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 at Trieste, Austria ( today Italy ), and known as " Prince Napoléon " or by the sobriquet of " Plon-Plon ", he was a close advisor to his first cousin, Napoleon III of France, and in particular was seen as a leading advocate of French intervention in Italy on behalf of Camillo di Cavour and the Italian nationalists.

Born in Padua, the son of Silvestro Boito, an Italian painter of miniatures and his wife, a Polish countess, Józefina Radolińska, Boito studied music at the Milan Conservatory with Alberto Mazzucato until 1861.

* Matt Monro – Singer ( Born Terence Parsons on December 1, 1930 ) Dubbed " The singers singer " and " The British Sinatra ") Famous for singing the James Bond theme " From Russia with Love " and " On Days Like These " from the film " The Italian job ".

Born in London, son of John Abraham ( Jack ) Finzi ( of Italian Jewish descent ) and Eliza Emma ( Lizzie ) Leverson ( daughter of Montague Leverson, of German Jewish descent ), Finzi nevertheless became one of the most characteristically " English " composers of his generation.

Born in London of Italian and French parentage, Barbirolli grew up in a family of professional musicians.

Born in Trieste ( then in Austria-Hungary ) as Aron Ettore Schmitz to a Jewish family that originated in Germany, Italo Svevo ( literally Italian swabian ) wrote the classic novel La Coscienza di Zeno ( rendered as Confessions of Zeno, or Zeno's Conscience ) and self-published it in 1923.

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 a princess of the Italian Duchy of Modena, Mary is primarily remembered for the controversial birth of James Francis Edward, her only surviving son.

Born in Locarno, Switzerland to a German father with Belgian roots from Aachen and an Italian mother from the Calabria region, Neuville started his professional career with Servette FC.

This was Miller's last great commercial success ; a series of collections, live albums and attempts to find a new style appeared in 1984 ( Italian X-Rays ), 1986 ( Living in the 20th Century ) and 1988 ( Born 2B Blue ), but after 1993's effort, Wide River, Miller gave up recording records altogether for some considerable time.

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.

He also appeared in Damian Pettigrew's award-winning documentary, Fellini: I'm a Born Liar ( 2002 ), offering insights into the mind and working methods of Italian director Federico Fellini whom Stamp had worked with in the 1960s.

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 of an Italian theatrical family, he studied dance with Louis Dupré at the Royal Academy in Paris, later joining the Paris Opéra where he served as dancing master to Louis XVI.

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

Born in Turin, Italy to a father of an Iranian origin ( Aga Khan III ), who was born in Karachi ( then under British colonial rule ), and Italian mother.

Born in Rhinebeck, New York to working class Italian parents, Guido Carosella gained a fortune in a settlement when his parents were killed by falling space debris.

Born in Philadelphia of Italian descent, Dundee went to New York and later to Miami where he learned many of the strategies of a boxer's cornerman while acting as a " bucket man " to the great trainers of Stillman's Gym.

Born in Cardiff to a family with Italian ancestry, Pino Palladino began playing the electric guitar at age 14.

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 in Rome to an Italian father and an English mother ( Ivy Webb from Croydon ), Mangano lived in poverty caused by the Second World War.

Born in Padua at night, he received classical Jewish and Italian educations, showing a predilection for literature at a very early age.

Born in Kaysersberg, Schweitzer spent his childhood in the village of Gunsbach, Alsace (), where his father, the local Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, taught him how to play music.

Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

Born from a noble family of the province of Soule, his father Michel was born in Arrast-Larrebieu and his mother was Irish.

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.

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.

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.

Born at Bourgueil, in the valley of the Changeon in the province of Anjou, his father was a lawyer, and, preparing Moses for his own profession, sent him, on the completion of his study of the humanities at Orléans to the university of Poitiers.

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

Born on October 31, 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family of engineers and hard scientists ; his father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor.

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 Anne de Lenclos in Paris, she was nicknamed " Ninon " by her father at an early age.

Born Shannon Elizabeth Fadal, Elizabeth's father is of Lebanese and Syrian Arab descent and her mother is of English, Irish, German, and Cherokee ancestry.

Born in ` Akká in March 1897, Shoghi Effendi was related to the Báb through his father, Mírzá Hádí Shírází, and to Bahá ' u ' lláh through his mother, Ḍíyá ' íyyih Khánum, the eldest daughter of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

Paley was Born in Peterborough, England, and was educated at Giggleswick School, of which his father was headmaster, and at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Born in Hanover, Germany, Herschel followed his father into the Military Band of Hanover, before emigrating to Britain at age 19.

Born near Lexington, Kentucky to Carter Henry Harrison II and Caroline Russell, he was only a few months old when his father died.

Born to a farmers family in the small village of Zagorica east of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Jurij was 6 years old when his father Jernej Veha died.

Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings.

Born into a family of British nobility as The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, she became Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon when her father inherited the Scottish Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904.

Born in New Jersey, Solanas said that she was the victim of sexual abuse by her father ; and, after her parents ' divorce, she had a volatile relationship with her mother and stepfather as a teenager with her unruly behavior.

Born in Waiblingen, he was the brother of Joachim Winkelhock and father of Markus Winkelhock, also both racing drivers.

It includes a song titled " A New Star is Born ", which is dedicated to her late father.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.