* 1979 – Richard Harwood, English cellist

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

* Bornat, Richard, Understanding and Writing Compilers: A Do It Yourself Guide, Macmillan Publishing, 1979.

* Richard F. Lovelace, The American Pietism of Cotton Mather: Origins of American Evangelicalism, ( Grand Rapids, Mich .: American University Press, 1979 ), ISBN 0-8028-1750-5

* 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( b. 1902 )

* 1979 — Richard F. Post ( Deputy Associate Director of Magnetic Fusion Energy at UC Lawrence Livermore Laboratories )

* 1947 – Richard Beckinsale, English actor ( d. 1979 )

In 1979, there was a large increase in conflict in the House Select Committee on Assassinations ( HSCA ) under Senator Richard Schweiker, which had re-opened the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, reported that Hoover's FBI " failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President ".

* 1979 – Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer

In 1979 Richard S. Likes filed patent * 4, 307, 343.

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hastings, Richard Hill, The Evolution of the DECsystem-10, in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital, Bedford, 1979 )

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hasting, Richard Hill, " The Evolution of the DECsystem-10 ", in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital Equipment, Beford, 1979 )

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

* Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1979.

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 ).

* 1979 – Richard Dunne, Irish footballer

With Richard Lewontin, Gould wrote an influential 1979 paper entitled, " The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm ", which introduced the architectural term " spandrel " into evolutionary biology.

* Buckle, Richard, Diaghilev, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979

* Richard C. Clark, former United States Senator from Iowa, 1973 – 1979

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US president Richard Nixon visited the country in 1972, restoring relations between the two countries, although diplomatic ties were not established until 1979.

* June 28 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( d. 1979 )

Also, Richard Edwards showed in 1979 that although hierarchy in organisations has remained constant, additional forms of control ( such as technical control via email monitoring, call monitoring ; bureaucratic control via procedures for leave, sickness etc.

Range encoding is an entropy coding method defined by G. Nigel N. Martin in a 1979 paper, which effectively rediscovered the FIFO arithmetic code first introduced by Richard Clark Pasco in 1976.

* Double Eagle: Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, Larry Newman ( 1979 )

* 1901 – Ben Lyon, American actor ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Ben Gillies, Australian musician ( Silverchair )

* 1979 – Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer

* 1907 – Ben Oakland, American composer, songwriter, and pianist ( d. 1979 )

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

* Haughey was paid more than IR £ 8 million between 1979 and 1986 from various benefactors and businessmen, including £ 1. 3 million from the Dunnes Stores supermarket tycoon Ben Dunne alone.

* Ben Lyon ( 1901 – 1979 ), actor

* Ben Rand, character from Being There ( 1979 ) performed by Melvyn Douglas

According to Ben Kiernan ; demographic evidence indicates a toll of about 170, 000 deaths caused by all sides from 1975 to 1980, a sum that represents a quarter of the population ( Kiernan concludes that it was proportionately comparable to the murder of — by his count — 1. 8 million people by the Communist Pol Pot regime in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 ).

The year of 1979 was the first since turning professional in which he failed to win a tournament ; he had only one runner-up finish, plus a tied-for-second with Ben Crenshaw behind 22-year-old Seve Ballesteros at The Open Championship.

These interests led him to leading-man cowboy roles in Western films, starting with his role as cowboy and frontier marshal Orrin Sackett in the 1979 film The Sacketts, opposite Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhage, and Western legends Glenn Ford and Ben Johnson.

William Jennings Bryan " Ben " Weber ( July 23, 1916 in St. Louis – June 16, 1979 in New York ) was an American composer.

Ben Ali and his family are now living in exile in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the same city where former President Idi Amin of Uganda lived in exile until his death in 2003 after being removed from power on 1979 at end of the Ugandan-Tanzanian War.

There are no constitutional limits on a Prime Minister's term but the longest-serving was Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, who served from 1979 to 1984.

Radalj and Byrne left in April 1979, to be replaced by Ben Juniper ( guitar ) and Ian Sharples ( bass ).

* Ben Donaldson, ( born 1979 ) a talented and visionary waste management professional, UK.

* Ben Chapman ( footballer ) ( born 1979 ), English football player

Nordine Ben Allal ( born 1978 or 1979 ) is a Belgian criminal of Moroccan origin who was condemned for a 27-year prison sentence in June 2004.

Ben Fouhy ( born 4 March 1979, Taumarunui ) is a New Zealand flatwater canoer who has been competing since the early 2000s.

Henry Schwartz died in January 1983, Irving died in April 1974, Robert died in November 1971, Ben died in July 1969, and Arnold died in September 1979.

He made his screen debut in 1979 as Rory Storm in Birth of The Beatles, and appeared in numerous British films and television programmes, including playing PC Dave Litten in the first series of The Bill, but achieved fame only with the role of Ben in the sitcom 2point4 children ( 1991 – 1999 ).

Ben Lyon ( February 6, 1901 – March 22, 1979 ) was an American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive.

David Paisley ( born 2 February 1979 ) is a Scottish actor, especially well known for roles as midwife Ben Saunders in Holby City, Ryan Taylor in Tinsel Town and most recently Rory Murdoch in River City.