Special Collections also contains the Chamberlain collection of papers from Neville Chamberlain, Joseph Chamberlain and Austen Chamberlain, the Avon Papers belonging to Antony Eden with material on the Suez Crisis, the Cadbury Papers relating to the Cadbury firm from 1900 to 1960, the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts of Alphonse Mingana, the Noël Coward Collection, the papers of Edward Elgar, Oswald Mosley, and David Lodge, and the records of the English YMCA and of the Church Missionary Society.

* Alphonse Mingana ( 1878 – 1937 ), an Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and former priest

Other noteworthy members of staff were James Rendel Harris, Alphonse Mingana, the Semitic scholar Professor Edward Robertson ( d. 1964 ) who was the third librarian, and Moses Tyson, keeper of western manuscripts, afterwards librarian of Manchester University Library.

* Islamic-Awareness, From Alphonse Mingana To Christoph Luxenberg: Arabic Script & The Alleged Syriac Origins Of The Qur ' an

Alphonse Floristan Picou ( October 19, 1878 – February 4, 1961 ) was an important very early jazz clarinetist who also wrote and arranged music.

* Alphonse Magnien ( 1837 – 1902 ), the superior at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1878 to 1902

* Alphonse Picou ( 1878 – 1961 ), an American early jazz clarinetist

His studies continued for a short time in Paris in 1875 with François Bonvin before returning to Lille where, in 1878, he enrolled at the Écoles Académiques de Dessin et d ' Architecture, studying for three years in the studio of Alphonse Colas.

* 1878: with Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Études sur les Mammifères et les Oiseaux des Îles Comores, ( Studies on Mammals and Birds of the Comoro Islands ).

The seminary's influence increased in the late 19th century under the leadership of Alphonse Magnien, who served as superior from 1878 to 1902.

* Alfonso XIII of Spain ( 1886 – 1941 ), known to French Legitimists as " Alphonse I "

Alphonse of Poitiers ( 11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271 ) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse ( as Alfonso II ) from 1247.

* 1974 – Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

** Alphonse I ( 1139 – 1185 )

** Alphonse II ( 1211 – 1223 )

** Alphonse III ( 1247 – 1279 )

** Alphonse IV ( 1325 – 1357 )

** Alphonse XII ( 1874 – 1885 )

** Alphonse XIII ( 1886 – 1931 )

* Alphonse ( 1975 – 1989 )

* 1888 – Alphonse Juin, marshal of France ( d. 1967 )

* 1868 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player ( d. 1949 )

* 1908 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian engineer and designer ( d. 1988 )

* 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1922 )

* 1860 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech artist ( d. 1939 )

* 1939 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter ( b. 1860 )

* 1840 – Alphonse Daudet, French novelist ( d. 1897 )

* 1915 – Alphonse " Bois Sec " Ardoin, Cajun accordionist ( d. 2007 )

* 1842 – Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist ( d. 1903 )

* Medicine – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

* December 16 – Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France ( d. 1967 )

* October 22 – Alphonse Pénaud, French aviation pioneer ( b. 1850 )

* May 18 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1845 )

* December 2 – Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French writer ( b. 1740 )

In Ann Arbor, Michigan, in January 1937 he married Jacqueline de Rothschild, daughter of Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild of the wealthy Rothschild banking family of France.

The strip faded from public view shortly after Opper's death in 1937, but the catchphrase " After you, my dear Alphonse " lived on.

* 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author ( d. 1934 )

* 1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author ( d. 1956 )

* 1878 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician ( b. 1796 )

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.

* Sir Henri Elzear Taschereau – October 7, 1878

* 1878 – Dick Grant, Canadian runner ( d. 1958 )

** Haliotis kamtschatkana assimilis Dall, 1878 – synonym: Haliotis assimilis, the threaded abalone

Prominent leaders include co-founders Lucien Febvre ( 1878 – 1956 ) and Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ).

* 1878 – Tip Foster, English cricketer ( d. 1914 )

* 1878 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian army officer ( d. 1928 )

* 1878 – Léon Binoche, French rugby player ( d. 1962 )

* 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines ( d. 1944 )

* 1878 – Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager ( d. 1963 )

* George V of Hanover ( 1819 – 1878 )

* 1878 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1976 )

* Queen Victoria – the British Weights and Measures Act of 1878 defined it as containing 4, 840 square yards.

* 1878 – Emil Fuchs, German-American attorney and baseball owner ( d. 1961 )

* 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and writer ( d. 1955 )

* 1878 – Alfred Döblin, German writer ( d. 1957 )

* 1929 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician ( b. 1878 )

* 1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom ( d. 1878 )

* 1878 – William Merz, American gymnast and athlete ( d. 1946 )

* 1878 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist ( d. 1958 )

* 1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress ( b. 1878 )