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I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.

— Jon English

I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda…

— John Cornforth

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

— Antonio Tabucchi

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

— Satchel Paige

I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

— David Gross

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of…

— Harold E. Varmus

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

— Burton Richter

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

— Annie Lennox

There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.

— Michael Gough

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

— Eric Kandel

I cannot get over the fact that I was born in 1944. I want to find out as much as I can about that year.

— W. G. Sebald