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.

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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.

Born in Berlin, Germany to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in January 1936, emigrating with his family to the United States.

Born in 1884 in French Guiana this descendant of African slaves was a key figure together with René Pleven in the organization by the De Gaulle government of the Brazzaville Conference of 1944, which took place between the January 30 and February 8, 1944 and which did set out the new direction of French colonial policies after World War II.

In other fictional television works, a January 1971 episode " By the Pricking of My Thumbs ..." of the British science fiction TV series Doomwatch featured a 16-year-old XYY boy expelled from school because of his genetic condition, a November 1993 episode " Born Bad " of the American police procedural TV series Law & Order portrayed a 14-year-old XYY sociopathic murderer, and the May 2007 season finale episode " Born To Kill " of the American police procedural TV series CSI: Miami depicted a 34-year-old XYY serial killer.

In January 2011, it was announced that Eastwood was in talks to direct Beyoncé Knowles in a third remake of the 1937 film A Star Is Born ; however, the project was delayed due to Beyoncé ’ s pregnancy.

Born into an observant Jewish family but an atheist by her teenage years, she was baptized on January 1, 1922 into the Roman Catholic Church.

Born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture on 8 January 1942, Koizumi was educated at Yokosuka High School and Keio University, where he studied economics.

Born the son of Jeffrey Amherst ( d. 1750 ), a Kentish lawyer, and Elizabeth Amherst ( née Kerrill ), Jeffery Amherst was born in Sevenoaks, England, on 29 January 1717.

Frank Miller ( born January 27, 1957 ) is an American writer, artist, and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300.

Born into the Macedonian dynasty that had ruled the Byzantine Empire for almost two hundred years, she was co-empress with her sister Zoe for two months in 1042 and sole empress from 11 January 1055 to after 31 August 1056.

Born in January 1860 in Topeka, Kansas Territory prior to the arrival of statehood in January 1861, Vice President Curtis is notable as an Executive Branch officer born in a territory rather than state of the Union.

Born in Kelvedon, Essex, Spurgeon's conversion to Christianity came on 6 January 1850, at age 16.

Mr. Stephen W. Outterbridge ( Born January 23, 1825-Died January 28, 1915 ) taught at the masonic hall from 1885 until 1896 and at his private school located beside his home on Outerbridge Street until 1900.

Born in London and baptised on 24 January 1664, Vanbrugh was the fourth child ( of 19 ), and eldest surviving son, of Giles Vanbrugh, a London cloth-merchant of Flemish-Protestant background, and his wife Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Barker ( by whom Vanbrugh's mother had the first of her twenty children, Vanbrugh's elder half-sister, Elizabeth ), and daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, of Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey.

Al Perkins ( Born January 18, 1944 ) is a Texas-born American guitarist.

Born a slave just like his mother, the baby John Louis Brown's ownership passed to his father / much-older half-brother Judge Morgan W ( elles ) Brown ( January 1, 1800-March 7, 1853 ) after his father's death in 1840, as did the ownership of his mother.

Born Julia Jean Turner in Wallace, Idaho, she was the daughter of John Virgil Madison Turner, a miner from Hohenwald, Tennessee ( January 23, 1903 – December 14, 1930 ), and Mildred Frances Cowan, a sixteen-year-old native of Arkansas ( June 19, 1904 – February 22, 1982 ).

Ebsen went on to appear in numerous films, both musicals and non-musicals, including the 1936 Born to Dance, the 1936 Captain January ( in which he danced with Shirley Temple ), the 1938 Broadway Melody of 1938 ( with Judy Garland as his dance partner ), and the 1938 The Girl of the Golden West.

Born at Rappoltsweiler in Alsace, France on 13 January 1635, trained by a devout godmother who used books of devotion like Arndt's True Christianity, Spener was convinced of the necessity of a moral and religious reformation within German Lutheranism.

* January 3-Joy Adamson, conservationist and author of Born Free ( killed by a servant in northern Kenya )

Born Robert Sanders in Kansas City, Missouri on January 14, 1933, Brakhage was adopted and renamed three weeks after his birth by Ludwig and Clara Brakhage.