Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

Born at Medina del Campo, he was the son of Ferdinand I of Aragon ( known as Ferdinand of Antequera ) and Eleanor of Alburquerque.

Born at Poissy, Alphonse was a son of Louis VIII, King of France and Blanche of Castile.

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 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 the Duchy of Prussia's capital Königsberg, part of Brandenburg-Prussia, Goldbach was the son of a pastor.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Cronenberg was the son of Esther ( born Sumberg ), a musician, and Milton Cronenberg, a writer and editor.

Born in Innsbruck, he was the son of Duke Ernest the Iron of the Leopoldinian line of the Habsburg family, the ruler of Inner Austria, i. e. the duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, and of Ernest's wife Cymburgis of Masovia.

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 in Memleben, in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Henry was the son of Otto the Illustrious, Duke of Saxony, and his wife Hedwiga, daughter of Henry of Franconia and Ingeltrude and a great-great-granddaughter of Charlemagne.

Born in Lyon, he was the only son of the physicist André-Marie Ampère.

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

Born in Munich, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, well known there for his flower paintings, and the youngest of four brothers of whom the elder three also became painters, Hartmann was himself torn, early in his career, between music and the visual arts.

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 as Mikall ( or Michael ) Sinnott in Danville, Quebec, Canada, the son of Irish Catholic immigrant farmers.

Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist outlook in early life, particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919.

Born in Lyon to a Jewish family, the son of the professor of ancient history Gustave Bloch, Marc studied at the École Normale Supérieure and Fondation Thiers in Paris, then at Berlin and Leipzig.

Born in Bozdağan or Manisa, Murad III was the eldest son of sultan Selim II ( 1566 – 74 ), and succeeded his father in 1574.

Born in Bakos ( باكوس ), Alexandria, Egypt, as the eldest son of an Egyptian primary school teacher, Fayed's first entrepreneurial venture began at school where he sold homemade lemonade.

One son, Taro, had his heartbeat recorded in utero and used as the basis for the album Music to Be Born By.

Born in Burlington, Iowa, on May 15, 1874, Mason was the eldest son of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey and Mary Josephine Mason Remey, the daughter of Charles Mason, the first Chief Justice of Iowa.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the only son of Jacob Hackerman and Anna Raffel, immigrants from the Baltic regions of the Russian Empire that later became Estonia and Latvia, respectively.

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.

His biggest hits were made during the 1920s and early 1930s ; they included popular phonograph records of " Frankie and Johnnie ", " Abdul Abulbul Amir ", " A Gay Caballero " ( he even recorded a sequel, " The Return of A Gay Caballero "), " The Prune Song ", " There's No-one With Endurance Like The Man Who Sells Insurance ", " Down In De Canebrake ", " I Wish That I'd Been Born in Borneo ", " What Kind of a Noise Annoys an Oyster?

Born 23 July 1953, in Kuala Lipis, Pahang, Najib is the eldest of Prime Minister Abdul Razak's six sons, and the nephew of Hussein Onn, Malaysia ’ s third Prime Minister.

Born in Detroit in 1936, Levi Stubbs began his professional singing career with friends Abdul " Duke " Fakir, Renaldo " Obie " Benson, and Lawrence Payton, forming a singing group called The Four Aims in 1954.

Born Ismail Noormohamed Abdul Rehman () in Bombay, he was the son of Hazra ( née Memon ) and Noormohamed Haji Abdul Rehman, a Mumbai Memon textile dealer.

Born in the neighboring West African country of Senegal, Abdul Injai initially came to notice while assisting in the punitive military missions of Portuguese colonialists Oliveira Musanty and Teixeira Pinto, from 1905 to 1915.

Born in Qatif in 1970, Sadeq Abdul Kareem Malallah ( صادق مال الله ) was a Saudi Arabian, who was charged with blasphemy and apostasy while in prison, and executed for the latter crimes in 1993.

Born in Dard Hare, Kupwara District, Abdul Ghani Lone received a law degree from Aligarh Muslim University in 1957.

Born circa 1963, Faryadi Sarwar Zardad is Pashtun and a former Mujahideen leader who fought during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

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.

It is also known as the " Battle Born State " because it achieved statehood during the Civil War and the " Sagebrush State " for the native eponymous plant.

Born in Tulle, he was educated at his native town and took minor orders.

Born in exile in his mothers native Sicily, he was their heir to the House of Orléans from birth.

Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney, Australia in 1911, and ultimately to London ( 1919 ), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times.

Born at Mont-sous-Vaudrey in the Jura mountains, he became an advocate in 1837, and, having steadily maintained republican principles under the Orléans monarchy, was elected by his native department to the Constituent Assembly of 1848.

Born in Sélestat, Alsace, he joined the Dominican Order at an early age and while still a young man was appointed Prior of the Dominican house of his native town.

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 ).

Born at Montpellier, he started as an apothecary, but taking up teaching he acted as chemical assistant at the faculty of sciences of his native town, and then became professor of chemistry at the royal college and school of pharmacy and at the faculty of sciences.

* Jacqueline François, chanson singer, A native of Neuilly Born: 30 January 1922 Died: 7 March 2009.

Born in Brixen ( Bressanone ), Italy, Messner is a native speaker of German and also fluent in English and Italian.

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

Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi ( Born at Castiglione di Sicilia-Provincia di Catania, Sicily on 14 January 1914 – Died at his native town on 3 July 2003 ) of the Roman Catholic Church was a senior papal diplomat and former Personal Secretary to Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini ( later Pope Paul VI ).

Born in Paris, he was educated at the Louis-le-Grand and Bourbon colleges in his native city, and won high honours at his public examination.

Born in Purbrook, Canada West, ( near what is now Orillia, Ontario ) he was the son of Royal Naval Captain Elmes Yelverton Steele, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, and his second wife, Anne Macdonald, the youngest daughter of Neil Maclain MacDonald of Ardnamurchan, a native of Islay, grandson of Captain Godfrey MacNeil of Barra and nephew of Colonel Donald MacNeil.

Born Judi Ann Stish she is a native of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, a town known for its coal mining economy.

The Clarks, a rock / pop band who achieved major success in the 1990s with the songs " Born too late ", " Penny on the floor ", " Cigarette ", " Better Off ", are native to Pittsburgh.

Born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, Jennings was the son of a Scottish mother and James Jennings, a native of County Galway.

* Robert " Bobby " Shatford – Born March 22, 1961, Bobby was a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Born in a log cabin on December 30, 1867, Henry Simpson Johnston was a native of Evansville, Indiana.

Born Leslie Pridgen, Freeway began his career by participating in freestyle battles in his high school and met fellow Philadelphia native Beanie Sigel while rapping on stage at a hometown nightclub.

Born as a native of Xiangxiang ( 湘乡 ), Hunan in 1811, Zeng Zicheng ( 曾子城 ) was the grandson of Zeng Yuping, a prosperous farmer with social and political ambitions.

Born in Campbellford, Ontario, he was the son of Shropshire native Rev.

Born in the town of Cheb and raised in the nearby town Skalná, Nedvěd began his football career in his native Czechoslovakia.