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1997 Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian, dies at 93

1997 Alfred Day Hershey, American Scientist

1997 Charlie Alfred Galbraith, jazz trombonist, dies at 76

1996 Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor, dies at 68

1996 Alfred William Bill Bedford, test Pilot, dies at 75

1996 Alfred Marks, actor (Fanny Hill, Desert Mice), dies at 75

1996 Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier, dies at 85

1995 John Alfred Scali, journalist/diplomat, dies at 77

1995 Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73

1995 Alfred Earle Birney, poet, dies at 91

1995 Alfred Eisenstaedt, American Photographer

1995 Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist, dies at 96

1994 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell

1994 Joan Harrison, English producer/Alfred Hitchcock's sect, dies at 83

1994 Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91

1994 Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82

1993 Alfred Manessier, Fr painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81

1993 Alfred Mosher Butts, U.S. architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93

1992 Alfred Drake, Broadway actor (Oklahoma), dies of heart failure at 78

1989 Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59

1989 Alfred J Ayer, English philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies

1988 Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman), dies at 85

1987 Alfred M Landon, former Kansas Gov, dies at his Topeka home at 100

1987 Alfred Bester, sci-fi author (Dark Side of Earth), dies at 73

1987 Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy," premieres in New York City

1987 Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78

1985 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," returns to NBC-TV

1984 Alfred A Knopf, U.S. publisher, dies at 91

1983 Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam

1983 Alfred M Gruenther, U.S. general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84

1982 Alfred Adam, dies at 72

1980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80

1980 Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

1980 Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), dies at 66

1977 Alfred Lunt, actor (Guardsman, Sally of Sawdust), dies at 83

1976 Alfred Sendrey, composer, dies at 92

1974 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86

1974 Alfred Shipman, CFL slot back for the BC Lions

1972 Alfred Schreuders, soccer player, RKC

1970 Alfred Julius Swan, composer, dies at 79

1970 Alfred Jordan, CFL cornerback for the Calgary Stampeders

1970 Alfred Newman, U.S. composer, dies at 69

1969 Alfred Pupunu, NFL tight end for the San Diego Chargers

1969 Patrick Alfred Bates, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, 1994 NIKE Dakota Open

1968 Alfred Williams, NFL defensive end, San Francisco 49ers, Broncos-Superbowl 32

1967 Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, dies at 78

1967 Alfred Jackson, NFL cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings

1967 Alfred Jackson, CFL receiver for the BC Lions

1967 Alfred Oglesby, NFL defensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals

1966 Alfred Mendelsohn, composer, dies at 56

1966 Alfred P. Sloan, American Businessman

1965 William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat," premieres in New York City

1964 Alfred Blalock, American Inventor

1962 Alfred Cortot, French pianist, dies at 84

1960 Alfred Hill, composer, dies at 89

1960 Alfred E Green, director (Copacabana), dies after long illness at 71

1960 Alfred Henry Ackley, composer, dies at 73

1959 Alfred Kubin, writer, dies at 82

1959 Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher, dies at 60

1959 Alfred Alessandrescu, composer, dies at 65

1958 Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77

1958 Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist, dies at 89

1957 Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder (Sturm), dies at 78

1956 Alfred C Kinsey, U.S. sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies

1956 Alfred Kinsey, American Scientist

1956 Alfred C Kinsey, U.S. zoologist/sexologist, dies at 62

1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres

1955 Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79

1954 Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49

1953 Alfred Molina, London, actor, Enchanted April, Prick up your Ears

1952 Alfred Neumann, German writer, dies at 56

1952 Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85

1952 Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies at 71

1951 Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate, dies

1951 Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed

1948 Alfred Kerr, writer, dies at 80

1948 Alfred Kastner, composer, dies at 78

1948 Alfred Matt, Austria, slalom 1968 Olympics bronze

1948 Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81

1947 Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

1946 Alfred G Jodl, Col-Gen/German staff chief weather authority, hanged

1946 Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged

1946 Alfred Jones, born in Grace, Mississippi, middleweight boxer 1968 Olympics bronze

1946 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82

1946 Alfred Jodl, German Soldier

1945 Alfred Antony Francis Gell, social anthropologist

1945 Alfred Douglas, English Poet

1944 Alfred E. Smith, American Politician

1944 Alfred Emanuel Smith, American Politician

1943 Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies

1943 Alfred Whitford Lerdahl, composer

1942 Alfred Mombert, writer, dies

1942 Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81

1940 Alfred Loisy, French Clergyman

1939 Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor of Rotterdam (1906-22), dies

