Alpha Omega Alpha, founded in 1902, is the national medical honor society

The Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Fraternity was organized at the College of Medicine, University of Illinois, in 1902. In 1934 its name was changed to Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Society. The McGill Chapter (Alpha of Québec) was established in 1911. The Society is formed of undergraduate medical students of high scholastic achievement, alumni and faculty members, and honorary members, and its major activity on the local chapter level is attending lecture-discussions on topics of medical interest.

Edward Richard Alston was born on December 1, 1845, in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

He was a Scottish zoologist who, due to his delicate health in his youth, primarily educated himself at home. He made significant contributions to the Zoologist and various Scottish magazines, eventually becoming a recognized authority on mammals and birds. His notable papers in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society (1874–80) focused on rodents, particularly American squirrels (1878 and 1879). Additionally, he wrote the Mammalia section in Salvin and Godman's Biologia Centrali-Americana, which was incomplete at the time of his death. In 1880, he was elected Zoological Secretary of the Linnean Society, a position he held until his death from acute phthisis. In 1874, he provided substantial assistance to Prof. T. Bell in the second edition of British Quadrupeds. All of Alston's papers are esteemed for their value, conciseness, and clarity.

He died on March 7, 1881, in Middlesex, England.

Jewish French songwriter, arranger and conductor Siegfried Alex Stein, also known under the pseudonyms Gaston Lecoque and Alex Alstone, was born in Hamburg and lived and worked in France. In 1952-1957 he toured in the United States.
Throughout his career, he collaborated with Tino Rossi, Maurice Chevalier, Tommy Dorsey, Joe Reisman, Charles Aznavour, Dean Martin, and Perry Como.

Arthur Altman was a Jewish American songwriter born in Brooklyn whose credits include "All or Nothing at All", with lyrics by Jack Lawrence, and the lyrics for "All Alone Am I", "I Will Follow Him", and "Truly, Truly True".
Altman studied violin and began his professional career as a violinist with the CBS Radio Orchestra. His first nationally known song was "Play Fiddle Play", which he wrote in the early 1930s for the orchestra leader Emory Deutsch.
Among the 400 songs he wrote, "All or Nothing at All" appears on more than 180 albums recorded by more than 150 artists including Count Basie, John Coltrane, Bing Crosby, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Oscar Peterson, Frank Sinatra, and Sarah Vaughan.
He died in Lake Worth, Florida of a heart ailment.