King Ethelwulf of Wessex, father of Alfred the Great was born in Aachen.

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

Alfred the Great plots the capture of the Danish fleet.

Alfred the Great is scolded by his subject, a neatherd's wife, for not turning the breads but readily eating them when they are baked in her cottage.

Alfred the Great silver offering penny, 871 – 899.

Historical mixed media figure of Alfred the Great produced by artist / historian George S. Stuart and photographed by Peter d ' Aprix.

In 2008 the skeleton of Queen Eadgyth, granddaughter of Alfred the Great was found in Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany.

* Alfred the Great ( 849 – 899 ), king of Wessex

King Alfred's ( Alfred the Great ) translation of Orosius ' history of the world uses Angelcynn (- kin ) to describe England and the English people ; Bede used Angelfolc (- folk ); there are also such forms as Engel, Englan ( the people ), Englaland, and Englisc, all showing i-mutation.

King Alfred the Great and the chronicler Æthelweard identified this place with the district that is now called Angeln, in the province of Schleswig ( Slesvig ) ( though it may then have been of greater extent ), and this identification agrees with the indications given by Bede.

The use of the word borough probably derives from the burghal system of Alfred the Great.

893, Alfred the Great combined this and two other earlier Saxon codes, with various Mosaic and Christian precepts, to produce the Doom Book code of laws for England.

In the late 800s, Alfred the Great assembled the Doom book ( not to be confused with the more-famous Domesday Book from 200 years later ), which collected the existing laws of Kent, Wessex, and Mercia, and attempted to blend in the Mosaic code, Christian principles, and Germanic customs dating as far as the fifth century.

* Doom book, or Code of Alfred the Great

The Chronicle is a set of annals which were compiled near the year 890, during the reign of King Alfred the Great of Wessex.

As with Chronicle, The List was compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great, and both the List and the Chronicle are influenced by the desire of their writers to use a single line of descent to trace the lineage of the Kings of Wessex through Cerdic to Gewis, a descendant of Woden and the legendary ancestor of the West Saxons.

In 899 Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, died leaving his son Edward the Elder as ruler of Britain south of the River Thames and his daughter Æthelflæd and son-in-law Æthelred ruling the western, English part of Mercia.

In medieval Anglo-Saxon England, society was organized, according to Alfred the Great into three hierarchical orders: Gebedmen ( men who pray ), Fyrdmen ( men who fight ), Weorcmen ( men who work ).

It had been the capital of Wessex under Alfred the Great, and boasted the Winchester Round Table, an artifact constructed in the 13th century but widely believed to be the original by Malory's time.

890 by Wulfstan of Hedeby, an Anglo-Saxon sailor, travelling on the south coast of the Baltic Sea at the behest of King Alfred the Great of England.

Edith was born to the reigning English king Edward ' the Elder ' by his second wife, Ælfflæd, and hence was granddaughter of Alfred the Great.

Edmund came to the throne as the son of Edward the Elder, grandson of Alfred the Great, great-grandson of Ethelwulf of Wessex, great-great grandson of Egbert of Wessex and great-great-great grandson of Ealhmund of Kent.

It is mentioned by Alfred the Great as aet Haethe ( at the heath ).

* 918 – Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great ( b. 870 )

* 871 – Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.

Alfred Wallace was born in the Welsh village of Llanbadoc, near Usk, Monmouthshire.

Alfred was born in the village of Wanating, now Wantage, Oxfordshire.

Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

Jensen was born August 24, 1923, in San Diego, California, the son of Linda Mary ( née Schachtmayer ) and Arthur Alfred Jensen, who operated and owned a lumber and building materials company.

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

Satie was the son of Alfred Satie and his wife Jane Leslie ( née Anton ), who was born in London to Scottish parents.

British born director Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ), was the first " slasher " movie, while in the same director's The Birds ( 1963 ) menace stems from nature gone mad.

Heinz Alfred " Henry " Kissinger (; born May 27, 1923 ) is a German-born American writer, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman.

Kissinger was born Heinz Alfred Kissinger in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany in 1923 during the Weimar Republic to a family of German Jews.

Alfred Krupp ( born Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp ), son of Friedrich Carl, was born in Essen in 1812.

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

She was born Ursula Kroeber, and raised in Berkeley, California, the daughter of anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and writer Theodora Kroeber.

His fundamental opinion was that cricketers are " not born " but must be nurtured to develop their skills through coaching and practice ; in his own case, he had achieved his skill through constant practice as a boy at home under the tutelage of his uncle Alfred Pocock.

* April 19 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American businessman and newswriter ( born 1839 )

* May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( born 1864 )

* September 7 – Alfred William Rich, English watercolour painter ( born 1856 )

Kinsey was born on June 23, 1894, in Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Sarah Ann ( née Charles ) and Alfred Seguine Kinsey.

Æthelflæd was the eldest daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex and Ealhswith, born at the height of the Danish invasions of England.

Against her family's wishes, she married on 17 March 1947 to failed American movie producer David Alfred Sebastian, born in Detroit on 23 November 1908.

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

Milland was born Alfred Reginald Jones ( not Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones as has often been stated ).