobim / Demoraes / Gimbel ; " Here Without You " by 3 Doors Down ; and themes from the movies The Mummy II, Gladiator, E. T., The Pink Panther, and Jaws, among many others.

Born in Essex, he made his film debut in Flame in the Heather in 1935, and went on to make many other appearances in such films as Fire Over England ( 1936 ), Treasure Island ( 1950 ), Scrooge ( 1951 ), as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Ivanhoe ( 1952 ), Moby Dick ( 1956 ), Saint Joan ( 1957 ), From Russia with Love ( 1963 ), Carry On Cleo ( 1964 ) and The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ).

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 in Düsseldorf, he became interested in painting at an early age and in 1919 he co-founded the group " The Young Rheinland " with other young painters of the day, including Otto Dix and Gert Heinrich Wollheim.

Born in London, Anthony attended Harrow School as a free day pupil for three years from the age of seven because his father's farm, acquired for that reason, lay in that neighbourhood.

Born in 232 in Sirmium ( modern day Sremska Mitrovica ), Pannonia Inferior, the son of Dalmatius, Probus entered the army around 250 upon reaching adulthood.

Born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore ( present day Kottayam district, Kerala ), and after a brief stint with journalism and then studying political science at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service in the Nehru administration.

The next day, newspapers contained a photograph of Palmeiras entering the field with the headline: " A Leader Dies, A Champion is Born.

Born in 1932, Greyhound was the outstanding trotting horse of his day and arguably the most outstanding in the history of the sport.

Born about 80 years in the future of the Marvel Universe, Bishop was the son of Aborigine mutant refugees who fled Australia for America a day before it was devastated in a nuclear attack.

" In early 1989, he presented Tom Cruise with his Bronze Star medal on the final day of filming Born on the Fourth of July, explaining to the actor that he was giving him the award as a gift for his " courageous portrayal of the true horrors of war.

Born in the third season ( episode 1117 ) and named for the day of the week when he was born, Prince Tuesday is one of only two characters to age during the course of the series ( he starts as a baby, then a toddler ; from 1979 onward, he is elementary school age ( grows during week 1461-1465 ).

Born in the Fuchun Prefecture of the Wu Commandery ( 吳郡富春, present day Fuyang, Zhejiang ), Sun Jian was said to be a descendant of the renowned military strategist Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War.

Born in Bikrampur ( present day Munshiganj District near Dhaka in Bangladesh ) during the British Raj, Bose graduated from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta.

Born at Darmstadt, on the day of Waterloo, Ludwig von der Tann was descended from the old family of von der Tann, which had branches in Bavaria, the Alsace and the Rhine provinces, and attached his mother's name ( she being the daughter of an Alsatian nobleman, Freiherr von Rathsamhausen ) to his father's in 1868 by licence of the king of Bavaria.

Born in the county of Yang ( present day Hongdong, Shanxi ) in the late years of the Han Dynasty, Xu worked as a local administrative officer in his youth.

Born in the county of Qiao ( 谯, present day Bozhou, Anhui ), Cao Ren was a younger cousin of Cao Cao.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Gilbert was adopted one day later by actor and comedian Paul Gilbert ( born Ed MacMahon, he changed his name to Paul Gilbert to get a Screen Actors Guild card ) and his wife, dancer and actress Barbara Crane, the daughter of The Honeymooners creator Harry Crane.

Born Isadore Soifer in Chester, Pennsylvania to Russian Jewish parents, North was an original composer probably even by the classical music standards of the day.

Pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki also performed a classical version of her single " A Song Is Born " on the event's opening day.

The CFTC expressed dismay over the Broker-Dealer Lite proposal and the manner in which it was issued, but also noted it was 18 months into a “ comprehensive regulatory reform effort .” The same day the CFTC issued its “ concept release ” Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan, and SEC Chair Arthur Levitt ( who, along with CFTC Chair Brooksley Born, were the members of the PWG ) issued a letter asking Congress to prevent the CFTC from changing its existing treatment of OTC derivatives.

Born on 1 March 1923 in Redcar, Briggs first saw Hood at anchor off the River Tees when he was 12, and volunteered to join the Royal Navy the following day.

Born in Chandepalle a small village in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh, India, she had her first samādhi, a state of complete spiritual absorption, at the age of six, which lasted for a whole day.

The government capitulated, and the striking image of Belaúnde walking by himself with the flag was featured by the news magazine Caretas the following day, in an article entitled " Así Nacen Los Lideres " (" This is how Leaders are Born ").

Born as the third son to a poor samurai in the Matsuyama Domain, Iyo Province ( modern Ehime Prefecture ), Akiyama's family was so poor in his childhood that he was forced to work as a fire stoker and janitor in a local public bathhouse for a pittance each day.

On June 28, 1984, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, actress Courteney Cox and 200 extras filmed the Brian De Palma-directed music video for " Dancing in the Dark " at the arena, one day before Springsteen's 1984 Born in the U. S. A. Tour formally opened at the arena.