Well-known geographers from this period are Fred K. Schaefer, Waldo Tobler, William Garrison, Peter Haggett, Richard J. Chorley, William Bunge, and Torsten Hägerstrand.

* Richard Chorley, R. P. Beckinsale, and A. J. Dunn, The History of the Study of Landforms, Vol 2, The Life and Work of William Morris Davis ( Methuen, 1973 )

Also the M6 motorway serves the west of the town with Junction 27 connecting the town to the motorway, Charnock Richard Services on the M6 are located in Chorley Borough.

* Richard Chorley ( 1927 – 2002 ), noted physical geographer.

* Roger Richard Edward Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley ( b. 1930 )

Also, 30 silver coins were thrown in the direction of Lowe by fan Richard Chorley ( who was thrown out of the meeting ).

Coppull is located between Chorley and Standish, Greater Manchester, to the east of the A49 road near Charnock Richard.

* Chorley, Richard J.

Roots of this work were visible while he was at Cambridge, a Department that also housed Richard Chorley, and Peter Haggett.

* Richard Chorley

Well-known geographers from this period are Fred K. Schaefer, Waldo Tobler, William Garrison, Peter Haggett, Richard J. Chorley, William Bunge, and Torsten Hägerstrand.

They had four children: ( Lady ) Janet Helen ( b. 1923 ), ( Lady ) Felicity Ann ( 1925 – 2007 ), Martin Richard ( 1927 – 91 ) and ( Lady ) Alison Elizabeth ( b. 1930 ).

On his death, the title passed to his son Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee ( 1927 – 91 ).

* 1974 – Richard Long, American actor ( b. 1927 )

* 1927 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor ( d. 1998 )

His maternal grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lockhart Ovey, DSO, was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1927.

* August 14 – Richard A. Snelling, Governor of Vermont ( b. 1927 )

* In 1927, Richard E. Byrd completed his trans-Atlantic flight from New York City to Paris in a Fokker F. VII.

Watercolour en grisaille by Richard Caton Woodville Jr. ( 1856 – 1927 ).

* Halliburton, Richard, The Glorious Adventure ( New York and Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1927 ).

The Atlantic, Gulf, and Caribbean Airways company was established on October 11, 1927 by New York City investment banker Richard Hoyt, who served as president.

* Richard Olney ( food writer ) ( 1927 – 1999 ), American writer

Mengelberg's most successful recording with the Philharmonic was a 1927 performance in Carnegie Hall of Richard Strauss ' Ein Heldenleben.

Don Richard " Richie " Ashburn ( March 19, 1927 – September 9, 1997 ), also known by the nicknames, " Putt-Putt ", " The Tilden Flash ", and " Whitey " due to his light-blond hair, was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball.

It was founded in 1927 by E. C. and Jennie Ogg and named after Richard Lamb, Jennie Ogg's father.

* Richard T. Gill ( 1927 – 2010 ), Harvard University economist who became an opera singer at midlife.

From 1927 to 1930 he moved from Harvard to Cambridge University in England to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology with Richard Goldschmidt in Berlin where he performed research.

Wallace Beery's notable silent films include Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur epic The Lost World ( 1925 ; as Professor Challenger ), Robin Hood with Douglas Fairbanks ( Beery played King Richard the Lionheart in this film and a sequel the following year called Richard the Lion-Hearted ), Last of the Mohicans ( 1920 ), The Round-Up ( 1920 ; with Roscoe Arbuckle ), Old Ironsides ( 1926 ), Now We're in the Air ( 1927 ), The Usual Way ( 1913 ), Casey at the Bat ( 1927 ), and Beggars of Life ( 1928 ) with Louise Brooks.

* Richard B. Allen ( 1927 – 2007 ), American jazz historian and author

In 1927 the BBC and Covent Garden collaborated in a series of public concerts with an orchestra of 150 players under conductors including Richard Strauss and Siegfried Wagner.

Colonel John Richard Boyd ( January 23, 1927 – March 9, 1997 ) was a United States Air Force fighter pilot and Pentagon consultant of the late 20th century, whose theories have been highly influential in the military, sports, and business.

The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews ; Robert Bartlett ; Frederick Russell Burnham ; George Kruck Cherrie ; James L. Clark ; Merian C. Cooper ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; George Bird Grinnell ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Donald Baxter MacMillan ; Clifford H. Pope ; George P. Putnam ; Kermit Roosevelt ; Carl Rungius ; Stewart Edward White ; Orville Wright. Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria, Wellington, New ZealandAlso in 1927, the City of Richmond dedicated the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, now Richmond International Airport, in Henrico County, Virginia.

* 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.

* 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R.

* 1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.

* 1609 – Richard Bennett, English Governor of the Colony of Virginia ( d. 1675 )

* 1912 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer ( d. 2010 )

* 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian ( d. 1970 )

* 1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, American bishop

* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

* 1872 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1942 )

* 1969 – Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist

* 1930 – Cosima Wagner, Hungarian daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner ( b. 1837 )

* 1192 – Richard the Lionheart landed on Jaffa and defeated the army of Saladin

* 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter ( d. 1782 )

* 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1946 – Richard O.

* Weigel, Richard D., " Antoninus Pius ( A. D. 138 – 161 )", De Imperatoribus Romanis

* 1921 – Richard Adler, American songwriter and composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor ( b. 1732 )

* 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1872 )

* 1973 – Richard Marshall, American general ( b. 1895 )

* 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.

* 1926 – Richard Anderson, American actor

* 1979 – Richard Harwood, English cellist

* 1944 – Richard Bradshaw British conductor