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.

Born in Natal, Walker, the 1907 South African Champion, was not among the big favourites for the 100 metres at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Born into a devoutly Christian middle class African American family in Boston, Massachusetts, Summer first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound.

Born on a plantation on Tortola, an island in the British West Indies, Humphreys came to Philadelphia in 1764, where he became concerned about the struggles of free African Americans to make a living.

* John Davies ( Climber ) ( Born 1958 ), South African Climber

Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Brown earned a bachelor of science from Florida A & M University in 1969 In college she became a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, one of four African American Greek letter sororities in the United States.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to an African American family in 1923, Erroll began playing piano at the age of three.

Born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Lewis is a descendant of freed Loyalist African Americans who settled in Annapolis Royal in 1783.

Vincent Canby waxed enthusiastic about the film, writing in The New York Times, " Almost from the opening shot — a vast expanse of corn-colored African plain where lions feed on the carcass of a freshly killed zebra — one knows that Joy Adamson's best-selling book " Born Free " has been entrusted to honest, intelligent filmmakers.

Born to a farming family in Bula, Cacheu Region on 15 March 1953, Ialá became a militant member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) during his teenage years.

Born of parents from Southwest Arabia ( Dophar, Oman ) and Northeast African Jewish family ( Mt.

Born in Port Elizabeth, Ntshona worked alongside fellow South African Athol Fugard on several occasions and played a minor role in Richard Attenborough's acclaimed film Gandhi.

Born in Boston, Jackson's mother is of African American and Native American descent, and her father is of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent.

Born in 1881, he graduated with a law degree from the University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1905, and was admitted as an advocate ( the South African equivalent of a barrister ) in 1913.

Born in Coffee County in southeastern Alabama, Folsom was among the first southern governors to embrace integration and civil rights for African Americans.

Born in Sidi Ach, Tunisia, Mohammed Gammoudi was one of the pioneers of the African long distance running revolution that changed the face of the sport in the final decades of the 20th century.

Born in Blaustein, Germany ( then West Germany ), Dieter Baumann was one of the few non-African athletes who were able to seriously challenge the African dominance of middle-distance running during the 1990s.

Born in 1873, de Wet obtained a law degree from the University of Cambridge in 1895 and was admitted as an advocate ( the South African equivalent of a barrister ) in 1896.

Born in 1903, he graduated with law degrees from the University of Stellenbosch in 1926, was admitted as an advocate ( the South African equivalent of a barrister ) in 1928, and obtained a doctorate in law in 1929.

Born in Namahadi, Mopeli gained a Bachelor of Arts ( Hons ) at the University of South Africa in 1954 and worked as a teacher and radio announcer for the South African Broadcasting Corporation before being nominated for membership of the QwaQwa Territorial Authority.

Born in Vila Rica ( Rich Town ), whose name was later changed to Ouro Preto ( Black Gold ), Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1738 ( sometimes said to be in 1730 ) he was the son of Manuel Francisco da Costa Lisboa, a Portuguese man and his African slave, Isabel.

Born to an African American father and Portuguese American mother, Guy was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended the former Northside Performing Arts High School ( now North Atlanta High School ).

Born in Seoul, South Korea to a Korean mother and an African American father, Ward grew up in the Atlanta area.

Born in Curculum, now Djemila, in Africa, Lucius Alfenus Senecio was a Romanized North African

Born in Germany before WWII of a German mother and an American father, Christopher joins the CIA after the war and becomes one of its most effective spies.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dennett spent part of his childhood in Lebanon, where, during World War II, his father was a covert counter-intelligence agent with the Office of Strategic Services posing as a cultural attaché to the American Embassy in Beirut.

Banned movies included The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970 by Finnish director Caspar Wrede and Born American by Finnish director Renny Harlin in 1986.

Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Monroe was of the planter class and fought in the American Revolutionary War.

* 1950 – Roscoe Born, American actor

* Nicki Minaj ; Trinidian Born American Singer

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.

* John Bond ( Born 1939 ), Irish American Business man, proprietor of " BOND45 " restaurant, managing director of " Bond NYC " Properties

* List of American Politicians by Year Born or Died

Other songs have different names in different places, for instance in England there is an old ballad known as A Brisk Young Sailor Courted Me, however exactly the same song in North American Bluegrass is known as " I Wish My Baby Was Born ".

Joyce Kilmer ( Born: Alfred Joyce Kilmer, 6 December 1886 – 30 July 1918 ) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled " Trees " ( 1913 ), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914.

Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, the daughter of James Webb, a doctor, and Maria Cook-Webb, Lucy was descended from seven veterans of the American Revolution.

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 to American parents who lived in Paris, de Branges moved to the U. S. in 1941 with his mother and sisters.

* The music video for " Born to Die " by American singer Lana Del Rey was filmed throughout the Palace of Fontainebleau in November, 2011.

Born in 1943 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and reared in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Parks attended the American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Jersey.

* American rock band The Killers make an allusion to Born on the Fourth of July in their song " Sam's Town " on their album of the same name.

Born and raised in Montréal, Auf der Maur formed Tinker in 1993 and later was recruited as the bassist for the American alternative rock band Hole in 1994.

Born in London, Joyce was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps ( 1880 – 1953 ), the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and a second cousin of Ruth Draper, and an eccentric American mother, Nora Langhorne ( 1889 – 1955 ), the daughter of Chiswell Langhorne, an American railway millionaire.

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