** Heather, Alan, " Oliver Heaviside ".

** Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his dealings with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

** Alan Lancaster, English bassist

** Alan Osmond, American pop singer

** Alan Menken, American composer

** Alan Greenspan, American economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

** Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (" Ocean of Storms "), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

** Alan Mowbray, English actor ( b. 1896 )

** Alan Rickman, English actor

** In Cartagena, Colombia, a summit is held between President of the United States George H. W. Bush, President of Bolivia Jaime Paz Zamora, President of Colombia Virgilio Barco Vargas, and President of Peru Alan García.

** Alan Paton, South African author and anti-apartheid activist.

** Alan Shepard, American astronaut ( b. 1923 )

** Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1914 )

** The locomotive Flying Scotsman ( British Railways No. 60103 ) makes its last scheduled run, before going into the hands of Alan Pegler for preservation.

** Alan Paton, South African author ( b. 1903 )

** Alan Napier, English actor ( b. 1903 )

** Alan Alda, American actor ( M * A * S * H )

** Alan Sillitoe, English writer ( d. 2010 )

** Alan J. Pakula, American producer and director ( d. 1998 )

** Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor ( d. 2002 )

** Alan Thornett, British Trotskyist activist

** Alan Lomax, American folklorist and musicologist ( d. 2002 )

** Iran – Contra affair: Alan Fiers agrees to plead guilty to two charges of having lied to the U. S. Congress.

** Alan Kay, American computer scientist

** Country Joe McDonald, American musician

** Francis McDonald, American actor ( b. 1891 )

** Kevin McDonald, Canadian comedian and actor

** McDonald County R-I High School ( 09-12 )-Anderson

** Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald ( songwriters ) for " What a Fool Believes " performed by The Doobie Brothers

** Michael McDonald ( arranger ) for " What a Fool Believes " performed by The Doobie Brothers

** James Ingram & Michael McDonald for " Yah Mo B There "

** James Ingram, Michael McDonald, Rod Temperton and Quincy Jones for " Yah Mo B There "

** James Ingram & Michael McDonald for " Yah Mo B There "

** Geoff E. Emerick & Philip McDonald ( engineers ) for Abbey Road performed by The Beatles

** Robert Emmett McDonald ;

** Terry MacDonald ( now Mac McDonald ) ( 1968 )

** James Conlon ( conductor ); Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone & Audra McDonald ; Fred Vogler ( producer ); Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich & Robert Wörle ; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra ; Los Angeles Opera Chorus for Kurt Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny

** James Conlon ( conductor ); Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone & Audra McDonald ; Fred Vogler ( producer ); Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel Ulrich & Robert Wörle ; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra ; Los Angeles Opera Chorus for Kurt Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

** Michael McDonald for " What a Fool Believes " performed by The Doobie Brothers

** Ronald McDonald also appeared in the Virgin Interactive game Mick & Mack as the Global Gladiators, where the titular characters are sucked into a comic in a McDonalds restaurant.

** A song about Richard Nixon by Country Joe McDonald

** Geoff Emerick & Phil McDonald ( engineers ) for Abbey Road performed by The Beatles

** McDonald, John, Secrets of the Great Whiskey Ring, Chicago, 1880.