1937 Alfred Abel, actor (Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis), dies at 57

1937 Alfred Adler, Austria psychiatrist (Individual Psychology), dies at 67

1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins landslide victory over Alfred M. Landon

1936 Alfred A Oerter, Jr., Astoria, New York, discus, Olympics gold 56, 60, 64, 68

1935 Alfred Dreyfus, French officier (Dreyfus Affair), dies

1935 Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel, dies

1934 Alfred Schnittke, Russia, composer, St. Florian

1934 Alfred Scott, WI cricket leg-spinner, son of O C, Test 0-140

1934 Alfred Bruneau, composer, dies at 77

1933 Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47

1932 Alfred M Worden, Jackson Michigan, Colonel USAF/astronaut, Apollo 15

1931 Frederick Alfred Fox, composer

1931 Alfred Brendel, Wiesenberg Moravia, Austrian pianist

1930 Alfred Lewis Valentine, Jamaican cricket player

1929 Alfred Moisiu, Statesman

1929 Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper, 1953-56

1928 Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres

1928 Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Spuk/Rasputin), dies at 37

1928 Alfred E. Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention

1928 Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor

1928 Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released

1928 Alfred Morris, British MP

1927 Alfred Kraus, Las Palmas Canary Islands, tenor, La Scala

1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA

1926 Alfred Koerppen, composer

1926 Alfred "Fred" Benavente, director/actor, Farce Majeur

1926 Alfred Slote, author, Love and Tennis, Omega Station

1925 Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer (Dreamy Fish), dies at 59

1925 Alfred B Nzo, South African sec-gen ANC, 1969-

1925 Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71

1925 Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer, dies at 52

1923 Alfred Heineken, beer brewer, Heineken

1922 Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies

1922 Donald Alfred Davie, poet and critic

1922 Alfred Espinas, French sociologist (Societes Animales), dies at 77

1921 Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies

1921 Alfred Fried, Austrian Activist

1921 Alfred Marks, actor/comedian, Desert Mice, Scream and Scream Again

1921 Alfred Reed, composer

1920 Alfred William Bedford, test pilot

1920 Louis Alfred Mennini, composer

1920 Charlie Alfred Galbraith, jazz trombonist

1920 Alfred Grant Goodman, composer

1919 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies

1918 John Alfred Scali, journalist/correspondent, ABC

1918 Alfred Burke, born in London, England, actor, Backfire

1916 James Alfred Wight Herriot, veterinarian/novelist

1916 Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75

1915 Alfred Kazin, U.S. writer/literature critic, Inmost Leaf

1915 Alfred G Vanderbilt, U.S. millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania

1915 Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, U.S. Lusitania officer, dies

