Blessed Pope Benedict XI ( 1240 – 7 July 1304 ), born Nicola Boccasini, was Pope from 22 October 1303 until his death.

He was born to a recently ennobled family of Venice, received a Jesuit education in Bologna and became a Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere in 1737.

* Nicola Stephenson ( born 1971 ), British actress

* Nicola Zitara ( born 1927 ), historian

Pope Leo XII ( 22 August 1760 – 10 February 1829 ), born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, was Pope from 1823 to 1829.

She was married at Rome, Italy on 8 January 1930 to Prince Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piemonte ( born 15 September 1904 and died on 18 March 1983 at Geneva, Switzerland ).

Umberto II, born Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria di Savoia, occasionally anglicized as Humbert II ( 15 September 190418 March 1983 ), was the last King of Italy for slightly over a month, from 9 May 1946 to 12 June 1946.

Enrico De Nicola was born in Naples and became famous as one of the most esteemed penal lawyers in Italy.

Iacocca was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania to Nicola Iacocca and Antonietta Perrotta, Italian immigrants ( from San Marco dei Cavoti, Benevento ) who had settled in Pennsylvania's steel-making belt.

Nicoleta Alexandru ( born 5 November 1968 ), whose stage name is Nicola, is a Romanian singer, best known for representing her country at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest.

He has three sisters, Nicola ( born 1985 ), Charlotte ( born 1991 ), and Jessica ( born 1993 ) and grew up with his cousin James ( born 1986 ) who was fostered by the family.

* Nicola Wheeler ( born 1974 ), English actress

Loughborough natives include Albert Francis Cross, the journalist, author, poet and playwright who was born on Moor Lane on 9 May 1863, the two time Laurence Olivier Award nominated stage actress Nicola Hughes and Coronation Streets Roy Cropper actor David Neilson, and also the notorious rock star of the mid-1960s, Viv Prince of the Pretty Things.

Nicolae Iorga (; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga ; January 17, 1871 – November 27, 1940 ) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright.

** Nicola Sabatino, composer ( born 1705 )

Carcieri was born and raised in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, the son of Marguerite E. ( née Anderson ) and Nicola J. Carcieri, a football and basketball coach at East Greenwich High School.

Song number 7 was called " This is the Kiss " by a group called Two-Che, featuring Irishman Paul Clements, and Manchester born Nicola Jackson.

On 18 October 1980 Sayeed married Nicola Anne Power ( born 11 November 1956 ), daughter of Norman and Joy Power.

* Nicola Shindler ( born 1968 ), British television producer

** Nicola Logroscino, composer ( born 1698 )

* February 18 – Nicola Fago, composer and music teacher ( born 1677 )

In 1956, De Nicola became a senator for life as a former Head of State, and later was elected the President of the Senate, and of the Constitutional Court.

Early post-War collections were recorded by Suzanne Danco, Anton Dermota and Gérard Souzay ( all before 1953 ), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ( 1954 ), Hans Hotter ( 1954 ), Erna Berger ( 1956 ), Heinrich Rehfuss ( 1955 ) and Elisabeth Schumann ( 1958 ), and important individual songs by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, and Elisabeth Höngen.

She made her debut at La Scala, Milan in 1956, as ( Cleopatra ) in Handel's Giulio Cesare, opposite Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, whom she married shortly afterwards.

* March 21 – Non ho l ' età by Gigliola Cinquetti ( music by Nicola Salerno, text by Mario Panzeri ) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 for Italy.

Enrico De Nicola (; 9 November 1877 – 1 October 1959 ) was an Italian jurist, journalist, politician, and provisional Head of State of the newborn republic of Italy from 1946 to 1948.

* French Men's Singles Championship – Manuel Santana ( Spain ) defeats Nicola Pietrangeli ( Italy ) 6 – 3, 6 – 1, 4 – 6, 7 – 5

In Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, the sculpture of Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni Pisano, working at Pisa, Siena and Pistoia shows markedly classicising tendencies, probably influenced by the familiarity of these artists with ancient Roman sarcophagi.

International Gothic describes courtly Gothic art from about 1360 to 1430, after which Gothic art begins to merge into the Renaissance art that had begun to form itself in Italy during the Trecento, with a return to classical principles of composition and realism, with the sculptor Nicola Pisano and the painter Giotto as especially formative figures.

Nicola Utili ( also known as Nicola da Castel Bolognese ) ( Ravenna, Italy.

* September 25 – Nicola di Mauro of Italy sets a world seaplane altitude record of 13, 542 meters ( 44, 429 feet ) in a Caproni Ca. 161Idro.

In Italy Nicola Pisano ( 1258 – 78 ) and his son Giovanni developed a style that is often called Proto-Renaissance, with unmistakable influence from Roman sarcophagi and sophisticated and crowded compositions, including a sympathetic handling of nudity, in relief panels on their pulpit of Siena Cathedral ( 1265 – 68 ), the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia, and Giovanni's pulpit in Pistoia of 1301.

Aqua Tofana ( also known as Acqua Toffana, Aqua Tophana, and Aqua Tufania and " Manna di San Nicola ") was a strong poison that was reputedly widely used in Naples and Rome, Italy.

Then in 1807, by favor of the Viceroy of Italy, the Neapolitan Nicola Gambroni was promoted to the patriarchate and of his own authority transferred the patriarchal seat to the Basilica of St. Mark, uniting the two chapters.

She was married at Rome, Italy, on 8 January 1930 to Prince Umberto Nicola Tomasso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piedmont, born on 15 September 1904, and died on 18 March 1983, at Geneva, Switzerland.

Examples can be seen in the Romanesque cathedral in Bitonto, a small city near Bari, in southern Italy, and on column supports of the pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery, carved by Apulian-born sculptor Nicola Pisano around 1260.

For him, indeed, Nicola Zingarelli wrote the part of Romeo in his opera Giulietta e Romeo, staged at Milan ’ s La Scala on January 30, while Domenico Cimarosa composed the role of Curiazio in Gli Orazi e i Curiazi, staged instead in northern Italy ’ s second greater theatre, Venice ’ s La Fenice, on December 26.

On April 10, 2007, Lozano gave an interview to CBS Television in which he appeared deeply concerned about the legal proceeding in Italy, and very sorry about the " pain he'd provoked to the family of Nicola Calipari ".

In 1927, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were cremated here after their execution ; their ashes were later returned to Italy.

Nicola " Nicky " Pietrangeli ( born September 11, 1933, in Tunis, Tunisia ) is a former tennis player from Italy.

* Institute of Greco-Byzantine Ecumenical-Patristic Theology San Nicola, Bari ( Italy )

After the end of World War II, Liberal Enrico De Nicola became " Provisional Head of State " ( later President of the Republic from January 1, 1948 ) and another one, Luigi Einaudi ( who, as Minister of Economy and Governor of the Bank of Italy between 1945 and 1948, had reshaped Italian economy ), second President of Italy.