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.

Born as Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford at Jeffrey Hale Hospital in Quebec City, Ford was the son of Anglo-Quebecers Hannah Wood Mitchell and Newton Ford, a railway conductor.

* Born: Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer, in Milwaukee ( d. 1994 )

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Kranzberg graduated from Amherst College, received a master's and a PhD from Harvard College and served in the Army in Europe during World War II.

Born in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle ( née Crane ) and James Allen Whitmore, Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, before graduating from The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Born in in Washington, DC, Lovins spent much of his youth in Silver Spring, Maryland and in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Born in Amherst, the son of Robert McGowan Dickie and Eleanor Chapman, he was educated at Windsor Academy and later studied law with Alexander Stewart.

Born in Amherst County, Virginia, Cartwright was a missionary who helped start the Second Great Awakening and personally baptized twelve thousand converts.

Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Ralston graduated from law school at Dalhousie University in 1903 and practised law in Amherst.

Born in Athens, Samaras attended school in the Athens College ( founded by his maternal great-grandfather, Stefanos Delta, and Emmanouil Benakis, Delta's father-in-law ), and graduated from Amherst College in 1974 with a degree in economics, and then from Harvard University in 1976 with an MBA.

Born in Beirut, Ottoman Empire ( now Beirut, Lebanon ), he graduated from Amherst College ( A. B., 1877 ; A. M., 1881 ), earning the degree of L. H. D.

Born in St Andrews, Scotland and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Read graduated from Amherst College in 1980 and worked for a Massachusetts crime commission before moving to Portland, Oregon to become a reporter for The Oregonian.

Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1940, Moser studied at the Baylor School, Auburn University, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and did graduate work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Born in Amherst, Nebraska on September 10, 1907, Fitch was the first Eagle Scout in Nebraska, and one of the very earliest west of the Mississippi River.

Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, he graduated from high school at Kentucky Country Day School and later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College with a degree in economics, and received his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Born in Killingly, Connecticut, he moved with his parents to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1852 ; he attended the public schools and Amherst College where he studied the law.

Born in Adams, Massachusetts, Lawrence graduated from Drury Academy in 1876 and from Amherst College in 1880.

* 1882 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1970 )

Born in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, the twelfth and last child of Thomas Wedgwood and Margret Wedgwood ( née Stringer ; d. 1766 ), Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters.

The Persian historian Tabari quotes Ibn Abbas ( d. 686-8 ) as saying: " Born to Noah were Shem, whose descendants ' colors are a black complexion with a light-brownish undertone ( bayādh ) and a dark blackish brown ( Udmah ); Ham, whose descendants ' colors are true black ( sawād ) and a few are a black complexion with a light-brownish undertone ( bayādh qalīl ); and Japheth, whose descendants are very fair-skinned ( al-shuqrah ) and olive-skinned ( al-humrah )".

** Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1970 )

Born in Paris, d ' Alembert was the illegitimate child of the writer Claudine Guérin de Tencin and the chevalier Louis-Camus Destouches, an artillery officer.

Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger ( the first name was never used ) in Le Havre, France, he initially studied harmony and violin in Paris, and after a brief period in Zurich, returned there to study with Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d ' Indy.

Born to Barbara ( née Pass ) and Hugh Gibb ( d. 1992 ) on the Isle of Man, Robin was the fraternal twin brother of Maurice Gibb, and the older of the two by 35 minutes.

Born Maurice Ernest Gibb to Barbara ( née Pass ) and Hugh Gibb ( d. 1992 ) on the Isle of Man, Maurice was the fraternal twin brother of Robin Gibb, and the younger of the two by 35 minutes.

Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Athina is the only child of Christina Onassis ( 1950 – 1988 ) and her fourth husband, Thierry Roussel, a French pharmaceutical heir and brother of Christine Hélène, the current duchess of Luynes by her marriage with Jean d ' Albert, 12th duc de Luynes.

Born as Frances M. Carroll, the daughter of John F. Carroll and actress Hazel Bainbridge ( b. 1909 / 1910 – d. 7 January 1998 ).

* De l ' inconvénient d ' être né (" The Trouble With Being Born "), Gallimard 1973

Born Mildred Rinker in Tekoa, Washington, her mother, Josephine, was an enrolled member of the Coeur d ' Alene Tribe and a devout Roman Catholic.

) is an Anglicization of the Egyptian name < u > d < u > hwty-ms, usually translated as " Born of the god Thoth ".

Born in Leipzig, Backhaus studied at the conservatoire there with Alois Reckendorf until 1899, later taking private piano lessons with Eugen d ' Albert in Frankfurt.

Born in Brittany and living most of his life in Lezardrieux, Le Flem studied at the Schola Cantorum under Vincent d ' Indy and Albert Roussel, later teaching at the same establishment, where his pupils included Erik Satie and André Jolivet.

Born in Belgium to Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend, daughter of Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, and Belgian Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d ’ Altena, head of Belgium's military intelligence for the government-in-exile during World War II, Arnaud de Borchgrave was educated in Belgium, Britain and the United States.

Johannes Reidt, a Hessian soldier from Raboldshausen, Germany, Born, January, 06, 1757, Salzberg Hesse Cassel Germany, mother, Anna Elizabeth Reid Her father, Johannes Reidt and mother, Anna Catherine Engel were married August 5, 1764 in Germany and his father, Johann Jacob Helmerich d. May 28, 1845, in Cabarrus County, N. C., served during the American Revolution in Company C ( Col. Friedrich von Porbeck ) of the Garrison Regiment von Wissenbach.

Born in Vendôme, he was the fifth son of Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, the younger brother of Antoine de Bourbon who married Jeanne d ' Albret, Queen of Navarre ; their son, Condé's nephew, became Henry IV of France.

Born at the British Military Hospital in Hanover, Germany, his late father ( Peter, d. 1991 ) was a Major in the British Army whose wife ( Ulrike, née Peipe, d. 2010 ), Field's mother, was of German birth.

He married Hawise de Born and had a son William III de Tracy ( d. pre-1194 ), one of the four knights who assassinated Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in December 1170.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens ' College, Cambridge University, a diplôme d ' études supérieures from Université de Paris and a Doctorate in economics from McGill University.

Born into a Roman Catholic family, he became a mechanic, just before the beginning of WWII, with the Société Nationale d ' Étude et de Construction de Moteurs d ' Aviation.