1914 Alfred Drake, [Capurro], born in Brooklyn, New York, singer and actor, Kiss Me Kate

1914 Alfred Andersch, German writer, Red Head

1913 Alfred Bester, U.S., science fiction author, Decievers, Starlight

1913 Alfred R Wallace, British zoologist (Is Mars habitable?), dies

1913 Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist

1913 Alfred Gaul, composer, dies at 76

1913 Alfred von Schlieffen, Prussian general-field marshal, dies at 79

1912 Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60

1912 Alfred G Vanderbilt, thoroughbred horse owner, Native Dancer

1912 Alfred Schwarzmann, born in Germany, gymnist, Olympic-2 golds-1936

1911 Alfred James Broomhall, Methodist missionary

1911 Alfred Manessier, French painter, leaded windows

1911 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies

1911 Alfred Binet, French Psychologist

1911 Alfred Scott Witherbee, Jr., U.S., 3 year old who drowned on Lusitania

1911 Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier

1910 Alfred J Ayer, England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician

1910 Alfred Mendelsohn, composer

1909 Al Capp, [Alfred Gerald Caplin], New Haven, Connecticut, cartoonist, Li'l Abner

1909 Alfred Uhl, composer

1908 Alfred Day Hershey, American Scientist

1907 Alfred Jarry, writer, dies at 33

1907 Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65

1907 Alfred Reisenauer, composer, dies at 43

1907 Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp, Essen Germany, arms manufacturer

1906 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, dies

1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France

1906 Alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81

1904 Alfred Gradstein, composer

1904 Alfred Earle Birney, poet

1904 Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal/chief-staff, dies at 71

1903 Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian

1903 Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia premier

1903 Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer

1903 Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur

1902 Alfred Tarski, Warsaw, mathematician/logician

1901 Alfred West, champion cyclist/record hair splitter, 17 splits

1900 Alfred Newman, born in New Haven, composer, Love is a Many Splendored Thing

1899 French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds

1899 Alfred Hitchcock, born in London, director, Psycho, Birds, Rear Window

1899 Alfred Kantorowicz, German historian, Spanish Diary

1899 Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted

1899 Alfred Moser Butts, game inventor, Scrabble

1899 Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher

1899 Alfred Blalock, American Inventor

1899 Alfred M. Gruenther, U.S., commanding general of NATO, 1953-56

1899 Alfred Sisley, painter, dies

1898 Alfred Eisenstaedt, photo journalist

1898 Alfred Sauvy, French statistician, Affluence and Population

1898 Alfred Wallenstein, born in Chicago, Illinois, conductor, Chic Symph 1922-29

1898 In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus

1898 Alfred Schlappi, Switzerland, 4 man bobsled 1924 Olympics gold

1896 Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi," premieres in Paris

1896 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63

1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize

1895 Alfred Neumann, German playwright, Devil

1895 Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter, dies at 57

1895 Alfred Kurella, writer

1895 French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent

1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)

1894 Capt Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage

1894 Alfred Kinsey, entomologist/sexologist, Kinsey Report

1893 Alfred Lunt, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Broadway actor, Emmy 1965

1893 Alfred Alessandrescu, composer

1893 Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)

1892 Alfred Tennyson, writer, dies at 83

1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

1892 Alfred A Knopf, U.S., publisher, 1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal

1891 Alfred Cellier, composer, dies at 47

1891 Alfred Plane, U.S. sharp shooter, Olympics gold 1912, 20

1890 Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer, Bracke, Borgia

1890 Alfred Julius Swan, composer

1890 Alfred Jodl, German Soldier

1890 Alfred G Jodl, German Wehrmacht general/chief of staff

1889 Alfred E. Green, born in Perris, California, director, Copacabana, Jolson Story

1889 Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor

1889 Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia, dies

1887 Alfred M Landon, R-Ks, President candidate, 1932, 1936

1887 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer

1887 Alfred Henry Ackley, composer

1885 Alfred Haar, Hungary, mathematician

1885 Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63

1885 Alfred Fuller, CEO, Fuller Brush Man

1884 Alfred Sendrey, composer

1883 Alfred Korzybski, born in Poland, scientist, Science and Sanity

1883 Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism

1883 Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist, John-Apokalyps

1882 Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer, dies at 44

1881 Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist, Andaman Islanders

1880 Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein

1880 Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist, continental shift

1880 Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist, Loom of Years, Highwayman

1879 Alfred Korzybski, Polish Scientist

1878 Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder of Sturm

1878 Alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer, Black Dogs and Other Stories

1877 Alfred Cortot, French pianist

1877 Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord, Jutland, WW II

1877 Alfred Kubin, writer

1876 Alfred L. Kroeber, Hoboken, New Jersey, author, Anthropologist looks at History

1876 Alfred Holmes, composer, dies at 38

1875 Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer, Yes and No!

