Born in Cuba in 1922, from Catalan origin, she was one of the most notorious rumba dancers of her times.

Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14.

Born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalie Della ( Garaventa ) and Antonino Martino Sinatra, and was raised Roman Catholic.

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 Eugene Rubessa () in Christopher, Illinois, he was the only child of Croatian immigrants and graduated from Lindblom Technical High School and later from Knox College.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of German immigrants, at a young age Wiedoeft started playing with his family orchestra, first on violin, then on clarinet.

Born to self-educated Russian-Jewish immigrants Alex Festinger ( an embroidery manufacturer ) and Sara Solomon Festinger in Brooklyn, New York, Leon Festinger attended Boys ' High School and received a bachelor's in science at City College of New York in 1939.

Born Jerome Solon Felder in 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, his parents were Jewish immigrants.

Born in the Lorraine region, Platini is the son of Aldo, also born in Lorraine, of Italian immigrants arrived in France shortly after the end of the first World War.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City to Italian immigrants Sophia and Salvadore Petrillo, Dorothy became pregnant while still in high school, resulting in a marriage to Stanley Zbornak in order to legitimize the baby.

Born in New York City, the son of Swedish immigrants from Göteborg ( father ) and Visby ( mother ), Carlson attended The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1957.

Born the son of Ukrainian immigrants, he performed well in school despite English being his second language and studied at the University of Saskatchewan, earning a B. A.

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the daughter of Danish immigrants who made pottery by hand, Harvour grew up in Saint John and on the Kingston Peninsula.

Born in New York City to Sicilian immigrants, Creston was self ‐ taught as a composer.

Born Philip Silver on Thursday, May 11, 1911, in Brooklyn, New York, in the working-class Brownsville section, he was the eighth and youngest child of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Saul and Sarah ( née Handler ) Silver.

Born to Isabel Ercoli and Giulio Frondizi, Italian Argentine immigrants from the Umbria Region, Arturo had ten brothers, including Silvio, who became a lawyer and was assassinated in 1974 by the Triple A, and Risieri, who became a philosopher and rector of the University of Buenos Aires ( UBA ).

Born to Jamaican immigrants in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lumbly graduated from South High School there and Macalester College in nearby St. Paul.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, to West Indian immigrants, Lincoln Alexander first distinguished himself in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.

Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the descendant of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants, Maschwitz was educated at Arden House preparatory school, Henley in Arden, Repton School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Born in London to Indian immigrants of Sikh Punjabi background ; his mother was a cleaner at a local hospital, whilst his father was a lorry driver.

Born in Argentina to Italian immigrants from the Southern town of Matera, he gained fame playing football for Estudiantes de La Plata in his youth.

Born to Giovan Battista Portinari and Domenica Torquato, Italian immigrants from Veneto, in a coffee plantation near Brodowski, in São Paulo, Portinari studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes ( ENBA ) in Rio de Janeiro.

Born to Spanish immigrants Olegario ( d. 1880 ) and Ana ( née Mateos ), Lorenzo grew up in Queens, New York.

Born into a family with a long political heritage in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Colosio Murrieta was the descendant of 16th century Italian immigrants to New Spain who settled down in the rural territories of the northwest, in the modern state of Sonora.

Born in The Bronx, New York, Sweeney is the son of Joseph ( a city bus driver ) and Agnes ( a domestic worker ), both Irish immigrants.

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Latvian immigrants, Goodman Ace ( he inverted his first non de plume, Asa Goodman ) grew up wanting to write, proving it as the editor of his high school newspaper.

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 in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.

Bunge & Born was founded in 1884 by Ernesto Bunge, a German Argentine whose uncle, Carl Bunge, had been Consul General in Argentina for both the Netherlands and Prussia, and his brother-in-law, Jorge Born, who had recently arrived from Antwerp.

* Deirdre, a famous dancer who was burned nearly completely and whose brain was placed in a faceless but beautiful mechanical body, in C. L. Moore's short story of 1944, " No Woman Born ".

Born into a working-class family, from an early age Ortega developed a hatred of the ruling President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who was widely recognized as a dictator, and became involved in the underground movement to oppose Somoza's regime.

Born in Venezuela, he had fought in the wars for independence with Bolívar, who had appointed him governor of Ecuador during its association with Gran Colombia.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

* Fiji Born Indian referring to people of Indian origin who were born in Fiji

Born in Johannesburg to Johannes " Jan " de Klerk and Hendrina Cornelia Coetzer-" her forefather was a Kutzer who stems from Austria ".

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.

In December 1952, Cukor was approached by Sid Luft, who proposed the director helm a musical remake of the 1937 film A Star is Born with his then-wife Judy Garland in the lead role.

Born Allan George See in Mount Kisco, New York, the older of two children, born to Margaret ( née Shea ) See ( 1906-2004 ), who was a middle school dropout, who in turn worked for Reader's Digest.

Born in Iptingen, Duchy of Württemberg, Germany, Rapp was a “ bright but stubborn boy ” who was also deeply religious.

Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz ( a customs official ) and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four.

It was Max Born who introduced the interpretation of the absolute square of the wave function as the probability distribution of the position of a pointlike object.

Born at Rumigny, Ardennes, he was left destitute by the death of his father, who held a post in the household of the duchess of Vendôme.

Born to a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter of Cairo, Mahfouz was named after Professor Naguib Pasha Mahfouz ( 1882 – 1974 ), the renowned Coptic physician who delivered him.

Born in Villandraut, Aquitaine, Bertrand was canon and sacristan of the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux, then vicar-general to his brother, the Archbishop of Lyon, who in 1294 was created Cardinal-Bishop of Albano.

Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the dignity of Cardinal-Priest of Sant ' Eusebio, in 1629.

Born Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, Alexander was adopted as heir apparent by his slightly older and very unpopular cousin, the Emperor Elagabalus at the urging of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa — who was grandmother of both cousins and who'd arranged for the emperor's acclamation by the Third Legion.

Born into a wealthy family in New York City, Roosevelt was a sickly child who suffered from asthma and stayed at home studying natural history.