* 1960 – Franco Baresi, Italian footballer

* Franco Baresi

Among his teammates at that club were compatriots Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard, along with Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi.

The back four that included Maldini and fellow long-timers Franco Baresi, Alessandro Costacurta and Mauro Tassotti is widely considered one of European football's most formidable defensive quartets of the 1990s.

The emphasis of this system in Italian football spawned the rise of many top defenders such as Claudio Gentile and Gaetano Scirea in the 1970s, Giuseppe Bergomi and Franco Baresi in the 1980s, the famous all-Italian Milan defensive four of Baresi, Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Costacurta and Mauro Tassotti of the 1990's and 2006 World Cup winners Fabio Cannavaro and Alessandro Nesta and many others in 2000s for which the Italian national team would become famous.

The second from Protasov was initially blocked, but quick reactions beat Franco Baresi to the ball to fire the second shot into the far corner for a 2 – 0 victory.

Alongside the likes of AC Milan legend Franco Baresi and Juventus FC's Antonio Cabrini and Gaetano Scirea, he formed the backbone of the national team's defence for much of the 1980s, making his debut on 14 April 1982 in a 0 – 1 friendly loss in East Germany, aged only 18 years and 3 months ; in the victorious World Cup run in Spain, he appeared in three games, including the full 180 minutes in the last two matches.

Capello made his second and best remembered coaching experience in the early 1990s again with Milan, replacing Sacchi and leading a team including the likes of Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Paolo Maldini, and Franco Baresi to four Serie A titles in five years with a team nicknamed " The Invincibles ".

Some of the previous squad had departed, and others such as Franco Baresi were coming to the end of their careers.

Panucci had one of his best offensive seasons in 1995-96, scoring five goals, while helping to form the league's tightest defense alongside internationals Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini, and Alessandro Costacurta.

Since entering retirement, Redondo often appeared in many high profile exhibition matches contested by select squads of past and present footballing greats, including ; Franco Baresi, Franz Beckenbauer, Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit, Zlatko Zahovič, Aleksandr Mostovoi, Marco van Basten and Tony Yeboah, amongst others.

* Franco Baresi World Cup Kick Off ( 1990 )

During the 1970s to early 1990s Italy became famous for their catenaccio, thus heralding a long line of world class defenders such as Virginio Rosetta, Pietro Rava, Carlo Parola, Giacinto Facchetti, Armando Picchi, Gaetano Scirea, Antonio Cabrini, Claudio Gentile, Franco Baresi, Giuseppe Bergomi, Paolo Maldini, Fabio Cannavaro and Alessandro Nesta.

He is best known for his role alongside Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini and Mauro Tassotti, forming one of the greatest defences in the Serie A and European football during the 90s.

Birthplace of Italian soccer legend Franco Baresi.

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A Milan vs Barcelona celebration match, featuring great names past and present ( such as Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard, and Franco Baresi ) was played on 15 March 2006.

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Fortunato took Paolo Maldini ’ s place and played alongside the legendary Franco Baresi in a game the Azzurri won 3-0.

During this time, Italy had a plethora of top-class defenders such as Franco Baresi, Alessandro Costacurta, Mauro Tassotti, Pietro Vierchowod, Riccardo Ferri, Giuseppe Bergomi, Gianluca Pessotto, Paolo Maldini, and in latter years, stars like Fabio Cannavaro, Alessandro Nesta, and Giorgio Chiellini.

* Born: Franco Baresi, Italian football defender, in Travagliato

Along with Franco Baresi and Roberto Baggio, Massaro missed a penalty kick against Brazil in the 1994 World Cup in the shootout which cost Italy the title.

During the team's peak, he was a key component of an almost insurmountable defence, playing alongside other club greats: Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta.

Franco Zeffirelli, KBE (; born 12 February 1923 ) is an Italian director and producer of films and television.

Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco (; June 28, 1930July 2, 2011 ) was a Brazilian politician and the President of Brazil from December 29, 1992, to December 31, 1994.

João Franco Ferreira Pinto Castelo-Branco, GCTE (; Fundão, Alcaide, 14 February 1855 – 4 April 1929 ) was a Portuguese politician, Minister, 43rd Minister for Treasury Affairs ( 14 January 1890 ) and 73rd Prime Minister in the last years of the Portuguese monarchy.

Franco Brienza (; born 19 March 1979 ) is an Italian footballer who plays for Palermo in Serie A and also represented Italy at international level.

* Franco Cordova ( born 1944 ), Italian retired footballer

* Franco Harris ( born 1950 ), former Pittsburgh Steelers football player.

Franco Columbu ( born August 7, 1941 ) is an Italian actor, former champion bodybuilder and World's Strongest Man competitor.

However, film director Franco Zeffirelli, who claims to have known her well, states in his autobiography that Magnani was born in Alexandria, Egypt to an Italian Jewish mother and Egyptian father, and that " only later did she become Roman, when her grandmother brought her from Egypt and raised her in one of the Roman slum districts.

Aznar, born in Madrid in 1953, was the son of Manuel Aznar Acedo, army official, journalist and radio broadcaster, and grandson of Manuel Aznar Zubigaray, a prominent journalist during the Franco era.

Rosana Franco ( born c. 1971 ) is a Mexican news person, as well as a sportscaster for Spanish-language television channel Univision.

Franco was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León.

Franco has a son, born c. 1989.

** Veronica Franco, poet and courtesan ( born 1546 )

Olivia Hussey ( born 17 April 1951 ) is an Argentinian actress who became famous for her role as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Academy Award-winning 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet, winning a Golden Globe as well as the David di Donatello for best actress.

Franco Nero ( born 23 November 1941 ) is an Italian actor.

* Julio Franco ( born 1958 ), former New York Mets first basemen, lived in the Century.

Franco Petri Burgersdijk or Franciscus Burgersdicius, born Franck Pieterszoon Burgersdijk ( 3 May 1590, De Lier – 19 February 1635, Leiden ), was a Dutch logician.

Corelli was born Dario Franco Corelli in Ancona into a family many have thought to have little or no musical background.

Franco was born prematurely at sea, aboard a ship traveling between Salvador and Rio de Janeiro.

Franco was named Itamar because he was born on board the ship Ita, at sea ( in Portuguese Mar ).

Another daughter, María Sonsoles Suárez y Illana ( born in Madrid in 1967 ), became a TV news anchor for Antena 3 and married José María Martínez-Bordiú y Bassó de Roviralta, born in Madrid on 22 November 1962 and a nephew of Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, the son-in-law of Francisco Franco ; the couple is without issue.

John Anthony Franco ( born September 17, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York ) is a former Major League Baseball left-handed relief pitcher.

Franco Petracchi ( born September, 1937 ) is a famous Italian double bass player soloist and teacher.

Franco Franchi ( born Francesco Benenato, 18 September 1928 – 9 December 1992 ) was an Italian comedian.

Franco Egidio Malerba ( Ph. D .) ( born October 10, 1946, in Busalla, Genoa, Italy ) is an Italian astronaut.

Luca Damiano ( born Franco lo Cascio on 29 August 1946 in Rome ) is an Italian film director who began his career as an assistant to Vittorio de Sica.