Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was born on June 8, 1671, in Venice, Republic of Venice.

He was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is known today for his instrumental music, especially his concertos. He is best remembered today for a work called "Adagio in G minor," attributed to him but largely written by Remo Giazotto, a 20th-century musicologist and composer who was a cataloguer of the works of Albinoni.

He died on January 17, 1751, in Venice, Republic of Venice.

Abelardo Ernesto Albisi was born on June 14, 1872, Cortemaggiore, Province of Piacenza, Italy.

He was an Italian flutist, instrument maker, and composer. He studied at Conservatorio di Parma Arrigo Boito (1882-1890). He was the principal flutist of the La Scala orchestra in Milan. In 1910, he invented the Albisiphon baritone flute. In 1913, Albisi had joined forces with Luigi Vanotti, an established maker of woodwind instruments in Milan, to produce his novel, T-shaped vertical flute. He became a flute professor at the Geneva Conservatoire in 1919.

He died on January 11, 1938.

Gregory Alchevsky was born in 1866 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, then the Russian Empire, the son of the wealthy industrialist and banker Aleksey Alchevsky.

He was a Russian and Ukrainian composer. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Kharkiv University in 1887 and continued his studies at the Moscow Imperial Conservatory. Alchevsky became famous as a composer, music critic, public figure, and voice teacher, making a notable contribution to Ukrainian music. Concerned about the development of musical culture in Kharkiv, he organized a balalaika orchestra and several amateur string orchestras. His musical compositions include a symphonic poem, arrangements of Russian and Ukrainian folk songs, and music set to the words of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, Apollon Maykov, Mikhail Lermontov, Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, and Yakov Polonsky.

He died in 1920 in Moscow, Russia.

Frederick James Alcock was born on November 16, 1888, in Griersville, Ontario.

He was a Canadian geologist and author. He studied geology and mineralogy at the University of Toronto (B.A., 1912) and Yale University (Ph.D., 1915). He spent the following year at the University of Wisconsin, where he concentrated on Precambrian geology. Alcock worked with the Geological Survey of Canada (1911-1947), and, in 1947, he was appointed Chief Curator of the National Museum of Canada, the position he held until his retirement in 1956. He worked north of Lake Athabasca on the Precambrian Shield in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan and spent nine years studying this region. He developed a keen interest in history, geography, and allied fields related to the regions he traversed. From his notes, he drew up many papers, reports, memoirs, and maps of the geology. In 1921, Alcock was sent to the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec and later to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the Magdalen Islands. In 1936, he published his memoir on Chaleur Bay (between Quebec and New Brunswick). Alcock wrote an excellent summary of the geology of the entire Appalachian Region in Canada in his chapter of “The Economic Geology and Minerals of Canada" (1947). In 1948, he forecast the discovery of graptolites in the Oak Bay area of New Brunswick, where they were found in 1962. He compiled the first general geological maps of the region, notably the “Geological Map of the Maritime Provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island” (1949). His publications included 38 geological maps and more than 150 reports and articles, mainly on geological subjects. He was elected a Fellow of The Geological Society of America in 1920 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1925. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Canadian Historical Association, and the Canadian Museum Association. In 1953, he was awarded the Coronation Medal of Queen Elizabeth II. In recognition of his valuable service to the nation, the Centennial Medal was conferred on him in 1967.

In 1927, he married Marion Ethel McBain Freeman (1899–1986). He died on March 18, 1972, in Ottawa, Ontario.

The Alcuin Society was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1965. It is a non-profit association of lovers of the book arts (typography, type design, calligraphy, paper making, illustration, printing, and binding) as well as the history and future of the book, book collecting, and libraries. Its goal is to promote a wider appreciation of beautifully produced books in Canada. It has grown since, hosting hundreds of lectures by domestic and international book artists. The Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design competition aims to encourage a national awareness of book design in the Canadian book industry.

Henry Mills Alden was born on November 11, 1836, in Mount Tabor, Vermont.

He was an American author and editor of Harper's Magazine from 1869 until 1919. In 1860, he graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary, but never entered the ministry. During his studies, he was supplementing his income by writing articles for The New York Times and The New York Evening Post. A year later his affiliation with Harper & Brothers began. He became assistant editor of Harper's Weekly, and in 1869, he was made editor of Harper's Magazine, the position he held until his death. In addition to the monthly essays which appeared in Harper's Magazine under the title of "The Editor's Study", Alden was the author of three books, "Magazine Writing and the New Literature," "God in his World," and "A Study of Death".

In 1861, he married Susan Frye Foster (d. 1895). In 1900, he re-married Ada Beatrice Foster. He died on October 7, 1919, in New York City, New York.

Sir Alban George Henry Gibbs, 2nd Baron Aldenham, was born on April 23, 1846, in Naples, Italy.

He was a British Conservative Party politician and peer, the son of Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham (1819-1907). He was educated at Eton College and studied at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1870, M.A., 1881). At the 1892 general election, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the City of London. He held the seat until his resignation from the House of Commons on February 14, 1906, by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead. He succeeded to the title Baron Aldenham on September 13, 1907. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

In 1873, he married Bridget Beresford-Hope (-1896). He died on May 9, 1936, in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England.

Edwin Anderson Alderman was born on May 15, 1861, in Wilmington, North Carolina.

He was an educator and the first president of the University of Virginia. He studied at Bethel Military Academy, Virginia (1876-1878) and the University of North Carolina (B.Phil., 1882). He became a schoolteacher in Goldsboro, North Carolina, superintendent of city schools there (1885-1889) and conductor of the state teachers' institutes (1889-1892). In 1891, Alderman and Charles Duncan McIver successfully pressed the North Carolina Legislature to establish the Normal and Industrial School for Women, now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was elected a member of the American Historical Association in 1892, a member of the Maryland Historical Society in 1893, and a member of the National Education Association in 1894. In 1892, Alderman became a professor of history at State Normal College. In 1893, he became a professor of pedagogy at the University of North Carolina and was named its president in 1896. Then he moved on to take the same position at Tulane University in 1900, and in 1904, he became the first president of the University of Virginia, the position he held until he died in 1931. Alderman received the honorary D.C.L. from the University of the South in 1896, LL.D. from Tulane University in 1898, and Johns Hopkins University in 1902. He was a noted public speaker and won fame for his memorial address for Woodrow Wilson, delivered to a joint session of Congress on December 15, 1924.

In 1886, he married Emma Selina Graves (1858–1896), and in 1904, he remarried Bessie Green Hearn (1881–1959). He died on April 30, 1931, in Connellsville, Pennsylvania.