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

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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 Fawn Knutsen, she ran away from the family farm outside Moorhead, Minnesota, and soon found herself making pornographic videos under the name " Bunny La Joya.

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 Sioux City, Iowa, William Edwards Deming was raised in Polk City, Iowa on his grandfather Henry Coffin Edwards's chicken farm, then later on a farm purchased by his father in Powell, Wyoming.

* 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 & raised on a farm near Mapleton.

Born in Marion, Indiana, Davis grew up on a small farm in Fairmount, Indiana, with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine ( Carter ) Davis, brother Dave and 25 cats.

Born on a farm near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as the oldest son of Olouse and Mary Lacey Foss, Foss grew up in a farmhouse without electricity.

Born on a family farm in Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania and raised in Frewsburg, New York, Jackson graduated from Frewsburg High School in 1909 and spent the next year as a post-graduate student attending Jamestown High School in Jamestown, New York.

Born on a farm near Edinburgh and a farmer in his early years, Adams moved to London where he worked as a journalist.

Born in 1918 near Marshfield, Wisconsin in the town of Rock in Wood County, Pulvermacher was one of nine children of a farm family.

Born and raised in Selukwe ( now Shurugwi ), a small rural town in the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, Smith served in the Southern Rhodesian Air Force and British Royal Air Force during the Second World War and, after graduating from Rhodes University in South Africa, bought a farm in his home town in 1948.

Born on a farm in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Sheehan graduated from Mount Hermon School ( later Northfield Mount Hermon ) and Harvard University with a B. A.

Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm.

Born on a farm between Wilton and Tomah, 20 July 1870.

Born on an isolated farm in northern Alberta, she received her B. Ed.

Born November 22, 1958, Jason came from a place lost in time, a small hog farm near Sheffield, Illinois.

Born on a farm in Whitney, Idaho, Benson was the oldest of eleven children.

Born in Visalia, California, he grew up on his parents ' farm several miles east of Hanford and graduated from Hanford Union High School in 1972.

Born into a Quaker family in Barnesville, Ohio, Gray was brought up on a farm.

Born on the family farm Doornfontein in the Winburg District of the Orange Free State, he was the son of Adrianus Johannes Gijsbertus de la Rey and Adriana Wilhelmina van Rooyen.

Born in Meriden, Connecticut to a family that had farmed there for five generations, Murdock spent many childhood hours working on the family farm and acquired a wide knowledge of traditional, non-mechanized, farming methods.

Born in Summerfield, Louisiana, Malone was the youngest boy of nine children and during his childhood lived on a farm with his single mother Shirley.

Born at “ Richfields ” ( his father's farm ), near Frederick, Maryland, Schley graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1860, and went as midshipman on board the frigate Niagara to China and Japan.

Born in Middleton, Tennessee, Estelle Stewart grew up on a farm.