1875 Alfred P. Sloan, American Businessman

1873 Alfred Jarry, French Writer

1873 Alfred E. Smith, American Politician

1873 Alfred Emanuel Smith, American Politician

1872 Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer

1870 Alfred Hill, composer

1870 Lord Alfred Douglas, British

1870 Alfred Kastner, composer

1870 Alfred Adler, born in Austria, psychiatrist, Inferiority Complex

1870 Alfred Douglas, English Poet

1869 Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor, Rotterdam 1906-22, /Dir, League of Nations

1868 Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist

1867 Alfred Kerr, writer

1867 Alfred Nobel patents dynamite

1866 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1913

1866 Georg Alfred Schumann, composer

1866 Alfred Holy, composer

1866 Erik Alfred Satie, Honfleur France, composer, Memoirs d'un Ambesique

1865 Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe

1865 Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate

1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32

1864 Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist, Nobel 1911

1864 Alfred Fried, Austrian Activist

1864 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer, Camera Work

1863 Alfred Reisenauer, composer

1863 Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies

1863 Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

1861 Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher, Adv of Ideas

1860 Alfred Coville, French historian, Lesson etats de Normandie

1859 Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer, Dreyfus Affair

1859 Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet, A Buried Life

1857 Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator

1857 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist

1857 LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies

1857 Alfred de Musset, French Writer

1857 Alfred Bruneau, composer

1857 Alfred Loisy, French Clergyman

1856 David Alfred Thomas, born in Glamorganshire, England, 1st Viscount Rhondda

1854 Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith

1854 Alfred Milner, born in Giessen, Germany, British governor, Cape colony

1853 Alfred vs. Berger, writer

1852 Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister

1851 Alfred de Mussets "Bettine," premieres in Paris

1848 Alfred Julius Becher, composer, dies at 45

1848 Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris

1847 Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris

1844 Alfred Cellier, composer

1842 Alfred Shaw, cricketer, pioneering England Test bowler

1842 Alfred Marshall, London, economist

1842 Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician

1841 Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanicus

1841 Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist, died in 1914

1840 Alfred Thayer Mahan, U.S., naval officer, Influence of Sea Power

1839 Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter

1838 Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer

1838 Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter

1837 Alfred Holmes, composer

1837 Alfred Gaul, composer

1835 Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England, Garden

1835 Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brig Gen Union volunteers

1833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite and Peace Prizes

1833 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Scientist

1833 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General Union Army

1833 Alfred von Schlieffen, Count/Prussian general-fieldmarshal

1832 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1865

1832 Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian fieldmarshal

1832 Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist, died in 1872

1829 Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1864

1829 Alfred Iverson, Jr., Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1911

1829 Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1910

1827 Alfred Moore Scales, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1892

1827 Alfred Howe Terry, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1890

1824 Alfred Gilpin Jones, Weymouth NS, lt-gov of Nova Scotia, 1900-06

1824 Alfred Pleasonton, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1897

1824 Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1894

1823 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter

1823 Alfred Gibbs, Major General Union Army, died in 1868

1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist/co-discoverer, evolution

1822 Alfred Meissner, Austrian physician/writer

1821 Alfred Sully, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1879

1820 Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1895

1816 Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1871

1812 Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant

1810 Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer, Un Caprice, Bettine

1809 Thomas Alfred Davies, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1899

1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England

1807 George Alfred Trenholm, Secretary Treasury, Confederacy, died in 1876

1807 Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson, Brig General Confederate Army

1803 Alfred Julius Becher, composer

1797 Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer, Moise, Chatterton

1797 Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

1778 Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67

1775 1st official U.S. flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)

1710 Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer, Alfred, Rule Britannia

900 Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies

899 Alfred the Great, writer/king of Wessex (871-99), dies

871 Ethelred I, king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies



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