Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Kenneth Alford |
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Birthdate | February 21, 1881 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 143 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Composer |
Kenneth Alford is best known as Composer who has born on February 21, 1881 in England. Currently, Kenneth Alford is 143 years, 8 months and 9 days old. Kenneth Alford will celebrate 144th birthday on Friday, 21st of February 2025. Below the countdown to Kenneth Alford upcoming birthday.
Born Frederick Joseph Ricketts and better known by the professional name Kenneth J. Alford, this composer of military marching band music wrote such famous pieces as The Vanished Army, The Voice of the Guns, and Colonel Bogey. His compositions made the saxophone a fixture in military bands.
When he was just fourteen years old, he joined the band of the Royal Irish Regiment. Later, after graduating from the Royal Military School of Music, he moved to South Africa and became the 2nd battalion bandleader for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders infantry regiment.
In 1921, he turned down an opportunity to rise through the Royal Army's ranks in order to continue his musical career. He maintained his low military status, but happily led the Royal Marines band.
His marriage to Annie ("Nan") Holmes resulted in four sons (Kenneth, Jose, Gordon, and Leo) and two daughters (Paula and Sheila).
He and John Philip Sousa were both important early 20th-century composers of marches.
Kenneth Alford is 143 years old today.
Kenneth Alford was born on February 21, 1881 in England.
Kenneth Alford zodiac sign is Pisces.
Kenneth Alford was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Kenneth Alford's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1948 | NASCAR is incorporated. |
1952 | The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". |
1952 | The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). |
1958 | The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. |
1965 | Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. |
1971 | The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. |
1972 | United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations. |
1972 | The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. |
1973 | Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people. |
1974 | The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. |
1975 | Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. |
1994 | Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia. |
1995 | Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. |
2013 | At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad. |
2022 | In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations. |
1989 | The birth of Corbin Bleu, American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of Joe Alwyn, English actor |
1991 | The birth of Riyad Mahrez, Algerian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Ji So-yun, South Korean footballer |
1991 | The birth of Devon Travis, American baseball player |
1991 | The birth of Suppasit Jongcheveevat, Thai actor |
1993 | The birth of Steve Leo Beleck, Cameroonian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Davy Klaassen, Dutch footballer |
1993 | The birth of Masaki Suda, Japanese actor |
1994 | The birth of Tang Haochen, Chinese tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Shon Seung-wan, South Korean singer |
1996 | The birth of Noah Rubin, American tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Sophie Turner, English actress |
1999 | The birth of Metawin Opas-iamkajorn, Thai actor and singer |
2012 | The death of H. M. Darmstandler, American general (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Héctor Maestri, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (b. 1985) |
2014 | The death of Cornelius Schnauber, German-American historian, playwright, and academic (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Aleksei Gubarev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Sadeq Tabatabaei, Iranian journalist and politician (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot (b. 1919) |
2017 | The death of Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher and politician (b. 1926) |
2018 | The death of Billy Graham, American evangelist (b. 1918) |
2019 | The death of Stanley Donen, American film director (b. 1924) |
2019 | The death of Peter Tork, American musician and actor (b. 1942) |
2021 | The death of Mireya Arboleda, Colombian classical pianist (b. 1928) |
2021 | The death of Kevin Dann, Australian rugby league player (b. 1958) |
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