* 1655 – Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat ( b. 1572 )

* 2003 – Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Spanish businessman ( b. 1924 )

* 1957 – Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver ( b. 1928 )

* 1350 – King Alfonso XI of Castile ( b. 1312 )

* 1956 – Infante Alfonso of Spain ( b. 1941 )

* 1246 – Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile ( b. 1180 )

* February 28 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain ( b. 1886 )

* July 16 – Alfonso IV d ' Este, Duke of Modena ( b. 1634 )

* September 2 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1911 )

** King Alfonso XII of Spain ( b. 1857 )

* Alfonso II of Asturias ( b. 759 )

* August 12 – Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer ( b. 1543 )

* April 4 – King Alfonso X of Castile ( b. 1221 )

* February 13 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar ( b. 1515 )

* June 27 – King Alfonso V of Aragon ( b. 1396 )

* King Alfonso II of Aragon ( b. 1152 )

* August 10 – Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat ( b. 1572 )

* August 21 – King Alfonso VII of Castile ( b. 1105 )

* November 4 – Alfonso Cano, Colombian militant leader ( b. 1948 )

* October 5 – King Alfonso VIII of Castile ( b. 1155 )

* October 31 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile ( b. 1162 )

* 1284 – April 4 – King Alfonso X of Castile ( b. 1221 )

* December 31 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist ( b. 1608 )

* December 20 – Elvira Mendes, queen of Alfonso V of Castile ( b. 996 )

* March 26 – Alfonso XI of Castile ( b. 1311 )

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

* 1311 – Alfonso XI of Castile ( d. 1350 )

Alfonso Arau ( born January 11, 1932 ) is a Mexican actor and director.

In December 2004, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Alfonso Arau for his work in cinema.

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

Alfonso Cuarón was born in México City and is the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a nuclear physicist who worked for the United Nations ' International Atomic Energy Agency for many years.

* 1171 – Alfonso IX of León ( d. 1230 )

Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

In 1086 Yusuf ibn Tashfin was invited by the taifa Muslim princes of the Iberian Peninsula ( Al-Andalus ) to defend their territories from Alfonso VI, King of León and Castile.

In 1138, Ali ibn Yusuf was defeated by Alfonso VII of León, and in the Battle of Ourique ( 1139 ), by Afonso I of Portugal, who thereby won his crown.

Afonso I was the son of Henry of Burgundy and Theresa of León, the natural daughter of King Alfonso VI of León.

He also vanquished Alfonso VII of León, came to the rescue of his mother, whose nephew he was, and thus freed the kingdom from political dependence on the crown of his cousin of León.

Independence from Alfonso VII of León's suzerainty, however, was not a thing he just could achieve militarily.

He succeeded to relinquish suzerainty of his cousin Alfonso VII of León, becoming instead a subject of the papacy, as the kingdoms of Sicily and Aragon had done before him.

Meanwhile, King Alfonso VII of León ( Afonso's cousin ) regarded the independent ruler of Portugal as nothing but a rebel.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

Afonso married Infanta Urraca of Castile, daughter of Alfonso VIIIof Castile and Leonora of England, in 1206.

Afonso III (; rare English alternatives: Alphonzo or Alphonse ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin ), the Bolognian ( Port.

The first-born of this union, Infanta Maria of Portugal, married King Alfonso XI of Castile in 1328, at the same time that Afonso IV's heir, Peter I of Portugal, was promised to another Castilian infanta, Constance of Peñafiel.

These arrangements were imperiled by the ill will of Alfonso XI of Castile, who was, at the time, publicly mistreating his wife.

Several precursor kingdoms have had an Alfonso I.

Alfonso II in the twelfth-century Libro de los Testamentos.

Alfonso II ( 759 – 842 ), called the Chaste, was the king of Asturias from 791 to his death, the son of Fruela I and the Basque Munia.

Alfonso fled to Álava to live with his maternal relatives.

Alfonso was subsequently elected king on 14 September 791.