Australia won 4 – 0 in 1958 – 59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper Richie Benaud, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman Alan Davidson, who took 24 wickets at 19. 00.

* 2003 – Alan Davidson, British author ( b. 1924 )

* Davidson, Alan.

Food writer Alan Davidson suggests that the people of Ancient Romans were the first known to have made products of the haggis type.

After mentioning that this fish was sacred to Hecate, Alan Davidson writes, " Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny, Seneca and Suetonius have left abundant and interesting testimony to the red mullet fever which began to affect wealthy Romans during the last years of the Republic and really gripped them in the early Empire.

In 1980, playing against India, he became the first player to score a century and take ten wickets in a Test match ( Alan Davidson was the first to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a Test but that did not include a century ).

Along with fellow bowling all-rounder Alan Davidson, he helped restore Australia to the top of world cricket in the late 1950s and early 1960s after a slump in the early 1950s.

He also put on 167 in a partnership with Alan Davidson, the first collaboration between the pair, who would later go on to lead Australia's bowling in the last five years of their career.

The First Test in Brisbane ended in the first tie in Test history, which came about after Benaud and Alan Davidson, rather than settle for a draw, decided to risk defeat and play an attacking partnership, which took Australia to the brink of victory.

* March 30 – Alan Davidson, British author ( d. 2003 )

* Davidson, Alan.

* Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food, 1999.

* Davidson, Alan.

Alan Davidson, editor of the Oxford Companion to Food, found no printed recipe for the present-day croissant in any French recipe book before the early 20th century ; the earliest French reference to a croissant he found was among the " fantasy or luxury breads " in Payen's Des substances alimentaires, 1853.

* Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food

According to Alan Davidson, the French word omelette came into use during the mid-16th century, but the versions alumelle and alumete are employed by the Ménagier de Paris ( II, 5 ) in 1393.

* Davidson, Alan ( 1975 ).

Alan Davidson and Jennifer Davidson, eds.

Two of his former players and two of Kingston ’ s greatest hockey stars died in World War I ; Alan ( Scotty ) Davidson was lost in battle in 1915 just one year after he helped the Toronto Blueshirts win the Stanley Cup and another Kingston hockey great, Capt.

He wrote suggesting the trophy in memory of the boys who were killed in the war and no doubt a big part of the idea was instigated by his devotion to his beloved ( Alan ) Scotty Davidson *, who fell ( June 6, 1915 ) with many other hockey players in the world conflict ( including Capt.

Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier, Tommy Davidson, T ' Keyah Crystal Keymáh, and " Fly Girl " Deidre Lang are the only cast members who remained on the show throughout all five seasons, although Carrey's presence during the fifth season was limited due to his rising movie career, while Davidson missed most of the fourth season for unknown reasons.

During the first half of 1984, this period of transition and the storyline developments with the new cast were complemented by return appearances from departed characters such as Wally Wallace ( Alan Hopgood ), Helen Smart, Erica Davidson, Doreen Burns, Margo Gaffney, Tracy Morris ( albeit played by a new actress ) and Marie Winter ( though this also marked the final appearance of all these characters ).

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

* 1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English writer

* 1949 – Alan Campbell, Irish pastor

* 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.

* 1970 – Alan Shearer, English footballer

* 1925 – Alan Whicker, English journalist and broadcaster

* 1993 – Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver ( b. 1954 )

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* Bowman, Alan K. The Cambridge Ancient History: The High Empire, A. D. 70 – 192.

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1978 – Alan Maybury, Irish footballer

* Personal Dynamic Media – By Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg

* 1978 – Alan Lee, Irish footballer

* 1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2007 )

* 1982 – Alan Halsall, English actor

* 2002 – Alan Dale, American singer ( b. 1925 )

* 1907 – Alan Wheatley, English actor ( d. 1991 )

* 1942 – Alan Price, English musician ( The Animals )

* 1947 – Alan Ward, English cricketer

* 1962 – Alan Muraoka, American actor

* 1986 – Alan Rouse, English mountaineer ( b. 1951 )