List of people born at sea
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This is a list of notable people born at sea
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Birth aboard aircraft and ships
The subject of birth aboard aircraft and ships is one with a long history in public international law. The law on the subject, despite the provisions of Article 3 the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, is complex, because various states apply differing principles of nationality,...
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Name | Description | Year of birth |
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Louis Aldrich Louis Aldrich Louis Aldrich, né Salma Lyon, was a stage actor who later became president of the Actors' Fund of America.-Biography:... |
American actor | 1843 |
Charles George James Arbuthnot Charles George James Arbuthnot General Charles George James Arbuthnot, DL was a British general.Arbuthnot was born at sea aboard the frigate Juno and raised at Woodford, Northamptonshire. His father, Charles Arbuthnot, was a prominent Tory politician and confidant of the Duke of Wellington... |
British general | 1801 |
Westmoreland Davis Westmoreland Davis Westmoreland "Morley" Davis a lawyer, farmer, and the 48th Governor of Virginia from February 1, 1918 to February 1, 1922.... |
Governor of Virginia Governor of Virginia The governor of Virginia serves as the chief executive of the Commonwealth of Virginia for a four-year term. The position is currently held by Republican Bob McDonnell, who was inaugurated on January 16, 2010, as the 71st governor of Virginia.... |
1859 |
Boyle Finniss Boyle Finniss Boyle Travers Finniss was the first Premier of the Colony of South Australia, serving from 24 October 1856 to 20 August 1857.-Early life:... |
First Premier of South Australia | 1807 |
Itamar Franco Itamar Franco Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco was a Brazilian politician and the President of Brazil from December 29, 1992, to January 1, 1995. During his long political career, Franco was also a Senator, Mayor, Ambassador, Governor and Vice President... |
Brazilian politician | 1930 |
E. T. Hooley E. T. Hooley Edward Timothy Hooley , usually known as E. T. Hooley or Tim Hooley, was an explorer in Western Australia, who in 1866 pioneered an overland stock route from Geraldton to the Ashburton River... |
Australian explorer | 1842 |
Mary Jemison Mary Jemison Mary Jemison was an American frontierswoman and an adopted Seneca. When she was in her teens, she was captured in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania, from her home along Marsh Creek, and later chose to remain a Seneca.... |
American frontierswoman | 1743 |
Augustus D. Juilliard | Founder of the Juilliard School Juilliard School The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905... |
1836 |
Francis Lathrop Francis Lathrop Francis Augustus Lathrop was an American artist.He was born at sea, near the Hawaiian Islands, being a great grandson of Samuel Holden Parsons and the son of George Alfred Lathrop , who for some time was United States consul at Honolulu. He was a pupil of T. C... |
American artist | 1849 |
Wyndham Lewis Wyndham Lewis Percy Wyndham Lewis was an English painter and author . He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST... |
British painter | 1882 |
Rio Antonio Mavuba | French footballer | 1984 |
James McGowen James McGowen James Sinclair Taylor McGowen was an Australian politician and the first Labor Premier of New South Wales from 21 October 1910 to 30 June 1913.-Early life and family:... |
Australian politician | 1855 |
Roy William Neill Roy William Neill Roy William Neill was a film director best known today for directing several of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1943 and 1946 and released by Universal Studios.... |
Film director | 1887 |
Henry Orth Henry Orth -Background:Harold William Orth was born on a ship en route to the United States from Christiana , Norway, on April 14, 1866. His exact date of arrival to the United States is unknown. He was educated at a business college . He married Esther Susan Trigalet and settled in St. Paul,... |
architect | 1866 |
Reino Paasilinna Reino Paasilinna Reino Paasilinna is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, which is part of the Party of European Socialdemocrats, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.Reino Paasilinna was... |
Finnish politician | 1939 |
Ed Porray Ed Porray Edmund Joseph Porray was a former major league pitcher. A right-handed pitcher who had a brief Major League career in which he pitched in 3 games for the Buffalo Buffeds of the Federal League, compiling a 0-1 record with a 4.35 ERA in 10 1/3 innings pitched.Today, Porray is best remembered for... |
American baseball player | 1888 |
Evadne Price Evadne Price Evadne Price , who wrote mostly under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith, was an English writer, actress, astrologer and media personality.... |
British writer | 1896 or 1901 |
Stamford Raffles Stamford Raffles Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, FRS was a British statesman, best known for his founding of the city of Singapore . He is often described as the "Father of Singapore"... |
Founder of Singapore | 1781 |
William Watson William Watson William Watson may refer to:*W. Marvin Watson , U.S. Postmaster General*William E. Watson, military historian*William H. Watson , Mexican-American War soldier from Maryland*William J. Watson... , 1st Baronet Cheyne |
British surgeon | 1852 |
Ralph Humphreys Webb Ralph Humphreys Webb Colonel Ralph Humphreys Webb, DSO, MC was a soldier and politician based in Manitoba, Canada. He served as the 31st Mayor of Winnipeg from 1925 to 1927 and again from 1930 to 1934, and also served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1932 to 1941... |
Canadian politician | 1887 |
Tarina V Frank | Artist | 1989 |
William Wentworth William Wentworth William Charles Wentworth was an Australian poet, explorer, journalist and politician, and one of the leading figures of early colonial New South Wales... |
Australian explorer and politician | 1790 |
Arthur Windsor Arthur Windsor Arthur Lloyd Windsor was an Australian journalist noted for his work on the The Argus and the The Age.-Biography:... |
Australian journalist | 1833 |