" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.

Towards the end of 54, Agrippina would order the murder of Silanus ' eldest brother Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus without Nero's knowledge, so that he would not seek revenge against her over his brother's death.

He referred to a charge that his " Mother ... held to public scorn as a prostitute who intermarried with a Negro, and his ... eldest brother sold as a slave in Carolina.

He was the eldest son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the Western Emperor Honorius.

Constans ’ brother, Constantine II, soon complained that he had not received the amount of territory that was his due, stemming from his position as the eldest of Constantine ’ s sons.

Evidences multiplying attesting Ruhi's increasing rebelliousness, efforts exerted my eldest sister pave way fourth alliance members family Siyyid Ali involving marriage his granddaughter with Ruha's son and personal contact recently established my own treacherous, despicable brother Riaz with Majdi'd-Din, redoubtable enemy Faith, former henchman Muhammad -' Ali, Archbreaker Bahá ' u ' lláh's Covenant.

Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell.

He was the eldest son of Prince John, ( who succeeded his brother Frederick Augustus II on the Saxon throne as King John in 1854 ) by his wife Amalie Auguste of Bavaria.

Beckett was born at Hammersmith, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and the brother of Arthur William à Beckett.

On July 20, 1808, Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, entered Madrid and established a government by which he became King of Spain, serving as a surrogate for Napoleon.

His eldest son and heir Edward V, aged 13, would have succeeded him, but the king's brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester declared his marriage to be bigamous and invalid, making all his children illegitimate.

When John I died, Henry's eldest brother, Edward became head of the castles council, and granted Henry a " Royal Flush " of all profits from trading within the areas he discovered as well as the sole right to authorize expeditions beyond Cape Bojador.

He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106.

In the following year, 1101, Robert Curthose, Henry's eldest brother, attempted to seize the crown by invading England.

He survived a childhood bout of smallpox to serve as an apprentice potter under his eldest brother Thomas Wedgwood IV.

Jacob was eldest the son of Joseph Abendana and brother to Isaac Abendana.

* John Walker ( Middlesex cricketer ) ( 1826 – 1885 ), cricketer and the eldest brother of the Walkers of Southgate

John spent some time as a member of the household of his eldest living brother Henry the Young King, where he probably received instruction in hunting and military skills.

Shah Mir was succeeded by his eldest son Jamshid, but he was deposed by his brother Ali Sher probably within few months, who ascended the throne under the name of Alauddin Following the Shahmiri Dynasty, was the Chak Dynasty that ruled until Mughal conquest in 1586.

Her eldest brother became King Frederick VIII of Denmark.

* 1017 ( Kannin 1, 8th month ): Prince Atsuakira, the eldest son of Emperor Sanjo, had been named Crown Prince, but after he is struck by a skin disease and under intense pressure from Michinaga ; he withdraws from this role and his younger brother, Prince Atsunaga, is named Crown Prince in his place.

In addition to their promised allegiance to the other, Louis and Charles pledged their solidarity to oppose their eldest brother Lothair, ruler of Middle Francia and, nominally, emperor of all the Carolingian Empire Frankish kingdoms as well as Holy Roman Emperor.

In 1906 the eldest brother, Louis, had formed the Société des Moteurs Gnome

They returned to England following the defeat of the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton and participated in the coronation of Richard's eldest brother as King Edward IV in 1461.

* Ernest Pontifex, the central character ( born 6 September 1835 ; eldest child of Theobald and Christina Pontifex ).

John Pontifex was a carpenter ; his son George rises in the world to become a publisher ; George's son Theobald, pressed by his father to become a minister, is manipulated into marrying Christina, the daughter of a clergyman ; the main character Ernest Pontifex is the eldest son of Theobald and Christina.

Wolfe Tone's only surviving son was William Theobald Wolfe Tone ( both the eldest two children died prematurely: Maria, b. 1786, Dublin, d. 1803, Paris, France, of consumption i. e. tuberculosis and Richard, b 1787 / 1789, died in infancy.

