Frank McCourt left Ireland at the age of nineteen to return to New York City where he was born.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

She was born in London to Pakistani parents but grew up in New York City where she still lives.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

Douglas was born on an Army base near the southern city of Little Rock, Arkansas in January,eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis,Tennessee, at a time when the southern city discriminated against blacks in all areas of public life.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

He was born Harry Lillis Crosby in nineteen hundred and three in the northwestern city of Tacoma,Washington.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Aniekan Udofia was born in Washington to Nigerian parents who were studying at universities in the city.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

She was born in New York City to parents from the American commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in the Brooklyn area of New York City in nineteen sixty-three.

VOA: special.2011.03.11

They were born in New York City between eighteen eighty-six and eighteen ninety.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in the middle western city of Saint Paul,Minnesota.

VOA: special.2010.11.21

Norma Jean was born that day in the West Coast city of Los Angeles,California.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

released this year. He was born in New York City in nineteen forty-three.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Pete Seeger was born on May third, nineteen nineteen in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

In nineteen-oh-five, Alisa Rosenbaum was born in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

Robert Todd Duncan was born in nineteen-oh-three in the southern city of Danville,Kentucky.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Germanotta was born in Yonkers,New York, and grew up in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Walt Whitman was born in eighteen nineteen in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

George Gershwin was born in New York City in eighteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

Katharine Meyer was born in New York City in nineteen seventeen.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

Isabella Stewart was born in New York City in 1840.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

She was born in New York City in nineteen-oh-three.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

The first lady offered a preview, talking about the city where she was born and raised.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Disney was born in 1901 in the city of Chicago but at the ago of 20, the young man who loved to draw went to Hollywood.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Benjamin Hooks was born in 1925 in Memphis,Tennessee - a city,like most in the racially- segregated American South at the time, that discriminated against African-Americans in all areas of public life.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16