* Erskine-Hill, Howard ( 1975 ) Low-Born Allen ': Ralph Allen ( 1693 – 1764 ) in: The Social Milieu of Alexander Pope

This led to the fact that the Class B1 contained the shortest name given to a British locomotive (( 6 ) 1018 Gnu ) and one of the longest (( 6 ) 1221 Sir Alexander Erskine-Hill ).

Following the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Alexander brought the 1st Infantry Division to France, where, in late May 1940, he successfully led the division's withdrawal to Dunkirk.

In recognition of his services in the field from March to June 1940, Alexander was again mentioned in despatches.

* 1940 – Lamar Alexander, American politician

* 1940 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and Rugby footballer ( b. 1916 )

At the general election in September 1940, there was a large swing to Labor and the UAP-Country Party coalition lost its majority, continuing in office only because of the support of two independent MPs, Arthur Coles and Alexander Wilson.

The critic Robert Irwin singles out the two versions of The Thief of Baghdad ( 1924 version directed by Raoul Walsh ; 1940 version produced by Alexander Korda ) and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Il fiore delle Mille ed una notte ( 1974 ) as ranking " high among the masterpieces of world cinema.

* Russian — Blok, Alexander: The Fairground Booth a. k. a. The Puppet Show ( 1906 ); Evreinov, Nikolai: A Merry Death ( 1908 ), Today's Columbine ( 1915 ), The Chief Thing ( 1921 ; turned into film, La Comédie du bonheur, in 1940 ).

* Thomas Alexander Russell ( 1877 – 1940 ), automobile manufacturer

Mosley and Diana had two sons: ( Oswald ) Alexander Mosley ( born 26 November 1938 ) and Max Rufus Mosley ( born 13 April 1940 ), president of the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) for 16 years.

In 1940, Watford City won a hotly contested campaign for county seat, defeating Alexander and Arnegard and taking the prize from Schafer.

In October 1941, Arthur Coles and Alexander Wilson, the two independent MPs who had been keeping the Coalition ( led first by Menzies, then by Fadden ) in power since 1940, joined Labor in defeating Fadden's budget and brought the government down.

Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, PC, QC ( born 23 June 1940 ), known as Derry Irvine, is a British lawyer and political figure who served as Lord Chancellor under his former pupil barrister, Tony Blair.

* Alexander Campbell ( Newfoundland politician ) ( 1876 – 1940 ), physician, fox rancher and political figure in Newfoundland

* 1940 Lieutenant-General Harold Alexander

Many of his friends died around this time: Alexander Berkman in 1936, Emma Goldman in 1940, Max Nettlau in 1944 ; many more were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.

Athlone then served as Chancellor of the University of London until he was in 1940 appointed as Canada's governor general by George VI, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Lord Tweedsmuir as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by the Viscount Alexander of Tunis in 1946.

It was expected that the winner of this tournament would be the challenger for the World Champion title, in a match against World Champion Alexander Alekhine, but the outbreak of the Second World War, especially because of the first occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union in 1940 – 1941, brought negotiations with Alekhine to an end.

George Alexander " Alex " Trebek (; born July 22, 1940 ) is a Canadian-American television personality.

Alexander and Euphemia Ritchie, working on the Isle of Iona in Scotland from 1899 to 1940, popularised use of the Celtic Cross in jewellery.

Claud Cockburn married three times: to Hope Hale Davis, with whom he fathered Claudia Cockburn Flanders ( wife of Michael Flanders ); to Jean Ross ( part model for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles of Cabaret fame ), with whom he fathered Sarah Caudwell Cockburn, author of detective stories ; and in 1940 to Patricia Byron ( née Patricia Evangeline Anne Arbuthnot ( 17 March 1914-6 October 1989 ), married firstly on 10 October 1933 to Arthur Cecil Byron, son of Cecil Byron, by whom she had a son Darrell Byron, who died in Ireland aged two, divorcing in 1940, daughter of Major John Bernard Arbuthnot and Olive Blake ), who wrote the book The Years of the Week and also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight, with whom he fathered Alexander, Andrew ( husband of Leslie Cockburn ), and Patrick, all three of whom are also journalists.

* 20 May 1940-29 May 1940 -- Alexander von Falkenhausen ( b. 1878-d. 1966 )

Arthur Alexander ( May 10, 1940 – June 9, 1993 ) was an American country soul singer.

* William Alexander Scott ( born 1940 ), Bermudian politician, Premier of Bermuda

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

* 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer ( d. 1870 )

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.

* 1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright ( d. 1886 )

* 1948 – Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( d. 1973 )

* 1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg ( d. 1996 )

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

* 1981 – Alexander Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist

* 1890 – Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer ( b. 1825 )

* 2000 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist ( b. 1924 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* Bell, John D. Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899 – 1923 ( 1923 )

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875

* 1893 – Alexander of Greece ( d. 1920 )

* 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, German wife of Alexander II of Russia ( d. 1880 )

* 1939 – Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat

* 1915 – Joan Alexander, American actress ( d. 2009 )