This land was included in the grant made by King John of England to Theobald, eldest son of Hervey Walter of Lancashire, England.

He was the eldest son of Theobald I and his third wife, Margaret of Bourbon, Queen of Navarre.

He had two known sons, the younger being Theobald FitzAlan of Stow and Quy ( d. 21 February 1308 ), and was succeeded at Bedale by the eldest:

Hugh was the eldest son of duke Odo II and Marie of Champagne, daughter of Theobald and Mathilda of Carinthia.

He left fifteen children, of whom the eldest, Theobald, who succeeded him as 2nd Viscount Taaffe, took a prominent part in the English Civil War and on the Restoration was created Earl of Carlingford.

The eldest son of Theobald and Eleanor was Ralph ( 1319 – 1375 ), the second son being Theobald, who duly adopted the name Gorges and inherited his mother's lands at Wraxall and Bradpole, Dorset.

Rhys had nominated his eldest legitimate son, Gruffydd ap Rhys, as his successor, and soon after his father's death Gruffydd met the Justiciar, Archbishop Hubert Walter, on the border and was confirmed as heir.

The eldest daughter of the Karplus family, Margarete, or Gretel, moved in the intellectual circles of Berlin, where she was acquainted with Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Bloch, each of whom Adorno would become familiar with during the mid-20s ; after fourteen years, Gretel and Theodor were married in 1937.

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

He was the eldest of the four children of George Walter Griffin, an insurance agent, and Estelle Griffin.

The children of Paganus Ruet ( argued by modern-day genealogist Lindsay Brook and followed by biographer Alison Weir as " probably christened as Gilles ") included Katherine, her sister Philippa, a son, Walter, and the eldest sister, Isabel ( also called Elizabeth ) de Roet ( Canoness of the convent of St. Waudru's, Mons, c. 1366 ).

", " Mrs Orchardson ", " Conditional Neutrality " ( a portrait of Orchardson's eldest son as a boy of six ), " Lord Rookwood ", " The Provost of Aberdeen " and, above all, " Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart.

Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II and his mistress, Lucy Walter.

* Bartholomew Ball ( 1553 – 54 ), his widow Blessed Margaret Ball was martyred by their eldest son, Walter.

He was the son of Walter Thornhill of Wareham and Mary, eldest daughter of Colonel William Sydenham, governor of Weymouth.

In 1818 the young man attracted the notice of Sir Walter Scott, and he married Scott's eldest daughter Sophia in April 1820.

His eldest boy ( the suffering " Hugh Littlejohn " of Scott's Tales of a Grandfather ) died in 1831 ; Scott himself in 1832 ; Anne Scott in 1833 ; Mrs Lockhart in 1837 ; and the surviving son, Walter Scott Lockhart, in 1853.

Walter was the eldest son of Sir Richard Devereux and Dorothy Hastings.

Sir Walter Raleigh had, through his attainder, forfeited his life-interest in the manor of Sherborne, even though he had previously executed a conveyance by which the property was to pass on his death to his eldest son.

According to his eldest son, Nicolas Walter, " he was politically on the left, a communist fellow-traveller before the Second World War and an anarchist sympathiser after it.

Walter Savage Landor was born in Warwick, England, the eldest son of Dr Walter Landor, a physician, and his second wife, Elizabeth Savage.

* William Henry Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch, 8th Duke of Queensberry ( 1831 – 1914 ), eldest son of the 5th Duke

** Walter Henry Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith ( 1861 – 1886 ), eldest son of the 6th Duke, died unmarried

* Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch, 10th Duke of Queensberry ( 1894 – 1973 ), eldest son of the 7th Duke

* Richard Walter John Montagu Douglas Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch, 12th Duke of Queensberry ( b. 1954 ), eldest son of the 9th Duke

Walter Rothschild was the eldest son and heir of

The daughter of Joseph Walter " Joe " and Katherine Esther ( née Scruse ), she is the eldest of their ten children.