* Alfred Brunswig

With the composer Alfred Cellier, Beckett wrote the operetta Two Foster Brothers ( St. George's Hall, 1877 ).

** Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I, American sportsman, died on Lusitania ( b. 1877 )

* June 15 – Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist ( b. 1877 )

ADS member Stephen Goranson has found a version of the law, not yet generalized or bearing that name, in a report by Alfred Holt at an 1877 meeting of an engineering society.

The name Lake Alfred was adopted in 1913, and was taken from the nearest large lake, named for Alfred Parslow, who came to Florida in 1877 and obtained a charter to build the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad.

Also by Alfred Waterhouse of 1877, it contains a Willis organ for concerts, again instituted by Jowett.

Pudua was a Latinized version of the name proposed by Alfred Henry Garrod in 1877 but ruled invalid.

Edward Watkin's son Alfred Mellor Watkin was locomotive superintendent of the South Eastern Railway in 1876 and Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby ( UK Parliament constituency ) in 1877.

These additions join the already listed 1877 Great Hall and Bains Wing ( designed and built by Alfred Waterhouse ), the School of Mineral Engineering, the Brotherton Library and the Parkinson Building which are Grade II listed.

While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. View of the campus from Coles Tower ( constructed as the " Senior Center "), the second tallest building in Maine Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954.

Those who have been inducted to the Maine Alpha chapter as undergraduates include Nathaniel Hawthorne ( 1825 ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1825 ), Robert E. Peary ( 1877 ), Owen Brewster ( 1909 ), Harold Hitz Burton ( 1909 ), Paul Douglas ( 1913 ), Alfred Kinsey ( 1916 ), Thomas R. Pickering ( 1953 ), and Lawrence B. Lindsey ( 1976 ).

In Wantage, in 1877 he paid for a marble statue of King Alfred by Count Gleichen to be erected in the market place, where it still stands today.

The Sorcerer opened on 17 November 1877 at the Opera Comique, preceded by Dora's Dream, a curtain-raiser composed by Sullivan's assistant Alfred Cellier, with words by Arthur Cecil, a friend of both Gilbert's and Sullivan's.

Some of Cornelius Vanderbilt's grandchildren and great grandchildren gained fame as successful entrepreneurs while several achieved prominence in other fields such as Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt ( 1877 – 1915 ), who went down on the RMS Lusitania.

**** Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt ( 1877 – 1915 )

In 1875, again with Bateman, he was seen as the title character in Macbeth ; in 1876 as Othello, and as Philip in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Queen Mary ; in 1877 in Richard III ; and in The Lyons Mail.

* 1877 / 78 Alfred J. Jacoby

* Alfred Joseph Stourton, 21st Baron Mowbray ( 1829 – 1893 ) ( Lords: Mowbray-Segrave Case 1877.

Designed by architect Alfred Waterhouse the town hall was completed in 1877.

A major drought in Victoria from 1877 to 1884 prompted Alfred Deakin, then a minister in the State Government and chairman of a Royal Commission on water supply to visit the irrigation areas of California.

During this period, Carte also presented various companion pieces with the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, including the 1877 revival of Dora's Dream by Arthur Cecil and Alfred Cellier ; The Spectre Knight ( 1878 ); revivals of Trial by Jury ; several pieces by George Grossmith beginning in 1878: Beauties on the Beach, A Silver Wedding, Five Hamlets, and Cups and Saucers ; revivals of Gilbert's After All!

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I ( October 20, 1877 – May 7, 1915 ) was an extremely wealthy sportsman and a member of the famous Vanderbilt family of philanthropists.

** Roman Days, translated by Alfred C. Clark, 1877.

* Alfred Austin ( 1835 – 1913 ), British poet

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

* Evlanoff, M. and Fluor, M. Alfred Nobel – The Loneliest Millionaire.

* Alfred Nobel – Man behind the Prizes

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

* 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet ( d. 1892 )

* 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( d. 1900 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English director and producer ( d. 1980 )

* 1856 – Alfred Deakin, Australian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1919 )

* 1977 – Alfred Lunt, American actor ( b. 1892 )

* 1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer ( b. 1934 )

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

* Alfred Edel ( 1932 – 1993 ): actor

* 1881 – Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist ( d. 1956 )

* 1892 – Alfred Lunt, American actor ( d. 1977 )

Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS ( 8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.

* 1915 – Alfred Rouleau, Canadian businessman ( d. 1985 )

* Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( 1874 – 1899 )

Alfred the Great (, " elf counsel "; 849 – 26 October 899 ) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

Alfred the Great silver offering penny, 871 – 899.