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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.

In 1889, the first eight women to earn degrees at McGill formed the Mu Teta Society, and in 1890, the name was changed to the Alumnae Society of McGill University. The society's original intention was to maintain close contact with former classmates and to provide assistance to McGill women students. Its objectives later expanded to include educational and social service activities for the Montreal community. The Alumnae Society accomplished these objectives through the work of its various committees, which have given support to special projects at times, such as the University Settlement, the Montreal Children's Library and the St. Anne's Military Hospital Library. The society has had a close connection to Royal Victoria College and is affiliated with the Canadian Federation of University Women and the local Montreal Council of Women. In the 1980s, the Alumnae Society represented the largest branch and club of the Graduates' Society (incorporated in 1880).

Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone, was born on December 22, 1842, in London, England.

He was a British barrister, politician, and judge who served in many high political and judicial offices. Called to the Bar in 1868, Webster quickly developed a large legal practice. He was appointed Attorney-General in 1885 and was elected MP a month later. With two brief breaks, he held this office until he was appointed Lord Chief Justice in 1900. Until 1895, when he agreed to forgo the right to do so, he continued in private practice, and 1888-89, appeared before the Parnell commission as leading counsel for The Times. He presided over some notable trials of the era, including that of Dr. Hawley Crippen. He served on various international arbitration commissions, including those dealing with the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Controversy (1893) and the Venezuela Boundary Dispute (1898–99). In the Alaska Boundary Dispute (1903), he gave the deciding vote against the Canadian claims. He wrote “Recollections of Bar and Bench” (1914).

In 1872, he married Louisa Mary Calthrop (-1877). He died on December 15, 1915, in Cranleigh, Surrey, England.

George Amabile was born on May 29, 1936, in Jersey City, New Jersey.

He is a Canadian poet who moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1963. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in Canada, the USA, Europe, South America, Australia, and New Zealand in over a hundred anthologies, magazines, journals, and periodicals, including Saturday Night, The New Yorker, Harper's, Poetry (Chicago), Sur (Buenos Aires), Canadian Fiction, Canadian Literature, and Margin (England). He has published seven books. The “Presence of Fire” (1982) won the Canadian Authors' Association Silver Medal for Poetry; his long poem, “Durée,” placed third in the CBC Literary Competition for 1991; “Popular Crime” won first prize in the Sidney Booktown International Poetry Contest in February 2000, and he was the subject of a special issue of Prairie Fire. He worked as Professor of English, 1971-1997 and Senior Scholar, 1998-, at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and an editor of the Northern Light magazine. From October 2000 to April 2001, he was a Writer in Residence at the Winnipeg Public Library.