* 1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.

The Elders will be independently funded by a group of founders including Richard Branson, Peter Gabriel, Ray Chambers ; Michael Chambers ; Bridgeway Foundation ; Pam Omidyar, Humanity United ; Amy Robbins ; Shashi Ruia, Dick Tarlow ; and the United Nations Foundation.

Musicians who are primarily known as singers or performers on another instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, John Mayall, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, Rick Davies of Supertramp, and Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz of The J. Geils Band.

Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz, Billy Branch, John Popper, Tom Ball, " Dirty " Patrick Walsh, Big Dave Perea, Joe Filisko, Miles Ryan and others are keeping the harmonica tradition alive.

The biopic starred Richard Hatch as Jan Berry and Bruce Davison as Dean Torrence, with cameo appearances by Dick Clark, Wolfman Jack, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, and Bruce Johnston ( who at that time was temporarily out of the Beach Boys ), as well as Berry himself ( near the end of the movie, he can be seen sitting in the audience, watching " himself " ( Richard Hatch ) perform onstage ).

A delegation led by the West Cornwall Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George and representatives of the Convention ( Bert Biscoe, Richard Ford, Dick Cole, David Fieldsend and Andrew Climo ) presented the declaration to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday 12 December 2001.

* Dick Bong: Pacific Ace ( 1944, B & W, 4: 00 ) This short documentary film pays tribute to Richard " Dick " Bong, the leading American P-38 ace of World War II.

* Dick Doyle ( Richard Doyle, 1879 – 1946 ), Irish hurler

* Paul Gleason as Richard " Dick " Vernon

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* May 10 – Richard ( Dick ) Darman, American federal government official and businessman

* Richard (' Dick ') Whittington ( 1397, 1398, 1406 and 1419-4 terms )

* Tom Keene as Dick, detective ( as Richard Powers )

* Dick Conway ( played by Richard Bright ) — Willie's father

Richard Semler " Dick " Barthelmess ( May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963 ) was an Oscar-nominated silent film star.

* Richard Burton on the Dick Cavett Show, July 1980

* " Bones " from Sarah, Robert: Hob, Dob, Rob, Bob and Nob, from Richard: Rick, Dick, and Hick ; Bill from Will ( which in turn comes from William ), and Peg from Meg ( which is derived from Margaret ).

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Richard Whittington ( c. 1354 – 1423 ) was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington.

In the 19th century this became popular as a pantomime called Dick Whittington and His Cat, very loosely based on Richard Whittington.

* W. Richard West, Sr., " Dick West " or Wahpahnahyah, Southern Cheyenne painter, educator, and Director of Art at Bacone College

Leslie Richard ( Dick ) Groves Jr. was born in Albany, New York, on 17 August 1896, the third son of four children of a pastor, Leslie Richard Groves, Sr, and his wife Gwen née Griffith.

Chief Richard Akinjide, a former Nigerian Attorney-General and Minister of Justice who had been a leading member of Nigeria's legal team, described the decision as " 50 % international law and 50 % international politics ", " blatantly biased and unfair ", " a total disaster ", and a " complete fraud ".

Varadkar in particular has been a strong proponent of small, indigenous business, advocating that smaller firms should benefit from the government's recapitalisation program Its former finance spokesman Richard Bruton's proposals have been seen as approaching problems from a pro-enterprise point of view.

However, his restaurant " Chinois on Main " was named after the term attributed to Richard Wing, who in the 1960s combined French and Chinese cooking at the former Imperial Dynasty restaurant in Hanford, California.

During the run of Pinafore, Richard D ' Oyly Carte split up with his former investors.

* Richard J. Daley, former long-serving mayor of Chicago.

* Richard M. Daley, former long-serving mayor of Chicago.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

Forbes had tried to get Kemp to run in the 1996 campaign, but Kemp declined and in fact endorsed Forbes just as Dole was closing in on the nomination, and just after Dole gained the endorsements of former contenders Lamar Alexander and Richard Lugar.

Richard S. " Kinky " Friedman ( born November 1, 1944 ) is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

In his book Stairway to Heaven, former Led Zeppelin road manager Richard Cole writes that Jimmy Page considered Moon top of his list as he was looking for a drummer for his new band, which would become Led Zeppelin.

The term was applied by Pincus-Whitten to the work of Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra and new work by former minimalists Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, and Sol LeWitt, and Barry Le Va, and others.

However, the foundation of memetics in full modern incarnation originates in the publication in 1996 of two books by authors outside the academic mainstream: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by former Microsoft executive turned motivational speaker and professional poker player, Richard Brodie, and Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch, a mathematician and philosopher who worked for many years as an engineer at Fermilab.

Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon ; in 1978, President Jimmy Carter presented Armstrong the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978 ; he and his former crewmates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.

* 1945 – Richard Goldberg, convicted American sex offender and former fugitive

* 1937 – Richard H. Truly, former American vice admiral

Richard Lee Petty ( born July 2, 1937 ) is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock / Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

* Richard Butler ( singer ) ( born 1956 ), lead singer of The Psychedelic Furs and former lead singer of Love Spit Love

Richard " Richie " Benaud OBE (; born 6 October 1930 ) is a former Australian cricketer who, since his retirement from international cricket in 1964, has become a highly regarded commentator on the game.

Some in the literary community expressed disapproval of the award: Richard Snyder, the former CEO of Simon & Schuster, described King's work as " non-literature ", and critic Harold Bloom denounced the choice:

* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

After lukewarm reviews of the former novel, set in the Phoenix Park area of Dublin, Le Fanu signed a contract with Richard Bentley, his London publisher, which specified that future novels be stories " of an English subject and of modern times ", a step Bentley thought necessary for Le Fanu to satisfy the English audience.

According to former President Richard M. Nixon's article, published in Foreign Affairs in 1967, Thailand had entered a period of rapid growth in 1958 with an averaged growth rate of 7 percent a year since then.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

rock band from the first wave of punk rock, fronted by Richard Hell, a former member of the Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers.