Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

* 1888 – Hans Richter, Swiss painter, filmmaker, and graphic artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress

* 1976 – James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter, and actor

* 1976 – Chris Hoke, American football player

* 1976 – Georg Hólm, Icelandic bassist ( Sigur Rós )

* 1976 – Markku Lappalainen, American bass player ( Hoobastank )

* 1976 – Hirotada Ototake, Japanese writer

* 1898 – Lily Pons, American soprano ( d. 1976 )

* 1911 – Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer of the Suez Canal ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Brad Miller, American basketball player

* 1976 – Amanda Palmer, American singer-songwriter, and musician ( The Dresden Dolls and Evelyn Evelyn )

* 1890 – Man Ray, American photographer and artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress

* 1976 – Milano Collection A. T., Japanese wrestler

* 1976 – Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player

* 1976 – Mark Webber, Australian race car driver

* 1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.

* 1893 – Wright Patman, American politician ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, American actress

* 1976 – Melissa George, Australian actress

* 1976 – Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 ( d. 2001 )

* 1976 – Jessica Capshaw, American actress

* 1976 – Aled Jones, Welsh radio host and producer

* 1900 – Richard Hughes, English novelist ( d. 1976 )

* The ESS was a major element used to analyze evolution in Richard Dawkins ' bestselling 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

* Vernon, Richard ( 1976 ).

From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group that included David Lander, Richard Beebe and Michael McKean.

* 1976 – Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player

* Hartzler, H. Richard ( 1976 ).

* 1976 Richard Bellman

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

The word meme is a shortening ( modeled on gene ) of mimeme ( from Ancient Greek μίμημα mīmēma, " something imitated ", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, " to imitate ", from μῖμος mimos " mime ") and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

The word meme originated with Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from the popularization of Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

In his book The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ), the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used the term meme to describe a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene, arguing that replication also happens in culture, albeit in a different sense.

In 1976, Richard Posner and William Landes coined the term " super-precedent ," in an article they wrote about testing theories of precedent by counting citations.

The 1976 British-American film Robin and Marian, starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood and Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian, portrays the figures in later years after Robin has returned from service with Richard the Lionheart in a foreign crusade and Marian has gone into seclusion in a nunnery.

A year later, in early 1976, Hell quit The Heartbreakers and started Richard Hell & the Voidoids with Robert Quine, Ivan Julian and Marc Bell.

They include " Indiscreet ( 1958 ), John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Richard Fleischer's The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Airport ( 1970 ), Woodstock ( 1970 ), Carrie ( 1976 ) and More American Graffiti ( 1979 ).

* 1899 – Richard Arlen, American actor ( d. 1976 )

* Root, Waverley and Richard de Rochemont, Eating in America, A History, William Morrow, New York, 1976

* 1976 – Richard Marsland, Australian comedian, writer, and radio host

by Richard C. Meredith ( 1976 )-an Alternate United States defeats a Nazi Germany which came much closer to world domination than in our history, but in the aftermath falls under the power of a ruthless home-grown " Prophet ".

The first presidential aspirant to announce his selection for Vice President before the beginning of the convention was Ronald Reagan who, prior to the 1976 Republican National Convention announced that Richard Schweiker would be his running mate.

In 1976, Ronald Reagan, who was trailing President Gerald R. Ford in the presidential delegate count, announced prior to the Republican National Convention that, if nominated, he would select Senator Richard Schweiker as his running mate.

* May 15 – Richard J. Daley, American politician ( d. 1976 )