Damon Runyon was born as Alfred Damon Runyan to a family of newspapermen in Manhattan, Kansas.

In his first New York byline, the American editor dropped the " Alfred " and the name " Damon Runyon " appeared for the first time.

Following McComas and Boucher were other book critics, including Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Avram Davidson, Judith Merril, James Blish, Joanna Russ, Algis Budrys, John Clute, Orson Scott Card, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Hand and Michelle West.

Notable athletes within the list include NFL players Wilson Whitley, Glenn Montgomery, Alfred Oglesby, Craig Veasey, Donnie Avery, David Klingler, Kevin Kolb, Sebastian Vollmer, and Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware ; baseball stars Doug Drabek, Michael Bourn, and Brad Lincoln ; golfers Fred Couples, Billy Ray Brown, Steve Elkington, and Fuzzy Zoeller ; track and field legends Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell ; NBA legends Hakeem " The Dream " Olajuwon, Clyde " The Glide " Drexler and " The Big E " Elvin Hayes as well as Bo Outlaw, Don Chaney, Michael Young, Damon Jones, Carl Herrera and Otis Birdsong ; and legendary Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry.

The 1889 novel ' A Marriage Below Zero ' by Alfred J. Cohen ( pen name: Alan Dale ) has the young male couple continually referring to themselves as Damon and Pythias.

* October 1-Damon Runyon ( Alfred Damon Runyon ), Organized crime writer

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

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

Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.

Alfred Nobel () was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers.

* October 9 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer ( d. 1935 )

* October 7 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia ( b. 1856 )

* October 21 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize ( d. 1896 )

* October 15 – Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ( d. 1899 )

* October 15 – Dreyfus affair: French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.

* October 6 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British poet ( b. 1809 )

* October 2 – Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV program debuts on the NBC-TV network in the United States.

* October 15 – Alfred Moore, American judge ( b. 1755 )

* October 17 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, wife of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh ( d. 1920 )

* October 26 – Alfred the Great, King of Wessex

Alfred Ernst Rosenberg () ( 12 January 1893 – 16 October 1946 ) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi Party.

Dr. Alfred Meyer ( October 5, 1891 – April 11, 1945 ) was a Nazi official, achieving the rank of Staatssekretär and Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories ( Reichministerium für die Besetzten Ostgebiete or Ostministerium ).

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden into a family of engineers.

* 22 October 1908 – Alfred Picard succeeds Thomson as Minister of Marine.

Suspicion quickly fell upon Captain Alfred Dreyfus who was arrested for treason on 15 October 1894.

* The Dreyfus Trilogy by George Whyte ( in collaboration with Luciano Berio, Jost Meier and Alfred Schnittke ) comprising the opera Dreyfus-Die Affäre ( Deutsche Oper Berlin, 8 May 1994 ; Theater Basle, 16 October 1004 ; The Dreyfus Affair New York City Opera, April 1996 ); the dance drama Dreyfus-J ' accuse ( Oper der Stadt Bonn, 4 September 1994 ) and the musical satire Rage et Outrage ( Arte, April 1994 ; Zorn und Schande, Arte 1994 ; Rage and Outrage Channel 4, May 1994.

Alfred Binet ( July 11, 1857 – October 18, 1911 ) was a French psychologist who invented the first usable intelligence test, known at the time as the Binet test and today referred to as the IQ test. O.

Alfred Dreyfus ( ; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935 ) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history.

* At the October 16, 2008 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, then, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama joked that he was from Krypton, saying " Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger.

* Alfred Claus Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ( Tübingen, 8 November 1937 — Berlin, 28 October 1987 ), married at Wilflingen on 24 April 1962 to his distant cousin Marie Sophie Schenk Freiin von Stauffenberg ( b. Berlin, 23 September 1937 ), and had three sons:

Alfred Henry ( Freddy ) Heineken ( November 4, 1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands – January 3, 2002, Noordwijk, Netherlands ) was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.

The Alfred P. Murrah Building was deemed a Level 4 building.

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* December 4 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1997 )

* January 4 – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal ( b. 1833 )

Massamba-Débat, whose powers had been curtailed by the CNR, resigned on September 4, and Prime Minister Alfred Raoul served as acting head of state until December 31, 1968, when the CNR formally became the country's supreme authority and Ngouabi, as head of the CNR, assumed the presidency.

The first county elections were held on April 4 and the following county officials were elected: Orrin Stevens, Clerk and Register of Deeds ; Alfred L. Clark, Sheriff ; Charles Shafer, Treasurer ; Jesse A. Barker, Judge of Probate ; and Augustine N. Williams Surveyor.

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See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

His grandfather, Alfred Edwin Brain Sr. ( 4 February 186025 October 1925 ), was considered one of the top horn soloists of his time.

* January 4 – Alfred Grünfeld, pianist and composer ( b. 1852 )

Alfred Emanuel " Al " Smith ( December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944 ) was an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times and was the Democratic U. S. presidential candidate in 1928.

Retaining his surname but adopting the professional name Michael Rennie, the 6 ' 4 " tall show business hopeful, with chiseled facial features, first appeared onscreen in an uncredited bit part in the 1936 premiere of Sir Alfred Hitchcock's film Secret Agent.

Television Wales and West opened transmission at 4: 45pm on 14 January 1958 with a live, 15-minute opening ceremony by station chairman Lord Derby, Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards and Alfred Francis.

Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, mostly called Count Schlieffen (; 28 February 1833 – 4 January 1913 ) was a German field marshal and strategist who served as Chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1891 to 1906.

Alfred Hellmuth Andersch ( 4 February 1914 – 21 February 1980 ) was a German writer, publisher, and radio editor.

Alfred Leslie Rowse, CH, FBA ( 4 December 1903 – 3 October 1997 ), known publicly as A. L. Rowse but to friends and family as Leslie, was a British historian from Cornwall.

Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS ( born 4 March 1923 ) is an English amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.

On the British side, Sir Alfred Milner was appointed the first governor of the Orange River Colony on 4 January 1901, with Hamilton John Goold-Adams as lieutenant-governor, in office until 23 June 1902.

Alfred Lee Loomis ( November 4, 1887 – August 11, 1975 ) was an American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist / physicist, pioneer in military radar usages, inventor of the LORAN or Long Range Navigation System, and lifelong patron of scientific research.